http://coldstonelabs.org/ 2012-02-05T16:53:45-06:00 http://coldstonelabs.org/ http://coldstonelabs.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-10-08T01:49:18-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=ronja&rev=1286520558&do=diff This page is to keep track of the progress I've made putting together a Ronja Tetrapolis. Below was taken from the twibright webpage: "Ronja (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) is an User Controlled Technology (like Free Software) project of optical point-to-point data link. The device has 1.4km range and has stable 10Mbps full duplex data rate. Ronja is an optoelectronic device you can mount on your house and connect your PC, home or office network with other networks. Or you can use it as… text/html 2010-10-08T01:48:40-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=contact&rev=1286520520&do=diff You can contact me, Russell Valentine. If you want, you can send me a encrypted email with my GPG key located here. text/html 2010-10-08T01:48:14-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:webmanager&rev=1286520494&do=diff Webmanager is a content management system. It is what this site used to use before moving to DokuWiki. Version 0.04 files: * webmanager-0.04.tar.bz2 * Signed MD5 text/html 2010-10-08T01:47:52-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:tips&rev=1286520472&do=diff Change quote header In prefs.js: // Change the reply header // 0 - No Reply-Text // 1 - "[Author] wrote:" // 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:" // 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjuction with this: user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3); // If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs. user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following"); user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s"); user_pref("mailnews.reply_header… text/html 2010-10-08T01:47:29-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:pysbig&rev=1286520449&do=diff PySBIG can read SBIG CCD files and give you a Numeric array for the data and a dictionary for the headers. There is cPySBIG (since version 0.02) which is 40 times faster than the pure PySBIG module, also included. Version 0.03 now works with numpy instead of Numeric. text/html 2010-10-08T01:47:05-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:passwordmanager&rev=1286520425&do=diff About Password Manager is a application to manage your passwords. It holds the data in a tab seperated file encrypted by GPG. Thus the file is fully accessible without using Password Manager itself if needed. Downloads * Download passwordManager-0.03.tar.bz2 (signature) text/html 2010-10-08T01:46:39-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:kxmltvguide&rev=1286520399&do=diff kxmltvguide is a KDE kicker applet to view XMLTV files. It hasn't been updated it quite some time, and most likely wont work with the newest versions of required software. [software:kxmltvguide1.png] [software:kxmltvguide2.png] Version 0.3 Files: text/html 2010-10-08T01:45:58-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:kbbtray&rev=1286520358&do=diff KBBTray is a KDE task bar tray application that monitors a Big Brother page and shows its status. [software:kbbtray-sh.png] Version 0.07 Files: * kbbtray-0.07.tar.bz2 (18.5 KB) * MD5 * Signature * Older files * Better Install Method * If settings have never been set (First time using it) should automatically open up Configuration dialog * Validate Input on Configuration Menu * Big Sister/Nagios compatibility * Be able to ignore certain servers for a selected period of time… text/html 2010-10-08T01:45:06-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:kastrometry&rev=1286520306&do=diff KAstrometry was supposed to be a Astrometry program. It has been abandoned. Some of the code has been reused in AstroBuffer. AstroBuffer may one day in the distant future get astrometry features. Similar Projects Radu Corlan informed me of his project gcx, if you are looking for a more finished project that has some similar goals, I'd check it out. http://astro.corlan.net/gcx/ text/html 2010-10-08T01:44:29-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:contributions&rev=1286520269&do=diff Below are patches or files that I contributed to other software projects not hosted at Coldstonelabs. Wrote a MD3 model filter (plugin) for MisfitModel 3D so that it could load and save MD3 files. MD3 is a model format used in games like Quake 3. Download MD3 Filter text/html 2010-10-08T01:43:41-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:bookmarkmanager&rev=1286520221&do=diff BookmarkManager is a online bookmark manager, it is meant as a replacement for a browser's bookmark system. It runs on a servlet container, and needs no database. It uses the Prevayler system for storing it's data. It is a easy way to keep your bookmarks in one place so you can access them from anywhere on any computer. You add a javascript bookmark in the browser to send the current page you are on to the bookmark server where it stores it. text/html 2010-10-08T01:43:12-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=software:astrobuffer&rev=1286520192&do=diff AstroBuffer is a CCD astrophotography image manipulation application. Current Features * Opens FITS and SBIG (st9) files * Adjustable contrast to view different background and range of a image. * Scale * Shift * Rotate * Align Images based on two star alignment * Sum images * Zoom in and out * Magnification window * Subtract images * Average images * Apply Convolutions * Take pixels to x power * Divide (flat) images * Lesser two images * Center object * Copy/P… text/html 2010-10-08T01:42:39-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=science:math&rev=1286520159&do=diff Not exactly science, but through it is a good place to put it. Mumford Shah For a calculus of variations class I took, we had to do a project of sorts. I choose to do it on the Mumford Shah functional. Below is the paper and a Octave and C++ implementation of the Simplified Mumford Shah functional. The Octave version is very slow which prompted me to do the C++ version later when I was done with the class. I plan on improving the C++ version while reading a data structures book I picked up, s… text/html 2010-10-08T01:42:10-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=science:astronomy&rev=1286520130&do=diff [science:veil-sn2.png|Veil Nebula] Object: Veil Nebula Taken: 2006-06-26 08:54:34UT Equipment: 27" Tombaugh Telescope, SBIG STL1001E Exposure time: 3 images at 120 seconds each RGB composite using Photometric filters Processed with the following Software: CCDOpts, Astrobuffer, The Gimp [science:jupiterlpi.jpg|Jupiter and Moons] text/html 2010-10-08T01:41:35-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=electronics:networktester&rev=1286520095&do=diff This project I used two tuxugraphic AVR Ethernet boards and use them to send ICMP ping packets to test network devices. It displays the results on a 16×2 character LCD. One side pings the other. Data from the previous ping is put in the ICMP data. The device receiving the ping request reads information in the data and displays it. When the device doing the ping request gets the reply it displays the information and puts a copy of the data into the next ping request. This enables you to see the … text/html 2010-10-08T01:41:09-06:00 Russell Valentine http://coldstonelabs.org/doku.php?id=electronics:devboard&rev=1286520069&do=diff This is just a simple development board for a ATMEGA168 micro. [electronics:devboard_used.jpg] [Devboard Schematic] gschem file|ATMEGA168 alternative gschem symbol PDF Parts list Qty Part Store Link 1 ATMEGA 168 Microcontroller 1 28 pin socket 1 2×5 Male Header 1 16 Mhz Crystal Oscilator 2 22p Capacitor 1 1u Capacitor 1 Push button switch 18 Female headers Will add gerber and eagle files soon.