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Yay!2 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 day ago: I got this: Many thanks to pradeepto and techno_freak … more »

Tags: Canon EOS 400D, KStars, The GIMP

Straight Edge Diffraction Pattern of Uniform disk sources

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 day ago: Finally, the program seems to be working, and my graphs seem to be agreeing pretty well with that of … more »

Tags: Physics and Math

Selectively changing case using sed

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 days ago: I was faced today with a situation where I had to convert Qt4 style (???) includes: #include <QMa … more »

Straight Edge Diffraction Pattern from a Point Source

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 weeks ago: A nice way to find the angular diameters of stars is by Lunar occultations of stars. Since ordinary … more »

Tags: astronomy

Switching on a lightbulb from 360km away!3 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 weeks ago: Yes, my friend Prasanna just did the same. He SSHed into my system from Chennai and switched on the … more »

IRAF on Debian from the ESO Scisoft DVD

Akarsh Simha wrote 3 weeks ago: Ok… here’s a short summary of what I did to get IRAF working. I’m using the SciSof … more »

Tags: astronomy

Taking over the world with Kontact?2 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Just came across this article in the WordPress home page where they show you random “news … more »

Fixing minor bug with the Find Dialog in KStars

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: With the find dialog, you couldn’t select genetive names of stars and click ok to find them ea … more »

Tags: KStars

MCabber DBus Glue / Filter patch1 comment

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: I decided to send out my unclean DBus / filter code for MCabber to the author as it is, because I kn … more »

Got my KDE SVN account1 comment

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Tom Albers created my KDE SVN account today. I still need to figure out how to use it to commit to t … more »

Configuring screen and IRSSI2 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Today, I had a power cut when I was half-way through an important e-mail and it so happened that for … more »

Navya!4 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Thanks to the FOSS event @ Shaastra 2008, I started hanging out @ #fosskriti on Freenode. [Thanks to … more »

Tags: IIT Madras

Two Bugfixes for KStars

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: The first one was a rather profound bug. The angular distance tool was sometimes behaving weirdly. T … more »

Tags: KStars

The Conjunctions Tool - Just in time for KDE 4.11 comment

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: In the midst of my exams, Jason suddenly posted on the kstars-devel mailing list that the KDE 4.1 Fe … more »

Tags: KStars

How I started Kontributing!

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: I used to love programming in dirty non-standard C++ using Borland’s Turbo C++ IDE v3.0 on MS- … more »

Tags: KStars

What does my Desktop look like?

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: I ran Xnest to test KDE 4 (devel), after a fresh update and rebuild yesternight. Here’s what I … more »

DBus for MCabber

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: I desperately wanted this, so I coded it over a night. Comment on this post if you want a tarball. N … more »

Spam Filtering for Jabber?

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: I am frequently pained when Isomeone asks me a technical question on Jabber. I’d want to redir … more »

Poetry in Segfaults

Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: [o] DEBUG: nqoutes = 1sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `” sh: -c: lin … more »