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An idea for easy KDE development within IIT Madras.
I think the most painful part of developing KDE is to build the dependencies etc from the SVN checkouts, i.e. setting up the development environment. Now, let’s say I’m developing kdenetwo… more »
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An idea for easy KDE development within IIT Madras.
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Akarsh Simha wrote 1 week ago: I think the most painful part of developing KDE is to build the dependencies etc from the SVN checko … more »
Memory Management UI - Trial #2.
Akarsh Simha wrote 1 week ago: I’m going on my third north Indian trip tomorrow, spiritual purposes only. So I’m off th … more »
2.5 million stars in trunk!
Akarsh Simha wrote 1 week ago: Yay! All the machinery for loading 1e6 stars has been moved to trunk and the 2.5-million-star Tycho- … more »
KDE.IN Monsoon Hackathon - Day 3???
Akarsh Simha wrote 1 week ago: Day 3 was a flop show for me :P. I got up at 1:00 PM, when the Hackathon was _over_. But, well, that … more »
KDE.IN Monsoon Hackathon - Day 1
Akarsh Simha wrote 2 weeks ago: Day 1 was almost entirely spent by me in the following activities: Install Debian on one of the sys … more »
KDE.IN Monsoon Hackathon
Akarsh Simha wrote 2 weeks ago: Yay! We’re going to have the first KDE.IN Hackathon this Friday and I’m waiting expectan … more »
Yay!
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Akarsh Simha wrote 3 weeks ago: I got this: Many thanks to pradeepto and techno_freak … more »
Conjunction tool fixed (hopefully)
Akarsh Simha wrote 3 weeks ago: I had a significant bug in the conjunction tool because of my guesswork. For a conjunction, you need … more »
Aligning images for KStars
Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Well, it took more time to debug the code than to write it! The problem is that, with the increased … more »
1E6 Stars!
Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: When I get a bigger telescope, I can still use KStars to prepare finder charts. Thanks to James Bowl … more »
KStars loads 41560 stars in 225ms!!!
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Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: “We all know Linux is great…it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.” –Linus Tor … more »
Two more bugfixes to KStars
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Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Fixing bad memory management in the Conjunctions Tool - All my fault! Instance management in KSMoo … more »
Astronomers actually use KStars to control their observatories!
Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Well, I didn’t expect that people would be using KStars to control observatories! I knew it wa … more »
The find dialog works to my satisfaction, at last!
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Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: I used to find the Find Dialog in KStars rather inconvenient. I’d just hit Ctrl+F to fire it, … more »
Summer Cleaning for the KDE 4.1 Release
Akarsh Simha wrote 1 month ago: Today, I decided that I’ll stray away a bit from my GSoC work and do some summer cleaning (as … 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 »
My first independent commit!
Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: I made my first independent KDE SVN commit [i.e. without having to request Jason to commit the patch … more »
Our feature made it to the commit digest!
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Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: Issue #108 of the KDE commit digest features the Conjunctions tool for KStars. Of course, the conjun … more »
First steps to acheiving faster loading of stars in KStars
Akarsh Simha wrote 2 months ago: So far, this is what I’ve done: 1. Written a PHP script to load star data from our flat file i … more »
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