(English version – see also French version) ESA’s ATV-4 Albert Einstein was successfully launched yesterday and is now orbiting Earth for nine days prior to its automated rendez-vous with the International Space Station. As for each satellite, it has TLE (Two-Line element) data publically available and it can be downloaded from celestrak.com for example…
2013/06/06 Continue reading...-
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T-shirts and other things for wannabe astronauts
I prepared, as a surprise for my space-fan child Paul, a T-shirt featuring the ISS – International Space Station. While I was at it, I took a bit more time and decided to make more, maybe some people will like it. So there are various ISS T-shirts, some Soyuz-based T-shirts, and some gadgets. I made…
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Claws Mail’s Fancy HTML rendering plugin on Windows
Finally, after adding four packages and a huge build-fix patch, I’ve been able to build Webkit inside our cross-building infrastructure. That made Fancy buildable and allows for a better, more stable HTML rendering than with the old Gtkhtml2Viewer plugin. You can download and test it there: claws-mail-3.9.0cvs125pkg35.exe. Don’t forget to unload GtkHTML2 and load Fancy…
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Panorama, Hugin, Stellarium and three.js: Creating equirectangular panos
It’s been a long time since I didn’t post any geek stuff here, so here we go. At last! I’ve recently installed Stellarium, which is a great planetarium software, helping a lot to figure out what’s above our heads at a given time, what will be, or what has been, which is great to learn…
2012/12/30 Continue reading... -
Gaspard, 18 months old, and the rest of things
It seems I got somehow overwhelmed with real life these last days, months or even years… I just realized I didn’t even mention here that my second son, Gaspard, is born on June 1st, 2011 ! So, as a matter of fact, Gaspard’s born on June 1st, 2011 :) He was a healthy boy, 52.5 centimeters long…
2012/11/29 Continue reading...
