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Here you go... though without cables

On 05/30/2015 at 20:37, harry page said:

Hi

Here is my beast

Harry

wow Harry that will teach those frac guys Only drawback is that your cable setup looks like mine ...

there are also paving stones made from rubber these days but i guess they are several times more costly then wood chips. I guess wood chips might be very good but you might add a thin layer every now and then bc the lowest layer slowly rots.

Thanks Chris, will try!

well, i have been using the gimp beta for over a year with no issues so far, but yes , its still beta. Thanks for the siril tip, will try.

In my opinion, the biggest obstacle to overcome Windows is the lack of a good planetary stacker and a good deep sky stacker, but maybe someone  has a tip for that area of software?!

On 28.5.2016 at 22:25, ajk said:

VMWare is commercial (but it is very good).

However Virtualbox from IBM is free and using Vagrant to build out/provision is very useful.

Regarding Linux distros. For those touting their favourite, it would he helpful to say why it's your favourite and how it could benefit adoption. Just saying "I use it and it's great" doesn't help us make an informed choice or likely to try it.

So far DistroAstro is an obvious one as it's community is like minded people. Ubuntu also just because of it's popularity. I would learn towards one of these. 

Correct ajk, but virtualbox screws up on usb 2 speed, which means you will have _big_ trouble using any kind of active guider- the pictures are not transferred fast enough, which is the reason why i switched to vmware (from virtualbox) when i added a guider to my setup.

I must say, EKOS looks really promising.

However, one question remains - stacking images. I am running an MacOS since 2008 and i still keep a virtual machine with Win XP around only for some stacking programs and AstroTortilla. Win Xp is a pain, but my workflow still needs that stacking software :/ And Win 8 and 10 seem to be even worse than XP.

Using virtual machines might also help you a lot for trying out different Linux flavours without having to completely trash your system. A good one which gets heavy professional use is vmware.

I wrote a nice proof that a user of rank dark energy exists, but unfortunately this board post is too small to post it here :-)