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Only recently found out it isn't Duga 3 (as I also always thought it was), must be that wikipedia redirect. But I didn't mean to detract, that's really a very cool project that you…

Awesome project! Nitpick; Duga 3 was never built. The one near Chernobyl is Duga 1.

This sounds really nice. I've been using apt as a deployment mechanism not unlike the use-cases describe. While the whole thing's been rock solid, the repo management could do with…

It's grokkable magic :) The Debian package format has nice functionality for deploying software such as the seed database, the script hooks and dependency checking via apt. Keep in…

(keep in mind, 2009)

For nice current images of the Sun, the Proba 2 satellite [1] continuously watches it and dumps some nice imagery/movies. It's ESA sponsored, and both it's sensors (SWAP producing …

Depending on your motives, a fun alternative to the popular Arduino for getting into microcontrollers is just ordering the naked parts and wire them yourself on a breadboard, follo…