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I knew KStars code was bad, but I never knew it was _this_ bad!

Akarsh Simha wrote 6 months ago: SVN commit 977470 by khudyakov: Replace strange and loopy way of accesing array index with common on … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS

Welcoming KStars GSoC 2009 student, Prakash Mohan!2 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 7 months ago: Prakash Mohan, who’s been a contributor to KStars for some time now, joins us this summer as a … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, IIT Madras, KDE, PlanetKDE

Sky Calendar labelled at last!1 comment

Akarsh Simha wrote 8 months ago: Finally, Jason’s Sky Calendar tool gets some (not all) labels! KStars 1.5.0 was released witho … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, PlanetKDE

Junior (and not-so-Junior) jobs for KStars

Akarsh Simha wrote 8 months ago: Want to contribute to open source and don’t know where to start? Like KStars, and don’t … more →

Tags: PlanetKDE

KStars gets moons for Saturn!

Akarsh Simha wrote 8 months ago: Now, you can see all bright moons of Saturn in KStars – thanks to a patch sent in by Vipul Kum … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, PlanetKDE

Quite a few bugs fixed, half-finished features polished, and patches commited3 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 8 months ago: Today, I took time off to work on KStars after a long time. I had a lot of pending maintainance task … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, PlanetKDE

KStars in dire need of developers10 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 11 months ago: KStars is in dire need of developers. Anybody interested in contributing could let me know by email … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, KDE, PlanetKDE

Quality Assurance checklist for KStars in KDE 4.23 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 11 months ago: Anybody running KDE 4.2 Beta or trunk can help: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Edu/KStars/QA_List_ … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, KDE, PlanetKDE

100 Million Star Catalog is now downloadable

Akarsh Simha wrote 11 months ago: While I’m waiting for some changes to make it available via Get Hot New Stuff, the catalog (wh … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, KDE

An idea for easy KDE development within IIT Madras.6 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: I think the most painful part of developing KDE is to build the dependencies etc from the SVN checko … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, IIT Madras, iitm, KDE, development

KDE.IN Monsoon Hackathon - Day 3???

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: Day 3 was a flop show for me . I got up at 1:00 PM, when the Hackathon was _over_. But, well, that w … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, KDE, KDE.IN, Hackathon, Foss.in

KDE.IN Monsoon Hackathon - Day 1

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: Day 1 was almost entirely spent by me in the following activities: Install Debian on one of the syst … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, kstars, KDE, KDE.IN, Proper Motion

KDE.IN Monsoon Hackathon

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: Yay! We’re going to have the first KDE.IN Hackathon this Friday and I’m waiting expectan … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, KDE, KDE.IN, Hackathon

Aligning images for KStars

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: Well, it took more time to debug the code than to write it! The problem is that, with the increased … more →

Summer Cleaning for the KDE 4.1 Release

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: Today, I decided that I’ll stray away a bit from my GSoC work and do some summer cleaning (as … more →

Tags: kstars, KDE, svn, Commit

Our feature made it to the commit digest!1 comment

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: Issue #108 of the KDE commit digest features the Conjunctions tool for KStars. Of course, the conjun … more →

Tags: kstars

The Conjunctions Tool - Just in time for KDE 4.11 comment

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

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, kstars

FossConf and a failure presentation on KStars!3 comments

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: Yeah… I was to give a talk on ‘Astronomy and Linux’ at FossConf 2008, Anna Univers … more →

Tags: GNU/Linux/FOSS, IIT Madras, FossConf

Minor patch: Bringing labels closer

Akarsh Simha wrote 1 year ago: When I looked at a freshly compiled version of KStars after a long time, and zoomed in on M31, the l … more →


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