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* May 28: fixed CVS that had been erased from ctrscrut due to a HDD failure in Jan/Feb. Fixed all memory leaks on spooler and astropci reported by cppcheck, especially realloc issues. Reintroduced star info and uv info to spooler, hopefully compatible with CHARA libraries (tests TBD).
* May 28: fixed CVS that had been erased from ctrscrut due to a HDD failure in Jan/Feb. Fixed all memory leaks on spooler and astropci reported by cppcheck, especially realloc issues. Reintroduced star info and uv info to spooler, hopefully compatible with CHARA libraries (tests TBD).


* May 29: worked on spooler code, now fully functional, i.e. star + uv info (though this uses partially the old method).
* May 29: worked on spooler code, now fully functional, i.e. star + uv info (though this uses partially the old method). Tried unsuccessfully to reproduce the "negative ftnum bug".  
          tried to reproduce the "negative ftnum bug" but could not.  


* May 30: cleaned up a lot of the python code
* May 30: cleaned up a lot of the python code and debug of automatic calibration -- would need consecutive spots to fully try.


implement calibration/automatic search.
* May 31: continued Pico automatic calibration and automatic spiral search. Spot detection routine not robust yet but spiral search works on single spot.

Revision as of 06:54, 1 June 2012

Computer OSes

  • May 27: Debian Lenny source packages were moved to archive.debian.org. FB updated the packages to reflect this.
  • May 27: aptitude on wolverine found more than 65535 (16bit limit) packages to update, causing a bug. FB updated the apt cache size, then updated the distribution source by source.
  • May 27: current status = we have the final versions of all Debian Lenny packages (gcc 4.3.2, python 2.5.2, pygtk 2.12.1, gtk 2.12.12)
  • May 28: also upgraded lothlorien to ease work on CHAMP

CHAMP -- hardware

  • May 26: Larry started pumping CHAMP
  • May 27: vacuum ~ 2e-3
  • May 28: vacuum reached 1.0e-3, so not quite ready for pumping.
  • May 29: CHAMP cool, pressure ~7e-7
  • May 29: Despite attempts to reproduce hardware crashes/freezes from last run, none have happened so far.

CHAMP -- software

  • May 28: fixed CVS that had been erased from ctrscrut due to a HDD failure in Jan/Feb. Fixed all memory leaks on spooler and astropci reported by cppcheck, especially realloc issues. Reintroduced star info and uv info to spooler, hopefully compatible with CHARA libraries (tests TBD).
  • May 29: worked on spooler code, now fully functional, i.e. star + uv info (though this uses partially the old method). Tried unsuccessfully to reproduce the "negative ftnum bug".
  • May 30: cleaned up a lot of the python code and debug of automatic calibration -- would need consecutive spots to fully try.
  • May 31: continued Pico automatic calibration and automatic spiral search. Spot detection routine not robust yet but spiral search works on single spot.
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