On 16-12-09 12:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 09 December 2016 10:08:49 Peter Laws wrote: > >> Believe this has some relevance here. >> >> http://xkcd.com/1770/ > I'm that guy off screen, haveing handily exceeded the average life time > the media is going nuts over. > > This is off topic as can be, but calling the service has never actually > put me in touch with anybody that knew what I was talking about. so... > > However, your sig makes me lodge a conplaint about a service thats has > apparently been discontinued, eg the access to current conditions > at "KCKB", or for that matter any other net station. > > I have a system monitor called gkrellm that has a weather plugin, and its > last valid connection was July 28th, 11:53 pm. I found it quite handy, > and since it was a totally automated service, self updating at about 30 > minute intervals, saw no financial advantage for NWS/you in shutting off > that service. Can it not be restored? I believe the problem lies in the > DNS lookup of KCKB or any other of the 4 letter station codes used for > this service nationwide. You can PM me at gheskett at shentel dot net > I made a workaround for this problem when gkrellm weather plugin stopped working. It is only a Perl script (native to the plugin) to modify. If you are interested I can send it with instructions to this list. Cheers. >> Thanks to the TDE team letting me do "stuff I do all the time" like I >> always have!! > I'll second that!! >> >> -- >> Peter Laws, BS, MRCP / N5UWY >> National Weather Center / Network Operations Center >> University of Oklahoma Information Technology >> plaws@... >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional >> commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read >> list messages on the web archive: >> http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to >> top-post: >> http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Cheers, Gene Heskett