On Friday 09 December 2016 17:19:02 midi-pascal wrote: > 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. > Please, send away! And thank you, as a perl geek I am not. I speak just enough C or assembly(on a 6x09 platform), to be dangerous. > >> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>