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- From: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.misc
- Subject: Re: Weather maps ftp'able
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.213949.28500@biome.bio.ns.ca>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:39:49 GMT
- References: <1k26uqINNamd@sumax.seattleu.edu> <1993Jan26.140423.21633@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Reply-To: silvert@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill Silvert)
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- Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. Oceanography
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- In <1993Jan26.140423.21633@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> bobp@msi.com (Bob Pitha) writes:
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- > When I downloaded xv from export.lcs.mit.edu, it came along with a
- >little shell script that automatically downloads weather maps from
- >vmd.cso.uiuc.edu. Xv can also then display the map as a background.
- >These maps are posted hourly, so you can put the script in your crontab
- >to update the background continuously. I've done this with my Indigo
- >and become the envy of... well, people with nothing else to be envious
- >of. :)
-
- What a waste of bandwidth! I download the files when I want to see them,
- usually a couple of times a week. Downloading a large file hourly just
- to show off is wasteful of bandwidth and places a totally unnecessary
- strain on the server. I hope that no one follows your example.
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