*** Reply to message from on Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:05:18 -0500 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

*** Reply to message from - Edwin - on Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:43:37 +0900 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

-- j

oops! sorry, hit the wrong button. the intended message went out a tad later. <sigh> -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit

*** Reply to message from - Edwin - on Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:43:37 +0900 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

On http://kweather.sourceforge.net/ :

"KWeather is now a part of KDE and can be found in KDE Toys."

You just might be correct, I didn't install the toys... I haven't ever used the tea or the eyes or any of them... BUT, following up on your tip, I installed and low and behold, I now have a weather app. It keeps telling me the station doesn't exhist, but when I open it ( click the button) up pops the correct info for the Fort Lauderdale International Airport... You also will recieve about 1k new good karma points in your account. In fact they should be there before this turns up in the list <VBG> use them wisely. And thank you for the information. -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit

On Thursday 16 September 2004 14:01, pinto wrote:

On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:08, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

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before this turns up in the list <VBG>

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nemo me impune lacessit  

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~ please excuse my 'not knowing' ~ what does

"<VBG>" mean, please?

Very big grin? And nemo me impune lacessit is 'no-one messes me around and gets away with it'.

thank you.

best wishes

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On Thursday 16 September 2004 15:01, pinto wrote:

On Thursday 16 September 2004 13:08, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

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before this turns up in the list <VBG>

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nemo me impune lacessit  

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~ please excuse my 'not knowing' ~ what does

"<VBG>" mean, please?

LOL, communication in newsgroups, mailinglists, emails and irc (to name a few) is full of acronyms and emoticons like :-). LOL = laughing out loud VBG = very big grin A quick Google with 'emoticons': http://www.muller-godschalk.com/emoticon.html Has an acronyms page too. Cheers, Leen

On Thursday 16 September 2004 8:08 am, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

*** Reply to message from - Edwin - on Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:43:37 +0900 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

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On http://kweather.sourceforge.net/ :

"KWeather is now a part of KDE and can be found in KDE Toys."

You just might be correct, I didn't install the toys... I haven't ever used the tea or the eyes or any of them...

BUT, following up on your tip, I installed and low and behold, I now have a weather app. It keeps telling me the station doesn't exhist, but when I open it ( click the button) up pops the correct info for the Fort Lauderdale International Airport...

I had that same problem. Two machines side by side, one connected, the other said invalid station. However it seemed to work itself out after a short while and has been working ever since. Jim Flanagan

*** Reply to message from "Jesse L. Purdom" on Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:25:09 -0400 One more candle and a trip around the Sun***

You can find KWeather by right clicking on Kpanel and then going to:

Add>Applet>Kweather

nope , doesn't seem to be there. I seem to remember sometime earlly in all this that I did install it on the test box... long since overwritten w/ other variations of OSes, programs and the like. I wonder if it is NOT on the dvd but IS on the cd installation media. The test box is a cd rather than dvd box.. This will take further investigation. unless someone else has done the investigation already. ?? Otherwise I guess I can add the CD media as an alternate install media ... at least temporarily.<g> ( If that is the answer , you, of course win the Good Karma points.... use them wisely <VBG>) -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit

The 2004-09-16 at 08:51 -0500, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

It's been rather hectic round here lately. We had a 3 computers whose ups didn't ( apparently) behave correctly or protect them, since when power went down so did the computer, instantly.

Dead battery (old and dry), or overload (you drain more current that it is capable of giving). Or bad quality.

And simply turned all the computers off since we were having all this power on power off power on again for a second or two and then pow ! off. ( Also ran in and turned off the telly for similar reasons, it also dislikes power spikes as well as whatever else it ( weather and the FLP )was doing.

Power spikes are very bad for equipment having switched mode power supplies; the case for computers and many equipment nowdays. Traditional regulated power supplies (transformer, rectifier and regulator) wastes more power, but are very resilient to spikes and such.

Later we discoverd that all UPS except one, which hadn't been connected to a computer that was turned on during this weirdness, were just about completely drained of power. Now, I'm not talking about the little thing they sell you that is basically a power strip, these were APC UPS, and 1000, and 1500 respectively. SO something had been seriously wrong w/ the power for a while before it became noticable by going off and on rapidly.

May be a low voltage condition (brown up), that made them run from batteries for some time. The kind having a communication and software could have avoided the problem switching off completely on time.

At least Ivan went westwardly and now appears he will do some good for So Fla. Jeanne is unlikely to hit the states at all because Ivan is where it is and probably will be there, dumping rain for quite a few long days and nights. that has shoved the "strong high" away, and it now seems as if Jeanne will go east of the Bahamas, who aslo need a break and west of Bemuda, who got hit earlier in the year w/ several messy Hurricanes as well.

We don't have hurricanes at the mediterranean coast :-) I have never understood why houses and constructions around the Caribean and the Mexican Gulf are made so weak that hurricanes blows them apart, as they are so common, every year there are a few. Wood? Why not armored concrete? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

The 2004-09-17 at 17:59 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:

A lot of people around the Caribbean and the Gulf are impoverished, both those on the foreign shores and islands, and those in the US. In general, living costs in the US are lower in those areas, there are low or no heating costs in winter, and, unfortunately, there are very loose building codes.

Ah... yes, I forgot about that. I simply saw on TV what seemed big cities, somewhere around south USA, and the houses, bigish, seemed to have been made of wood and destroyed by a hurricane or a flood, lots of them. This is repeated every year, almost, so it seems weird to me to build with wood. But certainly is cheaper - not here, we don't have as many forests, we import wood. Expensive stuff here. Thank you for the explanation :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

What does this have to do with Linux????!!!!! On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 12:35, Ken Schneider wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: "Carlos E. R." To: SLE Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 13:01:53 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [SLE] weather

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Ah... yes, I forgot about that. I simply saw on TV what seemed big cities, somewhere around south USA, and the houses, bigish, seemed to have been made of wood and destroyed by a hurricane or a flood, lots of them. This is repeated every year, almost, so it seems weird to me to build with wood. But certainly is cheaper - not here, we don't have as many forests, we import wood. Expensive stuff here.

Thank you for the explanation :-)

I live 25 miles south of Punta Gorda which took a direct hit from hurricane Charley and consider myself lucky that I did not have more damage than I did. Others were not so lucky.

Most of the older homes were built with the codes that were in effect at that time. Today homes must be built to with withstand category 2 hurricanes and you could see the difference afterwards.

Ken