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Re: [PLUG] Weatherbug for Linux
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Art Alexion <x> wrote:
> http://weather.weatherbug.com/labs/linux.html
>
> I tend to be obsessed with the weather as I drive a scooter to work whenever
> the weather permits (temps >26⁰⁰⁰; low chance of significant precipitation).
>
> I like the weatherbug web site because the weather station is blocks from my
> home. I don't like weather.com because it thinks Glenside is closer to
> Chalfont than Philadelphia (19038, in fact, borders Philadelphia).
>
> Anyway, there is now a Linux version. Simple, informative, unobtrusive, and
> as far as I can tell, not open source. Only available as RPM of DEB, not
> source.
>
> Conventional wisdom is that the windows version is loaded with spy/adware.
> Any word on the Linux version?
What does it offer that is not in any of the appletsplugins available
for Gnome/KDE/xfce/windowmaker/etc/firefox?
Is weather.com actually giving you data from Willow Grove Naval Air
and saying its Chalfont? Thats what NOAA at weather.gov gives me
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Glenside&state=PA&site=PHI&textField1=40.1028&textField2=-75.1526&e=0
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