Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread erik quanstrom
I added: LGX Langley Hill WA to lib/stations and LGX 47.109 -124.100 (approx) to lib/stationlat There is an interesting read about getting the array going and what it will do for Western Washington here: http://tx0.org/2uy i think it's already there. what you saw was probablly a

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread smj
ack! misread. i've pushed out /lib/radar/genlat which automaticly generates the latitude listings given the station listing to save you from guessing. No problem. I'll grab that. anybody know where a current station listing can be had? i scraped mine from a pulldown, but there's got to

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread Andy Spencer
On 2011-10-05 07:55, s...@9p.sdf.org wrote: I found this: http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt It also has the new LGX station and looks to be very well maintained. It is also mirrored by noaa.gov. And its not just US stations, does that help? (Please excuse my ignorance,

Re: [9fans] Weird plan9 Xen DonU problems

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Miller
I've put new 9xeninst binaries on sources which should replace the spurious file does not exist message with a more accurate (but still not very helpful) i/o error. I'm sorry I can't provide a better diagnostic, but the xen virtual block device just returns BLKIF_RSP_OKAY or BLKIF_RSP_ERROR. I

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Simon
As a UK resident it has occasionaly hit me how some bits of plan9 (and there are only a few) are US centric. perhaps we could have somthing like /adm/country/ (analogous to /adm/timezone) which would have various config files for things like radar, areacodes/stdcodes zipcodes/postcodes, weather,

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread dexen deVries
On Wednesday 05 of October 2011 12:47:53 Steve Simon wrote: As a UK resident it has occasionaly hit me how some bits of plan9 (and there are only a few) are US centric. perhaps we could have somthing like /adm/country/ (analogous to /adm/timezone) which would have various config files for

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Simon
I think this goes further that I would (exeutable libraies) I imagined only that we could have a few scripts and database files in country specific directories. this model would also allow me to explicitly run usa/radar newyork before going on holiday whilst running radar would tell me its

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread erik quanstrom
this would need a new lines in my profile (here I agree with dexen completely) bind -a /386/bin/uk /bin# ? bind -a /rc/bin/uk /bin # radar script etc bind -a /lib/uk /lib# zipcodes, etc more idle thoughts. i'd advise against using bare

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread erik quanstrom
this model would also allow me to explicitly run usa/radar newyork before going on holiday whilst running radar would tell me its raining (because it always is). making things country or region specific seems unnecessary to support other radar systems do this all you need to do is tag the

Re: [9fans] radar

2011-10-05 Thread erik quanstrom
It also has the new LGX station and looks to be very well maintained. It is also mirrored by noaa.gov. And its not just US stations, does that help? (Please excuse my ignorance, I haven't had a chance to look at the code, at least not recently) I don't have the answer, but that

Re: [9fans] copying over 9P using plan9port

2011-10-05 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 04/10/2011 19:08, Jens Staal wrote: When I then try something like cp -ar sources/plan9/sys/src/ape ape I get an error stating: unexpected open flags 050cp: can not open ”sources/plan9/sys/src/ape/9src/mkfile” for reading: Access denied Hi, This is working for me without plan9port