sodface wrote: > Quoting without comment other than, hard to believe this was written in > 2003, could have been penned yesterday...
Indeed - quite a character. I too had a better look around his website - he's clearly been creative and prolific for a long time, and there's a lot to like on his site. Unfortunately, I don't think his Earth Viewer server is intended to be used to feed a real-time screen saver. Even at one image every 5 minutes I eventually fell foul of the service denial. Playing back the 8 hours of 5-minute images that I was able to collect before being shut out I realised that the cloud cover images only update roughly every 2 hours, so the main thing that changes more rapidly is the day/night overlay. The Fourmilab site has a downloadable Windows executable that could provide the same images without a rate limit, but I don't have a Windows machine, except a creaky old laptop that is only powered up when absolutely necessary. A job for another day could be to set up a virtual Windows server in the cloud somewhere to run this software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111488 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
