I cant resist chipping in here - I started with PDP-8 50 yrs ago with 4K memory and although I love cheap disk space I still cannot stand the (IMHO) profligate use of memory and the grossly inefficient use of processor power in modern systems.
On Friday, 14 February 2020 04:31:42 UTC+2, Thomas Keffer wrote: > > You're getting the error because you're still asking for a plot of > radiation. Remove the reference in skin.conf and the error should go away. > > I started on an IBM 1130 with 8k of memory, 50+ years ago. But, I've > learned to be enjoy that cheap memory and not sweat it. > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 6:12 PM ed100 <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Perhaps a bit of background, I started coding Fortran on state of the art >> IBM1620, I whole total 16k of memory. It filled a large room. That >> teaches you to conserve assets. I am retired so time is not something I >> worry about. >> I wrote my first shopping cart in mid-90's and had a bunch of emails from >> Widenius and Lerdorf about mysql and php,I was able break them pretty >> regularly for couple of years. >> >> When I looked at archive table in phpmyadmin it shows index is small. >> When I look at the actually db files on server --right now each day archive >> used almost 100k, so removing say 25 columns is a bunch and also makes >> everything run faster. >> >> Anyway still don't understand why I would get errors if weewx truely just >> looks at the column list. >> >> This is a lot better than sitting in front of a tv eating chips. >> >> On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 4:54:46 PM UTC-6, ed100 wrote: >>> >>> I have the Belchertown skin with MQTT running nicely after some serious >>> help from folks here. >>> There are a bunch of fields in the weewx mariadb database that I will >>> never use. I did some searching to how to do this but didn't find out how. >>> I don't want to damage things, just clean up unnecessary fields. (old >>> habits...) >>> I did grab the extraTemp1 and use it to show the cpu temp on the weewx >>> raspberry. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d054fa06-772f-4a24-ac60-1d8dc16309e2%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d054fa06-772f-4a24-ac60-1d8dc16309e2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/280e142c-4308-4fc6-af88-91836d8277eb%40googlegroups.com.
