[CentOS] Gnome weather applet stranded

Wed Aug 24 15:56:24 UTC 2016
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>

On Wed, August 24, 2016 10:46 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> isdtor wrote:
>> The Gnome weather report applet has ceased working on CentOS5/6.
>> http://weather.noaa.gov/ says "This service is no longer available". Are
>> there any good alternatives? I liked the applet as it allowed the use of
>> a
>> custom radar map.
>>
>> As I just discovered, the weather functionality of the CentOS6 Gnome
>> clock
>> applet was using the same service.
>>
> <rant>
> "Smaller" government, Cut taxes (for the rich). Make people pay for what
> they're already paying taxes to support....
> </rant>
>
> Had you gone to noaa.gov, and clicked on climate, it appears that they
> want to now charge you $3/yr for the service.

<rant>
It would be good to have someone sue US government for that. According to
US law, everything paid for by taxpayer's money should be freely
accessible by everybody (including non-US entities). Compare, e.g., with
GPS.
</rant>

Valeri

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Valeri Galtsev
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