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 > > mark > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++