Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Weather Radar


My dedicated weather monitor: An old 2004 Hewlett Packard Pavilion Desktop A744X Intel Pentium 4 running Ubuntu 16.04LTS and hardwired to an internet router. It displays local radar via 10News with three different possible geographical views and two NOAA GOES infrared satellite animations and one still from of the Gulf of Mexico. The page refreshes with updates automatically every five minutes. I leave it up and running all the time. I have another old computer with a sub woofer sound system and big HD monitor for movies and another for browsing and such. A fourth old PC with multiple hard drives serves as an archive and repository for personal data.