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Some people may be interested

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Mike

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On 30/07/13 07:44, 'Mike' wrote:
Some people may be interested

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Or the very similar, but with a slightly easier URL to remember
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

I find them useful if I want to have a good guess
as to whether it will rain in the next hour or two.

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Thanks Tom I like that one as it shows the path of the rain. We have a
massive rain cloud over us now!! Have to go to the Theatre in a minute, I
guess it will be a dash from the car park!!

Mike





"Tom Gardner" wrote in message ...

On 30/07/13 07:44, 'Mike' wrote:
Some people may be interested

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Or the very similar, but with a slightly easier URL to remember
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

I find them useful if I want to have a good guess
as to whether it will rain in the next hour or two.

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So does the netweather URL, but you have to (repeatedly)
turn the animation on/off.

The netweather URL also appears to indicate lightning,
but I've yet to assess the effectiveness.


On 30/07/13 09:04, 'Mike' wrote:
Thanks Tom I like that one as it shows the path of the rain. We have a massive rain cloud over us now!! Have to go to the Theatre in a minute, I guess it will be a dash from the car park!!

"Tom Gardner" wrote in message ...

On 30/07/13 07:44, 'Mike' wrote:
Some people may be interested

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Or the very similar, but with a slightly easier URL to remember
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

I find them useful if I want to have a good guess
as to whether it will rain in the next hour or two.

Rain Radar
 

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:52:11 +0100, Tom Gardner wrote:

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Or the very similar, but with a slightly easier URL to remember
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

Remember? That's what bookmarks are for! B-)

Niether of those work if you don't have javascript enabled.

http://www.meteoradar.co.uk/Home/?type=rain-snow-sleet

Does.

--
Cheers
Dave.

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On 30/07/13 10:04, Dave Liquorice wrote:

Remember? That's what bookmarks are for! B-)

Oh, you lucky person, you've clearly only got one
machine one location, unlike me :(


Niether of those work if you don't have javascript enabled.

http://www.meteoradar.co.uk/Home/?type=rain-snow-sleet

With javascript and adverts disabled, I can't zoom in

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In article ,
Tom Gardner wrote:
On 30/07/13 10:04, Dave Liquorice wrote:

Remember? That's what bookmarks are for! B-)

Oh, you lucky person, you've clearly only got one
machine one location, unlike me :(

I use 3 machines regularly, and others on occasion, and still manage
to use bookmarks. And, no, they do not share home directories.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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On 30/07/13 11:32, wrote:
In article ,
Tom Gardner wrote:
On 30/07/13 10:04, Dave Liquorice wrote:

Remember? That's what bookmarks are for! B-)

Oh, you lucky person, you've clearly only got one
machine one location, unlike me :(

I use 3 machines regularly, and others on occasion, and still manage
to use bookmarks. And, no, they do not share home directories.

Oh, I can do it and have done it, but my techniques
are sufficiently ugly and time consuming that I can't
be bothered to keep them all in sync.

Any neat easy painless mechanisms for keeping ~3500 (20
year's worth, gulp) bookmarks in sync across multiple
machines would be welcome :)

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On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:12:38 +0100, Tom Gardner wrote:

Remember? That's what bookmarks are for! B-)

Oh, you lucky person, you've clearly only got one machine one location,
unlike me :(

No I regularly use two differnt PC's with different OS's, one of the
PC's has two profiles that I switch between. I also have a tablet and
a smart phone...

With javascript and adverts disabled, I can't zoom in

But at least you can see something and it's animated the other two
don't even display a static map.

--
Cheers
Dave.

This one is also very useful as it cover the UK at 5min intervals, the whole of Europe at 15min intervals and will display lightning strikes as well so you can see where the thunder storms a

Rainradar UK | Rain radar for the UK and Europe - Will it rain on me today? - Rain fall UK

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On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:42:42 +0100, Tom Gardner wrote:

Any neat easy painless mechanisms for keeping ~3500 (20 year's worth,
gulp) bookmarks in sync across multiple machines would be welcome :)

Well the chances of anything 20 years old still being a valid
bookmark are pretty remote... I think you need an automated method of
going through them for 404's. B-)

My bookmarks file is 868 lines long, there might be 60 odd lines that
are not a bookmark... I also notice each entry has at least an
ADD_DATE="1174686932" entry, I wonder how old the oldest is?

Time to do a bit of Perl.

--
Cheers
Dave.

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On 30/07/13 21:31, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:42:42 +0100, Tom Gardner wrote:

Any neat easy painless mechanisms for keeping ~3500 (20 year's worth,
gulp) bookmarks in sync across multiple machines would be welcome :)

Well the chances of anything 20 years old still being a valid
bookmark are pretty remote... I think you need an automated method of
going through them for 404's. B-)

That thought has crossed my mind, but actually some of
them are still valid and useful.

It used to be that if something was old and well-regarded
(i.e. many links to it) then a google search would turn it up.
Unfortunately google is now giving added weight to the new
(i.e unproven quality, transient), so re-locating something
good that's been around for a while is becoming more
problematical.

If only google would allow you to search for something
that is /older/ than 1 year, rather than merely less
than one year/month/week/day old.

Try using "The Wayback Machine" for archive content

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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I have used "rain Today" premium for some years, it costs £25 a year and
worth every penny. Very useful mobile app. About to go out to play golf
y'day and it showed a heavy shower coming our way and it did. It gives you a
2 hour forecast. Only downside is I am popular with other members asking me
for rain forecasts!!

Netweather is superb for lightning strikes.

JT

"Tom Gardner" wrote in message ...

So does the netweather URL, but you have to (repeatedly)
turn the animation on/off.

The netweather URL also appears to indicate lightning,
but I've yet to assess the effectiveness.


On 30/07/13 09:04, 'Mike' wrote:
Thanks Tom I like that one as it shows the path of the rain. We have a
massive rain cloud over us now!! Have to go to the Theatre in a minute, I
guess it will be a dash from the car park!!

"Tom Gardner" wrote in message ...

On 30/07/13 07:44, 'Mike' wrote:
Some people may be interested

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=radar;sess=

Or the very similar, but with a slightly easier URL to remember
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/

I find them useful if I want to have a good guess
as to whether it will rain in the next hour or two.

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On 31/07/13 08:16, Granity wrote:
'Tom Gardner[_2_ Wrote:
;988791']On 30/07/13 21:31, Dave Liquorice wrote:-
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:42:42 +0100, Tom Gardner wrote:
-
Any neat easy painless mechanisms for keeping ~3500 (20 year's worth,
gulp) bookmarks in sync across multiple machines would be welcome :)-

Well the chances of anything 20 years old still being a valid
bookmark are pretty remote... I think you need an automated method of
going through them for 404's. B-)-

That thought has crossed my mind, but actually some of
them are still valid and useful.

It used to be that if something was old and well-regarded
(i.e. many links to it) then a google search would turn it up.
Unfortunately google is now giving added weight to the new
(i.e unproven quality, transient), so re-locating something
good that's been around for a while is becoming more
problematical.

*-If only google would allow you to search for something
that is /older/ than 1 year, rather than merely less
than one year/month/week/day old.-*

Try using "The Wayback Machine" for archive content

'Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music &
Wayback Machine' (http://archive.org)

I've occasionally used that, but it is missing the point.

Content is (almost) useless if you can't find it via a search engine.

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It's Nantwich (one day) Show today (:-)
Always wet --- as the radar thingy currently shows!

Pete

netweather.tv also has an excellent jet stream forecast page that is very useful for forward planning (for all sorts of things). I tried posting it but accidently did so twice somehow and it has been removed. Maybe they thought it was a spam posting; I am just new to this. Ray

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Cosmo do you mean this one?

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?a...etstream;sess=

Mike



"Cosmo Genovese" wrote in message
...


"'Mike'[_4_ Wrote:
;988683"]Some people may be interested

'Weather Radar - Live UK Rainfall Radar - Netweather.tv'
(http://tinyurl.com/c3r3d8c)

Mike

netweather.tv also has an excellent jet stream forecast page that is
very useful for forward planning (for all sorts of things). I tried
posting it but accidently did so twice somehow and it has been removed.
Maybe they thought it was a spam posting; I am just new to this. Ray




--
Cosmo Genovese

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"'Mike'" wrote in message ...

Cosmo do you mean this one?

http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?a...etstream;sess=

Mike


Presumably -- rain clearing from here as I write (:-)

Pete (in Cheshire still)

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On 30/07/2013 11:32, wrote:
In article ,
Tom Gardner wrote:

Oh, you lucky person, you've clearly only got one
machine one location, unlike me :(

I use 3 machines regularly, and others on occasion, and still manage
to use bookmarks. And, no, they do not share home directories.


Not quite fitting the bill, but LastPass could to some extent be your
friend. It is more suitable for sites that you log in at rather than
general favourites. I can usually find the site, but not the username
and password. I'm not prepared to have the same pword for every site or
postit notes on the screen - some of the only options for those of us
with colanders in the pan.

It is great for this (and does a lot of other stuff too, such as form
filling, secure poassword generation etc.). It remembers the url, the
user name and the pword - securely, in all main browsers and across
platforms and machines. It can remove all the insecure pwords that the
browser holds.

I'd recommend it thoroughly. I've investigated it a fair bit - and have
used it for a couple of years and my logins have never been so secure.
And I'm happy that the cloud based vault is secure enough for me. Those
not prepared to trust the cloud with data at all may vary in that view...

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On 02/08/13 10:34, News wrote:
On 30/07/2013 11:32, wrote:
In article ,
Tom Gardner wrote:

Oh, you lucky person, you've clearly only got one
machine one location, unlike me :(

I use 3 machines regularly, and others on occasion, and still manage
to use bookmarks. And, no, they do not share home directories.


Not quite fitting the bill, but LastPass could to some extent be your friend. It is more suitable for sites that you log in at rather than general favourites. I can usually find the site, but not the
username and password. I'm not prepared to have the same pword for every site or postit notes on the screen - some of the only options for those of us with colanders in the pan.

It is great for this (and does a lot of other stuff too, such as form filling, secure poassword generation etc.). It remembers the url, the user name and the pword - securely, in all main browsers
and across platforms and machines. It can remove all the insecure pwords that the browser holds.

I'd recommend it thoroughly. I've investigated it a fair bit - and have used it for a couple of years and my logins have never been so secure. And I'm happy that the cloud based vault is secure
enough for me. Those not prepared to trust the cloud with data at all may vary in that view...

I prefer not to have a single-point-of-attack/failure. Who knows
- whether the company is legit (or the company to which the
company is sold in 5 years time)

- whether it (or servers or operators for cloud services)
has any weaknesses that can be exploited by blackhats

- whether using it would cause liability problems, e.g. it gives a
financial company plausible deniability when your account
is emptied, "broke Ts&Cs by writing it down and/or not keeping
it secure" or similar weasel words

Summary: how do you *know for sure* that your logins are secure?!
At least "my way" I can understand and contain the issues - even
though they may be less secure in some senses.

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On 02/08/2013 11:48, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 02/08/13 10:34, News wrote:


I prefer not to have a single-point-of-attack/failure. Who knows
- whether the company is legit (or the company to which the
company is sold in 5 years time)

- whether it (or servers or operators for cloud services)
has any weaknesses that can be exploited by blackhats

- whether using it would cause liability problems, e.g. it gives a
financial company plausible deniability when your account
is emptied, "broke Ts&Cs by writing it down and/or not keeping
it secure" or similar weasel words

Summary: how do you *know for sure* that your logins are secure?!
At least "my way" I can understand and contain the issues - even
though they may be less secure in some senses.


Its a case of balancing the risks/threats and the convenience. Saving
user details in a browser is not secure (notthat I'm implying this is
your method). Using non-complex passwords is not secure. Running the
risk that a company will become so compromised (either internally or
externally) is potentially a risk - but the one I prefer to take. After
all, its business depends on being seen to be secure.

A certain amount of 'due digience' can be sufficient to let me decide
what I'm prepared to believe/trust. As I said, I'm sure it is
different for others. However, in the case of this company/product, I'm
sufficently happy with it that our organisation has chosen to use its
enterprise version - and that wasn't a decision made lightly.

However, they don't provide any gardening related services, so although
most of this thread is not very gardeing related, I'll leave it there.