Re: Gempak operation and Hurricane Isidore

Robert Leche wrote:
> 
> Hello Anne,
> 
> I was planning to write you a thank you note and to pass our appreciation on 
> to you and the other members of Unidata support team. I found my problem with 
> the ldmd.conf. My syntax was incorrect and after this was corrected, We where 
> able to adjust the 'allow' entry  in the ldmd.conf to accept the proper 
> subnet.
> 
> With that said, Gempak was used to present weather information to people 
> working the hurricane at the OEP (Office of Emergency Preparation). Gempak 
> held it's own. We had lots of officials comment on its presentation and 
> usefulness. As you probably saw, hurricane Isidore fizzled out before making 
> land fall. As I live in Baton Rouge and this is 80 miles from the coast, the 
> weather we are seeing is rain and some times moderately heavy rain, but the 
> winds are not great ( <30 miles an hour gusts). I'm guessing that the winds 
> are only 50-60mph on the coast. This storm will be more inconvenient than 
> damaging. May be some flooding here and there. No complaints here. I've seen 
> 1st hand a couple of bad hurricanes and given the chance, I'll pass on new 
> hurricanes thank you very much. Getting back to the operation side of the 
> system, the network bandwidth turned out not to be an issue. However, we will 
> look into a faster computer as the decoding bogged the user interface down.
> 
> Also, a special thank you to the kind soul(s) who changed Gempak to operate 
> with 24 bit video mode. This allowed us to use the KDE environment. There are 
> many reason KDE is better than TWM, one thing in particular is KDE allows the 
> grabbing and dragging of windows to move around on the screen beyond the real 
> screen border edges of the desk top, where TWM does not support this very 
> well. TWM does not allow the grabbing of a window at any point of a window 
> other than the top bar. This turns out to be a problem in low video 
> resolutions as some of the buttons and other controls are unavailable as they 
> are located on the lower sections of some displays. The moving of windows 
> around is important to  us because our equipment must have video modes that 
> support the video resolution of the overhead video projector at the OEP. The 
> overhead projector only supports 1024x768 resolution. When gempak is operated 
> in this resolution in TWM, we are unable to get to certain buttons in certain 
> windows.
> KDE allows us to move the windows around so we can access all areas of any 
> window.
> 
> Anne, I am not completely sure what is happening with our email at this 
> point, the calling in to question of our email comes at a time when the email 
> systems are changing servers. Email is being delivered as far as I know, but 
> I will keep an eye on this. Thanks once again for keeping on eye on us!
> 
>  Bob
> 
> >> Hi Bob,
> >>
> >> FYI, I'm off to Norman early tomorrow morning and won't be back until
> >> Monday.  I hope you're doing ok with your conf file problem.  Did you
> >> receive my previous emails?
> >>
> >> On Monday, I'll be available if you'd like some assistance.
> >>
> >> Anne
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> >> Anne Wilson                     UCAR Unidata Program
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> >>                                   Boulder, CO  80307
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> Robert Leche
> System Administrator
> Louisiana State University - Southern Regional Climate Center
> 260 Howe-Russell Building
> Baton Rouge, La. 70803
> address@hidden
> 225 578 5023
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Anne Wilson                     UCAR Unidata Program            
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