The leading edge of the cloud sheet was marked by this curious deeply textured formation.
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Monday 23 January 2012
Undulatus clouds
On Friday the 20th, after a chilly but dry start some sleety rain arrived soon after noon.
The leading edge of the cloud sheet was marked by this curious deeply textured formation.
The leading edge of the cloud sheet was marked by this curious deeply textured formation.
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Nice timelapse
There seems to be several people competing with each other to do these fantastic timelapse sequences.
Although it soon feels like you saw most things before, every now and then one stands out.
Although it soon feels like you saw most things before, every now and then one stands out.
Monday 2 January 2012
Messin' with 7
Tinkering with my old IBM Desktop tower lately -
It originally came with XP and just 256mb of RAM.
When I first set up the online weather station, this old PC had been upgraded to 2GB of RAM and ran continuously for some 18 months running Weather-Display.
I then picked up a cheap netbook which ran the station more economically (and almost silently!) until now.
Anyway since I mainly use a laptop as a main computer these days, the old PC has been little used so with the long winter evenings I decided to see if it could be updated to Windows 7, as I really like that OS on the laptop.
Although the microsoft windows 7 compatibility tool pointed out the graphics card was too old to run Aero fancy desktop effects, it seemed as though it should work OK but might need some 3rd party drivers.
So plucking up courage I moved some old pictures and records stored on it and went for the full Windows 7 clean install.
Plan B if it failed was to set it up with Ubuntu which I had tried before as a dual boot with it (but didn't much like to be honest).
Anyway all went well, and there was only one minor issue in that the sound didn't work until I looked up a new driver for it.
I must say the old thing never started and ran so quickly before when on XP - even though it generally was OK - but prone to briefly hanging if asked to do more than one thing at once.
Being flushed with this success I began to wonder if the XP netbook could also run the Windows 7.
Again the MS tool says should be no problem although it does only have 1GB of RAM this is considered adequate, and could be upgraded to 2GB later if need be.
Since the netbook literally does nothing but run Weather-Display and upload files to the internet, it will probably be fine with 1GB.
So for now, I've transferred the Weather station and software off the netbook and onto the old desktop on Windows 7.
This was surprisingly simple and it's running fine so far, but I'd like to leave it there a couple of days to make sure no stalling occurs before thinking about changing the netbook to Windows 7 too, and moving the station back to there.
Update 5th January:
Netbook install of Windows7 went like a dream and with nothing else installed it uses only 400mb of the 1GB RAM so no problems putting Weather-Display software on it.
It took most of a day to install all the W7 updates though, as you have to do it in stages, with restarting and waiting for installations to complete.
It originally came with XP and just 256mb of RAM.
When I first set up the online weather station, this old PC had been upgraded to 2GB of RAM and ran continuously for some 18 months running Weather-Display.
I then picked up a cheap netbook which ran the station more economically (and almost silently!) until now.
Anyway since I mainly use a laptop as a main computer these days, the old PC has been little used so with the long winter evenings I decided to see if it could be updated to Windows 7, as I really like that OS on the laptop.
Although the microsoft windows 7 compatibility tool pointed out the graphics card was too old to run Aero fancy desktop effects, it seemed as though it should work OK but might need some 3rd party drivers.
So plucking up courage I moved some old pictures and records stored on it and went for the full Windows 7 clean install.
Plan B if it failed was to set it up with Ubuntu which I had tried before as a dual boot with it (but didn't much like to be honest).
Anyway all went well, and there was only one minor issue in that the sound didn't work until I looked up a new driver for it.
I must say the old thing never started and ran so quickly before when on XP - even though it generally was OK - but prone to briefly hanging if asked to do more than one thing at once.
Being flushed with this success I began to wonder if the XP netbook could also run the Windows 7.
Again the MS tool says should be no problem although it does only have 1GB of RAM this is considered adequate, and could be upgraded to 2GB later if need be.
Since the netbook literally does nothing but run Weather-Display and upload files to the internet, it will probably be fine with 1GB.
So for now, I've transferred the Weather station and software off the netbook and onto the old desktop on Windows 7.
This was surprisingly simple and it's running fine so far, but I'd like to leave it there a couple of days to make sure no stalling occurs before thinking about changing the netbook to Windows 7 too, and moving the station back to there.
Update 5th January:
Netbook install of Windows7 went like a dream and with nothing else installed it uses only 400mb of the 1GB RAM so no problems putting Weather-Display software on it.
It took most of a day to install all the W7 updates though, as you have to do it in stages, with restarting and waiting for installations to complete.
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