18 Oct
2004
18 Oct
'04
5:41 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 11:46:49AM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
I remember thinking how cool Linux was because it had
xearth and Windows
didn't :-)
That is my background on my _on-topic_ SPARC desktop.
I've been hacking xearth recently to render the Polar regions white.
Unfortunately, the shape tables are not commented, so I have to go
through manually to determine what shapes correspond to what land
features.
First-order approximation looks pretty good, though.
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 18-Oct-2004 17:30 Z
South Pole Station
PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -63.9 F (-53.3 C) Windchill -96.90 F (-71.7 C)
APO AP 96598 Wind 9.80 kts Grid 078 Barometer 677.1 mb (10735. ft)
Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html