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Programming and Graphics / weather.com upgrade

« on: July 07, 2010, 06:29:23 AM »

for those of you who have heard of the new weather.com coming soon.. i figure if you want the hard link to get access to the page, it would be http://preview.weather.com .. enjoy!

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Local Forecast / June 2010 Playlist

« on: June 18, 2010, 02:20:07 AM »

I might be crazy.. but I believe the music being played currently is not of the music from our previous playlist.

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General Discussion / History Will Be Made - NHL Theme Music

« on: June 06, 2010, 08:52:08 AM »

hey guys,
this one i have been wondering for a couple weeks.. the NHL has made this series of videos showing an epic play usually done inside the stanley cup, played in reverse to a piano track. i have looked high and low trying to figure out who makes that track, while answers online yeild that the track is made specifically for the NHL. while kinda doubt that the track was made specifically for the NHL, I am sure its on some production music library (one that im not familiar with myself). i will show you how i believe the track is not specifically made for the NHL by linking a NHL clip, and a fan made, while the fan made clip's audio track is longer in length.

Fan:

history will be made "Guy Lafleur"

NHL:

History Will Be Made - Philadelphia Flyers

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General Discussion / ...AN EVENING WITH BILL READ AND DR. STEVE LYONS...

« on: May 01, 2010, 05:55:48 AM »

I caught this on the Public Notification Statement out from my WFO. Figured I would share..

Code: [Select]

000
NOUS41 KPHI 301918
PNSPHI
DEZ001>004-MDZ008-012-015-019-020-NJZ001-007>010-012>027-PAZ054-
055-060>062-067>071-012300-

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ
318 PM EDT FRI APR 30 2010

...AN EVENING WITH BILL READ AND DR. STEVE LYONS...

BILL READ, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER, AND DR.
STEVE LYONS, NEW MIC OF NWS SAN ANGELO, TEXAS OFFICE AND FORMER
TROPICAL WEATHER EXPERT AT THE WEATHER CHANNEL, WILL BE SPEAKING
TO THE DELAWARE/PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER OF THE AMS ON TUESDAY, MAY
4TH AT 7:00 PM. THIS MEETING IS FREE AND IS ALSO OPEN TO THE
PUBLIC, SO ANYONE CAN ATTEND. IT IS RECOMMENDED TO ARRIVE EARLY,
AND PLEASE USE THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO BE DIRECTED TO THE MEETING
ROOM. DIRECTIONS TO THE FACILITY CAN BE ATTAINED USING ANY
STANDARD INTERNET MAPPING SERVICE.

THEIR DISCUSSION TOPICS WILL CENTER ON TROPICAL SYSTEMS AND THEIR
EFFECTS, BUT MAY INCLUDE OTHER ITEMS AS WELL AS TIME PERMITS.

WHEN:  TUESDAY MAY 4, 2010 7:00 PM-9:00 PM
WHERE: BURLINGTON COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES TRAINING CENTER
       53 ACADEMY DRIVE
       WESTAMPTON, NJ 08060

$$

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Programming and Graphics / Sunrise Weather/Weekend View OCM's

« on: April 03, 2010, 07:08:15 AM »

I figure since alot of us early (or latenight) weekend birds (or RayDay trackers) wonder who was working those shows, ill kick-off this thread..
SatAM 4/3/2010 -
Alex - Sunrise
Alex & Ray - Weekend View Early (Included the 'Something Segment - Ray's Favorite Segment' segment.. haha!)
Betty & Kelly - Weekend View Morning

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Help and Support / Windows 7/Vista/XP installation issues resolved.

« on: March 17, 2010, 10:35:53 AM »

While it has been awhile since I have installed the emulator on a fresh computer, I decided to try it on a fresh Win7 install.
The notes outlining pertain to ALL installations.
Since late December, I lost one of my hosts due to drive failure, and didn't remember that the emulator downloaded an overlay from that host, which should have been pointed to the CINE server instead. This file is usually requested when it doesn't exist in the 'main' sub-directory, such as a fresh install.

After successful installation, and manually replacing the two files from the June '09 update, take this attached file "satradoverlay.png" and place it into C:\wsxl\main\
Ofcourse, after that, set your ID, then run the emulator.
While Vista seems to be the most problematic OS to work around with security, Win7 was a breeze, with no "run as administrator" requirements.
Please leave your notes below saying if this helped.

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Local Forecast / Fair Skies vs. Sunny/Clear Skies

« on: March 10, 2010, 06:06:14 AM »

This one has me baffled, I was wondering if someone can clear this up for me..
What declares "Fair" skies. On my IS, the hourly obs says Clear skies (night), and on my XL, it says Fair skies, both for the same reporting station. Checking the report directly from the metar, the visibility is 10 miles, and ceiling is Unlimited, so it's Clear. Checking from the NWS' Regional Weather Roundup, same location Partly Cloudy, and the Point Forecast shows "Fair". I go outside and look up, and the sky is clear, but off to one side of my house, there are clouds around the horizon. Thanks to anyone who can clear this up for me.

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Local Forecast / New Icon Set..

« on: March 05, 2010, 05:20:13 AM »

i MAY be wrong, but i THINK, this is the new icon set.

http://xoap.weather.com/web/common/wxicons/130/

Animated versions are the .swf .. #14 looks fun, although they don't seem to play by the 30 frames/1 second rule.

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General Discussion / Christmas Song Challenge!

« on: December 10, 2009, 06:09:06 AM »

Well here goes it: At my work, one of the office people found online this challenge that seems kinda fun, so we all have been trying to identify these christmas songs, however some have me stumped too!! Your welcome help share in on the challenge to complete the sheet! Instead to type everything out, i just took a picture of the sheet with our progress so far. Good Luck and thanks for any submissions to complete it!

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Programming and Graphics / NBC Universal to merge with Comcast

« on: December 03, 2009, 06:38:01 AM »

this was announced today, Comcast has placed a bid that NBC approved to merge the companies to create one new company. This is pending government approval. Now I don't necessarily hate Comcast, but WHAT THE HELL..?!

heres a business link: http://dailylocal.com/articles/2009/12/02/business/doc4b156a388b067234724260.txt

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Programming and Graphics / Sunrise Weather & Weekend Now

« on: November 29, 2009, 06:51:24 AM »

so.. i wonder who pulled the trigger and put chris warren in charge of both sunrise weather and weekend now on both days this weekend.. usually alex wallace is in on weekend now, and he wasnt there!!

PS- This will be the second weekend in a row that I havn't seen Ray. :'(

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General Discussion / NVidia S-Video TV Output Issue

« on: November 24, 2009, 05:11:36 AM »

This isn't so much of an issue as a quirk with nvidia cards, but I upgraded the computer that I use to stream my emulator to a newer desktop computer. The issue that I am having on the output is that the graphics card is putting a black border around the "unsafe" area of the screen, leaving the video contents inside border. The emulator relies on taking advantage of the entire screen area, not just the "safe" area. The NVidia graphics tool allows for the border color to be changed, but not removed. So my question is, has anyone experienced such an issue to have found out how to disable the outlying border? Incase anyone wants to examine what is happening, my stream is up, the link in my footer. Thanks to anyone who can share any insight!

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TWC Fan Art / Transparent TWC Logo ?

« on: November 02, 2009, 01:39:59 AM »

I am curious if anyone has decided to take it upon themselves to create the transparent logo used during "TWC Presents".

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Everything Else TWC / WUWA at Dunkin Donuts

« on: October 15, 2009, 04:45:32 AM »

I found this funny.. ha..

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News and Updates / Almanac Data

« on: October 06, 2009, 05:28:47 AM »

Well.. I've created somewhat of a fix to the inaccurate almanac data that has been experienced globally with the emulator. Sunrise/Sunset is calculated within the emulator by lat/long coordinates, it is not grabbed from an outside source, because of that, you must allow for VB6's primitive calculation system for some deviation, which is pretty darn close! For the moon dates, VB6 cannot calculate this (unless someone can shed some light).. So this data is grabbed from my XL, passed to the config server, then passed onto the emulator. please let me know if there are any other problems. the only other one i *might* forsee is the switch from DST to STD time. i will deal situation with that when it happens.
enjoy!