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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: September 18, 2013, 12:27:18 AM »
Are they still using GRAnaylst or have they switched to the new TruVu 3D radar that came out in August?
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Everything Else TWC / Re: PM Edition Extended Music Cut
« on: September 17, 2013, 11:55:06 PM »
Nice job!
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Local Forecast / Re: Emergency Feed Sightings
« on: September 17, 2013, 11:49:36 PM »TWC needs to work off the bugs in TruVu before debuting these things to the public. Even the radar/satellite transitions are terrible; the radar frames constantly lag when the maps shift, as do the title bar animations. And of course the icons are still out of sync.Actually most of the issues you mentioned are more the problem of poor setup rather than the software. TruVu is very powerful and remarkable software. I use it daily at my job. The radar data is selected to pause whenever the camera shifts. That could be turned off. The title bar animations are the result of the graphic effect (in this case they are use "light sheen") is added to each show element/slide rather than to the overall show. That means it resets each time the graphic changes. This could be made to look a lot better with a little tweaking.
I saw a comment earlier asking why they would change to something so fancy/complex. This is actually so much simpler and easier to manage than the old EF. TruVu Max runs off of Windows so it could just be a matter of restarting the application or a restart if the system needed to be rest.
There are some performance issues in this show that could be the result of dated hardware. Probably a machine was refurbished or repaired and they figured it was good enough for this. With slower hardware, graphics had to be pre-rendered so that they were smooth. Now processing power is so good it can be rendered in real time. The older the system the more it struggles doing it on the fly.
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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion
« on: July 10, 2013, 12:51:23 AM »Last year there was a survey by The Weather Channel on possible new names for the channel's id on cable guides. Maybe WEA was the highest rated.WEA is sometimes used because of confusion caused by TWC. ie. Time Warner Cable. It will vary by cable company
My cable company uses TWC and TWC HD.
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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Chantal
« on: July 10, 2013, 12:24:29 AM »
This thing is not a 60mph tropical storm. Hurricane Hunters couldn't even find a center tonight much less winds that high. This storm is going to have to fight to keep from being torn apart as it passes over the islands. Even NHC said in their discussion it was a "generous" forecast. Model forecasts could be affected too without an exact fix on the center. Not saying it won't survive or restrengthen but its pretty pathetic looking right now.
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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Harmful Website Warning
« on: July 02, 2013, 10:57:24 PM »
Just a summary about this issue.
Because we share a sever with potentially hundreds of other sites there is always the threat that one of those sites could infect ours or that the server would be blacklisted because of attacks originating from this server. Some of our internal files were briefly compromised but any attacks were primarily the result of other parties on this server. At no time were any users of this site in danger of any malicious software or code.
The only way to prevent this in the future is to move to a dedicated host which can range from $40-100 each month. Unfortunately thats just not economically feasible unless someone wants to make a massive donation.
We've never had a problem like this in the many years this site has been up so I think its ok to continue operating like normal. We can look into changing host but I am quite happy with our current provider especially since they were very quick to fix the problem and help us out.
Glad to have things back to normal
Because we share a sever with potentially hundreds of other sites there is always the threat that one of those sites could infect ours or that the server would be blacklisted because of attacks originating from this server. Some of our internal files were briefly compromised but any attacks were primarily the result of other parties on this server. At no time were any users of this site in danger of any malicious software or code.
The only way to prevent this in the future is to move to a dedicated host which can range from $40-100 each month. Unfortunately thats just not economically feasible unless someone wants to make a massive donation.
We've never had a problem like this in the many years this site has been up so I think its ok to continue operating like normal. We can look into changing host but I am quite happy with our current provider especially since they were very quick to fix the problem and help us out.Glad to have things back to normal
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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Harmful Website Warning
« on: July 02, 2013, 10:51:11 PM »
I am not experiencing any warnings on Firefox, Chrome, IE or Safari at this time
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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Harmful Website Warning
« on: June 30, 2013, 03:46:32 PM »
Update: While from the message given it looks like our site isn't infected I would strongly advise everyone to keep their protection software up to date while we work to resolve this issue. If you do not have any protection software download the free Windows Defender. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-defender-details.aspx
Our host security department has been contacted and we are still investigating. I will let you know as soon as I can regarding the status of the site. It could be several days before any warning messages are removed.
Our host security department has been contacted and we are still investigating. I will let you know as soon as I can regarding the status of the site. It could be several days before any warning messages are removed.
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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Harmful Website Warning
« on: June 30, 2013, 03:21:57 PM »
I've never seen anything like this and I don't really have any ideas on how it happened or what needs to be done to fix it. I've contacted our host about it.
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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC's Programming Languages and Graphics Libraries
« on: June 03, 2013, 04:46:11 AM »
Mostly modified versions of WSI software as they are owned by the Weather Channel. BreWS is more than likely just a graphic generated by someone at TWC to summarize priority topics. The text and information are too precise to be computer generated
http://www.wsi.com/index.htm
http://www.wsi.com/index.htm
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Severe Weather / Re: EF5 Tornado Tears Through Moore, OK
« on: May 21, 2013, 11:30:48 PM »
Toured the damage today. No words to describe it
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Programming and Graphics / Re: Thank You TWC!!!
« on: May 20, 2013, 10:49:35 PM »
8 miles south of Moore right now. TWC did amazing job
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: April 16, 2013, 07:40:49 PM »Happy tax day!Ugh tax season sucks just about as much as the pollen.As for myself, I got my taxes done a couple of weeks ago
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: April 11, 2013, 01:00:16 AM »I took these photos of what looks like a shelf cloud approaching the New Brunswick NJ area. It was much darker outside compared to the color shown in the photos. Just minutes after we had some strong thunderstorms and rain from that cloud. The temp dipped from 84 degrees in the afternoon to just 60 now. What do u think?Great pics!!
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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC
« on: April 09, 2013, 01:52:01 AM »If TWC is going to eliminate full screen LOT8s for IS and IS2 viewers, they would also have to think about adding new LDLs and squeezebacks for legacy STAR units that are still in use by some cable headendsLegacy STAR units are dead. Its only a matter of time, probably within the next 12-24 months before the old backend feed is killed. Most of the units are probably held together by dust and its frankly a miracle that they are still functioning as well as they are. I'm sad to see them go but servicing and running 20+ year old computers isn't practical, profitable or sensible. Even the current IS hardware will likely be revised in the coming years as that hardware is approaching nearly a decades worth of use.Otherwise, XL, 4000 and Junior viewers won't be able to see their local weather anymore.
Haha, TWC just wasted tons of money on the IS2 deployment only for the LOT8s to be scrapped.Not sure how you figure that. Pushing high definition video to a headend requires massive amounts of computer equipment and the on air graphics are still going to be generated using it. The STARs are more than LOT8s.
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Too much information is just as bad as too little information.Very true. Its part of the reason why the Local on the 8s has changed to a simpler form. When the IS launched it was all about features, features, features! Bus forecasts, ski forecasts, getaway forecasts, etc. Now its a more concise set of information geared toward whats relevant to the user.