Posted in Design & Development, tagged bash, linux, scripting, weather on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have a linux OS the bash shell script below will tell you most recent temp, windspeed, direction, and rainfall at Everton, Sandy, and Biggleswade from local weather stations using weatherunderground. I crontab it, piping the results to mail -s ‘Current weather’ sock@madeup.com
#!/bin/bash
function checkComponent() {
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Posted in Musings, tagged broadband, fibre, government, noseonyourface, olympics on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The (current) estimated bill for the olympics: £9.375 billion
The estimated bill for installing fibre to 95% of homes in the UK: £9.5 billion
Ditch the Olympics, tell broadband suppliers to pony up £3.5 billion and the taxpayer will pay £6 billion, leave it to the telcos to manage and rollout, and we, 95% of the UK [...]
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