RE: is COW geting worse now that they charge $$$ for it ?

From: Alain Dumesny (alain@wave.engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Thu Jun 11 1998 - 14:10:48 PDT

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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:10:48 -0700
From: alain@wave.engr.sgi.com-DeleteThis (Alain Dumesny)
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To: wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis
Subject: RE: is COW geting worse now that they charge $$$ for it ?
Reply-To: alain@sgi.com-DeleteThis

David, thanks for replying to this (I also got a reply right away to my
private mailbox from windcall).

> From: "David St. John" <david@windcall.com-DeleteThis>
>
>
> > the service was down for a while, their wind archives is totaly busted
> > (claiming no wind or data for previous day when I know there was
> > some wind),
>
> The missing archive graphs are a direct result of the hard drive crash. I'm
> in the process of rebuilding them from backup data - they should be back up
> there today or tomorrow.
>

I understand. I was kinda suprise it wasn't even working for just the
previous day mostly (not just the old data that got lost on the hard drive)
even after the system was up for a couple days.

> > and sometimes the data seems out of sync.
>
> I don't know why this would be so. Can you give me a specific example?
>

Might just be my browser caching the incorrect images (that's a pain). I
usually remember to refresh the graphs because of this.

> >I can't even change the criptic
> > passwd and you need to type it in more than I care for.
>
> You will be able to change your password from the website by the end of this
> week. We've tried to make it so that you don't have to enter your password
> more than is absolutely necessary, but this is definitely the biggest
> down-side of having a subscriber-based system.
>

yep.

> > And withough tide
> > information, it make you wonder if the long trip to rio is worth
> > it or not.
>
> Tide info (at least textual) will be up before the end of the month.

I think this is the biggest problem I have because we used to be able to get
this great bay area tide information and you become very dependent on this
stuff. The guy who provided it for free (god bless him for providing this all
these years) moved away *months* ago and it would have been *very* easy for
COTW to just carry the current charts (get the scrips+data from him) for
their customers - and then worry about making it more integrated into their
system later. I would hate to re-work all this stuff and end up with a
possibly inferior product (textural surely is) and so many months later (we
don't need it past the season, if there ever gonna be one :-( ).

Seems like it would have been so simple....

> Also look for Mike Godsey's forecasts by the end of this week.
>

that sounds great !
will web members get wind predictions like you get on the pager ?

> --
> David St. John
> Call of the Wind
> david@windcall.com-DeleteThis

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