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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
Re: Chat
'Unprecedented,' 'Gobsmacked', 'Unbelievable': Changes in Antarctica's sea ice could have dramatic impacts, says climate scientist Edward Doddridge In 1898, the crew of the first scientific expedition to Antarctica became trapped inside sea ice around the southernmost continent. Much of that once t...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: People's names, ranks & rates, uniforms & badges
- Topic: Additions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4049
Re: Additions
For me it was quite the opposite.
A Lieutenant-Commander not listed in the 1906 and 1907 Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, is listed here.
A Lieutenant-Commander not listed in the 1906 and 1907 Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, is listed here.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:41 am
- Forum: People's names, ranks & rates, uniforms & badges
- Topic: Additions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4049
Re: Additions
The United States Navy Memorial
Search the log for a service member by name, or by station or ship.
https://navylog.navymemorial.org/search-navy-log
Search the log for a service member by name, or by station or ship.
https://navylog.navymemorial.org/search-navy-log
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
Re: Chat
Warning Flat Earth believers: the Earth isn't flat.
But it's time to come clean: it isn't round either.
New ESA Earth Observation data reveals out planet is egg-shaped.
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1774680212753522751
But it's time to come clean: it isn't round either.
New ESA Earth Observation data reveals out planet is egg-shaped.
https://twitter.com/esa/status/1774680212753522751
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
Re: Chat
Polar vortex is 'spinning backwards' above Arctic after major reversal event https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/o48xrmBsXgZFkjBwFijFQ9.gif The polar vortex is a key driver of the polar jet stream (seen here). (Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Earlier this month, a sudden atmospheric w...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:28 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Journey Plotter
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12397
Re: Journey Plotter
Journey Plotter 2.6 has been released today. ⚓🌍 This release fixes a problem where a Gazetteer Search could result in an error. Journey Plotter is available from the download page, which also lists all changes in detail. https://www.journeyplotter.nl/jp/download.html https://files.mastodon.social/me...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:25 pm
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Journey Plotter
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12397
Re: Journey Plotter
There seems to a problem using Journey Plotter's Gazetteer Search. You're met with a "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel" error when trying to execute a search. Apologies for the inconvenience, I'm looking into the problem. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/060...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:59 pm
- Forum: Zooniverse, BOINC, and other citizen science/humanities news
- Topic: OW BOINC Team - Offer your excess computer capacity for climate model simulation
- Replies: 43
- Views: 30422
Re: OW BOINC Team - Offer your excess computer capacity for climate model simulation
From the CPDN message board: WaH v8.29 bug leaves files behind in BOINC/data/projects/climateprediction -- please delete by hand A bug has been found in the latest v8.29 Weather@Home app currently running EAS25 batches as app-name wah2_ri. When the task finishes it mistakenly leaves some text files ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:55 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
Re: Chat
You're welcome.
Have fun.
And be as pesky as you like, I don't live in that part of the country any more.
Have fun.
And be as pesky as you like, I don't live in that part of the country any more.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
Re: Chat
On another more personal note, Maikel, in May we will spend a few days in Amsterdam and then cruise up the Rhine including Kinderdijk. (Yes, we will be a couple of those pesky American tourists.) Anything we should be sure to see (or eat) beside the usual tourist places? Thanks. I'm probably not th...
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:38 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
Re: Chat
The hyped generative AI are at best fun toys. But, like April mentioned, their power and water consumption are enormous. I've read somewhere that asking generative AI to create a single image for you is the equivalent of completely discharging a fully charged smart phone. That adds up, because milli...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Interesting Log Entries
- Replies: 260
- Views: 23099
Re: Interesting Log Entries
Oh dear. :( C.B. Brittain, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy P.N. Olmsted, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy K. Ohnesorg, Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Navy Report of Board of Investigation appointed to inquire into the absence of L. Mansen, Blacksmith. U.S.S. "Yorktown", At sea, latitude 34°48' N, longitude 150°30' E,...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Zooniverse, BOINC, and other citizen science/humanities news
- Topic: OW BOINC Team - Offer your excess computer capacity for climate model simulation
- Replies: 43
- Views: 30422
Re: OW BOINC Team - Offer your excess computer capacity for climate model simulation
BOINC 7.24.3 released for Mac
This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a Mac OS upgrade to Sonoma.
Download it here.
This version fixes a problem that causes GPU apps to fail after a Mac OS upgrade to Sonoma.
Download it here.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:47 am
- Forum: Branch Office
- Topic: New ship histories
- Replies: 111
- Views: 35875
Re: New ship histories
U.S.S. Jamestown was stationed at Sitka, Alaska, from 1879 to 1881. They left their mark till this day, though. Click a map to see a larger version. Places near Sitka. https://www.journeyplotter.nl/images/Social/Jamestown Sitka.png Places further away from Sitka. https://www.journeyplotter.nl/images...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Journey Plotter
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12397
Re: Journey Plotter
You may have noticed Google Maps in Journey Plotter are no longer uniform in colour. Sometimes Google changes its map appearance, but Journey Plotter doesn't frequently update its map tile cache. Clearing the map cache will solve the problem: - from the Tools menu, select Map Cache... - in the dialo...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 8:21 am
- Forum: Dockside Cafe
- Topic: Chat
- Replies: 2629
- Views: 268506
Re: Chat
OW Forum: Merry Christmas 🎄 everyone, and best wishes for 2024 🎆🎇. As every year I created an animated Christmas card, which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/2BBbh7OPT8E Unlike the card, no snow, it's rain, rain, rain and some more rain, with a moderate to sometime strong breeze. And it isn't ju...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:24 am
- Forum: Technical support
- Topic: Internet/Internet site problems
- Replies: 278
- Views: 34422
Re: Internet/Internet site problems
I expect the website's hosting company had problems or was performing maintenance. Yesterday morning (European time) saw all sorts of problems. At times the forum was reachable, but extremely slow. Other times you were met by an error 503: Forbidden. Or by certificate problems, where the hosting com...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 7:40 am
- Forum: Zooniverse, BOINC, and other citizen science/humanities news
- Topic: OW BOINC Team - Offer your excess computer capacity for climate model simulation
- Replies: 43
- Views: 30422
Re: OW BOINC Team - Offer your excess computer capacity for climate model simulation
BOINC client 7.24.2 released for Mac
This release fixes problems with the BOINC screensaver on MacOS 14.0 Sonoma.
We recommend that you install it if you use that version of MacOS.
This release fixes problems with the BOINC screensaver on MacOS 14.0 Sonoma.
We recommend that you install it if you use that version of MacOS.
- Sun Oct 15, 2023 1:08 pm
- Forum: Old Weather news and results and related science news
- Topic: The Fram: A Victorian expedition to the North Pole that was as brilliant as it was bonkers
- Replies: 1
- Views: 402
The Fram: A Victorian expedition to the North Pole that was as brilliant as it was bonkers
The Fram: A Victorian expedition to the North Pole that was as brilliant as it was bonkers https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hqJT5wnJrTyPKZyoGti7Fb.jpg 'The Fram in the Ice', 1895, (1897). (Image credit: Print Collector / Contributor via Getty Images) British physicist and oceanographer Helen Czers...