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Ask Dr. IntraNet
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I need a system that will let me place weather information on our intranet. Do you know of any? A The National Weather Service, at iwin.nws.noaa.gov, provides weather statistics, except heat-index and wind-chill values, from clickable maps. Other Internet options are wunderground.com and accuweather.com, from which you can get a five-day forecast plus current conditions for just about anywhere you'd like. Two systems for gathering and displaying weather information from your own backyard are the WX-200, sold by Radio Shack under the Accuweather badge, and the Weather Report (WRL-25) system, available through American Weather Enterprises at www. americanweather.com. Both require an RS-232 connector and third-party software to format the data for presentation on the intranet. Go to weatherwatchers.orgif you'd like to see these systems in action. The site also offers pointers to a number of software systems designed to help convert weather data to HTML pages.
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We have a Netscape Web server running under Sun Solaris and SMTP/POP mail systems. I'd like our mobile users to be able to check mail via Web browsers. Do you know of any software that will allow this? A I found a list of Web mail programs at www.davecentral.com. Three programs - Netwin's Corporate Web Mail, dotShop's EMUmail and Seattle Lab's Emurl - caught my attention, and I tested EMUmail because it had the longest trial period. I checked my Unix server for the latest version of Perl, then installed the necessary Perl modules included in the EMUmail distribution. Then I simply copied emumail.cgi into my cgi-bin directory and ran the installation script to bring up a full-featured Web POP3 mail client under a Netscape server on a Solaris machine. Because the EMUmail program provides access to user POP mailboxes but leaves the mail on the original server, it cooperates with existing SMTP and POP services. |
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