Free amsterdam airport software for linux

Better Weather contains a couple of scripts using normal KDE and Linux tools to provide better display of weather info than KDEs weather applet. It downloads the information from the US national weather service and maps from weather.com. Two launchers on the main menubar bring up the window separately. Full details and instructions are in the readme.

This is a solution that worked for me, not being a coder. You have to make it work for you. Its an idea and a set of tools. Its also US-centric, but someone may take the idea and make it work just as well anywhere. I hope someone finds it as useful as I do.

WHAT IT DOES

The tools I wrote are two *very* simple bash scripts. The script, localwx.sh, invokes the python weather utility, and downloads the current weather conditions and forecast in text format from the weather service. It stores the information temporarily in a text file (I chose the desktop as the directory in which to save it.) It then "reads" the text file into a kdialog box. When the "ok" button is clicked, the temporary file is deleted.

The other script, wxmap.sh, downloads a current local weather map image using wget, saves it temporarily to the desktop, and calls Kview to display it. When Kview closes, the temporary image file is deleted.

HOW I DID IT

The man pages for "weather," "kdialog," and "wget" were useful for determining which options to use. The script for weather forecasts has to be edited to receive the data for the users current location. My nearest airport is PDK, so my ID was "KPDK." The rest is straightforward enough. To make the weather map script work, you can go to weather.com or your local tv station website and copy the image location for the weather map they use. It can be pasted into the script.

Once the scripts were edited to suit, I made them executable (chmod +x filename), copied them to /usr/local/bin, and created a launcher for each in my main menubar. Describing the process is a lot more difficult than actually doing the work!

HermesAP is a package containing Orinoco driver patches and tertiary firmware extraction/upload utilities to switch Hermes/Airport WaveLAN cards to BSS master (AccessPoint) mode under Linux.

The package contains next components:
patched orinoco-0.13c driver for
o BSS master support (with WDS)
o Firmware up/download/boot support
o Monitoring mode
o multiple TXFIDs
hfwload - a utility to load (and boot) Tertiary (AP mode) firmware in the RAM of the Card
hfwget - a utility to extract Tertiary firmware from a public available (via ftp) binary

Airctl is a commad-line utility to trigger connection and disconnection events on, and to print the status of an Apple AirPort Base Station. At the moment this is not a configuration utility; try the AirPort Java Configurator http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/] , airconf [http://c0re.jp/c0de/airconf/] , or Apples own software to configure thing.

To install follow these commands:
make airctl

Usage:
./airctl -h

DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS is a Perl module that can convert DateTimes to/from Mac OS epoch seconds.

SYNOPSIS

use DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS;

my $dt = DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );
DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->format_datetime($dt);
# 1051488000

my $formatter = DateTime::Format::Epoch::MacOS->new();

my $dt2 = $formatter->parse_datetime( 1051488000 );

$formatter->format_datetime($dt2);
# 1051488000

This module can convert a DateTime object (or any object that can be converted to a DateTime object) to the number of seconds since the Mac OS epoch.
Note that the Mac OS epoch is defined in the local time zone. This means that these two pieces of code will print the same number of seconds, even though they represent two datetimes 6 hours apart:

$dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
time_zone => Europe/Amsterdam );
print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

$dt = DateTime->new( year => 2003, month => 5, day => 2,
time_zone => America/Chicago );
print $formatter->format_datetime($dt);

Mac OS X is a Unix system, and uses the Unix epoch (1970-01-01T00:00:00). Use DateTime::Format::Epoch::Unix instead.

POE::Component::Client::AirTunes is a Perl module with stream music to Airport Express.

SYNOPSIS

use POE qw( Component::Client::AirTunes );

POE::Component::Client::AirTunes->new(
host => $ip,
alias => "airtunes",
events => {
connected => connected,
error => error,
done => done,
},
);

$kernel->post(airtunes => volume => 100);
$kernel->post(airtunes => play => "/path/to/foobar.m4a");
$kernel->post(airtunes => stop);

POE::Component::Client::AirTunes is a POE component to stream music files to your Airport Express. This module is a frontend for a command line Airport Express player raop_play, which is included in Airport Express Client, availabe at http://raop-play.sourceforge.net.

See t/01_airtunes.t for more example. This module is ALPHA software and its API might change in the future.

OpenWorld provides an icon theme for GNOME or KDE.

It aims to follow FreeDesktop icon theme spec.

This icons collection was built gradually over couple of years. Icons were made for various purposes: StarOffice presentations, illustrations, design documents, OpenSolaris.org website, my blog etc.

Most of them were drawn while waiting in public places, like airports or bus stands or at home if dial-up connection goes down to trickling bytes. It is perhaps the most complete icon theme made on Java Desktop System. I havent tested it on other Gnome or KDE desktops.

In the introduction about this collection I mentioned its design principle. It is done using SVG which is quite object oriented and one could easily reuse items from icon in another icon. Finally icons were rasterized to PNG using rsvg(1)

All icons are original and they do not intend to copy icons from any other operating system or icon theme. These are released under CDDL open source license. Feel free to copy the ideas for other icon themes!

metaf2xml project parses and decodes aviation routine weather reports (METAR, SPECI), aerodrome forecasts (TAF), and synoptic observations (SYNOP) and stores the components in XML (all done in Perl). There are also XSLT style sheets to convert the XML to plain language (text, HTML), or XML with different schemas, and a command line and a web-based (CGI) user interface.
All parts of the messages are parsed, some common format errors are corrected or tolerated.
METAR and SPECI (weather observation) and TAF (weather forecast) information is essential for flight planning and in-flight decisions (real flight and simulation). It is regularily compiled by meteorologists at about 3,500 airports worldwide and distributed via reliable, non-public networks. Information for SYNOP is collected by more than 11,000 manned and unmanned meteorological stations around the world and is used for weather forecasting and climatic statistics. The raw format is abbreviated, some items are coded. Here are some METAR, TAF, and SYNOP messages from Rio (SBGL, 83746), New York (KJFK, 74486), and Tokyo (RJTT, 47662):
SBGL 300600Z 33002KT 9999 SCT015 BKN070 14/11 Q1027
SBGL 300300Z 300606 33005KT 8000 SCT020 BECMG 0810 5000 BR SCT013 BECMG 1113 27005KT
8000 NSW SCT018 BECMG 1517 21010KT SCT020 BECMG 2123 17005KT BECMG 0002 00000KT SCT015 TN17/09Z TX22/16Z RMK PGY
KJFK 300551Z 00000KT 5SM HZ BKN030 BKN048 OVC130 23/20 A2996
AMD KJFK 300255Z 300324 VRB04KT 5SM BR SCT020 BKN060 TEMPO 0406 BKN020 FM0600 VRB03KT
3SM BR OVC009 FM1300 VRB05KT 6SM HZ SCT025 BKN100 FM1700 17008KT P6SM SCT040CB BKN100
RJTT 300630Z 08012KT 9999 -SHRA FEW010 BKN040 23/20 Q1008
RJTT 300552Z 300615 05014KT 9000 FEW010 SCT030 TEMPO 1215 3000 TSRA FEW008 SCT010 FEW015CB BKN020
RJTT 300249Z 301206 04015KT 7000 FEW008 SCT020 BKN030 TEMPO 1218 3000 TSRA BKN008
BKN020 SCT020CB TEMPO 1821 4000 BR BECMG 0306 14006KT
AAXX 30034 83746 41462 73404 10136 20115 40291 58005 71022 84530
AAXX 30064 74486 31558 80000 10228 20200 30134 40144 58003 705// 90551 333 10250 20222 555 93006
AAXX 30064 47662 11/70 70706 10231 20180 30043 40085 50000 60151 70298 8527/
The intended users are flight simmers, private pilot (students) who want to extend their knowledge about the message formats, and everyone who just wants to know what the weather is/will be at some station in plain language.
Enhancements:
- This release brings changes to the user interface and a few smaller improvements and bugfixes.