MONOCLAST This is a great application that does a great job of keeping you updated about weather conditions, and is very stable and relatively bug-free. The user interface - in particular the preferences - could use some work in terms of better organization and usability, but what is there works. One gripe I have with this application is for several releases now it's polluted the system log with entries like these: Jul 21 12:36:57 mono Meteorologist[191]: Fetching URL: http://www.weather.com/weather/mpdwcr/tenday?locid=USTX0225 Jul 21 12:41:55 mono Meteorologist[191]: Fetching URL: http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/USTX0225 Jul 21 12:41:55 mono Meteorologist[191]: Fetching URL: http://www.weather.com/weather/mpdwcr/tenday?locid=USTX0225 Jul 21 12:41:55 mono Meteorologist[191]: Weather.com URL: http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/USTX0225 And it does this each time it checks for updated weather, which means my logs typically have over FIVE HUNDRED such entries a DAY! For instance, here's the count for today (and the day is far from over): # cat /var/log/system.log | grep Meteorologist | sort | wc -l Obviously having these messages interspersed with critical messages in the log makes casually scanning the logs for other pertinent information a pain in the ass. In fact, i typically have ti filter the Meteorologist messages out to view my logs efficiently, which means viewing them through the command line and using grep to filter. This may not bother the developer, but it's surely irritating to others. I realize this is a freeware application, and I'm not giving it a bad rating for this; but I really hope the author will stop logging unimportant data like this to the system log in a future update! Put this stuff in the console log if you must, but keep it out of our system logs, please! (Version 1.4.8) |