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| Ports in a Storm |
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| Where in the World? |
| Fat Fignering 101 |
| Acronyms |
| McHistory |
| Quotable Quotes |
| Potpourri |
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| GZIP compressed transfers use this registered McIDAS port |
| What is port 112? |
| This NWS data stream is switching to DVB-S |
| What is NOAAPORT? |
| These ports will no longer be used in McIDAS-X 2005 |
| What are ports 500 and 503? |
| Hurricane Charley made landfall in this seaside community |
| Where is Port Charlotte, FL |
| In the past McIDAS conflicted with this protocol that also uses port 500 |
| What is isakmp (Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol)? |
| This port will be used when compression is specified on a 2004 client connecting to a 2003 server |
| What is port 112? |
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| What is Hurricane Hugo? |
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| What is the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences building (home of SSEC)? |
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| Who is Dave Santek? |
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| What is Mt. St. Helens? |
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| What is the Moon (from GOES-7)? |
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| What is Florida's Worst Nightmare? |
| EDDF |
| What is Frankfurt? |
| ABC, ZZV |
| Where are Bethel, AK and Zanesville, OH (First and last non-VOR IDs)? |
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| Where is O'Hare International Airport/KORD? |
| ENEK |
| What is Ekofisk Oil Platform? |
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| What is Denver International Airport/KDEN? |
| HOT AND KOLD |
| What is Hot Springs, AR, Anderson, SC, and Old Town, ME? |
| This command produces errors similar to 'No help file found for CMD' |
| What is HELP? |
| 'The _______ variable must be set to execute mcidas' |
| What is DISPLAY? |
| This command's elements must be a multiple of four |
| What is IMGREMAP? |
| The error 'Cannot make positive UC' is a result of this |
| What is starting McIDAS with too many frames, or not enough shared memory? |
| What is pasting too many characters into the text window? |
| The error 'Failed to write comment card' is a result of this |
| What is a full disk or incorrect file permissions on the output directory? |
| GOES |
| What is Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite? |
| SATEPS |
| What is the Satellite Environmental Processing System? |
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| What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration? |
| ADDE |
| What is Abstract Data Distribution Environment? |
| ECMWF |
| What is European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts? |
| TIROS |
| What is Television InfraRed Observation Satellite? |
| A programmer taught himself Greek while waiting for McIDAS to compile on this first PC platform supported by McIDAS |
| What is DOS? |
| The MUG was formed in this year |
| What is 1989? |
| This tornado outbreak in 1979 spawned the congressional hearing that put McIDAS in the U.S. government |
| What is the Wichita Falls, Texas Tornado? |
| This is the first foreign McIDAS site |
| What is the West German Space Agency? |
| This is the first platform supported by McIDAS |
| What is Datacraft? |
| This site in Massachusetts was the first remote McIDAS site |
| What is the U.S. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (Air Force Geophysics Lab)? |
| On May 1st, this person always asks 'When will the upgrade be ready?' |
| Who is Dorothy Brown? |
| 'It will be available two days after the upgrade' |
| What does the help desk say about the first fastrack? |
| 'I didn't change anything, but XCD stopped working' |
| Who is TASC (after upgrading hardware, OS, and moving antenna hardware) |
| 'It's not a bug, it's a feature!' |
| Who is every McIDAS programmer? |
| Email subject: 'GI: Update: GOES-9 De-orbit into Madison UPDATE: Effective 10/08/04: Issued 10/07/04' |
| What is today's email from Brian Hughes to the mcidas-users list? |
| 'I help laaand the shuttle...' |
| Who is Bryan Batson? |
| (608) 262-2455 |
| What is the help desk phone number? |
 The function these buttons perform in the GUI |
| What is toggle images on and off? |
| No, Never, No way, Not gonna happen |
| Will McIDAS-X ever support HDF5? |
| This site asked the most questions in the last five years |
| What is SATEPS? |
| This was the first source code management system used in the development of McIDAS |
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| What is the new McIDAS Web Site? |
| FINAL |
| Final Geopardy: Nested Acronyms |
| MDF is a nested acronym for this |
| What is Man computer Interactive Data Access System Users' Group Developers' Forum? |
| Team ? wins! |