2006-Jan 31Tuesday

Spring Festival Project Result

2006年1月31日20:32　 7Timer!　评论/Comment.

Hello all –
Finally my holiday come to an end and I’m sad to annouce nearly nothing was done!
I spent four days on model improving and one days on website upgrading, now the website looks beautiful but the model needs to be improved (greatly, I’m afraid, for it makes many mistakes these days).
I have to annouce no model will be upgrade or released until I have finished my university examination in June. The four day I’ve develop two new improve version of Model-V2 but none of them is release-able. Certainly, no features will be added as well.
Thankfully I could annouce the website have been upgrade totally and FAQ has been released. Requests will be preceed tomorrow.
Best to all,
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 26Thursday

Developing plan in Spring Festival Holiday

2006年1月26日12:51　 7Timer!　评论/Comment.

Hello all,
Now the biggest fesival in China — Spring Festival — is approaching, I’ll be able to have four days off at home (usually we student could have 20+ days off but now in Senior III we could only have four). Certainly the development of 7Timer! will be a big part in my holiday activity plan. Now I list all senior problems of 7Timer! here, I’m trying to solve all these problem but it seems to be a mission impossible. However I’ll try my best, and if you have any comments, please let me know.

MODEL IMPROVING

1. Cloud Cover Model
In Model-V2 the cloud cover model is still not very good, I’ve notice sometimes the observation is higher than the predition. In Model-V1 obs is always lower but now is sometimes higher, that means something still needs to be set again. I could not make sure if I could release Model-V3 in just four days, e.g. Model-V2 spent me over 1-month to test and adjust, so you may not be able to use Model-V3 before August. However, an improve version of Model-V2 is still possible.

2. Transparency Model
It needs a big improvement — though I think it’s not so inaccurate as cloud cover prediction, but when there is a long haze/fog/smog time, it will be inaccurate, I’m trying to solve this problem, but I do not have obs data of the world from NOAA, I think the problem could not be solved completely.

NEW FEATURE DEVELOPING

I’m working on new features developing, because it seems this prt is easier to cover. All new features are in Forecast Map, it will be upgrade with the new look of Forecast Map page.

WEBSITE NEW LOOK UPGRADING

I’m also working on this but I’m afraid not all pages could be upgraded by the end of the holiday.

WRITING AN FAQ

I’m trying to cover all “most” frequently ask questions by the end of the holiday.

All right, that’s all, seems it’s a difficult job to cover all above! And there’re many homework to do in the holiday, so I could not promise I could cover even half of them. However I’ll cover them as many as possible.
Happy Chinese new year to all,
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 22Sunday

Hoofddorp and Orp problem solved,

2006年1月22日22:23　 7Timer!　评论/Comment.

Hi Rob, and all,
The problems in Hoofddorp and Orp were fixed, both are commanding error, I apologize for these mistakes.
And Rob, as I’m unable to send you a mail (all mails to you have been returned), I could only post here to inform you your problem was fixed.
Regards,
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 22Sunday

7Timer!s update/Jan 22

2006年1月22日18:37　 未分类　评论/Comment.

Hello all,
Now I finally have time to process these requests!
Winter holiday is coming, but we only could have four days free, instead of 20 days… so let me see what I can do for 7Timer! in the four days.

============
Added 7Timer!s:
============

United Kingdom Salcott
浙江省 括苍山 [Note: 7Timer! in China]
云南省 玉溪市 [Note: 7Timer! in China]
London, England
Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
Romania Bucharest
Sweden Linkoping
United Kingdom Newcastle under Lyme
Spain Sevilla
台湾地区 台北县林口乡 [Note: 7Timer! in China]

============
Problem requests
============

浙江省 7Timer!地点 [请给出具体地点]
广东省 广州市军体院 [请直接使用广州市的晴天钟]
广西壮族自治区 南宁 [已存在]

That’s all. The next day of update would be Feb.1 (approximately, I’ll inform you all if the day changes.)
Regards,
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 15Sunday

关于STEREO探测器的一些小情况

2006年1月15日19:00　 未分类　评论/Comment.

·两个子探测器的轨道偏心率略大于地球。在进入各自的轨道之后，它们将逐渐分开，直到相距180度，然后再逐渐接近。因此STEREO在观测彗星上将比SOHO更有优势。
·目前，探测器预定在2006年4-7月之间发射。它们开始将环绕地球运行，利用月球引力将它们弹射到轨道上。在2006年底，它们将可以开始正常供图。
·STEREO的图像分辨率将为2048×2048，也有类似于C2、C3的观测仪。
·目前负责SOHO彗星确认工作的Karl Battams计划继续进行STEREO彗星确认工作。SOHO彗星将和STEREO彗星共用一个网站。
·STEREO的出图将和SOHO略有不同。它将实时传送128×128的图片，但2048×2048的图片将在每天特定时刻放出。因此，STEREO运行之后，SOHO仍然可以继续发现明亮的彗星。
·STEREO的SECCHI观测仪(和SOHO的LASCO一样用途)的极限星等可以比LASCO高3-4个星等。它将覆盖12-318个太阳半径的视野。

2006-Jan 9Monday

Tammisaari/Ekenas problem solved.

2006年1月9日12:49　 7Timer!　评论/Comment.

Hello Hakan, and all,
The problem at Tammisaari/Ekenas has been solved. The name still use “Tammisaari/Ekenas”… there’s no problem out there at all, why the image was unable to come out is because I’ve made the image name wrong Now it’s okay. I should say sorry for this low class mistake. The 7Timer! should be available after… about 11-12 h UT today.
And all, please note if you find something goes wrong, please let me know at once… I’ll give you an answer as soon as I can.
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 8Sunday

Request page of English version has been upgrade

2006年1月8日22:37　 7Timer!　评论/Comment.

Hello all,
I’m glad to annouce the request page of English version has been upgrade to the new version.
Now I’m going to upgrade the condition of the program’s page, and write some FAQ… the newly-written FAQs will be first post here.
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 7Saturday

Today’s problem solved.

2006年1月7日22:35　 7Timer!　评论/Comment.

Hello all,
The admin just informed me that he had solved the problem, now today’s auto-run project has just been completed. Enjoy!
If you find any mistakes/problems, feel free to mail me.
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 7Saturday

Problem detected

2006年1月7日13:06　 7Timer!　一条评论哦 || 1 Comment

Hello all,
After a short contact with the auto-run system arthor Zuqiang, we’ve detected where the problem locates:

sda2: write failed, user block limit reached.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
sda2: write failed, user block limit reached.

Maybe the 7Timer! space limit reached. I’ve contact the admin for this problem. Anything new will be post here.
Quanzhi

2006-Jan 7Saturday

7Timer! Auto-run program down

2006年1月7日12:42　 7Timer!　一条评论哦 || 1 Comment

Hello all,
I’ve just discovered the auto-run program was down for over 15 hours. Now I’m going to locate where the problem is, please be patient…
-Quanzhi