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Authored by: FACEMILK on Apr 16, '02 05:06:24PM

I set up a system to automatically put current weather maps on my desktop at regular intervals. I'll leave the details up to you to figure out. It's a good learning excercise and not too difficult. May the man be with you.

Overview:
- cron runs the shell script
- shell script runs wget
- wget gets current weather maps
- ChangeDesktop (from Brian Bergstrand) sets the desktop to the maps

Notes:
- The weather maps come from weather.com, you can poke around there to find the map urls that you like.
- curl can replace wget if you want.



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