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Xymon prominently displayed in "Weather Channel" TV commercials in CT, USA

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list Bill Arlofski · Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:53:41 -0400 ·
Saw a Weather Channel commercial the other and when they display their NOC and pan around, there is a screen in the middle of the room clearly displaying what appears to be a Xymon "nongreen.html" page, and another much larger one on the NOC's main video wall.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or if it is not even Xymon. :)

Cheers!


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list Mark Felder · Wed, 15 Apr 2015 08:33:21 -0500 ·
quoted from Bill Arlofski

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 20:53, Bill Arlofski wrote:
Saw a Weather Channel commercial the other and when they display their
NOC and pan around, there is a screen in the middle of the room clearly
displaying what appears to be a Xymon "nongreen.html" page, and another much larger
one on the NOC's main video wall.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or if it is not even Xymon. :)

Cheers!
It's possible it's Big Brother which still looks similar last time I
checked. Try and get a screen grab and post it! :-)
list Henrik Størner · Wed, 15 Apr 2015 15:44:07 +0200 ·
quoted from Mark Felder
Den 2015-04-15 15:33, Mark Felder skrev:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 20:53, Bill Arlofski wrote:
Saw a Weather Channel commercial the other and when they display their
NOC and
pan around, there is a screen in the middle of the room clearly
displaying
what appears to be a Xymon "nongreen.html" page, and another much larger
one
on the NOC's main video wall.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or if it is not even Xymon. :)

Cheers!
It's possible it's Big Brother which still looks similar last time I
checked. Try and get a screen grab and post it! :-)
I received links to a couple of these ads on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGQAGB-CyA at the 0:25 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-C_7HlNiQ at the 0:18 mark

Two reasons why I think it is Xymon and not Big Brother:

1) Looks like the red/yellow/green icons are round (status recently changed). This is a Xymon feature.
2) The non-green display appears to have two vertical columns that are entirely green. These would be the Xymon "info" and "trends" columns - again this is a Xymon feature.


Regards,
Henrik
list Ralph Mitchell · Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:36:17 -0400 ·
Here's another hint that it's Hobbit / Xymon, and not Big Brother:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/User_Guide/The_Xymon_Users_list#AccuWeather.2C_Inc
.

Ralph Mitchell
quoted from Henrik Størner


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Henrik Størner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Den 2015-04-15 15:33, Mark Felder skrev:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 20:53, Bill Arlofski wrote:
Saw a Weather Channel commercial the other and when they display their
NOC and
pan around, there is a screen in the middle of the room clearly
displaying
what appears to be a Xymon "nongreen.html" page, and another much larger
one
on the NOC's main video wall.

Wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or if it is not even Xymon. :)

Cheers!

It's possible it's Big Brother which still looks similar last time I
checked. Try and get a screen grab and post it! :-)
I received links to a couple of these ads on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmGQAGB-CyA at the 0:25 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz-C_7HlNiQ at the 0:18 mark

Two reasons why I think it is Xymon and not Big Brother:

1) Looks like the red/yellow/green icons are round (status recently
changed). This is a Xymon feature.
2) The non-green display appears to have two vertical columns that are
entirely green. These would be the Xymon "info" and "trends" columns -
again this is a Xymon feature.


Regards,
Henrik

list Mark Felder · Wed, 15 Apr 2015 11:22:27 -0500 ·
quoted from Ralph Mitchell

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015, at 09:36, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Here's another hint that it's Hobbit / Xymon, and not Big Brother:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/User_Guide/The_Xymon_Users_list#AccuWeather.2C_Inc
.

Ralph Mitchell
" (Running on OS X/Darwin) "

Wow, didn't expect to see that it was being run from an OSX server...
list Ralph Mitchell · Wed, 15 Apr 2015 13:11:38 -0400 ·
That may no longer be accurate.  There's no timestamp on the individual
entries, so there's no telling when they were updated.
quoted from Mark Felder

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Mark Felder <user-db141d317836@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015, at 09:36, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Here's another hint that it's Hobbit / Xymon, and not Big Brother:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/User_Guide/The_Xymon_Users_list#AccuWeather.2C_Inc
.

Ralph Mitchell
" (Running on OS X/Darwin) "

Wow, didn't expect to see that it was being run from an OSX server...

list Kris Springer · Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:16:53 -0700 ·
Does anyone else find it ironic that the commercials are for Microsoft. 


Kris Springer
Network Admin
Innovate!

Sent from my phone
quoted from Ralph Mitchell

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>
To: Mark Felder <user-db141d317836@xymon.invalid>
Cc: "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>
Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon prominently displayed in "Weather Channel" TV commercials in CT, USA

That may no longer be accurate.  There's no timestamp on the individual
entries, so there's no telling when they were updated.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Mark Felder <user-db141d317836@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015, at 09:36, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
Here's another hint that it's Hobbit / Xymon, and not Big Brother:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/User_Guide/The_Xymon_Users_list#AccuWeather.2C_Inc
.

Ralph Mitchell
" (Running on OS X/Darwin) "

Wow, didn't expect to see that it was being run from an OSX server...

list Elizabeth Jones · Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:47:25 -0700 ·
I've been getting spammed by emails for training for sharepoint stuff and the spam is all addressed "dear user-f5a87ea0c377@xymon.invalid", so the irony ship is already sailing for me.

quoted from Kris Springer
At Apr 15, 2015, 12:16:53 PM, Kris Springer<'user-c2caa0a7a8d5@xymon.invalid'> wrote:
Does anyone else find it ironic that the commercials are for Microsoft.

Kris Springer
Network Admin
Innovate!

Sent from my phone

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Mitchell
To: Mark Felder
Cc: "xymon@xymon.com"
Sent: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Xymon prominently displayed in "Weather Channel" TV commercials in CT, USA

That may no longer be accurate. There's no timestamp on the individual entries, so there's no telling when they were updated.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Mark Felder <user-db141d317836@xymon.invalid> wrote:


On Wed, Apr 15, 2015, at 09:36, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
> Here's another hint that it's Hobbit / Xymon, and not Big Brother:
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/User_Guide/The_Xymon_Users_list#AccuWeather.2C_Inc
> .
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>

" (Running on OS X/Darwin) "

Wow, didn't expect to see that it was being run from an OSX server...

list Jeremy Laidman · Thu, 16 Apr 2015 12:01:53 +1000 ·
quoted from Ralph Mitchell
On 16 April 2015 at 03:11, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid> wrote:
That may no longer be accurate.  There's no timestamp on the individual
entries, so there's no telling when they were updated.

It's a Wikimedia server, so it has a history view.  The AccuWeather entry
was in the very first commit, way back in April 2007.

J