29
Jun
A bonus, 2 years later
I've always wanted to be able to send messages to my phone from the weather server but I didn't want to have to pay for the service. Well, this week I've been researching phones as my current phone is starting to get weird. Weird? Yes, weird, as in Pat Robertson and I'm going to randomly yell at you weird. Anyway, while I was on US Cellular's website I found out that contracts now have included email addresses. This was helping to steer me into renewing my contract. But first I decided to try sending email to the supposed email address I would get. Guess what? Yep, it works.
After that, it took about an hour of figuring out how to get around Mediacom's SMTP port blocking so I could send messages to myself. Now it works! And since I get unlimited incoming messages (or at least I think I do…next month's bill should answer that question), I don't have to worry about how many messages I get. So, now, for the curious, if you'd like messages sent to your cell phone, and your provider has an email address that I can send it to, let me know. I'd be happy to setup some alarms for you and alert you to whatever hazards for whatever counties you wish. That's right… all that right here under Ryan's Parasol of Protection™. 
Also, hopefully in the next week I'll be getting some memory delivered from NewEgg which should improve the weather server's response time. With the computer running 24/7 with the server, message and map clients, and the webcam server, it occasionally gets bogged down and freaks out. Hopefully the memory will work out of the box.
