Weather Banter - http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes is now working again

SECURITY CRASH -- On 10 September 2004, the computers serving this web
page and GOES image repository were seriously hacked. On 4 October,
public service was restored.
For those interested in downloading our behind-the-scenes GOES-EAST
archive of the hurricane season, Aug 28 to Sept. 25, go to
ftp://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/goes_hurricane

NEW SERVER -- At the end of August 2004, the 10-year old computer
serving this web page and image repository was replaced. Most of the
active links and bookmarks will remain the same for a while. Links to
disk names (e.g. "goesd") should be converted to generic names (e.g.
"goeseast"). Links or bookmarks to "rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov" should be
converted to "goes.gsfc.nasa.gov". Please let us know if something has
gone awry.

NEW AND IMPROVED LINKS -- On 20 May 2004, the GOES image sectors for
GOES-EAST were switched over to larger disks with fully spelled out
sector names (e.g. "hurrican" became "hurricane"). These sectors now
hold the last week of images, instead of only a day or two. There was
similar switch-over for GOES-WEST.

MODE-A CALIBRATION -- To provide the science community with a wider
dynamic range of IR calibration from the GOES Imagers, we are converting
from the 192-to-320K linear calibration curve to the 163-to-330K dog-leg
calibration curve known as "mode A". This change in IR calibration
happened for the GOES-EAST 8-bit images as in July 2001, and for the
GOES-WEST 8-bit images in March 2003.

Donald Rosenfeld wrote:

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goeseast/hu...000_latest.jpg

Donald Rosenfeld wrote:

From: "webmaster"
To: "'Donald Rosenfeld'"
Subject: http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes
Date: Monday, October 04, 2004 8:46 AM

The http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goes aka http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/ is
being blocked by the NASA GSFC firewall due to a security incident. We
hope to be back on-line by the end of the month.