Re: [Flightgear-devel] Copyrights

2010-01-08 Thread J. Holden
LeeE: I appreciate your comments, but in that case, why is FlightGear licensed under the GPL at all if we're not willing to enforce it? The GPL is designed to be as open as possible, but still giving rights to the people who hold the copyright on the product! See section 1 of GPLv2: 1. You

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Copyrights

2010-01-08 Thread Erik Hofman
J. Holden wrote: LeeE: I appreciate your comments, but in that case, why is FlightGear licensed under the GPL at all if we're not willing to enforce it? The GPL is designed to be as open as possible, but still giving rights to the people who hold the copyright on the product! Well that

[Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Stuart Buchanan
Hi All, The graphics card on my FG PC has just died, and as the PC is now quite old and was already on it's second graphics card, I'm looking to buy a laptop to replace it with. Does anyone have a recommendation for laptops, or particular things I should look out for. So far, my requirements

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Copyrights

2010-01-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:41:15 +0100, Erik wrote in message 4b46efab.4020...@ehofman.com: J. Holden wrote: LeeE: I appreciate your comments, but in that case, why is FlightGear licensed under the GPL at all if we're not willing to enforce it? ..you don't enforce the GPL like decades of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Csaba Halász
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Stuart Buchanan stuart_d_bucha...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The graphics card on my FG PC has just died, and as the PC is now quite old and was already on it's second graphics card, I'm looking to buy a laptop to replace it with. Does anyone have a recommendation

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Towards the new Release

2010-01-08 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, Hi everybody, I managed to make sort of an SDK for cross compiling using the great fgfs-builder by Ralf Gerlich some time ago. Last time I updated my win32/mingw32 patches was in august though. However, I think I will have time to update them and provide the instructions if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Jon Stockill
Stuart Buchanan wrote: Hi All, The graphics card on my FG PC has just died, and as the PC is now quite old and was already on it's second graphics card, I'm looking to buy a laptop to replace it with. Does anyone have a recommendation for laptops, or particular things I should look

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Curtis Olson
For what it's worth, I ended up with a refurb compaq (now hp?) presario laptop with nvidia graphics hardware. It has a dual 64-bit AMD processor and so far I have been really happy with it. Everything (sound, video, wireless network, etc.) is well supported under Linux. And it performs pretty

[Flightgear-devel] RFC distributed node system

2010-01-08 Thread Torsten Napierala
Hi All, I have made a short description about a proposal for a distributed node system for FlightGear. Please have a look at http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Distributed_node_system_for_FlightGear and comment. If I have a little bit free time I will build a prototyp. Thanks Torsten

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Laptop Recommentations

2010-01-08 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Stuart Buchanan schrieb: So far, my requirements list is as follows: * 17 screen * NVidia graphics card (non-integrated) * Ubuntu support * Plenty of USB sockets for joystick/pedals. That looks like the list for my Laptop replacement ;) -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RFC distributed node system

2010-01-08 Thread leee
On Friday 08 Jan 2010, Torsten Napierala wrote: Hi All, I have made a short description about a proposal for a distributed node system for FlightGear. Please have a look at http://wiki.flightgear.org/index.php/Distributed_node_system_for_ FlightGear and comment. If I have a little bit

[Flightgear-devel] Native WIN32 MSVC9 build error

2010-01-08 Thread Geoff McLane
Hi, 1. Did a SG/FG/data CVS update earlier today, but ran into this ERROR when compiling FG, repeated for other files which include 'flight.hxx'... Gear.cpp c:\FG\32\FlightGear\src\FDM/flight.hxx(110) : error C2678: binary '==' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'const

[Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim Wiki

2010-01-08 Thread Martin Spott
Isn't this funny - the content looks a little bit familiar :-) http://www.flightprosim.com/fg-wikis/wiki.flightgear.org/ BTW, could this mirror be the cause for the almost regular 503 connection errors I'm getting recently when looking at the 'real' FlightGear Wiki ? Cheers, Martin.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim Wiki

2010-01-08 Thread Heiko Schulz
Isn't this funny - the content looks a little bit familiar  :-)   http://www.flightprosim.com/fg-wikis/wiki.flightgear.org/ BTW, could this mirror be the cause for the almost regular 503 connection errors I'm getting recently when looking at the 'real' FlightGear Wiki ? Cheers,    

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightProSim Wiki

2010-01-08 Thread Simon Hollier
Hey Martin, I don't think so as it appears to be last updated on the 30th of October. There is a user in Winnipeg, MB Canada that is sucking down an enormous amount of pages, but that isn't necessarily malicious. We're working on a solution to the 503's. Simon On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:04 PM,