[Flightgear-devel] FG in ramdisk from a net boot

2011-01-17 Thread Harry Campigli
Hello folks, Could I ask if any one has had FG or for that matter any app on a linux box running in a ramdisk environment with no Hd? Why, its fast to boot, fast to run, and means no harddisks, everything is preconfigured on boot, rather good for FG systems with multiple networked linux boxes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG in ramdisk from a net boot

2011-01-17 Thread Martin Spott
Harry Campigli wrote: Could I ask if any one has had FG or for that matter any app on a linux box running in a ramdisk environment with no Hd? Why, its fast to boot, [...] I might be getting your intention wrong, yet I suspect you forgot to add the time required to fill the ram disk from,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG in ramdisk from a net boot

2011-01-17 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:46:04 + (UTC), Martin wrote in message ih134s$q03c$1...@osprey.mgras.de: Harry Campigli wrote: Could I ask if any one has had FG or for that matter any app on a linux box running in a ramdisk environment with no Hd? Why, its fast to boot, [...] ..I have, a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG in ramdisk from a net boot

2011-01-17 Thread Harry Campigli
Helllo Martin and Arnt, Thanks for the replies. I better explain myself and my reasoning a bit. I fully agree that you are quite correct in that the ram load up is quicker directly from the HD than over a network, but I am aiming to do away with Hds in the FG sim boxes. First, re my mention of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG in ramdisk from a net boot

2011-01-17 Thread Martin Spott
Harry Campigli wrote: I better explain myself and my reasoning a bit. I fully agree that you are quite correct in that the ram load up is quicker directly from the HD than over a network, but I am aiming to do away with Hds in the FG sim boxes. At Linux installations in regular schools I'm

[Flightgear-devel] Add screenshot dialog, to select directory

2011-01-17 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Flightgear-commitlogs -- Saturday 15 January 2011: commit adb57b8154a4a9dad8107c0c6633c276b43c4a20 Author: Gijs de Rooy Date: Sat Jan 15 22:48:43 2011 +0100 Add screenshot dialog, to select directory Shudder! This patch simply duplicates a lot of code that was meant to be *re-used*.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Add screenshot dialog, to select directory

2011-01-17 Thread Gijs de Rooy
Hi Melchior, I was about to send an email to the mailing list asking for feedback, so thanks for saving my three minutes :) Shudder! This patch simply duplicates a lot of code that was meant to be *re-used*. Right. So far it was a proof of concept. What it needs now is someone to clean

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Add screenshot dialog, to select directory

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Brown
On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Gijs de Rooy wrote: Hi Melchior, I was about to send an email to the mailing list asking for feedback, so thanks for saving my three minutes :) Cheers and once again sorry! Gijs Gijs, You probably know better than I, but do most folks use or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Add screenshot dialog, to select directory

2011-01-17 Thread Csaba Halász
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Peter Brown smoothwater...@adelphia.net wrote: You probably know better than I, but do most folks use or need a FlightGear specified screen capture utility? Yes.  Perhaps I look at it another way, but even if it has one I think I'd still use my computer's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-17 Thread J. Holden
c) Doesn't 213 seem like a small number compared to the thousands of updates that have been applied to Robin's apt.dat since FG forked it in 2008? If you are looking for a project, we need someone to incorporate the new X-Plane format into TerraGear - while keeping polygon counts as low as

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic North

2011-01-17 Thread Frederic Bouvier
c) Doesn't 213 seem like a small number compared to the thousands of updates that have been applied to Robin's apt.dat since FG forked it in 2008? If you are looking for a project, we need someone to incorporate the new X-Plane format into TerraGear - while keeping polygon counts as low

[Flightgear-devel] IVAO and VATSIM support [was: VATSIM support?]

2011-01-17 Thread Geoff McLane
Thanks Thorsten for the link, and re-links... Since meeting with two of the IVAO Windows dev.team at FSWeekend2010 in Nov, I have been wanting to raise this topic again... I subsequently joined IVAO, and am presently forced to use my MSFS 2002, but would love that to be FG 2.2 instead. I do not

[Flightgear-devel] Heads up: bugfix with some impact (probably)

2011-01-17 Thread Torsten Dreyer
Hi all, I just pushed a bugfix to SGMisc::normalizePeriodic(min,max,value). The method allways returned zero for values less than min instead of normalizing these values into the given period. This function is used SGGeodesy::advanceRadM() SGGeodesy::radialIntersection() which are probably

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Add screenshot dialog, to select directory

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Brown
On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:35 PM, Csaba Halász wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Peter Brown smoothwater...@adelphia.net wrote: You probably know better than I, but do most folks use or need a FlightGear specified screen capture utility? Yes. Perhaps I look at it another way, but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: bugfix with some impact (probably)

2011-01-17 Thread ThorstenB
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Torsten Dreyer wrote: Hi all, I just pushed a bugfix to SGMisc::normalizePeriodic(min,max,value). The method allways returned zero for values less than min instead of normalizing these values into the given period. Excellent catch! As so often: when complex

[Flightgear-devel] HLA/RTI checkin

2011-01-17 Thread Mathias Fröhlich
Hi all, long promised and now checked in: First attempt of HLA/RTI support in flightgear. For the ones that do not know about that, HLA/RTI is message distribution api used for distributed and paralell real time simulation systems. There are a few api variants out there where the newest two

[Flightgear-devel] modern X-Plane airport format; Was: Magnetic North

2011-01-17 Thread Martin Spott
Frederic Bouvier wrote: As John said, the missing bit is scenery generation. I think it's a split task. As with almost every technical problem, there is _some_ way to a solution ;-) I'm certain we'd find a reasonable way of nicely casting the new X-Plane layouts into Terrain tiles

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: bugfix with some impact (probably)

2011-01-17 Thread James Turner
On 17 Jan 2011, at 19:07, Torsten Dreyer wrote: If you ever experienced some unexpected bearings or headings, this might have been the reason for it. I think this should also go into the 2.2.0 branch - if I only knew how to... Yes, definitely - good catch. James

[Flightgear-devel] FLightProSim

2011-01-17 Thread RMcN
_http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=667522#post667522_ (http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=667522#post667522) Thought you'd find this interesting There are many differences between the two.Let me tell you the differences: More Updates: Pro Flight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FLightProSim

2011-01-17 Thread Victhor
Well, all I can say is that those are all lies. In fact, FPS is based upon a outdated version of fg, and has been reported not to run, and its source code doesn't build either. :) http://www.pilotsofamerica.com/forum/showthread.php?p=667522#post667522 Thought you'd find this interesting

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FG in ramdisk from a net boot

2011-01-17 Thread Harry Campigli
Thanks gents, Bearing in mind I only want these installations to run FG and supporting apps. I had a look at ssd prices today, maybe its time for a rethink. seems there a a lot of small 32g 2.5 sata ones for around the 70usd mark. Infact there are even cheaper ones but they seem to be a lot