Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-07 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:18:01PM +, Martin Spott wrote: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running ext3 so normally rebooting, even after a crash would not be a problem, but in this case I exceeded the last check date threshold so it ran a full fsck on me. [...] bitchy

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-07 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:35:57PM -0600, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Simon Fowler writes: Actually, ext3 is a better choice than XFS if you really care about your data - it does full data journalling (at a performance cost), unlike XFS which only journals metadata. Since it halves your write

Re: [Flightgear-devel] a FIXME in fg_props.cxx

2003-11-12 Thread Simon Fowler
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:54:34PM -0800, Gene Buckle wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gene Buckle) [2003.11.12 10:35]: code: static const char * getDateString () { static char buf[64]; // FIXME struct tm * t =

[Flightgear-devel] Bug in the joystick properties code.

2003-06-04 Thread Simon Fowler
Since there's talk of a new release . . . I discovered (about a month ago - I was going to test more and give a full report, but my fiance has taken over the computer that's capable of running fgfs ;-) a bug in the handling of empty nodes in the properties tree (I think). While editing my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Segmentation fault ?

2002-12-10 Thread Simon Fowler
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:56:19AM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: Adam wrote: Is there an easy way to fix this then? I didn't turn on the clouds3d stuff at all - so it in my download it must be on by default - I will try with it turned off. Sorry for being a bit of a newb here, but can

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Blender Status

2002-11-13 Thread Simon Fowler
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:01:39PM -0500, David Megginson wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: One additional thing that would be very nice to support is the ability to have at least one additional directory level for grouping aircraft: Aircraft - Small-Single-Engine -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Panel font crash

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 04:05:52PM -0400, David Megginson wrote: Andy Ross writes: The attached one-liner fixes the problem, but someone with more knowlege should probably think of a better solution. We shouldn't be initializing static state from within a member initializer. Maybe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] breakage

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:16:25PM -0400, John Check wrote: On Friday 18 October 2002 11:02 pm, John Check wrote: Latest cvs build falls down with: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I/usr/X11R6/include -g -O2 -D_REENTRANT -c -o pt_lights.o `test -f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] breakage

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:53:54PM +1000, Simon Fowler wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:16:25PM -0400, John Check wrote: On Friday 18 October 2002 11:02 pm, John Check wrote: Latest cvs build falls down with: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] breakage

2002-10-19 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 09:55:46PM +1000, Simon Fowler wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 08:53:54PM +1000, Simon Fowler wrote: On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:16:25PM -0400, John Check wrote: Okay now it dies with: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../src/Include -I../.. -I../../src -I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport Database Model

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Fowler
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:10:55PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Just a couple thoughts to consider. We are looking at 16-20,000 airports so we couldn't stuff them all in a single directory. Even splitting them into subdirectories by first letter probably isn't enough.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Error compiling FG 0.80

2002-09-28 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:31:54AM -0500, Sydney Weidman wrote: Hi! I was just trying to compile the latest release of FG, but I got a bunch of errors. I notice the errors involve gcc 3.2 stdc++ headers, so maybe I have used an unsupported version of gcc. Some compiler error messages

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile error in src/Systems/electrical.cxx with g++-3.2

2002-09-25 Thread Simon Fowler
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:37:55AM -0500, Curtis L. Olson wrote: I think MSVC reports the same errors. I really shouldn't be using cout here, it's just easier/quicker when hacking on the code. I'll fix that up. It builds now - thanks for the prompt fix ;-) Simon -- PGP public key Id

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compile error with plib

2002-07-10 Thread Simon Fowler
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:32:13AM -0400, William Earnest wrote: Alex Perry wrote: Try the attatched patch - it works for me(tm). If it works for you, I'll see about sending it to the plib list . . . It fixed it for me too. SimGear build is now in progress.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FDMs and external atmosphere

2002-05-15 Thread Simon Fowler
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:24:55AM -0400, David Megginson wrote: Now that the environment subsystem can manage its own atmosphere model (at least up to 60,000 ft or so), I've added an option to use that model instead of the built-in model in each FDM (the default is still to let the FDM

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linux IDE

2002-05-12 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:47:55AM -0400, David Megginson wrote: snip lots of good emacs p1mping ;-) On the down side, Emacs takes a while to learn; on the up side, once you've learned it, you can do anything you want extremely fast (I've amazed customers during onsite visits by making

[Flightgear-devel] Spinning propellers and framerates.

2002-05-05 Thread Simon Fowler
While playing around with different versions of the DRI Radeon drivers today, I noticed an odd thing: with the standard c172 model in the external view, if I look at the model from head on, I get 20-25 fps, whereas if I look from a perspective where part of the spinning propeller disk is obscured

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Joydev interaction bug?

2002-04-26 Thread Simon Fowler
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:33:23PM -0700, Alex Perry wrote: For example, say I'm a long-time X-Plane user and just can't live with the default FG key bindings. I could create my very own ~/.fgfs/keyboard.xml and completely override the master file. That's exactly why the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-14 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 12:14:54PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: David Megginson wrote: According to one of my flight-school texts, high-wing aircraft don't usually need much dihedral on the wings because of the keel effect -- most of the weight of the plane is below the wings and thus the plane

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim C172 idle

2002-04-14 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:23:32PM -0700, Andy Ross wrote: Simon Fowler wrote: Andy Ross wrote: I'm actually fuzzy on the real reason that high-wing aircraft have a built-in dihedral-like effect. Take a look at http://www.monmouth.com/~jsd/how/htm/roll.html . . . Right. That's

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FrameRate !!

2002-04-06 Thread Simon Fowler
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 12:25:29PM -0500, Norman Vine wrote: Anyone know how to count 'cache invalidations' ? Under Linux, you can get this kind of thing from oprofile (http://oprofile.sf.net), if you have a motherboard with an IO-APIC interrupt controller. It's a very powerful profiling

Re: [Flightgear-devel] UIUC compile problem

2002-04-03 Thread Simon Fowler
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:15:55AM +0200, Erik Hofman wrote: It would be nice to see if the attached test program produces the following output on all supported platforms(This would allow us to improve the speed of the code dramattically by using memcpy instead of for-loops): 0 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: compiling under Linux RedHat 7.2 and Accelerated 3D Summit openGL

2002-04-01 Thread Simon Fowler
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 01:21:15PM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: All that being said, I'd be curious as you how your experience is with the XiG drivers. These provide the only useful Radeon support for Linux, right now, and are rather reasonably priced. The DRI Radeon drivers aren't useful? They

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: compiling under Linux RedHat 7.2 and Accelerated 3D Summit openGL

2002-04-01 Thread Simon Fowler
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:43:00PM -0800, Andy Ross wrote: Simon Fowler wrote: Andy Ross wrote: All that being said, I'd be curious as you how your experience is with the XiG drivers. These provide the only useful Radeon support for Linux, right now, and are rather reasonably priced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Publicity

2002-03-30 Thread Simon Fowler
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:56:10PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:36:47 -0800 (PST), Alex Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm only familiar with the performance of old cards. The Matrox G400 is 'ok'. ...as in V fps at X x Y x Z bpp?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re : Publicity

2002-03-28 Thread Simon Fowler
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:29:13PM -0800, Alex Perry wrote: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 122), 8 MB vram. PCI id is 1002:4757 or 1002:475a according to http://pciids.sourceforge.net/iii/?s=1i=1002 According to the X headers (in the GLX source tree) that is a GW or GZ chip.