re: [Flightgear-devel] Magnetic variation

2002-11-26 Thread David Megginson
David Culp writes: Then there are those of us who can select headings digitally, so we can fly 278 degrees magnetic without even squinting ; ) Fair enough (and ditto for an HSI). Even in a spam can, I can follow the HI pretty accurately -- it's the little whiskey compass that's hard to nail

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrasync 3rd party util

2002-11-26 Thread Martin Spott
If you are _allowed_ to be playing / using Flight Gear at work, then you can try asking your network administrator to enable rsync protocol. I _am_ the network administrator and I strongly dislike direct connections through the firewall without proxy(-filter) But this is a different

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling Metakit With Cygwin + gcc 3.2

2002-11-26 Thread Norman Vine
Paul Deppe writes: I am trying to rebuild Metakit with Cygwin gcc 3.2 in order to get FGFS to link properly. I get the following error (with both mk4 version 2.4.3 and 2.4.8): g++ -c -O2 -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -I../unix/../include -I../unix/../src -I. ../unix/.. /src/string.cpp -DDLL_EXPORT

[Flightgear-devel] OT: survey

2002-11-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
This is optional. It is research/non-commercial so I agreed to pass it along. Feel free to participate if you like. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #1173 - 15 msgs

2002-11-26 Thread Jason Grace
Could someone help me compile the stuff once and for all? I've been trying to get it to compile on Cygwin for a year, so I can contribute. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:28 AM Subject: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Terrasync 3rd party util

2002-11-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Doh, was meant for a different recipient, and replied to the wrong message ... sorry. Curt. Curtis L. Olson writes: Interesting, much more of a glider configuration. I have something smaller with no additional space for extra stuff here:

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Compiling Metakit With Cygwin + gcc 3.2

2002-11-26 Thread Paul Deppe
I've found some discussions about this on the lists but no solutions. Has anyone out there successfully rebuilt mk4 with the latest Cygwin/gcc 3.2, and, if so, how? FYI - I just commented out the offending function but could you try replacing the #if @ line 33 with #if (!q4_MSVC

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up ...

2002-11-26 Thread Andy Ross
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Recently a very kind person donated some hardware to upgrade the flightgear web/cvs/ftp/rsync/cvs server. I am respecting their wishes to remain anonymous which is why I've avoided any hoopla. Aw, c'mon. Can't we have just a little hoopla? I hate anonymous donations.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up ...

2002-11-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Andy Ross writes: Curtis L. Olson wrote: Recently a very kind person donated some hardware to upgrade the flightgear web/cvs/ftp/rsync/cvs server. I am respecting their wishes to remain anonymous which is why I've avoided any hoopla. Aw, c'mon. Can't we have just a little hoopla? I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 flight deck

2002-11-26 Thread Andy Ross
Jim Wilson wrote: Well this probably isn't very impressive. But here it is. First view from the pilot's seat. Things are very rough at this point. Oh, baby. Someone get some instruments in that thing. :) One nit that occurs to me: looking at the horizon, it looks like the view down over

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up ...

2002-11-26 Thread Martin Spott
I haven't given any thought to soliciting bandwidth donations recently. However, that is a very good idea. My sense is that FTP is what kills me here. It would be great if we could move the official ftp site to somewhere with higher bandwidth which could handle a lot more concurrent

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-devel digest, Vol 1 #1173 -15 msgs

2002-11-26 Thread Julian Foad
Jason Grace wrote: Could someone help me compile the stuff once and for all? I've been trying to get it to compile on Cygwin for a year, so I can contribute. You quoted hundreds of lines of a message digest. I don't know if something in it was relevant to your question. If you could provide

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up ...

2002-11-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott writes: Which bandwidth, how many concurrent user connections do you consider as 'useful' ? During day time hours I've been limiting it to 7 concurrent connections. Here are the ftp stats: http://seneca.me.umn.edu/stats/ftp/ Looks like we are averaging just over 7Gb

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up ...

2002-11-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 12:55:50 -0600, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I haven't given any thought to soliciting bandwidth donations recently. However, that is a very good idea. My sense is that FTP is what kills me here. It would be great if we could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up ...

2002-11-26 Thread Martin Spott
During day time hours I've been limiting it to 7 concurrent connections. Here are the ftp stats: [...] Looks like we are averaging just over 7Gb transfered a day ... What about a round-robin dispatcher over all known the mirrors that exist nowadays ? I'd offer to run a complete mirror for

somewhat OT (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] heads up ...)

2002-11-26 Thread The Tone'ster
you know, i've been thinking about the nature of bandwidth, storage and mirrors as it relates to open source for a while as I've seen bandwidth and mirroring discussions before. i wanted to throw some thoughts out there to this group ... just for fun. feel free to care or not ... it occurs to

[Flightgear-devel] XMLSchema or DTD ?

2002-11-26 Thread The Tone'ster
... for preferences.xml ? anyone ? Bueller ? Particulary sim/sim and environment/environment. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] trying to confirm

2002-11-26 Thread The Tone'ster
all, i am trying to confirm my brief investigation. it appears to me, by looking at fgfs --help --verbose output that there is no mechanism for providing the main binary with an argument pointing at some other rendition of preferences.xml ? Is this correct ? (I hope so ...) This would

Re: [Flightgear-devel] trying to confirm

2002-11-26 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Tony, I haven't looked closely at the code that loads preferences.xml, but if David M. confirms this is hardwired, then definitely, I think the ability to specify an alternate config file would be a very good thing to add. Regards, Curt. The Tone'ster writes: all, i am trying to confirm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] trying to confirm

2002-11-26 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: I haven't looked closely at the code that loads preferences.xml, but if David M. confirms this is hardwired, then definitely, I think the ability to specify an alternate config file would be a very good thing to add. From options.cxx } else if ( arg.find(

Re: [Flightgear-devel] trying to confirm

2002-11-26 Thread The Tone'ster
mmm ... I got the sense that --config was for pointing at a file containing other -- options ... not for pointing at a different XML config file. I haven't tried to confirm this. Too lazy I guess. Not a huge deal ... I'm just trying to figure out if I can hardwire certain assumptions in my

Re: [Flightgear-devel] trying to confirm

2002-11-26 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: I haven't looked closely at the code that loads preferences.xml, but if David M. confirms this is hardwired, then definitely, I think the ability to specify an alternate config file would be a very good thing to add. You can always override parts of it, but for

[Flightgear-devel] XML config file questions

2002-11-26 Thread The Tone'ster
David et al ... (I re-wrote this e-mail three times as I am having a heck of a time expressing my questions ...) In looking at preferences.xml and c172-3d-set.xml ... I see in prefrences ... /PropertyList/contols/child::* I see in c172-3d-set ... /PropertyList/contols/child::* Applied to