Re: [Flightgear-devel] terrasync

2002-12-09 Thread Martin Spott
>> > > PS: FTP also transferes passwords in plaintext to make things even >> > > worse... >> > >> > And http doesn't? >> >> scp doesn't. > Yes, but that requires ssh, AFAIK. 'scp', 'sftp' and so an do work very nice as standalone programs. There are pretty nice tools that come along aside PuTTy

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: FlightGear/src/Objects obj.cxx,1.12,1.13

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Spott
> Modified Files: > obj.cxx > Log Message: > Have DummyBSphereEntity inherit from ssgBranch instead of ssgEntity, > to allow building with the latest plib CVS. Uh, I appreciate this one _very_ much because it enables me to follow the current development. Thanks, Martin. -- Unix _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] BA-609, V-22 derivative aircraft

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Spott
> I think the big danger is at landing or takeoff. If you lose an > engine or have any sort of mechanical failure on a single side, you > are going to hit hard at some really odd angle. The engines are capable to deliver _enormous_ power for a short time in case of an engine failure - I believe t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] BA-609, V-22 derivative aircraft

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Spott
> The big problematic area for this class of aircraft historically has > been the transition between "hover", or rotor based operation and > "flying", where the wings are important. That regime is unstable and > recovery difficult. This does not have to be as difficult as it is with the V-22. T

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Random stats

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Spott
> In the last year, the biggest month for the web server was September > when we did the 0.8.0 release. We did 180615 web hits in a single day > (Sep. 13). This month when we released 0.9.0 we had a day (Dec. 4) > where we hit 206997 web server hits in a single day. We were in the > middle of mo

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] BA-609, V-22 derivative aircraft

2002-12-14 Thread Martin Spott
> Martin Spott wrote: >> This does not have to be as difficult as it is with the V-22. The Osprey is >> designed for being stuffed into _very_ small space below a ship's deck. >> If they had more space then it would have been possible to improve security >> si

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Another FlightGear movie

2003-11-19 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's large (19Mb) and quality is ok-fair. (I pointed my digital > camera at the computer monitor.) Did you know about this one ? It might work: http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: source/src/Scenery hitlist.cxx, 1.3,

2003-11-21 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/source/src/Scenery > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv18274/src/Scenery > Modified Files: > hitlist.cxx hitlist.hxx tilemgr.cxx tilemgr.hxx > Log Message: > With this patch, you can fly under bridges, then turn

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Carrier landings

2003-11-21 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, off to see if I can land the seahawk ... It might be an idea to add an airport code for the Saratoga. On the other hand it's acceptable that you have to be able to land on that beast before you are given the pleasure to start from it ;-) Marti

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Easy-XML

2003-11-22 Thread Martin Spott
"Jon Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I want to look at it because I sort of hope to migrate the JSBSim XML > definition to a more robust and compliant format at some point in the > future. Even now, it would be nice to make some changes here and there that > allowed us to move towards

[Flightgear-devel] Use of FlightGear

2003-11-22 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, I just came across this site after reading a posting on the autopilot-devel mailing list: http://www.u-dynamics.com/aerosim/ They suggest using FlightGear to be driven by their external FDM via network, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Human conquers helicopter

2003-11-22 Thread Martin Spott
"Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Airspeed management is very different in a helicopter than in a plane -- I'm >> still trying to get a handle on it. > Pull back on the cyclic stick. Depending on what speed you are going dropping > collective

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-26 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maik Justus wrote: >> By the way: With this changes the heli is not anylonger parallel to >> ground (while hovering). It is tiltet to the left to compensate the >> tail rotor force. > That sounds wrong to me. The *rotor* should be tilted, but the > airframe

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-11-27 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> No, because the BO105 - contrary to the 'usual' Bell's for example - >> has a rigid rotor. Please have a look here: >> >> http://www.b-domke.de/AviationImages/Rotorhead.html#Eurocopter

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Models/Geometry frighter.ac, NONE,

2003-12-01 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Models/Geometry > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv27779 > Added Files: > frighter.ac Shouöld this ship frighten us ? ;-) Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Playing with textures

2003-12-02 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver C. wrote: >> Does dumping plib mean that we can choose something like the SDL >> library for the OpenGL initialization? > No, that means dumping glut. Earlier plib versions had a glut > dependency, but I believe that has been removed from current vers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-03 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is another challenge. Put it on the deck of a moving sailboat: > http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/sailboat.jpg I must admit that I didn't manage to spot the sailboat. From the perspective it looks like the boat is cruising in the SF bay, margina

[Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-04 Thread Martin Spott
I assume you already read this: # rsync version 2.5.6 contains a heap overflow vulnerability that can be used to remotely run arbitrary code. # While this heap overflow vulnerability could not be used by itself to obtain root access on a rsync server, it could be used in combination with the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest stupid helicopter trick

2003-12-04 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you got the latest CVS code it shoudl just work. Got it - I took the YF-23 for a reconnaissance flight What will the sailboat do if it reaches the shoreline ? Will it turn around ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about w

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Video card recommendation

2003-12-05 Thread Martin Spott
Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone recommend a nVidia based card that works flawlessly with FG? I myself can't. Do you have to stick to NVidia ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-06 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftp.flightgear.org is still rebooting ... /dev/hdh1 (120Gb) has gone > 204 days without being checked, check forced ... might be another hour > or two ... :-) I usually put everything over 10 GByte on XFS per 'default' - as well as any data that has

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-06 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott writes: >> I usually put everything over 10 GByte on XFS per 'default' - as well >> as any data that has some value for me. It should take about 5 seconds >> to mount a 200 gig filesystem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Rsync vulnerability

2003-12-10 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> >> Here you realize the difference between a wannabee "enterprise >> filesystem" and an "enterprise filesystem" that was designed as such >> from the very beginning >>

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Taxiway / Apron lighting advice wanted.

2003-12-10 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Luff writes: >> Do aprons have edge lighting? Do large GA airports typically have >> taxiway edge / center lighting? Small GA airports? Do taxiways >> tend to be lit either all or none, or just the main ones sometimes. > I don't think there

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Terragear-devel] SRTM Eurasia

2003-12-17 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be *very* cool would be to constrain the roads to stay on dry > land and off airport property, but that would be significantly more work. Hmmm, I'm shure there are several cases where roads go below the runway. Amsterdam Schiphol is a popul

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Terragear-devel] SRTM Eurasia

2003-12-17 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> Hmmm, I'm shure there are several cases where roads go below the >> runway. Amsterdam Schiphol is a popular example, > True, although I believe it's a taxiway and not a runway. Once I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-20 Thread Martin Spott
Alex Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For those people who enjoy this kind of challenge (I don't have time): > If someone has (or will have) a script for making a Knoppix style CD of FGFS, > I think the capability is directly relevant for teaching/instructional use. I've already been investigati

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-21 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] But I don't feel like making a fgfs CD. The problems with > licenses of different proprietary graphic cards aren't such a great > motivation. I tend to include OpenSource drivers only, no proprietary stuff. There are enough cards with OpenSource d

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-21 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Martin Spott -- Sunday 21 December 2003 00:07: >> I tend to include OpenSource drivers only, no proprietary stuff. > I understand, but then the whole effort is pretty useless. There are > too many nVidia card users, and no open

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-21 Thread Martin Spott
Jon Stockill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And the open source drivers don't support some of the newer ATI cards. Sorry, why do you buy cards that are not supported by OpenSource drivers ? You are developing OpenSource software, why don't you take care of that. I can't accept this as a valid argum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-21 Thread Martin Spott
"Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taking the paragmatic route a little further -- > I wonder how many machines running FGFS are running with an > Open Source BIOS ? Not many, but on the other hand you won't have much trouble with the BIOS when you think about a standalone FlightGear CD

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-22 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I do look out for drivers _before_ I buy a card for my or my customers' >> PeeCee (currently I don't even own a PC ;-) > > Is it sgi machines that you run on? It became sort of a hobby to collect used Unix workstations. I have an Octane with MXI g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-22 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott writes: >> Not many, but on the other hand you won't have much trouble with the >> BIOS when you think about a standalone FlightGear CD. Dealing with a >> bunch of different kernel modules for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-22 Thread Martin Spott
Hello Curt, "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin writes: >> It became sort of a hobby to collect used Unix workstations. [...] > > So should I assume that you are running fully open-source operating > systems, and fully open-source drivers on all your own hardware? No, absolutel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: LiveCD for FGFS - suggestion

2003-12-22 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> a) Unload the kernel's GART module during the autodetection and load >>NVidia's special kernel module, > Nvidia's kernel module does have an AGP driver, but it is smart enough > to not activate this portion of the driver if the linux GART module

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Serial device

2003-12-23 Thread Martin Spott
Alan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has nothing to do with dropped bytes, has to do with figuring where > the start is in a repeating variable length data stream. If I send you > a few thousand FF's how do you propose to tell which ones are starts and > how many channels? If you can liv

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Serial device

2003-12-23 Thread Martin Spott
Alan King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> I'm not shure if the current configurable serial interface is capable >> to do bit-mangling and I'm quite confident that it lacks support for >> checksumming. But this may come in the future, >&g

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-29 Thread Martin Spott
Ivo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or we could have multiple people around the world recording the sentences, > so we'll hear the right accent when approaching for example New Delhi or > Mexico City or Frankfurt. I think that I won't approach Frankfurt within the next years but theoretically it s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Latest ATI related problem...

2003-12-29 Thread Martin Spott
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having a few problems, and not just with FG, since fitting a new > ATI 9200 vid card but just recently I've found that I can't run FG at > night-time at all. > This wasn't originally the case when I first fitted the card - it's > happened since

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]

2003-12-29 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curtis L. Olson wrote: >> Previously you could type... etc. to >> select an engine. Then '{' and '}' would select the magnetos. >> Finally, "space bar" would kick in the starter motor for as long as it >> was depressed. > > Let me take a look. I presum

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC Talk

2003-12-30 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Law wrote: >> I agree with you totally. My sentiment was that there have also been many > > accidents caused by ATC talking in a foreign language (English) to another > > pilot who also doesn't speak English as a first language. > > That can

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: docs/Model fgfs-model-howto.html, 1.4, 1.5

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Spott
Hello Erik, Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +href="http://www.flightgear.org/default.css";> [...] > + http://www.flightgear.org/";> src="http://www.flightgear.org/images/fglogosm.jpg"; alt=""> You probably might want to use references _without_ hostname here - like it's already

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mouse pad

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know a good place to print a mouse pad: > http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/gallery/fgfs-mousepad.png The company I work for - here in Aachen - used to get printed mousepads for their customers. Although it's very resistet, it's still a laser cop

[Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/f16/Models f16.ac, 1.17, 1.18 f16.xml, 1.8, 1.9

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Spott
> Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/f16/Models > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv20447 > Modified Files: > f16.ac f16.xml > Log Message: > Add gear animation Woohooo ! Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Flightgear-cvslogs]

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >>>Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/f16/Models >>>In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv20447 >> >> >>>Modified Files: >>> f16.ac f16.xml >>>Log Messa

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mouse pad

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> The company I work for - here in Aachen - used to get printed mousepads >> for their customers. Although it's very resistet, it's still a laser >> copy and dark colours tend to be difficult to rep

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mouse pad

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would be nice. I'd like to have a few then. > Any other developers who want one (or more)? I don't count as a developer but I still would like to have one or two hands full Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mouse pad

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell Suter wrote: >> Okay, good to know. So what kind of SGI do you run on and what kind of >> frame rate do you get? > > That's not fair! You would laugh at me :-D > > (O2 RM5200/300Mhz at 2 ~ 10 fps but waiting to put a 900Mhz CPU in there > which

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mouse pad

2004-01-13 Thread Martin Spott
Russell Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I'm curious because I have a > friend that does research on a Cessna 172 simulator > that has an Onyx/IR with 3 channels. His simulator models are crap and > his visual database is worse. I'm trying to talk > him into trying FlightGear but I hav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear mouse pad

2004-01-13 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look here: > http://www.a1.nl/~ehofman/fgfs/comparison.html > This table is based on performance reports from FlightGear users who > have sgi equipment. But be aware that this is about the default startup > position (stationary at KSFO) which seem

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Linuxworld NY 2004

2004-01-13 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How did it end with the contacts between sgi and our linuxworld > attendees? It looks like sgi has just the machine for that right on time: > > http://www.sgi.com/features/2004/jan/altix350/ I don't think they offer integrated graphics for the Alix serie

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Linux User & Developer Expo 2004]

2004-01-14 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FlightGear has been offered free .org booth space and a possible speaker > slot at the Linux User & Developer Expo 2004. This is Oct 20-21 at the > Olympia Exhibition Centre in London, UK. You don't necessarily need to be > a developer to help wi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [Fwd: Linux User & Developer Expo 2004]

2004-01-19 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your name is on this list and it shouldn't be, or I have the level of > "definiteness" wrong, please let me know. I'll use this as a chance to enjoy a short visit to London with my cohabitee. This means, that I'll be able to spend some hours at t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-users] Live-CD

2004-01-21 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would think it would be best to use FlightGear as the window manager. > You could acomplish this: > http://baron.flightgear.org/pipermail/flightgear-devel/2002-March/006012.html The idea is correct, the terminology not ;-) The window manager simply is

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Terragear-devel] Wittman Airport, Oshkosh, WI

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Spott
Bohnert Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider it done. Robin said he will add them as soon > as he can. The meanings of these two sentences are 'diametrically opposed' ;-) No, I don't want to accuse Robin, I fully understand that there are times where the first priority is not occupated by

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Proposed change to Terrain Following control

2004-01-23 Thread Martin Spott
"Richard Hornby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any chanceof doing a look-ahead on the scenery polygons to get an altitude > eg 2mi in front (for TSR2?) BTW, are you shure you're talking about the same distance when you say 'miles' ;-) When talking about ground distances it might me useful to agre

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XGL

2004-01-23 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just read about an XML based 3d file format: > http://www.xglspec.org/ > > We might want to keep an eye on that. I must admit that I didn't understand the advantage over existing 3D object/scene description file formats, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user fri

Re: [Flightgear-devel] XGL

2004-01-24 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Hofman wrote: >> Well, here is a standard that *you* can actually try to influence ... >> BTW. XML makes extending the existent layout without influencing the >> previous versions possible by nature. > All that would need to happen is for someon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Ventura publisher (really old)

2004-01-29 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some really old, as in ancient ventura publishing files that I'd be > interesting at cracking open and at least extracting out the important > stuff in order to convert to some more modern tool. I have an old Ventura Publisher 3.0 for Window

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Airport lighting

2004-01-30 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it true that apron/platform/hardstand lights should be red instead of > blue? At EDLN (where I learn to fly) apron and hardstand are bordered with blue lights as well, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends ar

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about the threaded tile loader

2004-01-30 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Occasionally, a tile can reference 3d models that require calling > ssgLoadXYZ() ... things like building, bridges, etc. When the threaded > tile loader runs into any of these, it will push the object onto a separate > model loading queue for the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Visual Reference Point

2004-01-31 Thread Martin Spott
"Jon Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian wrote: >> If we'd use SI units everywhere we wouldn't have that prolem... > Well, yes we would have. It's not a matter of whether we should use feet or > meters, but inches or feet (in the case I mentioned). In metric, that would > be: should

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Docs/keyboard VERSION, NONE,

2004-02-02 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Docs/keyboard > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv21524/keyboard > Added Files: > VERSION map.pdf map.tex > Log Message: > Add a per aircraft keyboard refference I appreciate your effort - on the other hand I fee

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-03 Thread Martin Spott
Matthew Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS: I hope that's right. I passed Air Law only last Sunday! Congratulations! This is the next checkpoint for me and I must admit that I'm a bit worried Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Voice Capability

2004-02-03 Thread Martin Spott
Matthew Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have my Radio Practical exam in a couple of hours :-/ Good luck > with yours, Martin. Thanks - the radio exam was the first test we did - inclusing a multiple choice test with some basic radio navigation. To be honest: The most difficult part of this te

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models

2004-02-08 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pa28-161/Models > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv27479 > Modified Files: > pa28-161.ac > Added Files: > pa28-161-01.rgb panel-tex01.rgb panel-tex02.rgb > panel-tex03.rgb panel.rgb > L

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/Hunter/Models

2004-02-08 Thread Martin Spott
Hello, "Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/Hunter/Models > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv1093 > Added Files: > pilots-notes.txt > Log Message: > Missed one important file. > The following additional keyboard controls have been i

Re: : [Flightgear-devel] 3D aircraft model

2004-02-08 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curtis L. Olson wrote: >> The Hawker Hunter has been committed to CVS and seems to fly quite nicely. > For decent hardware. [...] I was surprized that the frame rate for the Hunter on an Octane is not that bad. It is obviously better than the frame rate f

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] xmlauto.cxx for ils following

2004-02-08 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I understand it, Kalman filters help improve sensor input and give us a > better picture of the degree of their uncertainty, but have nothing to do > with the the actual control algorithms. With other words: Kalman filters enable you exact guess

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [PATCH] xmlauto.cxx for ils following

2004-02-08 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> With other words: Kalman filters enable you exact guessing of the >> picture where mathematical equations don't do the job because you have >> too many unknown parameters compared to the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Switching from Glut to SDL+OpenGL

2004-02-09 Thread Martin Spott
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a discussion in August 2003 about > switching from Glut to SDL+OpenGL, [...] The PLIB mailing list revived with a discussion wether it would be useful to make PLIB indepenent from GLUT - so it might be useful to wait until this discussion

Re: : [Flightgear-devel] 3D aircraft model

2004-02-09 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> I was surprized that the frame rate for the Hunter on an Octane is not >> that bad. It is obviously better than the frame rate for the A4 or the >> default aircraft, it's almost the same as fo

[Flightgear-devel] Hi

2004-02-09 Thread martin . spott
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Re: Another virus message (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] Hi)

2004-02-10 Thread Martin Spott
David, David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] DID NOT write: >> The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. > > For anyone keeping track, this spam with Martin's e-mail forged on it came from > >ma164090190.user.veloxzone.com.br

[Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS: data/Aircraft/pa28-161

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of /var/cvs/FlightGear-0.9/data/Aircraft/pa28-161 > In directory baron:/tmp/cvs-serv12589 > Modified Files: > pa28-161-yasim-set.xml > Log Message: > Change camera position so that model doesn't rotate around the nose. I can't withstand t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] RAM disk / Unix

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Spott
"Jon S Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:06:41 -0800 > Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Jon S. Berndt wrote: >>> > It is thought that the use of a RAM disk might help. >>My interpretation was that their problem was latency, not I/O >>throughput. The program co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Spott
"Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> Martin Spott wrote: >> > At least in the _outside_ views the PA-28 still rotates around its nose >> > after the recent changes, >> >> That seemed

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Spott
Andy Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> Jim Wilson wrote: >> > If the camera is tracking the nose, then it moves up and down as >> > well with the nose. This creates the _illusion_ that the rest of >> > the aircraft (and of the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs]

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Spott
"Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you put the model back to the nose and use the method that the p51d and the > pa28-161 use (the target offset) you'll look better on the ground. BTW, it appears to me that the P-51 suffers from the same visual mishap as the PA-28 does (does this have t

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Spott
"Jim Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trust me, I've been all over every line of the viewer code. You aren't really > seeing what you think you are. It just looks that way. Jim, do you want to tell me I'm blind ? I must admit that I probably never looked at the code but I can assure you tha

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [Flightgear-cvslogs] CVS:

2004-02-12 Thread Martin Spott
"Jon S Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there now a difference in the way that JSBSim and YASim match up > the 3D model with the FDM? No, the discussion is only about placement of the 3D model vs. some FDM reference point, I think (but I'm not absolutely shure if there _might_ be a hidden

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Question about the threaded tile loader

2004-02-13 Thread Martin Spott
"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it boils down to how many polygons are we pushing through the > pipeline every frame? How many pixels are we rendering each frame? How > many texture/state changes are we doing each frame? Is the system > thrashing it's texture cache? A

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-15 Thread Martin Spott
"Jon S Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 10:23:56 -0700 > Russell Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Jon S Berndt wrote: >>>But then, the FDM still has to report where the FDM is in a common >>>reference frame. >> >>Exactly! At my company, we call this the control point

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Aerodynamic centre and 3D models

2004-02-16 Thread Martin Spott
"Jon Berndt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Adopted to the current case this means: The longest distance from >> whichever CG you take to the edges of the aircraft is _always_ smaller >> than the longest distance from the nose to arbitrary edges. This >> results in smaller relative 'errors' in case

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC voice howto

2004-02-16 Thread Martin Spott
"David Luff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I know, Plib at the moment only supports 8kHz, 8bit sound at all. > The recommendation to keep the master recording at higher quality is to > avoid having to redo work done now in the future - it would be a shame not > to be able to use recordin

Re: [Flightgear-devel] ATC voice howto

2004-02-16 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> On the other hand: 8 kHz, 8 bit is not that bad. German ISDN telephony >> has this resolution and to my impression the audible quality is far >> better than usual radio in an aircraft ;-) > ISDN u

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Eye candy

2004-02-16 Thread Martin Spott
"Vivian Meazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, the bad news is that I can't set _one_ of the drop tank weights to > zero (odd that), and none of the tank fuel contents. I was planning to use > keys j/J/CTRLJ for jettison inner/outer/all. As memory serves (late evening ;) j/k are used for

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Eye candy

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tuesday 17 February 2004 03:55: >> One question, why don't we use lower case g key for "gear up" and for "gear >> down"? >> Why do we also need the upper G key? > Now I can simply press G and there's no doubt that this is > s

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After reading that OpenGL would be optimized on IRIX when using display > lists I decided to do some trial runs with FlightGear. Unfortunately the > exact same thing that happened to VBO's (odd colors when using VBO's) > also happens to DList (at least o

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for SimGear/simgear/scene/tgdb > Index: leaf.cxx > === > RCS file: /var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/SimGear/simgear/scene/tgdb/leaf.cxx,v > retrieving revision 1.2 > diff -p -u -r1.2 leaf.cxx [...] Over

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
Martin Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over 10 % framerate improvement on Linux-2.6.2, XFree86-4.3 plus > DRI/Mesa CVS on a Radeon7500 - but strange colours similar to your > screenshot, Errrm, probably a simple explanation - just a guess: Ground textures don't get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OpenGL DList issues.

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
"Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ cvs diff obj.cxx > Index: obj.cxx > === > RCS file: /var/cvs/SimGear-0.3/SimGear/simgear/scene/tgdb/obj.cxx,v > retrieving revision 1.7 > diff -r1.7 obj.cxx > 446a447 >> leaf-

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Eye candy

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Spott
"Innis Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately the spoiler/speedbrake system/s seem to be much more > complicated than something that can be controlled by one key. > The Boeing 7 series A/C,not including the badge engineered 717, > use the same panels as speedbrakes and spoilers.The

[Flightgear-devel] Weather options

2004-02-20 Thread Martin Spott
A short question which might be solved with an even shorter answer: Are '--wind=' and '--random-wind' exclusive should I be able to add randmness to my default wind settings ? Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Baby

2004-02-20 Thread Martin Spott
"Roger Andreassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agree. Reminded me of "The fabulous Amélie from Montmartre". Seen it or not, The movie is really great - it generates sympathy for the name 'Amelie', Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Live Weather!

2004-02-21 Thread Martin Spott
Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Melchior I and David M. I was able to implement live weather > support in FlightGear today. > > For now it can be used by specifying: > --prop:/environment/params/real-world-weather-fetch=true This is excellent news - is there some recommende

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather options

2004-02-21 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Spott wrote: >> Are '--wind=' and '--random-wind' exclusive should I be able to add >> randmness to my default wind settings ? > > For now, they're exclusive. Thanks, this helps.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Weather options

2004-02-21 Thread Martin Spott
Josh Babcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --prop:/controls/gear/brake-parking=1.0 Aaaah, fine. I tried '=true', but that didn't work ;-) Thanks, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! ---

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: Live Weather!

2004-02-22 Thread Martin Spott
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's my suggestion: forget about the internal environment manager (disable > it, if possible) and for now, manage the weather entirely though an external > daemon written in Perl, Python, Java, C, C++, PHP, or what-have-you. On the one hand it's ni

[Flightgear-devel] white space in base package filename

2004-02-22 Thread Martin Spott
I hope this was not chosen intentionally ;-) Aircraft/737/Instruments/Textures/eicas background.rgb Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! --

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