Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting settled in my new home / Mars Scenery
Jim, That's the Welsh Assembly Minister for E-commerce (government bloke). Regards Phil In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Both projects look very interesting. I've got only have one decidedly irrelevant question. Phillip, I always thought that was you in these pictures: http://www.flightgear.org/Projects/ALTAIR/ . But now I see: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Admin/staff/HTML/prs94.html . So who is the guy in the suit looking at Mars? Best, Jim ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
[Flightgear-devel] Getting settled in my new home / Mars Scenery
(Regarding the Debian install) Options are nice during install, no argument here. And I realized I could install the driver after the fact, I just decided that with limited time, it wasn't worth investing the time in the direction of figuring out another distro - absolutely nothing against Debian as an OS other than the installer, but I imagine Debian isn't targeted to the general pop. I am not completely new to Linux, but have done limited tweaking behind the scenes. Being a CSET student and at the Sophomore level (though I used to do 8bit Assembly as a teenager in the 80's), I'm probably getting in over my head on this project, but hey, we're all a team, and there are those to consult with more experience than myself here and there - and all the work is not all raw coding of course. Though I've never forked over the money to get my private, I aced the FAA private written awhile back, and know a fair ammount. Wanna build an RV someday. Been flying Flight Sims since Flight SImulator II on the c64. I'll get my new Linux workstation setup to where I feel more at home, which includes VNC to access a Winbox without having to walk over to it. I might try to find a better mail client than Balsa, too, this isn't the best. Natilus runs a LOT better than on the 233 :) I could use suggestsion for an IDE - about all I know is the MS Visual Studio Suite. Sounds like I need to learn XML as well :) One of the main goals we would like to work on is Martian terrain. I'm not sure how much of the Earth's parameters are hard coded, but I'm imagining it shouldn't be TOO difficult to produce Mars scenery for the sim. I have done it a little bit with MS's Flight Sim, and the initial results were impressive - and FUN. I'm imagining a current Martian atmosphere, as well as a hypothetical post-teraformed Mars. Please feel free to read what I have done so far at: http://internet.oit.edu/~longg/gotmars.html -- interest / feedback? The Mars angle is not my only interest of course, I'm sure I can be of use in other areas. Greg ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
RE: [Flightgear-devel] Getting settled in my new home / Mars Scenery
One of the main goals we would like to work on is Martian terrain. I'm not sure how much of the Earth's parameters are hard coded, but I'm imagining it shouldn't be TOO difficult to produce Mars scenery for the sim. I have done it a little bit with MS's Flight Sim, and the initial results were impressive - and FUN. I'm imagining a current Martian atmosphere, as well as a hypothetical post-teraformed Mars. Please feel free to read what I have done so far at: http://internet.oit.edu/~longg/gotmars.html -- interest / feedback? The Mars angle is not my only interest of course, I'm sure I can be of use in other areas. This is cool. We made some changes in JSBSim a few months ago to support different planetary flight simulations. Somewhere around here I have the code for the Mars Global Reference Atmosphere Model (Mars-GRAM) in Fortran. Gravity terms in JSBSim are retrieved via a function call, now, which could be modified for any planetary body. There are other affected parameters, as well, but the hooks are there for someday when that feature filters to the top of the programming queue. Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting settled in my new home / Mars Scenery
Curtis L. Olson writes: That's one valid knock against Linux in general ... knowing how to admin one distribution doesn't necessarily help you a bit with other distributions. That's a bit of an exaggeration. There are quirks -- Debian uses /etc/rc?.d while RedHat adds another level, or example -- but the distros are 99% the same; it's just that we notice the parts that are not. All the best, David -- David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
Re: [Flightgear-devel] Getting settled in my new home / Mars Scenery
David Megginson writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: That's one valid knock against Linux in general ... knowing how to admin one distribution doesn't necessarily help you a bit with other distributions. That's a bit of an exaggeration. There are quirks -- Debian uses /etc/rc?.d while RedHat adds another level, or example -- but the distros are 99% the same; it's just that we notice the parts that are not. Depends what you are doing. You weren't there to see my trying to upgrade ssh on a mandrake box a month ago ... I ended up deciding it wasn't worth the pain involved. :-) Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
