Re: [Xastir] XASTIR on iPhone / iPod touch

2008-03-07 Thread Mark White
Jason KG4WSV wrote: Absolutely not, and as I have a degree in Computer Science it would make me a bit of a communist (and idiot) to think or say otherwise. But isn't the GPL all about communism? (Sorry, couldn't resist :) I once had a debate with Steve Dimse (findu.com) via the aprssig lis

Re: [Xastir] XASTIR on iPhone / iPod touch

2008-03-07 Thread Mark White
Jason KG4WSV wrote: There's no X11, and the whole Apple approach to this thing seems to be hostile toward the concept of "free". I've got one, but the more I learn about it the less I like the Apple mentality toward it. Hmm, I wonder if the iPhone apps store would "sell" an app with a $0 price?

[Xastir] Re: [aprssig] XASTIR and black maps

2007-08-22 Thread Mark White
Andrew I've had that happen a couple of times. It's usually the result of Z-ordering, i.e. the "map layer" setting in the map chooser. Or have you recently used 'dbfawk' to customize your maps? I would start with a simple shapefile map and see if it displays correctly. Keep the ordering a

Re: [Xastir] Okay you GURU'S

2007-08-04 Thread Mark White
Hi Vic Well, the gurus (Curt et al.) may shun me but having used Xastir for several years now, both on Linux and Cygwin, I have never had any luck in getting GraphicsMagick or the recommended OpenMotif to work (compile issues and I'm too lazy to figure it out). So you're doing better than me

Re: [Xastir] Okay you GURU'S

2007-08-04 Thread Mark White
Hi Vic Well, the gurus (Curt et al.) may shun me but having used Xastir for several years now, both on Linux and Cygwin, I have never had any luck in getting GraphicsMagick or the recommended OpenMotif to work (compile issues and I'm too lazy to figure it out). So you're doing better than me

[Xastir] IGATEs

2007-03-04 Thread Mark White
I use xastir's IGATE function and was recently following a thread on aprssig about the proper IGATE symbol to use when a couple of web sites came to my attention. These sites show the current IGATEs on aprs-is. My xastir station shows up on this site: http://personal.riverusers.com/~aprswest

Re: [Xastir] What's the state of Cygwin these days?

2006-09-27 Thread Mark White
Tom Russo wrote: After doing a little of the "STFW" thing, I refamiliarized myself with what the issue was --- the problem is that X.org dropped support for Display PostScript, and ImageMagick was built to use it. The result is that the ImageMagick package in cygwin is currently busted, unless

Re: [Xastir] What's the state of Cygwin these days?

2006-09-27 Thread Mark White
Tom Russo wrote: Some time ago, there was a post here that users should hold off updating Cygwin, because some big change in the Cygwin packages broke a lot of ports. I haven't updated Cygwin since and am unwilling to be the guinea pig (my windows laptop is one I use on search missions, I'm not