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

2002-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Michael Basler writes: it works with Cygwin, and it is a really cool innonvative feature. A couple of nits only: - I still would suggest transferring this into FlightGear. I first had to download and install gpc (do most Terragear users recall they did once?), which might be annoying for

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

2002-12-03 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Luff writes: Well, it mostly worked. After starting in an area with no scenery, it took a couple of minutes waiting before the appropriate airport came down, and FlightGear could be restarted properly. Flying the C172, terrasync mostly kept up, but in both my tests (one in the bay

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

2002-11-28 Thread David Luff
On 11/25/02 at 10:11 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: David Luff writes: Is it likely to work over a 56K modem? David, First of all I will say that that I haven't tried it. But, I encourage you to try it yourself since I want to know the answer too. :-) I suggest that you start out in the C172 and

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

2002-11-28 Thread David Luff
On 11/25/02 at 3:27 PM Tony Peden wrote: OK, I'll give it a go. I've a slight problem though in that I'm on Linux/GeForce3 at home, and the nVidia drivers will only work if I do $/sbin/telinit 1 $root passwd $make install in kernel and GLX nVidia directories $edit XFConfig-4

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

2002-11-28 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: David Luff writes: Is it likely to work over a 56K modem? Well, it mostly worked. After starting in an area with no scenery, it took a couple of minutes waiting before the appropriate airport came down, and FlightGear could be restarted properly. Flying the C172,

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] 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] Terrasync 3rd party util

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: I have my terrasync utility up to a point where it has some basic functionality so I thought I should share it with you all. Currently flying terrasync'ed with Cygwin Cool ! I did a lot more tweaking of this util over the weekend and it's

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

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Luff writes: On 11/25/02 at 9:06 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: ADV: don't bother spending days or weeks downloading all the scenery for the world before you fly. Just install the base program and supporting files. Turn on terrasync and it will fetch just the tiles you need as you fly.

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

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Terrasync makes you look and feel like you have it all, even though you don't. :-) One question: Does it still come with the Ginzu knife? I'll tell you what, we could set this up as a commercial service and charge $0.01 per

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

2002-11-25 Thread The Tone'ster
--- Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... a bunch of cool TerraSync stuff ...] Do I have to be building/using the CVS cut of FG to take advantage of TerraSync ? TIA, Tony = ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2002-11-25 Thread Norman Vine
David Luff writes: On 11/25/02 at 9:06 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: Terrasync makes you look and feel like you have it all, even though you don't. :-) Is it likely to work over a 56K modem? Does for me :-) Now all we need is a 'virtual rsync' that uses the fastest mirror :-) Norman

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

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Michael Basler writes: Curt, ADV: don't bother spending days or weeks downloading all the scenery for the world before you fly. Just install the base program and I think this is a VERY useful tool and a breakthrough insofar, as no other sim known to me does have this feature. I just

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

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
The Tone'ster writes: --- Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... a bunch of cool TerraSync stuff ...] Do I have to be building/using the CVS cut of FG to take advantage of TerraSync ? Yes, but not so much for the sake of terrasync, but because the scenery you will be fetching

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

2002-11-25 Thread Martin Spott
ADV: don't bother spending days or weeks downloading all the scenery for the world before you fly. Just install the base program and supporting files. Turn on terrasync and it will fetch just the tiles you need as you fly. There's still one question remaining: Does it work with a proxy

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

2002-11-25 Thread David Luff
On 11/25/02 at 5:47 PM Martin Spott wrote: ADV: don't bother spending days or weeks downloading all the scenery for the world before you fly. Just install the base program and supporting files. Turn on terrasync and it will fetch just the tiles you need as you fly. There's still one

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

2002-11-25 Thread David Luff
On 11/25/02 at 10:11 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: Terrasync makes you look and feel like you have it all, even though you don't. :-) Is it likely to work over a 56K modem? David, First of all I will say that that I haven't tried it. But, I encourage you to try it yourself since I want to

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

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott writes: ADV: don't bother spending days or weeks downloading all the scenery for the world before you fly. Just install the base program and supporting files. Turn on terrasync and it will fetch just the tiles you need as you fly. There's still one question remaining:

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

2002-11-25 Thread Martin Spott
There's still one question remaining: Does it work with a proxy (Squid) or do you need direct connection to the internet on the machine running FlightGear ? You'd have to get rsync working through a proxy ... I have no idea if that can be done or now. I was not shure if 'rsync' was the only

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

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Martin Spott writes: I was not shure if 'rsync' was the only way 'terrasync' connects to your server. That's why I was asking. Getting 'rsync' working through a firewall is pretty difficult. You could try to build 'rsync' with 'socks' support, but even then not every firewall supports

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

2002-11-25 Thread Martin Spott
Well, I hacked this up over the weekend so it's not advertised as the perfect utility that handles every possible situation. The hope is that those for which it doesn't quite work, might be willing to figure something out and submit fixes ... I'm absolutely no C programmer - but I'll see

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

2002-11-25 Thread Julian Foad
Getting 'rsync' working through a firewall is pretty difficult. You could try to build 'rsync' with 'socks' support, but even then not every firewall supports 'socks'. So I dare to point at the fact that this utility might be pretty useless for several users. If you are _allowed_ to be

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

2002-11-25 Thread Julian Foad
Lovely stuff! terrasync.cxx needs these to compile on my GCC 3.2 / SuSE system: SG_USING_STD(cout); SG_USING_STD(endl); In the usage example in README.txt it would be nice to suggest a port in the private use range (49152-65535), such as 55000, instead of port 5500 which is allocated to

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

2002-11-25 Thread Michael Basler
Curt, it works with Cygwin, and it is a really cool innonvative feature. A couple of nits only: - I still would suggest transferring this into FlightGear. I first had to download and install gpc (do most Terragear users recall they did once?), which might be annoying for beginners. Terrasync

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

2002-11-25 Thread David Megginson
Julian Foad writes: [Note: I'm in this position of having FTP but not rsync at work. But I can't think of a good reason why I should be allowed to run Flight Gear, or any other justification for requesting rsync access.] What we need is a way to make rsync masquerade as HTTP -- that's

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

2002-11-25 Thread Tony Peden
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 09:55, David Luff wrote: On 11/25/02 at 10:11 AM Curtis L. Olson wrote: Terrasync makes you look and feel like you have it all, even though you don't. :-) Is it likely to work over a 56K modem? David, First of all I will say that that I haven't tried it.

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

2002-11-25 Thread Curtis L. Olson
David Megginson writes: Julian Foad writes: [Note: I'm in this position of having FTP but not rsync at work. But I can't think of a good reason why I should be allowed to run Flight Gear, or any other justification for requesting rsync access.] What we need is a way to make rsync

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

2002-11-23 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: I have my terrasync utility up to a point where it has some basic functionality so I thought I should share it with you all. Being tired last night and not thinking of a better place, I have included it in TerraGear cvs for now: TerraGear/src/Utils/TerraSync/ You

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

2002-11-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Ok, try it now ... Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: I have my terrasync utility up to a point where it has some basic functionality so I thought I should share it with you all. Being tired last night and not thinking of a better place, I have included it in TerraGear cvs

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

2002-11-23 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: I have my terrasync utility up to a point where it has some basic functionality so I thought I should share it with you all. Currently flying terrasync'ed with Cygwin Cool ! Norman ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL