Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-24 Thread Victhor Foster
Can I come? I mean, on MP ;) 2009/6/24, Martin Spott : > Hi, just a little reminder for those who missed the original > announcement: The usual crowd is presenting FlightGear on the LinuxTag > expo these days (http://www.linuxtag.org/). Typically we are around > EDDF or EDDI on the MP servers betw

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-24 Thread Martin Spott
Hi, just a little reminder for those who missed the original announcement: The usual crowd is presenting FlightGear on the LinuxTag expo these days (http://www.linuxtag.org/). Typically we are around EDDF or EDDI on the MP servers between 07:00 and 16:00 UTC: http://foxtrot.mgras.net/bitmap/FGFS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Heiko Schulz wrote: > Lufthansa has aircraft that allows them to fly from A to B. It's certainly > not perfect and doesn't have every feature ever imagined, it may not meet > every pilots preferences and desires, but it is functional and workable if > the pilots

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Heiko Schulz
t of ideas how to make the system work in the past. But it was simply ignored. To be clear: noone wants that you have to do changes allone without help. But all what they want is to say: yes, we can! ;-) I'm looking for your answer Kind regards Heiko still in work: http://www.hoerbird.net/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
system work. And for those people, that's ok if > that's how you want to approach life, I'm a big boy, and all my clothes are > >at least 50% asbestos :-) but it's certainly not productive and > motivational if your end goal is to accomplish something useful. > > I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Heiko Schulz
ow to make the system work in the past. But it was simply ignored. To be clear: noone wants that you have to do changes allone without help. But all what they want is to say: yes, we can! ;-) I'm looking for your answer Kind regards Heiko still in work: http://www.hoerbird.net/galerie.html

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > > > >> Oh man, whenever the discussion gets to FlightGear's organizational > >> bottleneck (Curt), we almost always read the same whining with just > >> little vari

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > >> Oh man, whenever the discussion gets to FlightGear's organizational >> bottleneck (Curt), we almost always read the same whining with just >> little variation. > > > Hehe, it sounds like we both have each other on ta

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > Oh man, whenever the discussion gets to FlightGear's organizational > bottleneck (Curt), we almost always read the same whining with just > little variation. Hehe, it sounds like we both have each other on tape with the same respective whini

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > [...] But at some point, with some people, it starts > to seem like they are more interested in arguing and trotting out all their > perpetual sore spots than finding ways to make the system work. Please explain, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just sele

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Martin Spott
Curtis Olson wrote: > And even when issues are brought to my attention ... we are all volunteers > here ... I take time out of my paying work I'm a consultant and have to log > my individual working hours on the various projects I get paid for. So > when I take time out of my day for FlightGear

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread ArthurX
Hi All, I think also that it is not wise to let only one person have the sole access to the flightgear website and domain registration. It might be possible that that sole person comes to die or becomes incapable to further handle (shit happens) and so the website and the name are blocked. Also th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Curtis Olson wrote: > And for those people, that's ok if that's how you want to approach life, > I'm a big boy, and all my clothes are at least 50% asbestos :-) Maybe I should say that "all my remaining clothes have a large asbestos content, the articles that do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Heiko Schulz wrote: > But as an example on my homepage, I have my own password and username for > ftp-upload, and If my homepage would be the official FGFS-homepage, I could > share this password to trustworthy developers and maintainer here as Martin > and others

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi, >This doesn't cause the changes to automatically make it to the actual web >server though. ... >I don't have a good way to grant actual physical access to the web server >(it's a commercial service so access to the web account has paypal and >credit >card and other personal information impli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Heiko Schulz wrote: > We already all know that you haven't much time for all this- so all what > Martin and David want is having access to this specific part of > flightgear.org. So they can feed the informations and details themself > without asking you to do it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Heiko Schulz
Hi Curt, >However, I can't post stuff I don't know about, and I'm pretty busy, so I >can't spend my days trolling the forums and IRC and the mailing lists to glean >>things out based on arbitrary threads of conversation that might occur once >in a while. >So I depend on people sending me specif

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo, June 24 - 27

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Alex Perry wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > > There is still certainly an events section on the main front page of > > the FlightGear web site, but lacking any future events, it only > > contains a link to a google calendar intended to list upcoming MP events. > > Y

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Martin Spott wrote: > Would you really like to have yet another discussion about your style > of managing the FlightGear web site ? > I'm happy to have open and civil discussions, but that doesn't look like the direction you are pointed. Here it is plain and simp

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo, June 24 - 27

2009-06-11 Thread Alex Perry
Curtis Olson wrote: > There is still certainly an events section on the main front page of > the FlightGear web site, but lacking any future events, it only > contains a link to a google calendar intended to list upcoming MP events. You might want to add a bunch of developers and users into the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo,

2009-06-11 Thread Martin Spott
Hi Curt, Curtis Olson wrote: > Feel free to submit an event description to me. Let me humbly suggest that > that should be step #1, and the step #2 could be to complain if it isn't > added. http://www.mail-archive.com/flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg21405.html > Thus, I eagerly aw

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo, June 24 - 27

2009-06-11 Thread Curtis Olson
Hey Martin, Feel free to submit an event description to me. Let me humbly suggest that that should be step #1, and the step #2 could be to complain if it isn't added. There is still certainly an events section on the main front page of the FlightGear web site, but lacking any future events, it o

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation on the LinuxTag expo, June 24 - 27

2009-06-11 Thread Martin Spott
Hi together, earlier revisions of the FlightGear web page had a feature to mention upcoming events a) as a small note on the main page (even though, errm, it's been mostly pushed aside into some remote corner by the omnipresent advertising ) and b) on a related 'events.html' page to carry more

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Presentation at Johnson Space Center

2007-05-01 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: FlightGear Presentation at Johnson Space Center I'll be presenting FlightGear and JSBSim during the AIAA-Houston Annual Technical Symposium (ATS) at NASA Johnson Space Center on May 11. I already have a presentation about JSBSim, and some words on FlightGear, but I want to add more to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-13 Thread Pigeon
> These have, sadly, never worked for me. They play in the latest Windows > Media Player, but there's no picture. These crash Quicktime. For windows media player i believe you need to install additional codecs (divx/mpeg4/whatever) to play them. I haven't encoded them to be windows friendly. W

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Question: The flat panel displays in the 737 (and other aircraft?) are all defined via XML, correct? Jon - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On 3/12/07, Russell Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, I found these videos to be quite disturbing not only in the choice of chase plane but the tanker flying wildly at tree top level with the boom out. Bet those boom operators were virtually puking their guts out on that one... ;-) A co

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Jon S. Berndt
> I've had success harvesting the files of the tanker chase videos out of > my firefox cache directory. I just > cd into there and look for the largest files and do a type on them until > I find them. They show up as type > "Macromedia Flash Video". I can play them using mplayer. The file >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Russell Suter
rndt wrote: > Tomorrow evening. > > -Original Message- > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of *Curtis Olson > *Sent:* Monday, March 12, 2007 5:56 PM > *To:* FlightGear developers discussions > *Subject:* Re: [

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Jon S. Berndt
PM > To: FlightGear developers discussions > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation > > > >I'll be presenting an overview of FlightGear and JSBSim on > Wednesday. I > >have some good screen shots, but if someone can point me > towards som

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Pigeon
> Of course it's possible and very easy, too. > http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ works very well for me. The > .flv files can be played for example in mplayer and converted to a nicer > video format with mencoder. There are also many scripts for greasemonkey (a firefox plugin), to auto

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Pigeon
>I'll be presenting an overview of FlightGear and JSBSim on Wednesday. I >have some good screen shots, but if someone can point me towards some more >good "eye candy" and movies of FlightGear in action, http://pigeond.net/photos/flightgear/videos/ Most of them are rather old v

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Tomorrow evening. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis Olson Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:56 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation I'm not aware of a way to do

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Stefan Seifert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curtis Olson wrote: > I'm not aware of a way to do that. The trick would be for me to find the > original files ... which might be a trick. What's the deadline? Of course it's possible and very easy, too. http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ wor

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Monday 12 March 2007 22:48, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Can the YouTube videos be saved to disk? I haven't been able to do that so > far. Try this, for example; http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php Though there were several other options that came up in a brief google. I've downloaded several

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Curtis Olson
do that so far. Jon -Original Message- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Curtis Olson *Sent:* Monday, March 12, 2007 11:10 AM *To:* FlightGear developers discussions *Subject:* Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation On 3/12/07, Bill Galbraith wrote: > &

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Jon S. Berndt
tgear-devel] FlightGear presentation On 3/12/07, Bill Galbraith wrote: There were some tanker chase videos that were pretty decent. I think they were Curt's. I have them, if you'd like me to send them to you. Here are a few that I posted to youtube (apologies to those people runni

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Curtis Olson
On 3/12/07, Bill Galbraith wrote: There were some tanker chase videos that were pretty decent. I think they were Curt's. I have them, if you'd like me to send them to you. Here are a few that I posted to youtube (apologies to those people running systems that youtube doesn't support.) http:

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Galbraith
gear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation I'll be presenting an overview of FlightGear and JSBSim on Wednesday. I have some good screen shots, but if someone can point me towards some more good "eye candy" and movies of FlightGear in action, that w

[Flightgear-devel] FlightGear presentation

2007-03-12 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Title: FlightGear presentation I'll be presenting an overview of FlightGear and JSBSim on Wednesday. I have some good screen shots, but if someone can point me towards some more good "eye candy" and movies of FlightGear in action, that would be appreciated. Note that requested screen shots ar