Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-28 Thread al davis
On Saturday 27 February 2010, Bob Paddock wrote: > The other thing that is holding back gEDA Schematics is the > lack of available publication quality symbols. If I'm doing > a PCB I use gEDA. If I'm after a nice looking schematic I > use XCircuit. I'd like to be able to have it both ways, a >

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf Mac OSX screenshots?

2010-02-28 Thread Ales Hvezda
>Here's one of each. :) > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393096672/sizes/o/ >http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/4393113304/sizes/o/ Awesome! Thanks, -Ales ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

gEDA-user: gEDA project links updated

2010-02-28 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi, I finally got around to adding some links people have sent me or I've found via the referrer logs. This is what happens when I get flamed on slashdot. :-) http://www.gpleda.org/links.html I've added about 25 new gEDA create open source/free hardware projects. Please send me links if you

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 17:02 -0500, Mark Anderson wrote: > I'll take a screen shot. And send along the errors. I have to > rebuild with the newest GTK+OSX. In terms of the "XPM problems", it > seems to be the XPM icons that don't show up, why that is I have no > idea, since gd and other programs

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Mark Anderson
I'll take a screen shot. And send along the errors. I have to rebuild with the newest GTK+OSX. In terms of the "XPM problems", it seems to be the XPM icons that don't show up, why that is I have no idea, since gd and other programs have XPM support. —Mark On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Dave

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> I suspect the real issues have little to do with the work flow and > more to do with the question, "How easily can I created something > useful?" I would be very interested in hearing how the new pcb importer helps solve that problem, if it all. I still need to update the tutorial to match the

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Drennan
>        Out of curiosity, how did you go about running gEDA on Windows? > Which of the binaries are you using or did you build it yourself? I've been using the gEDA+PCB work flow for all of the projects I have done since I started my business, and that has been a very successful choice for me (ve

Re: gEDA-user: pcb preferences line incr.

2010-02-28 Thread Duncan Drennan
> I noticed that the preference incremental setting is not working, that > is if "l" setting, the line increment is changed to 1 ml it still > increment of 5 ml looks like some other setting is override this > function. this is true for "s" setting also. I changed the setting then > reloaded the PC

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org DNS was down

2010-02-28 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: Someone else with more experience in fail-over may offer a better suggestion. I suspect one solution is to have the backup DNS server have different IP addresses than the primary DNS server. So, how about leaving the DNS A record as I defined it from quantact.com and removin

gEDA-user: pcb preferences line incr.

2010-02-28 Thread Vincent Onelli
Hello, I noticed that the preference incremental setting is not working, that is if "l" setting, the line increment is changed to 1 ml it still increment of 5 ml looks like some other setting is override this function. this is true for "s" setting also. I changed the setting then reloaded the PCB s

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Dave McGuire
On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote: Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native version of GTK? OK, I'll play dumb. I recently built PCB from git after naively using macports to make all the dependancies go away. How is that different from what I did

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> But I'll assume you run a MySQL database and you need some data > volume mounted as well. Nope. > Remote replication/high availability is quite hard to setup, because ... the two machines are in different time zones. > To change the A record when failover happens one could do an update of >

Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

2010-02-28 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 15:12 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > I just got aware of the open source mechanical CAD project freecad. It > hit the debian repository a month ago. Although it is still lacking > important features, much of the basic infrastructure is already up and > running. > h

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-28 Thread DJ Delorie
> Someone else with more experience in fail-over may offer a better > suggestion. I suspect one solution is to have the backup DNS server have different IP addresses than the primary DNS server. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Dave N6NZ wrote: >> >> On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: >> >>> Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native >>> version of GTK? >> OK, I'll play dumb. I recentl

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Charles Lepple
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Dave N6NZ wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > >> Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native >> version of GTK? > OK, I'll play dumb.  I recently built PCB from git after naively using > macports to make al

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA user: gnetlist -gdrc buffer overflow and gnetlist -gspice-sdb killed

2010-02-28 Thread al davis
On Sunday 28 February 2010, John Doty wrote: > Ah, but it has an open interface we can use. A great strength > of gEDA is that the tools play well with other tools, > whether they are part of gEDA or not. I don't care how many proprietary tools you can leverage by starting the schematic on gsc

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native > version of GTK? OK, I'll play dumb. I recently built PCB from git after naively using macports to make all the dependancies go away. How is that different from what I

Re: gEDA-user: I am such a troll for posting to slashdot

2010-02-28 Thread Dave N6NZ
On Feb 27, 2010, at 8:51 AM, John Luciani wrote: > > John hasn't had time to finish :( So John, post a to-do list and your check-in check-list. If several of us volunteer to do a symbol or three we should be able to push it over the hump by a reasonable deadline "Symbols by the Solstice

Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

2010-02-28 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] >> http://chitlesh.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/some-licenses-kill-opensource-me= >chanical-design-flows/ > >Yes, there have been many times when I wanted to use a program for a >larger project but it depended on opencascade. I do not like their >license but what I really dislike is how they ca

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-28 Thread John Griessen
Christoph Lechner wrote: I don't know what infrastructure is required for the gedasymbols web site to work. But I'll assume you run a MySQL database and you need some data volume mounted as well. Remote replication/high availability is quite hard to setup, because it's so easy to get a what HA

Re: gEDA-user: Open Source mechanical CAD on the horizon

2010-02-28 Thread evan foss
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak > wrote: >> I just got aware of the open source mechanical CAD project freecad. It >> hit the debian repository a month ago. Although it is still lacking >> important features, much of the

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Charles Lepple
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Peter Clifton wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:42 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: >> > Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native >> > version of GTK? >> >> Is it currently possib

Re: gEDA-user: gschem status window opens full screen

2010-02-28 Thread gene glick
Peter Clifton wrote: Just delete the section, and gschem won't try to override anything. It will - however, save the position when you close the log window / gschem, and keep that for next time. worked great - thanks, Peter! ___ geda-user mailing

Re: gEDA-user: gschem status window opens full screen

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 07:45 -0500, gene glick wrote: > How do I stop this - it's making me nuts :) Could be your window manager, could be that you have some bogus coordinates stored in the geometry file: ~/.gEDA/gschem-dialog-geometry Mine has: [log] x=197 y=155 width=626 height=710 Just delet

gEDA-user: gschem status window opens full screen

2010-02-28 Thread gene glick
How do I stop this - it's making me nuts :) gene ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 13:13 +0100, Christoph Lechner wrote: > What about not running the server at home, but collocated at a data > center? THat would be somewhat easier to do. A fine suggestion in principle - but someone would have to meet the costs of doing it. DJ hosts the gedasymbols.org serv

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-28 Thread Christoph Lechner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Cunningham wrote: > On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 09:36 -0600, John Griessen wrote: >> Greg Cunningham wrote: >>> Winter in Pennsylvania, summer here in Tasmania. need rsync & round-robin >>> dns. >> Rsync is being used for mirroring, but I'm not sure wh

Re: gEDA-user: Native Mac OS X?

2010-02-28 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 23:42 -0500, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Peter Clifton wrote: > > Someone with a Mac might like to try building gEDA and PCB with a native > > version of GTK? > > Is it currently possible to tell a running copy of gschem to open a > schematic? If

Re: gEDA-user: gedasymbols.org down

2010-02-28 Thread Greg Cunningham
On Sat, 2010-02-27 at 09:36 -0600, John Griessen wrote: > Greg Cunningham wrote: > > Winter in Pennsylvania, summer here in Tasmania. need rsync & round-robin > > dns. > > Rsync is being used for mirroring, but I'm not sure what the DNS setup is. > Ping says it is alternating. The mirror server