Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Steve Huston
On 9/20/06 12:39 AM, Curt Mills wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrote: >> Sed is for wimps. >> Real Programmers use "cat" as their editor. > Call me a real programmer then... I've done that on occasion! Jeez, what's that make me.. I don't know how many times I've not bothered to write a

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Curt Mills
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > Sed is for wimps. > > Real Programmers use "cat" as their editor. Call me a real programmer then... I've done that on occasion! I used to be reasonably good at "edlin" way back when too. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot

Re: [Xastir] interface.c

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Fenske
Thanks Tom. I just did a CVS update and it's working fine again. Mike VE7MKF At 09:16 PM 19/09/06 -0600, Tom Russo wrote: >Content-Disposition: inline > >On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:05:34PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron >collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: >> Are you r

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Tate - kc7zru
Bruce, Ain't that about like asking a motorcyle enthusiast group what oil to use in their turboed engines?? About as many answers as there are engines. Me? I use Fedora Core for all my linux needs - I find it runs cooler, smoother and requires fewer filter changes :thumb up: ___

Re: [Xastir] interface.c

2006-09-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:05:34PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:34:34PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Just updated to today's CVS and

Re: [Xastir] interface.c

2006-09-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:34:34PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Just updated to today's CVS and I noticed some odd behaviour that wasn't > there before. Here's a capture of the "view incoming data" window shortly > after starting X

Re: [Xastir] interface.c

2006-09-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 07:34:34PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Just updated to today's CVS and I noticed some odd behaviour that wasn't > there before. Here's a capture of the "view incoming data" window shortly > after starting X

[Xastir] interface.c

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Fenske
Just updated to today's CVS and I noticed some odd behaviour that wasn't there before. Here's a capture of the "view incoming data" window shortly after starting Xastir: 0:TX -> VE7MKF-1>APX183,WIDE2-2:=/5^%o/Ko8x{5Chttp://www3.telus.net/ve7mkf 0:TNC-> >APX183,WIDE2-2:=/5^%o/Ko8x{5Chttp://www3.tel

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Richard, N6NKO
Ouch! Touche. Richard Tom Russo wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:25:34PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: Easy answer to this one. Neither. Kate is too kind and OO.org is sweeter than Kate. But then of course anyone worth thei

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:25:34PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Easy answer to this one. Neither. > > Kate is too kind and OO.org is sweeter than Kate. > > But then of course anyone worth their salt uses "sed". Sed is for wimps

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Lance Cotton
ed! http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html Richard, N6NKO wrote: Easy answer to this one. Neither. Kate is too kind and OO.org is sweeter than Kate. But then of course anyone worth their salt uses "sed". 73 from 807, Richard, N6NKO Curt Mills wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrot

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Richard, N6NKO
Easy answer to this one. Neither. Kate is too kind and OO.org is sweeter than Kate. But then of course anyone worth their salt uses "sed". 73 from 807, Richard, N6NKO Curt Mills wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrote: Heh. So far this has been the most civilized "distro war" I've

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Curt Mills
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrote: > Heh. So far this has been the most civilized "distro war" I've seen. Just > don't ask whether to use emacs or vi. Everybody with any brain cells left knows the answer to that one! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:37:56PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 I call a Distro War! Heh. So far this has been the most civilized "distro war" I've seen. Just don't ask whether to use emacs or vi. > The right li

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Dick C. Reichenbach
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 I call a Distro War! The right linux is not Linux. I have among my collection a FreeBSD Stable AMD64 Bit distro. I also run a Debian varient, (or Deviant, if you prefer 8^) and Solaris. Among them, I think I like the FreeBSD distro the best among the PC type computers. I jus

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Gerry Creager
Ooh! religious war! Cool. This laptop is running CentOS 4.5, or, essentially RedHat Enterprise Workstation 4.5. We run CentOS on most of our stuff here at work (and I do at home) because it's stable. Rock solid. I've not had any troubles installing Xastir on it that were not operator-indu

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Darryl Gibson
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:15 -0400, Mike Markowski wrote: > Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com) is getting pretty popular because it's supposed > to be easy to set up. I haven't tried it, though, so I'm just parroting what > I've read. I wonder if any on the list have given it a go? If I had a > mach

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Mike Markowski
Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com) is getting pretty popular because it's supposed to be easy to set up. I haven't tried it, though, so I'm just parroting what I've read. I wonder if any on the list have given it a go? If I had a machine to spare I'd try it. I use Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org) whi

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Richard, N6NKO
Bruce, This is one of those "Holy Wars" questions. The answers will be interesting and worth noting. As I am in bed nursing a head cold brought on by allergies with a sound asleep Mini Schnauzer next to me, I am running an IBM T42 with Slackware 10. The laptop is connected by ethernet to the

Re: [Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Bill Bird
Hi Bruce, My Xastir machine died a few months ago and I set up a machine with Fedora Core 3 for use with Xastir. It is working out very nicely. As always, each newer version of Xastir I use is more fun that the last. Thank you to the developers! 73, Bill Bird KG0YJ Bennett, Bruce wrote:

[Xastir] New, Updated box time - which Linux??

2006-09-19 Thread Bennett, Bruce
My xastir station is showing it's age - hardware-wise. Since I'm going to build a new computer, I'm wondering if anyone has any strong opinions about which flavor of Linux fits xastir best... I've used Fedora (really full RedHat) and Debian for my prior stations. Bruce Bennett, KB8ROP [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Xastir] Fishers Island Mystery

2006-09-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Chip G. wrote: > Here, hope this helps: > > http://homepage.mac.com/n1mie/PhotoAlbum10.html Sure, what you're showing is a Tigermap bug, not an Xastir bug. When we go out to get an internet-based map, we're asking the server on the other end to render the map into some raster

Re: [Xastir] Fishers Island Mystery

2006-09-19 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jim Shorney wrote: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:11:59 -0400, James Ewen wrote: > > >I always thought grid bugs were cool and deserved more screen time. > > > >http://members.shaw.ca/jewen/gridbug.jpg > > > Ok, now that's cool. I want one. Yea, but where's the antenna -- Curt