Re: [Xastir] Xastir Wiki

2008-08-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: 1) Should the "Xastir Documentation" link on the main Xastir page be labeled "Xastir WIKI" instead? I think it'd be more descriptive. 2) On the Xastir Wiki main page I see: # HowTo's (Specific installation info)

[Xastir] Xastir Wiki

2008-08-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
ere: http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php/Search_and_Rescue%2C_(SAR) and linked into the main Wiki page and the Major_Features Wiki page. 5) The Major_Features page contains a bunch of downloadable maps links. Perhaps some or all of these should be moved to the Xastir_Maps page? Perhaps the

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released

2008-08-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
ource: If so, it'll continue to be available for a long time to come. If not, then it depends on whether Oracle continues to make it available in a similar manner as before. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on

Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm

2008-08-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
, you must edit the "/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules" file. That's the same file I edited in order to get my USB joystick working for BZFlag under Linux (another slight distraction, along with MythTV & the Olympics). -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released

2008-08-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
amp; sudo make install && sudo chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir I don't need any options to configure. The last long line will stop at the first failure, else continue on. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax

Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm

2008-08-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
redirects... I hadn't heard of that problem before. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released

2008-08-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
g with your DB4 install or your configure line that specifies where to find them, and except for the "Motif Version 2.3.0" as someone else already mentioned. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are b

Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm

2008-08-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
be something we could fix in the code if it were explained well enough to us. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. Th

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released

2008-08-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
piled, Help->About should display the new Motif version. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. Th

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released

2008-08-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
3 RPM on your 10.2 system. If you want to keep up with Xastir RPM's from now on, you'll want to upgrade to 11.0. If compiling Xastir from sources it's fine to stick with 10.2, probably indefinitely. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.esk

Re: [Xastir] GPS Accuracy -- relative vs absolute

2008-08-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
ong as well but Xastir doesn't currently have support for translating the received datum into WGS84 for display. We can also get into my old argument about actually using the extra precision with accurate maps and hand-placing objects (not using GPS), but that's a

Re: [Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released

2008-08-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
ifferent one. Maybe one of the other Mac users can jump in. You need OpenMotif 2.2.x or 2.3.1. Avoid 2.3.0 which is probably what you have installed now. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at mat

[Xastir] Xastir 1.9.4 Released

2008-08-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
ject/showfiles.php?group_id=45562&release_id=620057> or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link: <https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=620057> Homepage <http://www.xastir.org> -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://

Re: [Xastir] OpenSUSE-11.0 problems/fixes

2008-08-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: Here are OpenSUSE-11.0 specific problems and solutions. - PROBLEM: No labels on sliders: File->Configure->Timing and Station->Fe

Re: [Xastir] OpenSUSE-11.0 problems/fixes

2008-08-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: Here are OpenSUSE-11.0 specific problems and solutions. - PROBLEM: No labels on sliders: File->Configure->Timing and Station->Fetch Findu Trail dialogs. FIX: Downgrade Ope

[Xastir] OpenSUSE-11.0 problems/fixes

2008-08-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
l and either uninstall graphicsmagick-devel, or run "./configure --without-graphicsmagick" before compiling. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's t

Re: [Xastir] Dialog window sizes again. (fwd)

2008-08-15 Thread Curt, WE7U
tandard choices). I'm not seeing these problems. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:03:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Curt, WE7U" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dexter N Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Xastir] Dialog window s

Re: [Xastir] Dialog window sizes again.

2008-08-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
liders, libcurl crashes). All seem to come up reliably "docked" at the top-left corner of the Main Window; this works well and should not change. Interesting, as that's not where they're designed to be placed. They don't do that here. -- Curt, WE7U.

[Xastir] Suse-11.0: Libcurl broken

2008-08-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
r switched to using "wget" and appears to be working fine (except for the OpenMotif slider label bug). Our configure.ac test for curl should test for the presence of the main curl header file as well. It'd be great if we also had a command-line switch to force libcu

Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm

2008-08-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
yS0 but no communication happens between the tnc and the Do you have a serial mouse? Hmmm. If so check for "gpm". You might check for "gpsd" as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people

Re: [Xastir] Practical limit on number of trackers being tracked?

2008-08-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
p the digipeater times in mind as well. *) I find it good to set timed transmissions for foot troops, say every 3 or 5 minutes. Set SmartBeaconing for mobiles. *) Yes, you can use multiple frequencies/TNC's and hook them all into Xastir to increase the quantity of local RF o

Re: [Xastir] Fluxbuntu-D700-Xastir-GTKTerm

2008-08-11 Thread Curt, WE7U
paste that into a message (ignore the 'warning' about'bad ps syntax') Could also look for LOCK or LCK files in places like /var/lock/ -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad a

Re: [Xastir] Getting rid of external libraries (opinion)

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
eason, in which case these discussions really might matter. As long as there are enough developers to go around that is. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft&#x

Re: [Xastir] Dialog window sizes?

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
ntinued to work, and have a guaranteed image library to use in all cases. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The wor

Re: [Xastir] Multiline protocol format

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
y now as well. We probably should put it up on our wiki or the info.aprs.net wiki for posterity. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer i

[Xastir] Getting rid of external libraries (opinion)

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
It was suggested that I number the points so that people could comment on them individually. I changed the '*' chars to numbers below and corrected one typo ("Qt" instead of "Qtu"). On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: We've been suffering from p

Re: [Xastir] Dialog window sizes?

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
would bypass some of the widget problems we have fairly often now. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The w

Re: [Xastir] Local Info, repeaters and object.log

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
t let my little questions above stop anybody from doing any of it. Just another near-factoid to take into consideration. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft&#x

Re: [Xastir] Local Info, repeaters and object.log

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
want: If tens or hundreds of us start doing that with the same names, then all the stations will battle it out for each object temporarily. Of course Xastir can be set to not transmit them as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer

Re: [Xastir] RE: Xastir and Kenwood D-700

2008-08-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
.cnf.3 If/when my ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file gets corrupted (more often because when I write code I sometimes have to kill Xastir), I start looking at ".1", then ".2" if necessary for a clean file to copy back onto "xastir.cnf". -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] RE: Xastir and Kenwood D-700

2008-08-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
ning and make sure the path and filename match where the file resides on your system. Typically it's the first one I named above. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Wind

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
... -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate s

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Steve Friis wrote: This is a website that has the information I think you are looking for. Now how to get the feed into xastir is beyond me. If you do figure it out, let me know? Silly... firenet.us:2023 or firenet.us:14580 I did that stuff _years_ ago! -- Curt, WE7U

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: I don't see any nearby at the moment to look at. All of the object names start with 'q'. Now that the cron kicked off, there's data to look at: http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/raw.cgi?call=we7u&start=24&length=24 That's j

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
15th so I just kicked crond. That should get data flowing again. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DO

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
of the objects include the magnitude and the date as I recall, then in the comments are the depth and as much of a text descriptor of the location as will fit in the remaining space. I don't see any nearby at the moment to look at. All of the object names start with

Re: [Xastir] Seismic event feed?

2008-08-06 Thread Curt, WE7U
mine. W9IF I think? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordin

[Xastir] SUSE-11.0 Xastir RPM's

2008-08-03 Thread Curt, WE7U
SE-9.0 & SuSE-10.0 i586 binaries" Yea, I should update that text. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiter

Re: [Xastir] Re: update xastir script correction for consideration

2008-08-03 Thread Curt, WE7U
napshot with an older script in it then. Sorry. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve arou

[Xastir] Re: update xastir script correction for consideration

2008-08-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
Hardy VMWare image? If so, contact Lee. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Devel Snapshot

2008-08-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
rement was due to an earlier change I did, looking through the code trying to find all of the external executables that we used, and adding them to the autoconf scripts. Same end result though huh? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Devel Snapshot

2008-08-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
OK. Would an incomplete bootstrap cause this latest strangeness? Certainly could. One could always snag the "configure" script from one of the other releases and just run it directly though. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~ar

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Devel Snapshot

2008-08-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
ry doing "cvs update -P -d" to make sure you have all of the files. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-02 Thread Curt, WE7U
t. No way to know how many until we try it. If/when the maps go to torrents we may get a lot more users, non-Xastir type of folks. Those will be different seeders though in general, so the current seeders don't have anything to worry about. -- Curt, WE7U. arche

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
o share content, but only if people leechingmake sure they don't shut down their upload capabilities. Roger. I'm at 1.1 on my sharing of the most current file now. I've never been a seeder before, so that's a big event for me. Your latest image appears to be getting a work

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
gr. Are there additional restrictions now on the map data since it's being distributed by someone other than the USGS? U.S. Taxpayers paid for it once, just wondering how many times we'll again pay for it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.es

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: Oh yea, I know what else has been nagging at me but I keep forgetting to ask: I saw in the docs that we can name a file or a directory when creating the torrent... Can we do an entire tree of directories? Also: If Gerry or someone were to make scripts

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: There would be people out there with just a few of the CD's that would like to contribute. If we do it by state, as we're collecting that state and growing the collection on the server the torrent would change, making the distributed model less

Re: [Xastir] RE:Fonts

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
put out a new -devel snapshot too. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
e CD's/DVD's. The rest of the stuff on there is a small amount of docs and several very old software packages for viewing the geoTIFF files. We should distribute only the map data. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lot

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
maps are unavailable. I don't know how that might play in the torrent scheme though: It might not be workable. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
over torrrent, the bandwidth required would go down over time assuming enough people became seeders. I think you just said what I said. or tried to say. Ok, so hit me over the head a few more times and I might get it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http

[Xastir] Xastir Devel Snapshot

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
et/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45562&release_id=569138> or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link: <https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=569138> -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
time, but the torrents might keep the total bandwidth used more under control. Less of an exponential rise anyway. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
user has a whole lot of data but a limited pipe heading out? I think I have 800kbits up/3Mbits down. A torrent might be a good way to get the data out there, eventually. The sheer volume involved in CD's or DVD's containing images is daunting, i.e. DRG's a

Re: [Xastir] torrents and xastir

2008-08-01 Thread Curt, WE7U
e same to get the multiple thousands of torrents uploaded to a Wiki. 3) Is the idea of distributing maps via torrent workable at all? I've been looking for a method to make USGS DRG's and DOQQ's available for a number of years, and this seems the closest match to date

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
link to that as well. I'll have it up there at this address in a few more minutes. It's downloading now: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/Xastir-Hardy_080729.zip I'm looking into the possibility of running a torrent there as well. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, David Aitcheson wrote: Well so much for that effort. On top of a exstreamly slow upload speed the ISP called and complained about it. Down is okay with them, but up is not. Your client may have a way to limit the bandwidth for uploads. -- Curt, WE7U

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles (and fixes)

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
you selected isn't available, at least you'll get something. Earlier postings from me today detailed which packages on OpenSuSE-11.0 to get rid of in order to get down to one "fixed" fontalias instead of two. Or you can change /etc/X11/xorg.conf as Tom suggeste

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
n you just remove the FontPath line that enables the cyrillic fonts? Yes. Yet another way to fix it. I'd prefer the easiest solution for users. Editing files is harder to explain than "bring up the package manager and get rid of these packages". -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: I'll see if the system will let me get rid of the cyrillic font (I didn't specifically choose it, so some package must depend on it). Hmmm... /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/* is provided by "xorg-x11

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Curt, WE7U wrote: I'll see if the system will let me get rid of the cyrillic font (I didn't specifically choose it, so some package must depend on it). Hmmm... /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic/* is provided by "xorg-x11-fonts". Seems like a package I don&

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
you run Xastir remotely it may look differently because of different fonts on the X11 server you're sitting at. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's ta

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
depend on it). It may not. If it lets me, I wouldn't be against changing to "fixed" for the default SYSTEM and the backup STATION fonts. Having the mfg fix the problem in the distributed Linux systems seems like a good idea. I'm getting rather tired of working around other pe

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
ger to the dump file. I've run Xastir through both a profiler and a leak tester several times. Most of the leaks that Xastir proper has are quite minor. I can't speak to the libraries it uses though. Their leaks are their own. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
: "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" If people have severe difficulty with the station font but not the system font, I can make the fallback for the station font be "-misc-fixed-*-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" as well. -- Curt, WE7U. arch

Re: [Xastir] Xastir and maps lockup - found part of problem

2008-07-31 Thread Curt, WE7U
p with the GIF raster map? If it's a radar map or otherwise refreshed image, any memory leak inherent in the system will be increased each 10 minutes or so, whatever the refresh rate is in the .geo file. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-Hardy VM Revised

2008-07-30 Thread Curt, WE7U
t along anyway. Would it help for me to run a torrent from home too? I have 3MBit DSL and a couple of DNS entries that point there. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows

Re: [Xastir] Objects issue?

2008-07-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
rough our own server port, too. Good point. That briefly crossed my mind as I wrote the above and then it faded away again. Wah. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows:

Re: [Xastir] Font troubles

2008-07-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
ds finally choosing some specific fonts, so I tried to choose some that were installed on most systems. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on compute

Re: [Xastir] Objects issue?

2008-07-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
e loopback interface, refuse to accept it as our own. If you come up with something good for a fix, send it our way. If you have further questions, send them our way too. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people

Re: [Xastir] Objects issue?

2008-07-28 Thread Curt, WE7U
process it gets added as one of your objects and is set up to be retransmitted periodically. If you create the packet externally it doesn't know or care and still adopts the object as its own if you use the same callsign. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eski

Re: [Xastir] Re: After the reinstall.. (was: Quickly Closes)

2008-07-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
will undoubtedly be improved over time. It tries its best to recover from font problems but there may be more that can be done. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft&

Re: [Xastir] GPS questions

2008-07-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
aypoint code is buried behind a proximity alert message: Yes. That's so you don't try to send 30,000 waypoint messages to your GPS. You can set the size of the proximity circle so that you only send nearby stations to it. -- Curt, WE7U. arch

[Xastir] Re: After the reinstall.. (was: Quickly Closes)

2008-07-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
t you have. The font stuff is relatively new and unfortunately there's no perfect way of starting with fonts that everyone has. Every system seems to have a different collection of fonts. Look for these: MAPS_LABEL_FONT_* SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT STATION_FONT -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Quickly closing...

2008-07-26 Thread Curt, WE7U
e if the problem recurs. If you have a memory check program loaded under Linux, either at the boot prompt or via some other method (usually memtest86), run that for a few hours, preferably a few days, to see if you get any errors there. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo

RE: [Xastir] newbie help - Ahhh.... figured it out (maps)!

2008-07-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
p to be enabled at different map levels. Raster maps on top of raster maps don't work: You only see the last one loaded. Vector on vector or vector on raster work great. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on p

Re: [Xastir] What am I missing here?

2008-07-25 Thread Curt, WE7U
r end to keep up. Run one of the later devel snapshots or CVS and that'll start working for you again. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on comp

Re: [Xastir] Quickly closing...

2008-07-24 Thread Curt, WE7U
r you can edit ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf to find DEVICE0_ONSTARTUP: (DEVICE1_ONSTARTUP:, DEVICE2_ONSTARTUP:, etc) and change the number on the end to a '0'. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who

Re: [Xastir] TechCrunch Web Tablet Project

2008-07-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
stir to Gtk+ would make people with Qt devices unhappy and vice-versa. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DO

Re: [Xastir] Speeding up map processing?

2008-07-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
#x27;s likely they can be used in Xastir. You'll need to assure the vertices are in lat/long format and preferably WGS84 or NAD83 datum, plus you'll more than likely need to create your own dbfawk file to get them displayed and colored as you prefer. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-antiX Virtual Machine

2008-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
rom 204.13.85.134: icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=26.1 ms Sorry the wire doesn't run all the way down to you right now! -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft&

Re: [Xastir] Xastir-antiX Virtual Machine

2008-07-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
ess: http://204.13.85.134/xastir/antix.php is available via http://www.175moonlight.com/xastir/antix.php. There is also some documentation posted there. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are b

Re: [Xastir] RAC DataBase

2008-07-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Tom ve7did wrote: Can't seem to get the latest RAC database. Script appears to work properly., but the AMACALL.LST is old in /usr/local/share/xastir/fcc. FCC is ok I just tested it here at home and both the FCC and RAC databases were updated. -- Curt,

Re: [Xastir] RAC DataBase

2008-07-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Tom ve7did wrote: Can't seem to get the latest RAC database. Script appears to work properly., but the AMACALL.LST is old in /usr/local/share/xastir/fcc. The current script is "get-fcc-rac.pl". It changed recently. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] RAC DataBase

2008-07-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
ning it as root? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the co

Re: [Xastir] No Map pictures using xastir-1.9.3

2008-07-10 Thread Curt, WE7U
y as a map. Try viewing them in a graphics viewer to see if they look ok. If so, then wget/libcurl are doing their job but IM or GM libraries as used with Xastir are not. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on pe

[Xastir] Xastir Development Snapshot

2008-07-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
et/project/showfiles.php?group_id=45562&release_id=569138> or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link: <https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=569138> Homepage: <http://www.xastir.org> -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot

Re: [Xastir] maps, loading

2008-07-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
on denied) That last line is to be done from the Xastir menus, not from the command-line: Map -> Configure -> INDEX: Reindex ALL Maps -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Wi

Re: [Xastir] No Map pictures using xastir-1.9.3

2008-07-09 Thread Curt, WE7U
supported in Font, In the FAQ. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the

Re: [Xastir] View station comment

2008-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
yed on the screen? It would take a few hours of work. We'd have to parse it, create a place to store it in the Station record, modify the drawing functions to accept another parameter and draw it. Not hard, just a bunch of busy work. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eski

Re: [Xastir] View station comment

2008-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
nce any of the protocol is in firmware Bob is very reluctant to change it. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The worl

Re: [Xastir] cvs tags? was Re: Early Xastir

2008-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
if we care to have a more complete history. Right now it'd be a big hassle to combine them. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illi

Re: [Xastir] Database Storage

2008-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
and check out the new Wiki on the sourceforge.net/projects/xastir pages for more info. Hopefully we'll be directing more energy towards the new project and less to the old in the near future. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer

Re: [Xastir] maps, loading

2008-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
Map->Configure->INDEX: Reindex ALL Maps Anything I'm forgetting? -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U.

Early Xastir & Attributions, was Re: [Xastir] Updating

2008-07-08 Thread Curt, WE7U
xastir-0.3.6-3.tgz xastir-0.3.6a.tgz xastir-0.3.6.tgz xastir-0.4.4-20010304.tar.gz xastir-1.0.0.tgz -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer

Re: [Xastir] wms radar

2008-07-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, vic wrote: > I cannot get wms radar images with the current CVS version. Anybody know why? It's at the server end. Things broke. -- Curt, WE7U: XASTIR: "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's

Re: [Xastir] Xastir Crashing

2008-07-07 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Tom ve7did wrote: > Problem solved, everything stable again. Fonts look great. Glad to hear it. I was waiting to see if you were the only one that ended up with an unstable system due to the font changes. It might be time to dump out another release now. -- Curt, W

Re: [Xastir] geotiff includes on Ubuntu 8.03

2008-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
it to our autoconf scripts. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordin

Re: [Xastir] geotiff includes on Ubuntu 8.03

2008-07-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
geotiff includes in /usr/include. That's where mine are and I'm having no such difficulty. I run "./configure" and it finds everything on OpenSuSE-11.0. The 9.x and 10.x series found it just fine as well. Is there an autoconf test that failing for some obscure

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