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For small, one-shot projects, no version control at all (and later moved to a Git repository for small projects). Git for everything else. I have experimented with SVN, Bzr and Mercurial, as they are used by some other projects I tinker with, but Git is by far the fastest and most transparent...

Oops. The version I posted dumps the HTTP request sent by Google Earth, and the KML updates sent back by the plugin into two files: 'hdr', and 'dump'. Unless you're curious to know what happens behind the scenes, it's better to use this new revision.

Open Orbiter and start a scenario (say, Orbiter 2010->Welcome). Leave it running, and then open 'live.kml'. You should see all vessels orbiting Earth live.

Everything critical is now working as it should (at least on my machine :P), so this is now the first beta of the Google Earth Tracking System. EDIT: I'll leave this here for the curious. See the next page for an update.

Blame the clueless parents? Sure, they don't know how to raise their kids. The teachers? Yes, also, as it's their job to educate. Institutions? Bussissness? The government? They have so much in their hands that the average Joe is not even in their priority list. An uncaring community...

No idea why the library is not loaded even though it is there, so I'll just slip the dirt under the carpet...

A false positive: http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/e107eae9f5604a1c09855816a523d55ed7fa31e6

Ok, it seems the issue is due to a missing manifest in the DLL, and should be fixed in this second alpha. In addition, incremental updates are woking now, but Google Earth chokes and stop updating two minutes into the simulation.

You need the 2010 version: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555.

Yes, it would be possible. Problem is, long playthroughs or short ones with many vessels creates KMLs too large to be completely rewritten every second. The best approach, instead, is to use three neat KML features: links, cookies and deltas. The first instructs Google Earth to load data from...

SWIG might be useful. By all means try it - both languages if possible.

Ah yes, I'm the author - sorry for not seeing this sooner (and probably wouldn't have anyway if RacerX hadn't sent me a PM). But, hmm, I sure ain't inactive that long... Anyway, I'll take a look as soon as I discover how to work with the PSDK over Wine.

Yeah, as much as assembly is.

Hmm, difficult situation indeed. If it wasn't for the language barrier, I'd say that the possibility of immigrating here (Brazil) would at least be worth looking into. Foreigners are generally well accepted regardless of origin - São Paulo has the largest Japanese community outside Japan, and...

Nothing to tell, really. NVidia proprietary drivers + Wine + a few winetricks addins + Orbiter = joy. I even posted screenshots in an old thread (which I can't find :(): If I remember correctly, I had no problems running Orbiter with the default DX7 client, nor with the DX9 client which I had...

I can't remember when I first used a Linux distro, but it took me a pair of years to start using it regularly (Kurumin, a Brazilian Knoppix spinnoff, if I remember correctly). I also used Ubuntu for a time, but moved to Arch Linux (with KDE, XFCE, and now Awesome3) after Canonical changed too...

Based on the Favorite Rock Band thread, what about a thread for your favorite artists regardless of musical genre? Artists which aren't internationally known are specially interesting, and bonus points if they are from your home country. Also post one or two of your favorite songs or...

Gotta disagree with you there. At any time, good and bad music are being made, and, IMO, the perception that music from the past is better is simply because good music stays, while bad music fades away. Anyway, I'll add some Brazilian bands to the list (with examples and some crude...

Exactly the point. Or rather, the exact reason why splitting code between different sources may be good: a static library consists of object files, and not, for example, a collection of isolated functions.

Static libraries, both in the *nix world (*.a) and on Windows* (*.lib), are simply archives in the ar format. If you do extract a static library, you'd simply end up with a collection of object files (*.o on *nix, *.obj on Windows). * Although it seems this is not explicitly stated on the...