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[jedidia]

What would it even mean to rent a movie online?

Basically what Flickr does? I.e. you stream it and are not supposed to save the stream?

There is a big red "Download" button under youtube player here, and i always use it for anything longer than 30 minutes or so.

I know what you're talking about, I'm not sure if it's legal (not that that would bother me much).

 

[Unstung]

BANKING LEFT INTENSIFIES

 

[Izack]

I started playing Xenonauts three or four days ago.

I now have 14 hours in-game.

I'll let this speak for the quality of the game, and the excellent gameplay style of X-COM-alikes in general.

 

[Andy44]

Uh-oh.
Russia Shoots Down Santa’s Sleigh Near North Pole.
http://dailycurrant.com/2014/12/24/r...ar-north-pole/
I'am afraid there will be no presents for the kids this year...
Or ever.

Another victory in the War on Christmas! We are winning!

 

[Athena]

BANKING LEFT INTENSIFIES

What the...:blink:

 

[Pipcard]

BANKING LEFT INTENSIFIES

Technically, that would result in the plane banking right (if the right elevon was tilted down as well)

edit: I just checked in Orbiter, you're right Izack and Unstung. My reasoning was that when the left elevon tilted up, that side would tilt up, because when both elevons tilt up, the whole craft tilts up. Sorry for my stupid mistake.

Also, I forgot to say Merry Christmas. So, Merry Christmas (Happy Holidays, whatever you prefer) to all, and to all a good night.

 

[Izack]

Technically, that would result in the plane banking right (if the right elevon was tilted down as well)

No, that's definitely a left roll. The only problem with the gif is the travesty of the visual pun.

 

[ISProgram]

Anyone have a good Christmas?

EDIT: Did my signature pic change since I was gone!? :shifty:

 

[C3PO]

Another victory in the War on Christmas! We are winning!

Actually you might have won already.

:facepalm:

 

[SolarLiner]

BANKING LEFT INTENSIFIES

That's taking fedora tipping to a whole new level !

That may also explain all the pinups around warbirds at that time ...

 

[Matias Saibene]

fedora

Someone spoke of fedora?

 

[MattBaker]

How many Linux distributions are there and what's the difference between a distribution and "I just modded a couple of things here and there to make it better".

 

[Artlav]

what's the difference between a distribution and "I just modded a couple of things here and there to make it better".

If it's Fedora that just looks different, then it's the latter.
If it runs on a Deltaglider, then it's the former (www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=23939).

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

How many Linux distributions are there and what's the difference between a distribution and "I just modded a couple of things here and there to make it better".

Nothing, technically modding a few things on a given distro essentially makes it its own distro, but most distros stay kinda together without forking off in every which direction. The number of distributions is huge, but most distros generally fall into a couple of distinct families, such as ubuntu-based, debian-based, fedora-based, etc.

If you are considering setting up linux, the best pairing in my opinion would be a debian based (KSP for linux runs right out of the box) and a Ubuntu distro (easiest to run wine for emulating Orbiter and other things)

If it's Fedora that just looks different, then it's the latter.
If it runs on a Deltaglider, then it's the former (www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=23939).

:lol: and of course it runs on debian!!!

So was it just a command line instance that existed for the lifetime of the Orbiter simulation session?

 

[Artlav]

So was it just a command line instance that existed for the lifetime of the Orbiter simulation session?

Not sure what you mean by that.
The story on it is pretty straightforward.
Back then i got interested in MIPS architecture and wanted to learn/understand it.
So, i wrote an emulator for MIPS32r1 variant and ported Linux to it (something Debian at first, Buildroot later).
After some playing around i wondered what to do with this thing. With obvious conclusion.

LinuxMFD is that MIPS VM running as an Orbiter's plugin, with the MFD being it's terminal. The current vessel is available as a device in the VM, so you could control it from bash scripts.

That's about all there is to it.

 

[jedidia]

And again I wonder that noone has yet made an MFD that runs orbiter... :shifty:

 

[SolarLiner]

And again I wonder that noone has yet made an MFD that runs orbiter... :shifty:

Yo dawg…

 

[ISProgram]

For those of you who use Silverbird to calculate your LV performance, what parameters do you use to calculate a payload to GEO?

I set both perigee and apogee to 35786 km (geostationary altitude), inclination to 0, and set the trajectory to optimal, but I always get 0 kg for estimated payload, which isn't consistent to other payload estimates for different orbits...

Any advice?

 

[orbitingpluto]

For those of you who use Silverbird to calculate your LV performance, what parameters do you use to calculate a payload to GEO?

I set both perigee and apogee to 35786 km (geostationary altitude), inclination to 0, and set the trajectory to optimal, but I always get 0 kg for estimated payload, which isn't consistent to other payload estimates for different orbits...

Any advice?

Assume a parking orbit, and work it out from there, using a spreadsheet to do the grunt work of calculating while you brain through the how it all fits together.

Alternatively, set up the Sliverbird calculator for a GTO shot, and then figure out how much of Sliverbird's 'payload' is actually the apogee kick stage and what is actual paying customer. I don't know if the Slivebird calc does GTO, so this approach might not work.

 

[kamaz]