Mac FlightGear Project Report

It’s been a long time since I posted anything about FlightGear on Mac OS X and there have been some very good developments lately so here it goes….

Over the past couple of weeks I rewrote the GUI in C++ which really speeds things up and allows more features plus offers a lot more stability. The downside is that development time is increased because of the time needed to compile each change in the source code.
Overall C++ is a lot better than I thought. Especially with Xcode 2.2pre1 which makes things pretty simple. All you have to do is focus on the code.

Now sometime during June, 2006 Apple will introduce a Mac or two using the Intel proccessor. And if I’m correct, users won’t appreciate running FlightGear under Rosetta as you already need a good CPU in order to run FGFS smoothly.
So during the next two weeks I’ll have the following software ported to Universal Binary and optimized for altivec on PowerPC and sse3 on Intel:

• PLIB [DONE]
• SimGear [In Progress]
• FlightGear
• MacFlightGear

This will allow FGFS to run at the same relative speed on both platforms.

Improvements are also being made to MacFlightGear. TerraSync will be enabled by default. There will be builtin support for multiplayer and Atlas 3.0. Real weather, 3D clouds, drag-and-drop aircraft/scenery installer, and more.
This won’t all be done overnight, but I hope to have it all done in time for the 1.0 release of the FlightGear Flight Simulator (FGFS).
Beta releases are in the pipeline.

Israel Resumes Offensive Against Hamas

After Palestinian terrorists attacked Israelis recently, Israel has resumed it’s offensive against these Islamic terrorists.
This proves what I said a few months ago. There will never be a lasting peace in Israel so long as there are descendants of Ishmael on this earth, or Islam for that matter.

But what I found very interesting was this quote from a mother whose son was killed today by the IDF.
“Farhad’s mother, known as Um Nidal, said all three of her sons have been killed in fighting with the Israelis. “I am so proud,” she said. “I wish I had more sons to offer.”" – Newsday.com

What can be the cause of such perversion? This is the teaching of Islam.

Figure Math Problems with PHP

You gotta love PHP when your mind does not seem to work any more but you need to figure out what 3 digit number ending with the digit 4 multiplied by a single digit number equals 1242. A simple script figured it out for me in less than 2 seconds.

$t = 104;
$b = 1;

$answer = ‘f’;
while ($answer == ‘f’) {
if ($t > 994) {
$t = 104;
$b++;
}
if ($b > 9) {
exit(“\n\nThere is no answer!\n\n”);
}

echo “$t * $b = “;
$tmp = $t * $b;
echo $tmp;
if ($tmp != 1242) {
echo ” False…\n”;
}
else {
echo ” TRUE!!!!!\n\n”;
echo “THE ANSWER HAS BEEN FOUND #########\n”;
$answer = $tmp;
}

$ft = substr($t, 0, 2);
$ft++;
$t = (int)$ft . 4;
}
?>

PHP’s always there is your time of need – Sometimes it’s easier to write a script than figure it out manually.

Learning Hebrew

That’s what I’m up to now. Learning Hebrew. As in the language of Hebrew.
So that’s right. Don’t expect any project updates for awhile.