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Re: Another cylindrical bygrave
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2010 Feb 24, 12:41 -0800
From: Hein Bodahl <hein@sv.uio.no>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 4:32:14 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Another cylindrical bygrave
On 22.02.2010 21:23, Douglas Denny wrote:
> An idea:-
>
> It would be interesting for someone here who has access to all the different scales and/or programmes to produce them for the Bygrave slide rule, to have them made available in one place.
>
> If the source code is also made available, there may be programmers worldwide who can improve the scales appearance or ease of use (colours, pitch adjustment, length of scale adjustment etc) and who can then re-issue their version for further improvement in the same way that Linux was made available for development.
>
> My friend Peter Martinez who produced a simple form of the scale but who is now otherwise engaged in other research and therefore has no time to develop a better version might be persuaded to become involved again if source code was available to 'play with'. He programmes in Delphi. I have some limited experience of 'C'.
Some of the stuff I have gathered is available from
http://www.sveengard.no/cn/
Nothing new there, and not much in the programs directory. But I plan to
fill it up in time.
It was really intended for private use so I haven't gotten the indexing
to work properly. You have to expand the sitemap to find files or you
will get a 403 error.
Hein
From: Hanno Ix
Date: 2010 Feb 24, 12:41 -0800
Hein:
Tried to open those files - it says: Forbidden.
What do I have to do?
H
From: Hein Bodahl <hein@sv.uio.no>
To: NavList@fer3.com
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 4:32:14 AM
Subject: [NavList] Re: Another cylindrical bygrave
On 22.02.2010 21:23, Douglas Denny wrote:
> An idea:-
>
> It would be interesting for someone here who has access to all the different scales and/or programmes to produce them for the Bygrave slide rule, to have them made available in one place.
>
> If the source code is also made available, there may be programmers worldwide who can improve the scales appearance or ease of use (colours, pitch adjustment, length of scale adjustment etc) and who can then re-issue their version for further improvement in the same way that Linux was made available for development.
>
> My friend Peter Martinez who produced a simple form of the scale but who is now otherwise engaged in other research and therefore has no time to develop a better version might be persuaded to become involved again if source code was available to 'play with'. He programmes in Delphi. I have some limited experience of 'C'.
Some of the stuff I have gathered is available from
http://www.sveengard.no/cn/
Nothing new there, and not much in the programs directory. But I plan to
fill it up in time.
It was really intended for private use so I haven't gotten the indexing
to work properly. You have to expand the sitemap to find files or you
will get a 403 error.
Hein
