[Xastir] FIXED No iGate, please help

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Den <W2DEN at comcast.net> wrote:


> I believe you can accomplish the same commands with sudo as you would
> without it after the sudo su.
>

For the most part, correct.  There _can_ be issues with environment
variables (sudo also sanitizes your environment for security reasons), but
other than that rare issue i've found sudo a good replacement for su.


A disturbing tendency i've noticed among novice users is to try to sudo any
command that doesn't work as expected.  As a sysadmin for a few hundred
embryonic engineers I watch the sudo failures. Most of the time they're
trying to install some package or other (which I often add to the standard
build), but occasionally it seems to be some arbitrary command or code
they've written. I've seen a user issue "command", which apparently failed
so they tried "sudo command" - as if the broken C code they wrote will
magically work if they run it as root. This sort of habit can/will lead to
broken and hacked systems.


No harm, no foul.... we are all just amateurs trying to have fun. Pleasure
> communicating with you..
>

yep, likewise.


> Any suggestions on how to improve the Xastir mapping?
>

Get big companies to share their maps?

The app-ification and profitization of the internet has resulted in fewer
free resources.  The folks that pay to have map databases created certainly
have the right to do as they please with their property, but the desire to
extract every nanocent of profit (either directly or in the form of
harvested personal information which is then sold to marketers) has
squeezed open source projects out of the picture.

I prefer totally offline maps anyway, so I tend to use free data sources
(like TIGER vector maps), spend some time with dbfawk to make them look the
way I want, and go from there.

The xastir team is on the lookout for free online sources, and not too long
ago several new sources of topo and satellite maps were introduced.

-Jason
kg4wsv