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by c.j.b
29 September 12 5:30 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Leaving cash good or bad ??
Replies: 14
Views: 6087

Re: Leaving cash good or bad ??

Hoojar wrote:Someone's log on one of my caches said that they had left $5.
This happened to my old "Convict Bathe" cache in Newcastle. I swapped it for 100 5 cent coins Araldite'd together... Yes, I was mad.
by c.j.b
25 May 11 2:25 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: The first Australian regular cache with 1000 finds?
Replies: 5
Views: 2715

The first Australian regular cache with 1000 finds?

Can someone tell if the 1000-finds milestone has happened for an Australian regular geocache yet? Currently Tolkien Tree (which I co-maintain with Charl) is at 920 logged visits on gc.com, with "Oh No Darling" next at 912, and from going through the yearly Stats links on GCA looking for the most pop...
by c.j.b
29 April 06 9:25 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: palm software
Replies: 8
Views: 3183

I'm using Geotoad on the PC, and having it create GPX and HTML output.
gpsbabel uploads the waypoints from the GPX into the GPS, and Plucker converts the HTML into a PDB document for the Palm.
by c.j.b
13 March 06 1:37 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: GeoToad Lives Again!
Replies: 5
Views: 2609

Update: formal releases (for Windows/OSX/Source) are now available from the sourceforge site.
by c.j.b
12 March 06 8:31 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: GeoToad Lives Again!
Replies: 5
Views: 2609

caughtatwork wrote:Has the geotoad with the GC logon been sanctioned by GC.com as being an authorised "scraper / slurper" ?
The previous GeoToad supposedly was... not that it made any difference.
by c.j.b
12 March 06 1:23 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: GeoToad Lives Again!
Replies: 5
Views: 2609

GeoToad Lives Again!

The GeoToad developers have just uploaded their latest and greatest into the Subversion repository @ svn://firebelly.dnsalias.org/repository/geotoad/trunk ... If you lack Subversion, I've placed a snapshot at http://hunter.apana.org.au/~cjb/Code/geotoad.tar.bz2 (~650kB) This is the in-testing versio...
by c.j.b
24 December 05 12:59 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Australian GEOcoin images
Replies: 200
Views: 51478

Just one thing to ask about -- why does it have a compass, for a sport that doesn't really use them? :-)
by c.j.b
24 December 05 12:38 am
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Garmin 60 Automotive Mount - The Auxillary Connector
Replies: 8
Views: 3469

SteelRat wrote:They are roughly 10mm thick, about 12mm in diameter, and have a profile like a squashed cotton reel.
It looks like Dick Smiths have a large banana-plug socket mount (cat# P1733) that'll do the job as a replacement.
by c.j.b
20 December 05 3:29 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Garmin 60 Automotive Mount - The Auxillary Connector
Replies: 8
Views: 3469

Re: mounts

You might like to try JonnyApplesead there main branch is in brisbane All I really want to know is if the knob was supplied with the GPS. Inside the mount appears to be a standard 'machine thread', so I could make up a replacement knob from bits I have on my eletronics bench ... if I can convince h...
by c.j.b
20 December 05 2:18 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Garmin 60 Automotive Mount - The Auxillary Connector
Replies: 8
Views: 3469

Garmin 60 Automotive Mount - The Auxillary Connector

One of the Christmas presents for the geocaching Girlfriend, I ordered and bought the appriate Garmin Automotive mount for her 60CS, so we don't have to rely on a dashboard cupholder. :) Unfortunately, it needs a knob to fasten the GPSr to the mount... which it didn't include. And unfortunately agai...
by c.j.b
19 December 05 10:35 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: What affects GPSr Accuracy?
Replies: 24
Views: 8343

Also: - waypoint downloading software incorrectly rounding the least significant digit and losing accuracy when converting from wholly decimal coordinates (nn.nnnnn) into decimal-minutes format (nn nn.nnn) and probably back again into whole-decimal. A lot of the time I'm finding the LSB of the longi...
by c.j.b
02 December 05 9:24 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Summer Storms
Replies: 2
Views: 1705

by c.j.b
02 December 05 9:22 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Conspicuous Consumption and the case for TNLN
Replies: 41
Views: 10814

On the contrary, I'm talking about preserving the future of the sport so that other potential starters don't see it as a boring hunt for a few scaps of paper shoved inside a fiim cannister and nothing else. It's going to be one of those things that you could use to test if someone's a "bushwalking"...
by c.j.b
01 December 05 3:12 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Conspicuous Consumption and the case for TNLN
Replies: 41
Views: 10814

It's the log-book that matters... Not the swaps, or what your score is on GC..

My 'swaps' now are usually spare pens, logbooks, or cache containers[!] :-)
by c.j.b
01 December 05 3:02 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Debate 9 - Will Waymarking Take Off?
Replies: 42
Views: 10538

Gee if you wanted to do that you should have just asked: http://www.google.com/base You missed the point about 'a single point of failure'... (I originally started to write about the geocaching-over-usenet idea, but for the sake of everyone in the forum :-) I posted it here instead: http://kildall....