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by aloysius
28 July 05 9:06 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: How do you measure a cm
Replies: 19
Views: 5922

The history of how the french decided on how long the meter should be is a really interesting story....i read it just last week whilst at work flickng through kids maths textbooks...From what i remember it was somehow related to the lenght of a quadrant of the earth....which was measured by two mad ...
by aloysius
15 July 05 11:53 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Jesus???
Replies: 8
Views: 2704

Jesus???

found this today...something google didnt anticipate i imagine:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-16.3370 ... &t=k&hl=en


orriginal article here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15 ... ots_jesus/
by aloysius
11 July 05 7:46 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: OT : Project Platypus
Replies: 27
Views: 7910

ok.....cuhhlick. $1 to platypus :)
by aloysius
05 July 05 7:01 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Ozi and Wine under Linux
Replies: 1
Views: 1581

Got it....At moment i have Wine 20050628 running on Ubuntu Linux 5.04. Ozi running beautifully without problems. I havent managed to get 3d working yet....but everything else functions beautifully. I went about the install a bit unorthodox due to lazyness but it paid off. For me to get it going i ju...
by aloysius
29 June 05 8:54 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: RSS feed [closed]
Replies: 19
Views: 6712

There is state specific RSS feeds? where, pray tell, would one find these?
by aloysius
29 June 05 8:29 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: RSS feed [closed]
Replies: 19
Views: 6712

yeh same for me...btw thanks for all your work on the site Ideoguys :)
by aloysius
29 June 05 7:37 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: RSS feed [closed]
Replies: 19
Views: 6712

what about the feed from the main site...used to be at **old link removed by i! to stop people trying to access it and getting confused**
by aloysius
15 June 05 11:01 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: A Bronze Quiz
Replies: 18
Views: 5840

you got mail.... :)
by aloysius
07 June 05 7:03 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Dubbo Maps
Replies: 17
Views: 5650

my browser does it too...and its the best browser in the world...so i think the link is naff :P
by aloysius
06 June 05 1:50 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Etiquette when finding other Cachers
Replies: 24
Views: 6905

you seem to have edited the original of that pic a bit horus....i have the original here:
Image
I think we can all see the subtle difference.......
by aloysius
16 May 05 7:43 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Geocaching in Bali
Replies: 20
Views: 6362

perhaps the imaginary friends could perform the maintenance: ":D When I put the cache in Bali they would only approve it if I could prove that it could be maintained. Acouple of white lies fixed that. They want to know that a local will be maintaining it. Good luck. :D" http://forum.geocaching.com.a...
by aloysius
26 April 05 7:03 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: The forums have been hacked! [closed]
Replies: 44
Views: 12708

cant even get the colours from the internet archive...this site blocks it :( :


http://web.archive.org/web/*/forum.geocaching.com.au/*
by aloysius
17 April 05 2:18 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Help needed with creating a messageboard
Replies: 12
Views: 3373

yabb is a great alternative to phpbb...its almost the same except it runs off flat files so if you dont have sql or database support you can still run yabb. Many web hosts allow php but not sql. So yabb is perfect.

http://www.yabbforum.com/
by aloysius
04 April 05 11:37 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Swaggie Problem [closed]
Replies: 4
Views: 2271

i have a swaggie as well now and am getting the same problem. We taswegians are trying to get a swaggie golf leag up so any help here would be greatly appreciated :P
by aloysius
16 March 05 2:47 pm
Forum: Software / Hardware Solutions
Topic: Linux User?
Replies: 34
Views: 10487

http://ebusiness.gbdirect.co.uk/downloads/

Here is another linux mapping tool i found while looking at some totally unrelated php manuals. Its php based and works as a moving map....not tried it yet....