Geocaching Australia

I'd have to say that with some of the caches I've found, I'd rather the hider had an infinite hide:find ratio. There are some people out there who are consistently bad, and never seem to get the point.

Others could hide twice as many and I would be happy.

I agree that as a minimum they need to come up with additional versions of the interpreter if they want this to take off. Right now it is just too targeted. Without additional platforms it will never reach critical mass. Phones, laptops, and PDAs that are all capable of being your navigation device ...

The Brisbane City Council found the same problem when they introduced the new smart cards on public transport last week :lol: The cards rely on GPS to know where the bus, ferry or train you are getting on and off of is, to know how much money to debit the card for your journey. No one apparently th...

Because of the way that GPS receivers work using differential delays in multiple time signals, you can't just retransmit a signal and have a sensor properly detect its location. Effectively all you would be doing would be retransmitting the location of the receiver that is doing the retransmitting, ...

Was it just me, or did he say GPS satellites were 20km up?

I'm always amused about what TomTom does when I enter the tunnels in downtown Brisbane and its surrounding bypasses. Even being augmented by two 2D accelerometers would go a long way towards resolving that problem.

PayPal supports the recurring payment model these days, so that would be a viable option. I think the idea is to limit the ability for donations to exceed need, though, so I'm not certain how that could be managed if recurring payments were used.

Regards,
Eric

Can you give me an idea of the current database load, in peak transactions per second, for all sites put together? There must be a lot of backend jobs running if we are saturating a shared environment with an average of under 6 page views per minute. Possibly the current hosting site does not have a...

OK, look up the Barn Burner 75 Watt HID. It was a limited run, but was 8500 lumen. That light your fire?

Ouch, don't leave that on in your pocket. Christmas songs about chestnuts come to mind. Here is my current beast of choice (Fenix L2D CE Q5): http://www.torchworld.com.au/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=96&products_id=425 12-180 lumens, depending on the setting, powered by 2xAA. Great...

Since the board does not support merging threads, the separate milestone forum area would seem to be the easiest to maintain, especially from an administration standpoint. It would also likely result in the least stepped on fingers. For those states that wish to maintain a single thread for mileston...

I like the idea of containing it to one area, as this 4 out of 5 posts thing is a tad distracting. In any case, something needs to be done.

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I figured as much :) One just logged shows as 1.9 million km. If I could get a log on one of my coins, it would show 8 million :) I don't know why I have so many trackables, considering the number of them actually released. I guess it was an obsession. Only about half my coins are active, the rest w...

Lol, tough to beat!

I ran across this when checking on one of my TBs today.



Someone must have pushed bad code.

DST info changes so often that the GPSr can't possibly know what is currently valid, as that isn't part of the info it gets from satellites. It isn't really a simple calculation, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2007.html and http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2008.html And then consider that...