Geocaching Australia

Bah, the Microsoft of Geocaching has used their size to dump on another potential unlimited public sport... For the past few months I've been working on modifing a Java-based newsreader so the Usenet system can be used to create a decentralized "Points Of Interest" publishing/logging platform which ...

c.j.b can you explain what you mean by the bit about using the software for more than a few years. Try installing the Linux-binary-only XFree3/4.x modules for a no longer supported Matrox 3D graphics card into a Xorg server used today, or using any binary-only libc5 binary ("Hey, I need to read thi...

One that I came across just yesterday was http://www.gdal.org and from one of the links on that site I found an open GIS program that appears to work on both windows and linux. gdal's ECW support (and all those "free" viewers) is dependent on the binary-only ERMapper x86-Linux-only libraries being ...

Anyone been about to make use of the proprietry data formats under Linux/FOSS? Arcinfo/Arcview/Mapinfo/ECW are all fine-and-dandy if you're a Complict Windows User, but there doesn't appear to be any open-source tools (or even binary-only viewers that work on anything other than 10-year-old RedHat m...

as the loon says that is a great authentication method ... I think it is called a TURING code or number

They're known as Captchas. Googling on "mediawiki captcha" finds a few modules that may be suitable.

I've got the $39 USB1.1-DB9 from Jaycar, which is especially winnable because it provides drivers for Mac OS8/9/X (and in use on my 10.4.3 iBook), and has a well-known chipset that even NetBSD Unix (my main desktop) knew about.

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=XC4834

There's certainly Spam travel bugs already in the country-- the 'Light My World' TB, currently at 'Noonans Discovery' on Mt.Vincent (Lake Macquarie region) is pretty-much just an attempt to get a commerical weblink onto the GC site. I've mentioned it to the staff, but their excuse was because TBs ar...