Geocaching Australia

Now for something a little different, I have just published a new event. All will be welcome check it out at http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga1527
See you there

Hi everyone Thanks for the great response so far.

to answer a couple of the questions that have been raised.

1. the coords of S00 00.000 E000 00.000 were the default coords on the form for hiding a cache (event)at the time I did not give it any consideration just left it as it was. If it is to cause any real issues let me know either via a PM or through the forums and I will look at changing it.
2. The reason it is listed in QLD was to get it onto the daily email (i was going to move it from State to State to expose it to everyone) thanks to C@W it is now on the email as a note, so I can now take it back to Locationless

Thanks again looking forward to the event, if you have any further question please contact me
Richard
aka Fuddley

As a locationless I guess when we "find" it we can log it as the coordinates from where we were when we were on the forums (or roughly if you don't want to reveal where you live!)?

How about to the nearest 0.1 of a minute. If people can plot roughly where they were, then can use the map plot function to see generally where people come from.

Good point GG I can add a note to the cache page asking that people input approx coords when they log their attendance.

Breaking News: Gibbo003 has donated a NT geocoin to this event, to be in the draw for this coin, all you have to do is log your attendance (as per the conditions of the cache) within 24 hours of the close of the event. As well as this, we will donate a FTF coin to the first person who posts a relevant reply to the topic that is the event (i.e. The first post after my post on the night - post must be relevant to the topic)

Special thanks to Gibbo003 for donating a coin.

Fuddley wrote:Breaking News: Gibbo003 has donated a NT geocoin to this event, to be in the draw for this coin, all you have to do is log your attendance (as per the conditions of the cache) within 24 hours of the close of the event. As well as this, we will donate a FTF coin to the first person who posts a relevant reply to the topic that is the event (i.e. The first post after my post on the night - post must be relevant to the topic)

Special thanks to Gibbo003 for donating a coin.

So would the admins, shutting down the board for 30 seconds or so, but still being able to post, be eligible?
No?
What about if we deleted the first responses and then put our own in?

Photo of the LE Gold NT coin you will be playing for.

Probably lucky we are on the new hardware. I can imagine 100 users all hitting refresh every couple of seconds waiting for the first post!

caughtatwork wrote:

Fuddley wrote:Breaking News: Gibbo003 has donated a NT geocoin to this event, to be in the draw for this coin, all you have to do is log your attendance (as per the conditions of the cache) within 24 hours of the close of the event. As well as this, we will donate a FTF coin to the first person who posts a relevant reply to the topic that is the event (i.e. The first post after my post on the night - post must be relevant to the topic)

Special thanks to Gibbo003 for donating a coin.

So would the admins, shutting down the board for 30 seconds or so, but still being able to post, be eligible?
No?
What about if we deleted the first responses and then put our own in?

Wouldn't it be nice to have God like powers

richary wrote:Probably lucky we are on the new hardware. I can imagine 100 users all hitting refresh every couple of seconds waiting for the first post!

This is part of the reason for running this event (to give the new servers a workout) I did discuss it with Craigrat before I published it, and he assured me that we will not crash the system.

Question out of Curiosity...?

How many users to be on at the same time would it take to crash these servers?

Thanks,
Camstal

Camstal wrote:Question out of Curiosity...?

How many users to be on at the same time would it take to crash these servers?

Thanks,
Camstal

I really don't want to find out!..

It would be substantially more than what we'd be expecting on the day of this event.

I'll post some load stats after the event for those who want to see the raw horsepower that their donations has given us.

It would be unlikely to crash at any number.
It would run like cold molasses when the number of threads gets too high (no idea what the number is).
At the moment we use around 20% of a single CPU and we have 4 cores, so we're fine as far as CPU use goes.
In terms of RAM, we use around 1 to 1.5GB and we have 4GB, so we're fine there too.
It will be an interesting experiment as much as an interesting cache.

Hehe, thats embarrassing... here i was wondering why no-one else was online for the event