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Turkey Trotter

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  1. I use Fasthosts, Not as cheap as 123-reg but the basic hosting packages are somewhat more comprehensive. If you are hosting images for forums then the unlimited bandwidth is a bonus.

     

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    I am in the process of building another machine to set up my own (Linux) web server at home. That is the cheapest form of hosting of all. DNS is handled by ZoneEdit and information on how to do it all is on DSL / Cable Webserver. Excellent resource for anybody who wants to set up their own web server on their cable / adsl setup.

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  2. Ok, a while ago I came across a link to a site (either here or from some other GeoCaching associated web site). The link was to a site which was planning to photograph every square in the OSGB grid. I'm sure it was set up by someone who uses these forums but can't be sure.

     

    If the site still exists and if you have the link then maybe you could make me very happy by posting it.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    Turkey

  3. I heard about Spice quite a few years ago. They are an organisation specialising in outdoors / adventure activities. I heard about it from a student and I registered for their brochure. Well FEK me the prices for some of these activities would bankrupt a small country. They are a rip-off organisation who charge the earth so that people with no organisation skills can go and do activities that would cost any motivated person next to nothing.

  4. But the split screen view still uses IE in the cache details page.

     

    This is because it uses the IE activex control to actually render the page for display in the window.

     

    That much you'll always be stuck with.

     

    The default browser setting will only effect launches of a page in a separate window. :laughing:

     

    Edited for excessive quoted quotes

    Sorry yes that's probably true just that I always launch in a seperate window. :unsure:

  5. While we're talking about firefox - and to bring it back on topic  :unsure: - does anyone know how to associate firefox as the browser in GSAK ?

     

    civilised

    You cant. It uses IE "under the hood"

    Yes you can.

     

    First set Firefox as your default browser. Tools > Options > General and check the firefox default browser box.

     

    Now do Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs

     

    On the bottom of the left is Set Program Access and Defaults. Click on this.

     

    You will be given a number of configurations, select Custom

     

    Set default browser to Use my current browser. That should then allow any program to start Firefox.

     

    HTH

  6. i had this before much prefer tom tom 3  you can do so much more with it ie uk post code

    You can use UK Postcodes on Navigator v4.2 (you could on V3.0) and also on TomTom 3 the maps are so old the M6 Toll doesn't exist. :unsure:

     

    Was version 4 ever released on SD memory cards? I somehow doubt it..

    No versions were ever released on SD card, they came on 256mb MMC cards (installer & GB maps and only when supplied with the PDA/GPSr package) & CD (installer & maps for major countries in Europe with PDA/GPSr package or as a stand alone software package). :laughing:

  7. I use this on my PDA and it is an excellent product (the maps are far newer than TomTom 3). I'm curious as to where he got the SD cards from, as they come with a PDA (with built in GPSr, bought from Aldi for £379) and the software also comes supplied on 5 cds containing all the european maps.

  8. Another plugin for greasemonkey Here. Just rightclick on the link and the option to install user script should be at the top of the menu. This script adds a link on Google Maps views to launch a window showing the nearest geocaches to the center of the map. Should work even if the map has been panned/zoomed dynamically. ;):lol:

  9. my filename is different, i only have version 1 of the eu base map so i'll have to change the checksum. interestingly, the docs say that anything after the filename is irrelevant.....

    My problem was that the xmodem protocol didn't seem to chat - the unit would go into xmodem mode (as nothing seemed to happen when you typed anymore) but no characters would be transferred.

    I've only got the 2mb ish file as thats all the sportrak map holds.

    Ok, the first thing I can suggest is that you setup a new connection step-by-step as detailed in this FAQ. This is for the Meridian GPSr but I'm sure it will be the same for the SporTrak. This is the document I used and it worked first time. There is a section on backing up your basemap in there. Once you have a connection then you can use the checksum program to calculate the correct string to type in and Bob should be your uncle. :o

     

    HTH

  10. We have some more to do to add new ranges (Magdellan being one of them) and a review of the pricing :lol:

    Some pretty serious reviews of the prices I hope!

     

    For the price you are listing the 60CS at you can get a 60CS AND a Legend from Global Positioning Systems and still have around £9 in your pocket.

    I'm not holding my breath for price reviews & to be honest I'm not sure I would want to buy from somewhere where they can't even get the name of their products correct (unless Magellan have changed their name :P ).

  11. you can download the uk version from the group (which doesn't help *me* much) and i've tried following the instructions to back up my english basemap but it fails to do the download.

    @DomHeKnows: How big is the european basemap? I'm just curious as if it's the same size as mine then maybe my US basemap might work for your sportrak. Also when you tried the backup yourself, was the basemap actually called eu_m102.dat on your directory listing? If not then that is your problem. Also the 2 characters at the end of the line are actually a checksum and if the filename is different then checksum will be as well. There is a small programme Here to calculate the correct checksum.

     

    HTH

     

    ps

    I also found it easier to enter the commands 1 at a time and actually save the results to a file for future reference, (makes it so much easier to switch between the 2 basemaps if you need to if you have the correct filenames already stored on your PC)

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