tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89695056986095321802011-11-28T11:49:43.526+11:00A place for me to post all the random junk that enters my head.DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-21991110423892058342008-10-06T14:50:00.000+11:002008-10-06T14:51:56.265+11:00These instructions aren't the best, but should give people a hand setting it up.<br /><br />Turn the radio on, if you can see frequecy information your in the right mode. If you only see CH-07 (or any other number) you need to go into programming mode.<br /><br />To enter or exit programming mode<br />Turn the radio off<br />Hold down the "F" key and turn the radio on.<br /><br />You should now see 472.125 (actually any 6 digit number)<br />If it has the 2 digit channel to the right then you simply press VFO to be in full programming mode.<br /><br />Now use the keypad to type in frequency then press the talk button.<br />To save press the F and then VFO<br />Select a clear channel to save then press the talk button.<br /><br />The HGFA channel is;<br />472.125MHz<br /><br />And the following CTSS are in use.<br />192.8Hz<br />82.5Hz<br />110.9Hz<br />151.4Hz<br /><br />So I've setup<br />60 - 472.125Mhz (no CTSS)<br />61 - 472.125Mhz (192.8Hz)<br />62 - 472.125Mhz (82.5Hz)<br />63 - 472.125Mhz (110.9Hz)<br />64 - 472.125Mhz (151.4Hz)<br /><br />Matt<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-2199111042389205834?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-59435528008275683452008-09-23T19:28:00.001+10:002008-09-23T19:28:39.189+10:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Well, I'm the proud owner of a cheap GPS.... but the software it came with didn't particularly excite me as I couldn't use it for my 4x4 trips.<br/><br/>The unit is actually a Windows CE device, but you are locked out from accessing it....<br/><br/>So after a little searching I found that if I simply copied my explorer.exe from my XP windows directory to a SD card and restarted the unit, it would come up with that by default..!  This then lets you launch other programs or edit the contents on the unit etc.   Word of warning, make sure you backup the internal ROM before you go playing with anything.<br/><br/>From there it was easy to simply add other navigator software and just double click to launch it.. nice huh.!<br/><br/>The sad thing is that the opensource stuff didn't seem to work.. DOH...<br/><br/>I'm going to play around with a bunch of apps like oziexplorer and see how it all goes...<br/><br/>Going to be awesome having a $200 GPS that does offroad as well as turn by turn onroad..!<br/><br/>Matt<br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-5943552800827568345?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-34569927506625030402008-08-10T08:58:00.001+10:002008-08-10T08:59:52.563+10:00What a way to start the morning, kids slept in...<br /><br />I had time to get up and make pancakes and while we where having a quiet breaky it began to snow.... awwwww<br /><br />Only downside is no paragliding.. lol<br /><br />Matt<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-3456992750662503040?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-44157857772052167632008-08-03T20:09:00.003+10:002008-08-03T20:16:50.363+10:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/matt.taet/SJV_4pjoBPI/AAAAAAAAByM/UtZSObvqDGQ/s144/P1010244.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/matt.taet/SJV_4pjoBPI/AAAAAAAAByM/UtZSObvqDGQ/s144/P1010244.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/matt.taet/ParaglidingAtSpringHill03Aug2008/photo#5230227153465378034"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/matt.taet/ParaglidingAtSpringHill03Aug2008/photo#5230227153465378034" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />What an incredible day...<br /><br />After reviewing the forecast yesterday I thought that it might just be a good day... so I woke up at dawn to check... and it was going to be AWESOME...!!!<br /><br />Wife and kids where keen to come along so we raced out of the house and headed to Spring Hill, one of the awesome flying sites in Canberra.. (huge thanks to Phil for letting us use it)<br /><br />So anyway we took off around 8am and flew for nearly about 3 hours... I practised touch and go landings on the top and nailed 12...!!!<br /><br />I'm still pumped, what an incredible day. Kris took a bunch of photo's you can find in the album <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/matt.taet/ParaglidingAtSpringHill03Aug2008">here</a>.<br /><br /><br /><br />Matt<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-4415785777205216763?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-51034786351960592972008-07-30T20:24:00.001+10:002008-07-30T20:24:50.239+10:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Ok, I had a general dislike of all exercise pretty much from the age of 10...<br/><br/>Typical geek, can't catch of throw etc... I'm sure the only reason I had any friends was because I always managed to come up with the coolest things like building flying foxes or tree houses, designing super fast billy carts or exploring caves and stuff in the bush. Other than that I was completely hopeless... lol<br/><br/>So anyway, I knew after all the weight loss that I needed to get in and rebuild a bunch of the muscle but could never bring myself to commit... Unfortunately whilst I was away the better half booked me into an assessment and 14 day trial..<br/><br/>So my first visit was.. well.... not that great.. I felt like a hamster watching other hamsters...<br/><br/>Tonight I took along my ipod with a talk by the Dali Lama and that seem to work... kept my mind of the fact that I was paying money to sweat...grrrr...<br/><br/>If I manage to make it through the 2 weeks I'm going to shout myself a case of beer... :-)<br/><br/>Matt<br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-5103478635196059297?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-38331543120324666582008-07-28T21:33:00.003+10:002008-07-28T21:33:38.677+10:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Ok, so I got sick of the invites and finally caved and accepted and joined..<br/><br/>Now I'm just confused... you can't share any real information.. just pictures, chat and games....<br/><br/>It's like the most high tech time waster ever created...<br/><br/>Now of course this comes from a guy with all the social creativity of a rock.... a introverted, sad, pathetic little rock.. <br/><br/>ARRRGGHHHHHH<br/><br/>I don't get it, but now I'm in and people are hitting my page and its outta control.. and I can't ignore them... FFS...<br/><br/>All this is taking away from time reading about the latest nano technology.. or the latest update in paragliding wing profiles... sheeessss, time t<br/><br/>Matt<br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-3833154312032466658?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-82841288442335075112008-07-28T21:33:00.001+10:002008-07-28T21:33:11.361+10:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Yeah baby...<br/><br/>So I was on my L-plates before, allowed to fly but under the supervision of a safety officer... now that I've upgraded my license I'm GOOD TO GO...!!!<br/><br/>My lovely wife was also nice enough to let me splurge and upgrade my paragliding wing to something created this century.. WOOO HOOOOO<br/><br/>Whilst the Ozone Atom has been an awesome wing to learn on as its incredibly safe, its REALLY old and the performance sucks compared with the newer generation.<br/><br/>Soooo, my Gradient Golden 2 is on the way.. and I CANT WAIT...!<br/><br/>Matt<br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-8284128844233507511?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-66714612108947597312008-07-04T22:20:00.001+10:002008-07-04T22:20:46.189+10:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Well I've been using Hardy for awhile, but for some reason my Firefox has remained at V2... anyhoo, I finally found today that I had FF3 loaded and decided to give it a go.<br/><br/>Unfortunately I immediately found the forward and back buttons on my mouse no longer worked. Now this is a huge show stopper for me as I really like to browse efficently... thank goodness the solution has already been identified... ignore the fact that it says its for a mac, it works just fine.<br/><br/><a href='http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Mouse+buttons+do+not+work+as+Back+and+Forward'>Mouse buttons do not work as Back and Forward</a><br/><br/>Matt<br/><br/><blockquote/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-6671461210894759731?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-39103971862624580972008-06-28T21:34:00.001+10:002008-06-28T21:34:01.877+10:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Geez this was an interesting topic....<br/><br/><a href='http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=19067'>Paragliding Forum - View topic - An obligation to each other</a><br/><br/>I'm a new pilot with only 22 hours racked up so far.. just enough to start thinking about moving to my intermediate license. But I've stood on the hill watching even newer pilots (and sometimes more experienced) doing things that potentially could cause significant harm to themselves... So do you say something or not...???<br/><br/>It's easy to say 'of course' but significantly more difficult when it actually comes to the situation.<br/><br/>If you say something you risk seriously offending someone and if you don't then you risk living with yourself asking why....<br/><br/>Dunno, no easy answer... <br/><br/>Matt<br/><a href='http://www.paraglidingforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=19067'/><blockquote/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-3910397186262458097?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8969505698609532180.post-66396970390503310662008-02-25T13:10:00.000+11:002008-06-28T21:25:13.566+10:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>It's hard to believe I have got so lazy as to ditch running my own web server and just go with a ekkkk.. off the shelf blog.<br/><br/>But I have....<br/><br/>In the word of a very wise man... 'harden up princesss'<br/><br/>Matt<br/></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8969505698609532180-6639697039050331066?l=angryduckling.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>DarwinsTheoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02972581033134157212noreply@blogger.com0