Re: [Texascavers] Naica crystals

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Mixon
Charles -- I think it's already on the web somewhere. Here is a copy for you. Maybe you can track its URL down and just link to it. Might not be a good idea to duplicate it on web site, due to copyright issues. -- Bill --- You may Reply to the address from which this message

RE: Naica crystals

2007-04-10 Thread Minton, Mark
Charles, I have a 377 kb PDF of the article about the formation of the crystals in Cave of the Crystals in the Naica mine. Bill, email it to me and I'll throw it on the website and give you the link, saving you the bandwidth of emailing it to multiple people. That´s a copyrighted

Re: [Texascavers] Naica crystals

2007-04-10 Thread Charles Goldsmith
No luck finding it, I've put it on the texascavers site, in an area that the search engine bots aren't allowed to archive. The link is http://texascavers.com/misc/geology35_327_07.pdf Charles On 4/10/07, Bill Mixon billmi...@worldnet.att.net wrote: Charles -- I think it's already on the web

Re: Naica crystals

2007-04-10 Thread Charles Goldsmith
Mark, any idea if this article is already on the web, so we can just link to it? On 4/10/07, Minton, Mark mmin...@nmhu.edu wrote: Charles, I have a 377 kb PDF of the article about the formation of the crystals in Cave of the Crystals in the Naica mine. Bill, email it to me and I'll throw it

[Texascavers] OT - another Gmail tip

2007-04-10 Thread David Locklear
If you have a keyboard that has additional buttons for things like Internet. Then when you click on this button, it can go straight into Gmail.This is fast.Your new e-mail is right there in front of you, even if you are using a slow dial-up. Whereas, if you are using an e-mail software

Re: Unable to contact texascavers.com

2007-04-10 Thread David McKenzie
Charles, Thanks for your help with this. I'm afraid, however, that this local subnet might include thousands of RoadRunner customers, including, it now seems, Orion Knox who lives on the other side of Austin. (I'm in Hays county.) I checked with one RR tech support person (probably not a good

[Texascavers] AMCS pubs at TSA convention

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Mixon
The Association for Mexican Cave Studies will not have sales tables at the TSA convention this weekend, but if there is anything in particular you would like to see or buy, e-mail me and I'll bring it for you. Complete info on publications available is at www.amcs-pubs.org. I will have a supply

[Texascavers] another Mexican query

2007-04-10 Thread Bill Mixon
Posted by Bill Mixon: While I have your attention, another matter: I have inquired locally why our pueblo is called Las Cuevas. We are in a zone of igneous rock, along the shores of the former western extent of Lake P�tzcuaro. The story is that a road grader fell into a hole while working, and

Re: [Texascavers] Gmail and the Sector 6 fiasco

2007-04-10 Thread Don Cooper
Wow! Shouldnt have praised it. Looks like I only Jinxed it! -WaV On 4/9/07, Mark Passerby caves...@gmail.com wrote: You better check out Sector 6 lockups going on with Gmail right now.hell 1/2 my attachments will open the other 1/2 won't then some will then the same one won't. It has

Re: [Texascavers] Gmail and the Sector 6 fiasco

2007-04-10 Thread addison
Mark couldn't be more correct. Google has no responsibility to provide free email service to anyone, and even if they do, they are not obligated to keep it running all the time. Nothing is free, Google is the equivalent of a digital drug dealer. They give their product (in this case email)

Re: [Texascavers] Gmail and the Sector 6 fiasco

2007-04-10 Thread George Nincehelser
On 4/10/07, addi...@caveresource.com addi...@caveresource.com wrote: Mark couldn't be more correct. Google has no responsibility to provide free email service to anyone, and even if they do, they are not obligated to keep it running all the time. Nothing is free, Google is the equivalent of

RE: [Texascavers] Rope Recycle

2007-04-10 Thread Minton, Mark
Preston Forsythe said: What we have done in the past in Mexico is simply give the old rope to someone who could use it, especially someone with burros. We still do that. Did it at Christmas with three retired climbing ropes. Makes firends for life in poor mountain vilages. Caving

[Texascavers] OT temporary tags

2007-04-10 Thread Nico Escamilla
Do any of y'all know where I could find info about temp tags for a boat? I tried looking on the TexDOT website but no luck. Dont wanna have to pay the whole 1 year price cause I'm just towing it from Austin to Mexico. Thanks in advance Nico

[Texascavers] TSS work session

2007-04-10 Thread Ron Ralph
Cavers, There is a scheduled work session of the Texas Speleological Survey tomorrow, Wednesday, April 11th, at the JJ Pickle Research Center on Burnet Road north of highway 183. We will be working on filing new cave descriptions and general map organization. You will be able to work on your own

[Texascavers] more new chinese LED lights

2007-04-10 Thread David Locklear
Target Store just got in a bunch of new LED lights. One of them is good enough for a fuzzy-faced ho-dag. There is a 3 watt LED lamp with a new K2 bulb.It has some similarites to the Apex, however, there are no 5 mm LEDs. It has a red rear LED with its own switch and the the primary light

Re: [Texascavers] Polybottles

2007-04-10 Thread don...@juno.com
Gill, I agree with most of what you said except that Plexiglass is the brand name for Acrylic with other manufacturers making Acrylic as well. Lexan is GE's brand name for their Polycarbonate, Mobay and Dow have their brands of Polycarbonate as well. Don Formanek -- Gill Ediger

RE: [Texascavers] RE: Polybottles

2007-04-10 Thread don...@juno.com
Bob, Polycarbonate is used for bullet proofing but 1/4 thick would only stop small caliber bullets with lower velocities like 22 and 25 caliber. Many times for applications like bullet proofing they will make a laminate of several different materials. Don Formanek -- Bob West

[Texascavers] OT - the daily gadget report

2007-04-10 Thread David Locklear
This post reflects my opinion as to how future cavers are going to enjoy their road-trips to caves. Below is a photo of the latest solid-state hard-drive: http://news.digitaltrends.com/images/stories/2007/3/343/1175015178_500-64GB-18inch-SSD.jpg It is my opinion, that in just a few short

[Texascavers] Warning about Lidar photos!!

2007-04-10 Thread gveni
I just tried to access the website with the LIDAR photos Geary e-mailed about: www.danielholmanphotography.com Immediately upon connecting, Norton popped up with a couple of high risk warnings that it blocked activities from that site trying to access my computer. I don't know if there is

Re: [Texascavers] Warning about Lidar photos!!

2007-04-10 Thread Scott
I had the same exact pop-up. Zone Alarm caught Exploit.HTML.IESlice.c and quarantined it. Ya site be infected dude. - Original Message - From: gv...@warpdriveonline.com To: texascavers@texascavers.com Cc: gschin...@mindspring.com Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 11:05 PM

Re: [Texascavers] Warning about Lidar photos!!

2007-04-10 Thread germanyj
I run McAfee, and immediately upon clicking the link George referenced, I was told that the software had intercepted a Trojan horse! Too bad - I was really looking forward to the pics. julia -Original Message- From: gv...@warpdriveonline.com To: texascavers@texascavers.com Cc:

[Texascavers] LIDAR Photograhs

2007-04-10 Thread Geary Schindel
In February 2007, the TCMA completed the field portions of the LIDAR Survey at Devils Sinkhole. Kevin McGowan was working as the LIDAR Photography and took photos of the walls of the Devils Sinkhole so they would be available to be draped over the LIDAR image, assuming that we can get the