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CREG Journal 104 - The December 2018 issue - is now online at http://bcra.org.uk/cregj The printed version is still in press and will, hopefully, be mailed by 8 December. If your online subscription has expired, you will find out when you try to log in. If your paper CREG subscription has now expire...

The new issue of "BCRA Review" is now available online for free downloading. Go to http://bcra.org.uk/news Printed copies will be available to purchase at the Science Symposium this weekend, for £5. This 60-page full-colour A4 magazine covers activities in 2017, and includes various featur...

Annual General Meeting Notice is hereby given that the 2018 Annual General Meeting of the British Cave Research Association will be held on Saturday 13 Oct 2018 at 12:00 during the BCRA Cave Science Symposium at the University of Bristol. For further info about the Symposium see http://bcra.org.uk/...

If anyone's web site has suddenly started reporting "500 internal server error" this may be due to an upgrade at Apache. Check your error log, via control Panel / Metrics, and you may likely find that your server is reporting an error in your .htaccess file. A strong candidate for this err...

Cave & Karst Science 45(2) now published CKS 45(2) was mailed last week. The online version should be available by Monday 27 August. Note to BCRA Member Clubs Some of you have previously requested that your periodicals are mailed to a different address (e.g. your librarian or club hut). If this...

sounds interesting, Jim. A couple of questions... 1. Do you have a feel for the attenuation in the system? For a magnetic system, we would relate the transmitter's magnetic moment to the received magnetic field strength. What is the equivalent in seismic terms? Would it be to relate the pressure lev...

If anyone is having problems using FTP on either of BCA's servers, from about 2100 on Thurs 09 Sept - try switching your FTP client from passive to active mode. That solved it for me and one other person. I dont know what's happened - I assume that as it happened on both servers, it is something Mem...

A wired camera might be better. You pay out the cable as the small child explores, and the small child can follow the cable to find its way home. Otherwise, dont you have small child lost in maze that no adult can enter?

Asking Google, (see here ) it seems that the error is because my files are not at C:\php, because XAMPP has put them somewhere else. Executing pear config-set doc_dir C:\xampp\php\pear pear config-set cfg_dir C:\xampp\php\pear pear config-set data_dir C:\xampp\php\pear pear config-set test_dir C:\xa...

Have you checked the process has permission to create that directory? Well, I wondered about that, but this is Windows we're talking about, so can permissions be an issue? But I will try what you suggested. Although... perhaps permissions can be an issue after all? In an unrelated exercise, Im tryi...

David Cooke wrote:I'll have to install that for you.

Have you considered GD Graphics which is already install?

That thought occurred to me in the middle of the night. I tested it just now and ... yes... it works. So no need for Imagick.

I want to use PHP's Direct IO functions (http://php.net/manual/en/book.dio.php ) on my local PC. So I have downloaded it from PECL (https://pecl.php.net/package/dio/0.1.0) but Im having problems installing it. I wondered if anyone has any experience of installing PEAR packages under XAMPP on Windows...

I want to process a load of image files on britiac3 to produce thumbnails. Imagick seems a good way to do this, unless anyone has any better suggestions. But trying this from within PHP results in Fatal error: Class 'Imagick' not found . So... is there anything I can do to install this module, or is...

In this newsletter ... British Caving Library Updates BCRA Publicity Officer AGM Notice 29th Annual BCRA Cave Science Symposium BCRA Stock of Back-Issues CREG Journal 102 - now online Hidden Earth 2018 Hidden Earth Cave Science Photo Competition News can also be found on the forum at http://bcra.or...

British Cave Research Association; 29th Cave Science Symposium : Saturday 13 October, 2018 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol FIRST CIRCULAR & CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, May, 2018 The British Cave Research Association is pleased to announce details of the 29th Annual Cave Science S...