Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
You don’t have to spend too much time in England to discover that they take a bit more relaxed approach to keeping the transportation system working than we do. I’m sure the trucking company kept promising to get the truck moved “real soon now”, while they looked for some way to avoid paying the cost of doing the recovery. You are right that here, the local police would pull out the truck immediately and impound it until they were reimbursed for the recovery costs and any damages (and maybe some “auxiliary fees” for their trouble.)
@zuma wrote:
@djwini wrote:
i’m just doing this to see if i can. the cache is in manitoba canada
GC1MFEK
What’s In a Cacher Name? – Alphanumeric Challenge!cool cache…I have em all but the zero? Where did you find one starting with a zero?
z
OK, I discovered 3 in Germany by 00 Schneider, 2 in Belgium by 08Danny, and thats it! Sounds like time for a trip, Ralph! Note that this is the real owner name, not the name written in the “placed by” field.
Welcome!
This information is not easy to get, but the best source I can think of is the members list at this site! Here are some to investigate (you can figure out which are close to you):
2 o’l farts and a gps 2 o’l farts and a gps Beaver Dam 05/06/2008
2cachemates 2cachemates Orfordville 10/30/2006
2ofHis 2ofHis Wisconsin Rapids 07/21/2005
2Trailblazers 2Trailblazers Sturgeon Bay 08/03/2008
2_Stand 2_Stand Green Bay 03/21/20055 Campers 5 Campers Markesan 12/11/2004
5bikerhiker5 5bikerhiker5 Fond du Lac 04/29/2008
5onthego 5Onthego. Wisconsin Dells 04/15/2007In GONIL (pretty close to you) are Quimmer and QUevil
No 9s in the WGA or GONIL, so here are the listings from INATN.com
911turbos (2/16/09)
93YJ (6/05/07)
9Key (1/26/09)I kind of struggle with this. I would hate to disenfranchise new members, but it is not exactly difficult to create new accounts that looks legitimate for purposes of multiple voting. I’m assuming at this point that no one actually checks the personal information collected when registering for the site, so it would be very easy to create sock puppets which would not be detectable. This statistical abnormality tends to throw the whole election/referendum process into question, which is definitely not a good thing. Maybe we just need more scrutiny in the membership process instead, restricting membership rights until the submitted information can be confirmed? While I can’t say what is right for us, other organizations do things like:
– Making sure the name/address/phone all match (or at least don’t not match)
– Human checking of submitted information (looking for obvious fake info)
– IP address checks
– Allowing sponsorship of new members by existing members and increasing scrutiny for unsponsored new members
– Dues (I know no one wants that)
– In person only sign ups
– Allowing only one account per emailTo be honest, I really wish this wasn’t necessary, and maybe it really isn’t. I would like to believe that we are all here as friends for the same purpose (to promote geocaching in Wisconsin) and all share a common bond through the sport. With that in mind, if I were voting, I would vote against restricting voting and for a more rigorous membership process (whatever that might entail). As a great man once said in a different context, “Trust, but verify”. If we know all our members are “real”, there won’t be any issues with elections and referendums.
@Lostby7 wrote:
👿 👿 👿 now all I have to do is get out of a wedding to attend. 👿 👿 👿
Come on, you know they will get married again in a few years….
@Mathman wrote:
@huggybear2u wrote:
I am new to the pda. Just bought a z22 a few months ago. It will still work with Geocaching.com right?
Yes but my Palm (Tungsten) doesn’t work with he VISTA operating system.
That is the crux of the problem. The existing devices will continue to work, but device drivers for new PCs/Operating systems, may not be available.
@LightningBugs Mum wrote:
@Team Deejay wrote:
You get your query from Geocaching.com, not from GSAK. Set up a pocket query on the site. The site will email it to you. Save the zip file they send you somewhere that you can find it. Run GSAK and File|load the file. Done. (Yes, it is that easy. The harder part is setting up the pocket query to do what you want.)
If you are a Premium Member of course.
True, but I am not aware of too many people using GSAK (or EasyGPS) without pocket queries. It is possible, of course, to download one cache at a time as .LOC files, and then use GSAK to load all the files at once. Its just that by the time you download 20-30 individual cache files (and print out the sheets), you will find that the time spent is worth much more than the Premium membership fee.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I don’t think spending a lot of time on a “desk puzzle”, regardless of difficulty, makes a geocache good or bad. There is a certain pride in being able to solve a difficult challenge, but really, I believe that this game should be about spending time outdoors with your family and friends, not spending time by yourself working a sudoku or executing internet searches. That said, some of my favorite “desk puzzle” caches were Cheeering Viper, in the Brookfield area and Lateral Thinking, in the Milwaukee area. Both of these took you through a progression of steps for solving the puzzle, and added quite bit of variety in the solving process. I also greatly appreciate caches where one needs to combine deskwork with multiple trips to the field to gather necessary information. Those really get you involved in the “storyline” of the cache, which is necessary to make the experience memorable. Let’s face it. No one will remember working a crossword a year from now. They will remember a cache which engages those finding it.
You get your query from Geocaching.com, not from GSAK. Set up a pocket query on the site. The site will email it to you. Save the zip file they send you somewhere that you can find it. Run GSAK and File|load the file. Done. (Yes, it is that easy. The harder part is setting up the pocket query to do what you want.)
I’ve never had a lot of luck with the direct downloads. It seems to work ok with simple caches, but parking coordinates and the like seem to throw my GPS for a loop. The trick is that both the GPS firmware and the download program have to be up to date and compatible with one another, which is not always the case, especially with out-of-production GPSs. I would recommend that you just stick with GSAK, Mapsource, or EasyGPS to do cache downloads (or put them in manually.) They all work well, and you eliminate the possible issue of getting your unit hosed up.
@Lostby7 wrote:
…but how do I add all three units?
You know, I got to beta test the new site features and the section about the GPS was then called “My Gadget Bag”. Someone brought up the point that a “bag” should be able to hold more than one item. So they changed the name to My GPS… 😕 I believe they are planning to add multiple GPS functionality (and Palms, PocketPCs, etc.) soon.
Jay, the first step to solving this is to find out what processes are tying up the machine. Open up Task Manager (Cntl-Alt-Del) when you are stuck and look at the processes tab. Click the “CPU” heading a couple times to sort by CPU percentage and note what process is highest. If it is anything other than System Idle Process, note the process (it will be an .exe name) and get back to me. What you don’t want to do is start removing updates, as once installed, they tend to leave stuff behind which makes removal impossible (without a complete Windows reinstall).
As a preview, you likely have one of four issues:
1. An incomplete or half installed update which needs reinstallation.
2. Some sort of automatic update function (typically for a virus scanner) gone bad and cycling.
3. A print queue problem where something is stuck and continually trying to print.
4. Malware/spyware trying to sell you fake malware removers.1 is the most likely culprit, which means a manual visit to windowsupdate.com.
My wife has a page on there. I look in once in a while to see if I’m missing something. Once I found “I went geocaching with Dave yesterday. Water everywhere, but we managed to stay pretty dry until he lead us into a MARSH, where we both slipped and fell.” Oops!
Congrats to the winners, and good luck in your roles. And thanks to all who voted in the election. The success of the WGA is dependent on your input.
-
AuthorPosts
