Delta68
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Personally I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER read the Off Topic forum and I don't expect many other UK cachers do either so what on earth would be the point of posting a UK SPECIFIC thread there?
The thread was simply asking about parking to do the cache GC2CRMA this Saturday OK, I might have failed to mentioned that fact in the thread but it is about 300ft away!!
The thread would have been totally irrelevant in a day or two and would have died on its own accord
It's that sort of over policing that kills forums
:mad: Thank you and goodbye
Mark
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I think you could have more log types on an event; you'd lose "found it!" but for that substitute, "attended", and add "will attend" and "announcement".
Find me an example! I'd have thought Needs/Perform Maintenance and Un-Archive icons would be pretty rare on Events
Mark
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Also missing a Published
icon (because it pre-dates that one)Ah! Good point!
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OK, what I'm talking about here is the icons on the cache page giving a total number of finds, DNFs etc
GCBE3 has 11 different types of log on it:
but the obvious missing one is Needs Maintenance
Anyone know of a cache with 12 or more?
Mark
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what about an international geocaching day what date to pick
September 3rd 2010 was pretty 'international' for us - caching in six countries in 24 hours....
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what about an international geocaching day what date to pick
Why? What on earth would be the point?
Mark
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Yes I'm with you on this one. I loved this cache.
I'll have to disagree there.
We went and did this cache because it was mentioned in this thread and it was very disappointing. It's an old graveyard. That's all. No information on the cache page explaining why it's there and no information when you actually get there either. The place DOES have an interesting history but you have to Google for it yourself
Mark
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You never know... Another APE movie on its way... Do the producers of it know how legendary they were/are... Maybe PA2 is coming?????
Jeremy did mention on Facebook/twitter back on 14th April:
I want to contact @20thCenturyFOX about the Project APE caches. Rise of the Planet of the Apes is comingI'm guessing he was only joking but you never know....
Mark
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A few years ago the vehicle registration number L1NUX was for sale on ebay for £10k
I mentioned this on a programming forum I frequented saying "I thought Linux was supposed to be cheap!"
One of the other bods replied:
"That's Linux alright! Fits any hardware but you'll need to use a screwdriver!"
Mark
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Your holiday is ruined because you cant get an icon?
I personally had nothing planned but I was thinking about maybe in the next year or two.
It's more than an icon, it's a pilgrimage!
Having said that, the introduction of Groundspeak's one-off 10 year HQ event icon devalued things somewhat as there are now two cache types we can never log.
(locless and 10HQ)
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This has been on our to-do list ever since I first became aware of it not long after we started caching
Looks like a few people's holiday plans are in tatters...
Mark
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Only drawback is the serial connection, if you want to connect to a computer...
ARRGGGHHHHH!!!
I don't know why people keep saying this! Every time someone says it, someone else corrects them.
USB leads for ETREX H have been available FOR YEARS!!!
Thank you
Mark
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Groundspeak's policy is they will not un-archive caches for adoption purposes.
However, I've seen VERY old caches in other countries get unarchived and adopted
I've had an enquiry about one of my caches that is now archived - http://coord.info/GCTVR0. They would like to reinstate and adopt it. Is this possible?
Now you've bought it to the attention of everyone, the answer will probably be a NO.
You should have just quietly asked a friendly reviewer to unarchive it first and then see about adopting it out
Mark
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I just tried my latest creation (20 zones, 500+ images)in the Oregon and it's so slow I think it will be unusable. It works fine in the emulator
Back to the drawing board I think
Mark
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It should be a "I have absolutely no intention of finding this cache, or any cache like it" vote.
You can!
There's nothing to stop anyone from having a bookmark list called:
"I have absolutely no intention of finding this cache, or any cache like it"
COs of duff caches will soon get the message...
Mark
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Also, you might contact user "kikinoot", who has done some amazing stuff (but all in Lua) with dynamic images in a cartridge near me - you are racing against time, and it counts down with the display being updated every second with a "number" which is, in fact, a canned image corresponding to that number.
I've done a similar thing myself to impose a time limit on reaching a zone. It works fine with my If ...else if .. else if.. structure.
Loading an array might be an unnecessary overhead
Is there an select case (as in VB) or switch (as in java) style structure in lua?
I presume that a multiple 'else if' checks every 'if' on the way through (at least until it finds a match)
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I'm currently working on a cartridge which has quite a few images in it
512 of them are for use in a 3X3 grid (one image for each possible combination of squares filled)
I currently use a massive If.. else if.. else if... statement to select the correct image.
This would obviously be neater picking an element from an array as detailed earlier in this thread
My question is:
A: Would it be best to load array early on and pick from it as required or
B: Load the array as a local variable in a function as required.
I suspect that option A would be faster but more resource hungry
Any opinions?
Thanks
Mark
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To my knowledge, we have never received a blank log.
I don't think I would care very much if we did get any.
To me, blank logs contain no more and no less information than the sort of pointless copy/pasted logs saying:
"Found on a caching trip with AAAA,BBBB and CCCC"
All our physical caches are PMO which helps
Mark
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I use urwigo but what I meen is, to transfer the vaiables of a played cartridge to the next one of a multi-parted story
You could bundle all the stages into one cartridge and have get the user to choose which stage (s)he wants to play
Mark
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While looking for the above I also found this, which seems to be the serial cable and USB converter all in one:
This is indeed what you want. The serial to USB conversion is achieved with the software on the supplied disc
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Another GreaseMonkey script which someone might find useful
It adds the number of finds and dnfs to the Field Notes page like this:
Grab it from here
It's called: Field Notes Cache Count
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:mad: 
Bogus logs
in United Kingdom and Ireland
Posted · Edited by Delta68
Firstly, I feel your pain. We (like most cachers) put a lot of effort into doing things correctly. The 'everyone plays it their own way' just doesn't wash with me
Secondly:
If they think that they are doing nothing wrong then they surely wouldn't mind being named here!
Thirdly:
I know exactly what a 'resuscitator' cache is!
Mark