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I would really like to own one of El Diablo's hiking staffs, but right now I can't afford one. They look really cool (at least the pictures I saw on the web site) and look like they are really stout. I did get one before I knew about El Diablo's staffs at WalMart for about $10.00. It is made of hickory, but it is a little too small in diameter that I'd really want. I have used it to pry on a small log and rocks and I haven't broke it. I also have a 10' length of vine maple out in the shed that I was going to make into a staff about 15-18 years ago. I think it should be dry by now, so maybe I'll see about stripping it and cutting it down to a better length. Overall, I'd rather have a staff/hiking stick made from wood than thin-wall metal. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

moron@getalife.com Good email address "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

This site does not allow posting any information on illegal copying or sharing of copyrighted software. Besides, posting a request to steal software is really stupid, especially since you posted your email address. You might get some visitors in blue uniforms. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

quote:Originally posted by smithdw: quote:Originally posted by Markwell:Can you provide a link? There might be other forces at work... http://www.markwell.us http://www.chicagogeocaching.com I just found out it's ZoneAlarm Pro blocking the pictures. I disabled ZA and everything is working correctly. Now to figure out what settings I need to change in ZA. Thanks for the hint. Edit: I set settings for geocaching.com & Groundspeak.com to allow pop-up ads and animation and it is working again. Apparently ZA thinks these pictures are ads and was blocking them. I reciently had to install ZA because I am hopefully going to be able to work on my servers at work from home soon. They require a firewall and antivirus to be setup on your home computer. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

quote:Originally posted by Markwell:Can you provide a link? There might be other forces at work... http://www.markwell.us http://www.chicagogeocaching.com I just found out it's ZoneAlarm Pro blocking the pictures. I disabled ZA and everything is working correctly. Now to figure out what settings I need to change in ZA. Thanks for the hint. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Here's one: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cachelog_details.asp?start=&L=1541452&ID=247322&decrypt= "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Now I am wanting to live much closer to Tillamook, or at least be on a road trip up north. Sounds like a good place to drive the Jeep to. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Garmin GPS III+ (The V came out about a month after I bought it) Magellan GPS Companion for my Palm m515 "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

I have to agree with Wander Lost, NAV Companion is a really bad program. I also use Cetus, GPX Spinner, GPS Babel, Plucker and ClayJar's Watcher program for viewing/searching/sorting GPX files on the PC. One problem when I tried using NAV Companion is that it seemed to die and lockup the Palm when I tried to work with more than 254 waypoints. Cetus doesn't have that problem. BTW, I have a Palm m515 and a Magellan GPS Companion. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

The following is a help file that I sent to another one of the local geocachers when he was setting up his Palm m705, hope it helps. Download and install the following programs: 1. GPX Spinner - http://www.gpxspinner.com/ i. Be sure to read the Getting Started page at http://www.gpxspinner.com/help/started.htm ii. And also the Customizing page at http://www.gpxspinner.com/help/customizing.htm 2. Watcher - http://clayjar.com/gc/temp/ 3. Plucker - http://desktop.plkr.org/ Setup a PocketQuery on www.geocaching.com and make sure the format is GPX. When you receive the files, save the GPX file (remember which directory you saved it in), don't load it into EasyGPS, it will mess up the file. Startup Watcher, load the GPX file and view/edit waypoints. Under Options-Coordinates, you can enter the coordinates of your house. Watcher will let you sort, ignore, search and display cache info and merge GPX files. Save the GPX file if you change any of the cache listing. Open the directory where you saved the GPX file and drag it to the GPX Spinner icon on your desktop and wait until it finishes all the processing. Follow the directions on the GPX Spinner Getting Started page to setup and install the Plucker program on the Palm. You should only need to do this once. Select the new channel you just created and do Update Selected Channels to copy the geocache info to the Palm HotSync utility. HotSync your Palm. Open the Plucker program on your Palm and select the name you gave your Channel. I named mine Geocaches. When you get a new GPX file from Geocaching site, save the GPX file, Edit/View in Watcher (you don't need to if you don't want to), drag the GPX file to the GPX Spinner icon, Update Channel in Plucker, HotSync Palm. Send the waypoints to your GPS from the spinner.gpx file that GPX Spinner creates using EasyGPS. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

You might try deleting the PQ and creating a new one, unless you already tried that. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

I had that problem tonight, but all I did was log out and log back in and it's working again. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Be sure to setup the GPS type and port settings in EasyGPS. Also be sure that you don't have anything else that might be grabbing that serial port like Palm hotsync. Check to see what the settings are in the GPS and set them the same on your computer. You also might check on the port settings in Windows and the computer BIOS. Most GPS use 9600 or 19,200 bps and 8 bits, no parity and 1 stop bit. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

quote:Originally posted by Indiana Cojones:One thing you don't get from the photos is the smell of necrotic flesh. To fully savor the experience, leave some hamburgher in your car for a few days, and then hold it under your nose as you view the photos. Mmm, good! As for the comment on the black widow bite, they don't cause the kind of tissue damage that a brown recluse does. The kind of damage shown above is classic brown recluse. I just got done removing a dead cat that had crawled in the hole around where the sewer cleanout is on my girlfriends rental house. My guess is that it has been there for about a month and was steeping in sewer water that had backed up because of tree roots plugging up the mainline. Talk about rotting stinking nasty smell. One of my co-workers was talking with me earlier this week. He said that an old guy that he went fishing with in Montana one time had a little quart jar of attractant that he used for catfish. I guess this stuff worked good since they caught a lot of fish. He opened it up and my friend promptly hung himself over the side and puked for about a half hour. The guy said that he made the attractant by dropping in dead birds, fish guts and deer guts and let it sit out in the sun for about a year. I don't even want to imagine what that smelled like. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

I know that the site is going through some changes right now. I received an email notification that someone posted a new log to one of my locationless caches. The cache page opens correctly. When I click on the picture link for the log, that page opens, but the picture is not being displayed on the right-hand side of the window like it used to. The thumbnails are at the bottom of the window, but when I click on one to view it, it doesn't appear eiather. It used to have a larger image that you could click on to show the original picture that was posted. Hopefully this bug will be fixed. I just checked a few other caches and it appears that it's the same for all cache log pictures. Also, I'd like to thank Jeremy and his crew for working very hard on improving the site and speeding everything up for all of us. I've only done a little web site work, but I have managed servers for about 15 years now. I know what it's like to have everyone calling you saying that something or everything isn't working. Thanks crew for the incredible web site and all the fun I've had over the last couple of years. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

You'd probably need a 12-volt battery if it is the kind that plugs in the cigarette lighter. Hopefully it works on an internal battery. I have no idea on how accurate it would be though. I just use the projection feature of my GPS and I also carry a plain old ordinary magnetic compass. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

I have a 1993 Jeep Wrangler Sahara. The only things I have done so far is replace the shackels with longer and stronger Warrior solid shackels and put on some better tires. I have been all over the place with it and in some areas that I wasn't too sure I'd be able to get through. Jeeps are good solid vehicles and they can't be beat for 4WD and all the goodies that you can buy for doing all kinds of modifications to them. They are easy to work on and parts are fairly cheap. The mileage isn't great, I have a 4.0 liter straight-six and an automatic transmission, but I average about 16-18 MPG if I'm not doing a lot of 4-low running. One with a manual-trans 4 cylinder engine would get better milage, but I like having the additional power of the 6 cylinder engine. The only drawback that I have noticed is the comfort, especially on long drives. It doesn't ride as nice as a car and is a lot noisier since I have a soft top, but I expected that when I bought it. If you want additional storage there are a lot of different racks that will bolt on to the back or over the whole top. My next major projects are a winch and a lift kit with bigger tires, after that, some ARB or OX lockers for the front & rear differentials. If you are going somewhere that requires 4WD, I'd recommend a Jeep. Either a Wrangler or a CJ if you want something small or a Wagoneer/Cherokee/Liberty if you want something bigger. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

I think the rating system is just fine as it is. The only problem is that a lot of cache hiders don't rate their caches correctly. I have used ClayJar's rating system a few times and I thought it rated the cache a little higher than I would have, but I used what it said. I receintly found a cache that took me 3 tries to find. The second try I had a hint from the hider and on the third try I basically had info from the only person to find it telling me where it was. The cache was rated a 1/1. It was down a hillside off of a skidder trail hidden under a root ball next to a bunch of Manzanita and covered with dead ferns. The GPS was pointing to a spot about 50' to the east of there. The cache container was camo'ed and when I was standing about 2' away from it and you could not tell that there was anything there at all. The first finder has about 800 finds and they only found it on their second try by accidentally hitting it with a hiking stick while walking down a fallen log. I have about 330 finds and another geocacher that has about 260 finds has been out there twice and hasn't found it (I sent her a hint). If the cache was rated much higher, I would have expected more difficulty in finding it, but there's no way this cache should be rated a 1/1. BTW, I do enjoy the ones requiring 4WD. The cache may not be rated that way, but I can usually find an old logging trail that will get me closer than most other people can. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Regardless of where the pictures are from, the brown recluse spider is a really nasty little bugger. I live in Oregon and my girlfriend got bit by a spider a few years ago, the doctor thought it might have been a brown recluse but it probably was a black widow since they are found around here. Here is a link on more info Medline Plus "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

I have a Palm m515 with a Magellan GPS Companion. I use GPX Spinner and Plucker for viewing cache pages. It works much better than Mobipocket and several other programs that I have tried. You can sort caches in several different ways and on the cache page it shows the cache info very close to the GC.com format, last 5 logs, hints (tap to decode), and the nearest 5 caches (configurable to whatever you want). GPX Spinner also creates a 'spun' cache file that you can use EasyGPS to send to your standard GPS. With it you can setup ignore lists, change waypoint icons for different types of caches, change wapoint name format and more. You must setup your pocket query to send a GPX file though. For the GPS Companion, I use Cetus GPS. I download the waypoints using GPS Babel to convert from GPX format to Cetus format. I haven't tried the latest version of GeoNiche, but Cetus is free and I'm cheap. Another great program is Watcher for your PC. You can browse cache pages offline from GPX files send through your pocket query. This is much faster (but not real time and won't show info posted since the last GPX file creation) but you can setup filters to hide caches from view in many different ways, sort in different ways, merge GPX files, and search for cache info. I also bought a RhinoSkins aluminum case that the Palm is usually in that fits in my pants pocket. It has saved the Palm a couple times. I normally cache with a Garmin III+ GPS, but I carry the GPS Companion in my shirt pocket in case I want to use it when I'm in the cache area and want a 'second opinion'. Going paperless with GPX Spinner/Plucker is really great. No more old cache pages with outdated info (Cache Archived for instance) and it's much lighter and easier to use. Also I use the Memo Pad to store my cache log and just copy it to the log form when I'm entering a log on GC.com. I have the Palm folding keyboard that the 515 sits on for typing cache logs on the hood of the Jeep when I get back to it from finding a cache. Hope this helps. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Here is one that is free and highly rated on the Tucows site. I have no experience with it. AceHTML 5 Freeware BTW, here's the list of HTML editors on Tucows. I have found that site a really good source of software over the years. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Mostly depends on where and which satellites (some may be sending stronger signals) are positioned relative to your GPS at the time (some may have a better 'straight-shot' to your GPS), cloud cover, how you are holding the GPS (you're body can block the signal a little) and probably that trees have much more water in them than your house (I would hope so anyway). The water in the leaves will conduct the signal to ground reducing your signal received by the GPS. Could just be the phase of the moon too. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

Another FAQ to read is Markwell's Update to the Geocaching FAQ here. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

If you are using pocket queries, you really need Watcher. With it you can view cache info offline, sort them in several different ways, and more to what you want, setup filters. The filters let you set ignore lists for cache types, caches sizes, ratings, travel bugs, bearing and distance from home, coordinates, specific caches, placed by, owner, state and country. After you filter out the caches you don't want (the program saves your filters and you can turn them on or off) you can save the GPX file for sending to your PDA or GPS. Another feature is that it will merge GPX files another is searching through the entire cache description and last 5 logs. The program is free and ClayJar updates it quite often. Go ahead and try it out. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec." -Marcus Dolengo

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