Gan Dalf
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Yours may be fixed but mine is still broken. I've noticed it on ohters profile page as well. All of the href for links is missing leaving only url's. Is anyone working on this?
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This still is not working. Has anyone else reported problems with this? I'd appriciate a response.
thanks
FM
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Yes, I am having the same problem. I was able to get one file uploaded but then I created two more and it stopped working. Tried rebooting, no luck. I am Using a Dell IE7.0 and Google Earth V.4.3
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Congrats to FobesMan on 300 at The air of your ways, 64 to 1 odds!
Thanks jcar! This was also a day of personal bests for us. Most Cache's in a day (13) and we also used this as the last day that we needed to qualify for the Baker's Dozen challenge! All in all a great day of caching.
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Don't worry, we're on top of it. Thanks for your patience.
Thanks!
FM
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I came on the forums to see about htis same issue. I am using Windows XP and IE 7 on all platforms I have tried this on. I noticed that java was recently updated on my computer.
When I hover over the link to print a pdf of the cache page java script:pl(5) appeas in the lower left hand corner of the browser where the url of the link you are hovering over usually appears. When I click the link The only thing that happens is that an "Error on Page" message appears in the same corner. This Started happening yesterday, prior to that I was able to print out pdf's.
I can still print pages by clicking "make this page printer friendly" but Unfortunenately this does not give you any logs and it is those logs that are particularly useful when looking for a tough hide.
I'd appriciate a response to this inquiry.
Thanks
FM
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I saw the same issue yesterday on my blackberry. I thought it was an issue decrypting using a mobile web browser but I was in th efiled and needed to use the hint and so I had no choice.
It just happened to me again on my lpatop at home. The weird thing is that I returned to the exact same cache page again just a minute or two later and when I clicked on decrypt everything worked fine. I am using IE 7.0 on Windows 2000.
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All my links are broken too. I tried fixing them and they aren't taking.
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Is there a way to locate the profile for a specific member. I want to ask someone who signed the physical log of one of my caches but did not log it online if hey saw a particular TB when they were there.
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I like number two if I can work it in while doing the Delorme Challenge. I probably wouldn't travel all over the state just to do it. Also if we could use past finds, I think it might be fun. When you say city does that mean any place that has a name? Dick
I like this idea. Especially since I can only think of Zillah for that letter.
"There are 281 cities listed on that site so there would be plenty of options for people to choose from for most letters except for a few."
With this, I assume you'll have those 281 cities posted somewhere
?If I used the list I mentioned then Zillah would be the only place you could go to get the Z requirement and Quincy would be the only place you could go to get the Q requirement. Several other options would have very limited choices as well. If I used the list, then yes it would be included in the cache description.
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Would the cache have to be in the city limits? Have you checked that are caches in enough cities to complete the challenge? If not, would placing a cache count?
I pondered that question for a while. Determining city limits for all eligible cities would be a very daunting task and then there is the question of what determines a city. I found a source that lists all cities in the State of Washington that maintain web pages and I have considered limiting the eligible cities to those. There are 281 cities listed on that site so there would be plenty of options for people to choose from for most letters except for a few. There are no J or X cities on the list though so I would have to decide what to do about those cities.
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You cannot "hand the coordinates out to people," so if you wanted to have separate caches for those using old finds and those starting from scratch, you would need to publish both locations on your cache page.
The other alternative would be to ask Groundspeak for an exception to the "no e-mailing for coordinates" guideline, similar to the special exception given to DeLorme and All Counties challenges. I would not be optimistic about an exception being made, but it can't hurt to ask if it's important to you.
Understood, but I could have seperate hidden waypoints that I only reveal once they complete the challenge couldn't I? I need to look at the guidlines more closely to see what is allowed and what isn't.
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I like number two if I can work it in while doing the Delorme Challenge. I probably wouldn't travel all over the state just to do it. Also if we could use past finds, I think it might be fun. When you say city does that mean any place that has a name? Dick
Not any place that has a name. For example, I wouldn't allow Ballard to be used for B or Juanita fro J since those are neighborhoods within cities. However there is a community in Eastern Washington called Loomis that isn't on any list of Cities, Towns or communities that I could find that I would consider allowing because it is the only place with a store for miles and it has a few caches around it.
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Did you check old "place names" for Washington? Maybe the missing letters are in there. I love sorting the death out of my GSAK files. Sounds fun to work on!
I just started looking yesterday. Most of my searching involved wikipedia. Old place names isn't a bad idea I also thought of allowing exceptions for the missing letters. There are several cities with X IN thier names, just not beginning with it...
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What are the 2 letters Not represented? "X" and
J is the other letter but there are other options not necessarily a "city" but what are called "Census Recognized Places"
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OK so after I posted my original thread asking questions about 'guidelines for placing a challenge cache, FluteFace wrote to me and gave me some great advice on what to do and what to expect as far as others reactions to the challenge. I had already been thinking about the rules, guidelines, etc but she gave me some more to think about.
Anyway after reading a few of the threads on challenge caches and having some second thoughts another idea occured to me for a different challenge. It too borrows heavily from past challenges but I figure, it's a challenge and once you've done one your done and you might like something else to work on.
Anyway, to the ideas:
1) Idea number one is similar to both the numbers and alphabet challenge but instead of either numbers or letters it involves "symbols". On a Standard English Keyboard there are 32 characters that are not letters or numbers. The challenge would be to find a different cache that has a symbol in it's cache name for every non letter or number charcter on the key board.
I've thought about some of the problems with this but I still think it's do-able. I might have to eliminate one or two characters in order to make it possible inside the State of Washington.
2) Idea number two just occured to me today and came to me after reading some of the other challenge cache threads on this web board. It too has similarities to other challenges but I haven't seen it mentioned yet. This idea would be called the Washington Cities Challenge but would also incorporate elements of the Alphabet Soup Challenge. You wouldn't be required to find a cache in each Washington City but you would have to find a cache in a city (any city) for each letter of the alphabet. I think requiring it to be in each city would be too big and cumbersome and no one would want to do it.
Again, there are two letters of the alphabet that don't have cities represented in Washington State but I've thought of some work arounds for that as well. I also thought of using a similar idea to what was incorporated for the King County Thomas Guide Challenge for allowing for Super Cachers to log old finds and allow another group of cachers who wanted to start from an even playing field to both get an FTF prize. My thought is that I would actually place TWO caches, one for "start from scratch" crowd and one for the "use old finds" group. I'd make the two different caches pretty much identical, only hide them in different spots and hand the coordinates out to people depending on which way they decided to go.
OK so let me know what you think. Would you guys do these caches? Are they worth me spending the time to put them together? I'd be interested to hear your input.
Thanks
-FM
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We really don't know what we don't like about your ideas until we know what they are.
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HA!! You guys are hilarious.
Really, I have a couple of ideas for challenge caches. Would everyone be willing to give some feedback on a new thread?
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HA!! You guys are hilarious.
Really, I have a couple of ideas for challenge caches. Would everyone be willing to give some feedback on a new thread?
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Hi everyone. I am fairly new but I have logged enough finds that I hope that some of you (especially from North Western Washington) have seen some of my logs and recognize my name. I am hoping to get some guidance on an idea I have for a challenge cache and since the cachers in Washington State will be the ones who will be doing this I thought it best to post my questions here. Please be frank in your comments, I do not bruise easily and I appriciate everyones opinions.
OK so here is the question. Do you think that in order to design, place, or release a challenge cache that the owner of the cache should have already met all of the requirments for discovering that chache? For example, lets just say for arguments sake that when Moun10Bike designed the delorme challenge he didn't have finds in more than half the maps that the challenge required. Would that be OK? Or say when FireFighterJ desgined and released the Bakers Dozen Challenge that he had never found a multi or puzzle cache in conjunction with more than 3 other caches there by not qualifying him to complete his own cache. Would it have been in poor taste for him to relaease that cache?
One thing I notice about all of the challenge caches in Washington is that the owners of all of these caches have well in excess of 1000 caches and some have 4 or 5 times that many. The owners of these challnge caches probably already meet the requirements of their own challenge cache just based on shear volume.
I was looking over Lizzy's list of Washington State challenge Caches when an idea hit me for one. It borrows ideas from several other Challenge Caches but i think it is a good one and one that really would be challenging because the requirements are fairly rare. They are so rare, and I am so new to this that if I were to try and complete my own challenge cache, it would probably take me twice as long as most of the veteran cachers that post on this forum.
Anyway, let me know what you think. If you contact me directly I might be willing to share more about what my idea is but for now I am going to keep it to myself.
Thanks
-FM
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Yep, that totally did the trick. Turn off Norton Transaction Security in Norton 360 and I can now move my map and zoom out nad have it refresh.
I would liek to point out that I only recently updated my Norton Protection to Norton 360. At one time, presumably before i loaded Norton 360, I could view caches in google maps. Unfortunately, I can't remeber what version of Norton I was runnign before.
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I have had this problem on my home PC for some time and was quite sure that it was a PC specific problem becasue this never happens using my work laptop. The only diffrence betweenthe two systems? You guessed it Norton. Here are my specs just to conform:
operating system Windows XP
browser and version IE 7
URL which causes the error any time I try to "move or zoom" a loaded map
Do you use Norton Antivirus? Yes
I am going to try turning off the anti-phishing feature that one of the other posters eluded to and see if that fixes the problem. I will report back after that.
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If it's only been 2 weeks, don't give up hope. I see you are in Washington, was the event that direction? The weather across the USA has been bad enough that a lot of cachers have not been active. Wait until the nice weather appears before you worry about it.
Yes, the event was in Washington, not far from my home. I actually wanted to go to it but couldn't make the time. I e-mailed the people who placed the bug in the event in the first place to see if they could remember who they traded it for but they couldn't remeber who they traded with for it. Turns out that of 200 or 300 bugs that were originally placed in the event cache, mine and only 4 others are the only ones that have not been logged and all of them were traded by the people who traded mine.
The weather has been both good and bad since the event although even when it has been dry it has been very cold so perhaps you are right and my bug will appear sometime this spring but I just wish people would be more dilgent about logging the bugs they find. I am always very dilgent about logging bugs that I take or even discover in cache's. I have a hard time understanding why people can't be more like me...
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I have a bug that was traded at an event. The person who recieved it in trade has not seen fit to record it and the person who traded it to them does not remeber who they gave it to so there is no way for me to contact the current possesor of my bug. This occured over two weeks ago.
I read in the FAQ that an owner can move a bug to an unknown location. Is this the same as marking it as missing? I've considered doing that until it pops up again, if it ever does, but I am concerend that if I mark it as missing this will somehow effect it's ability to get back out into circulation if the person who has it ever decides to place it soemwhere else.
Can someome tell me what the difference is between marking something missing and moving it to an unknown location (if any)? I don't see an option for "move to unknown location" either on the TB page or as an option for wrting a note on it.
thanks for any help.
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It fixed itself fo rme now too. Me thinks there be a ghost in the machine...