D-Roc
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I followed the steps for a route pocket query and I made the settings fairly broad and I still get zero results. I know there are caches along this route as I can see them. The routing I entered is from Oshawa, Ontario to Charleston Lake Provincial Park, 148 Woodvale Rd., Lansdowne, Ontario, K0E 1L0 Any suggestions what I may be doing wrong? **Edit** Never mind. I finally see my error and it worked.
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You know you're a Geocacher when...
D-Roc replied to Team O-Zone's topic in General geocaching topics
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I am taking my wife on a weekend getaway to Elora/Fergus. While we are there of course we will Geocache and have loaded many into my GPS that are in Elora, Fergus and just outside of Fergus. I am just wondering if there are any specific ones that are a must do (besides the Elora Gorge 3 stage Multi). http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx...;lng=-80.433117
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Without actually knowing the numbers of PM's vs. non-PM's, I guessed (logically speaking) that the non-PM's out number the PM's. Are you saying that this is not the case and it is the opposite? If that is so, I understand it better when you refer to non-PM cachers who ask the owner to make it available to everyone as having a attitude of self and in a sense can see why you would see it as self serving. However, I still say that asking to open a cache to everyone is not self serving since it then makes it to everyone in the caching community, but again if the ratio of PM's vs. non-PM's is different than I suspected, I see how you can view it your way.
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I first try to find it without the hint, but then yes I will use it. Would not go out without it that's for sure. Scubasonic Same as above.
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I remain totally amazed and speechless that you and one or two other posters in this thread keep trying to introduce this red herring.......etc I am glad that you both have Prem. Memberships. Thank you for answering my question, but it did not shame me at all. I am not sure how anyone can go through life being this miserable and childish and be proud of it. I have always been a straight shooter and tell people what I think and express my opinion, but I refuse to do it by sacrificing respect of other people in the process. I wish you well and that you one day find a way to come to terms with your issues.
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I would agree about the self gratification position/serving only the person asking, if that person was the only non-PM. Making it public does serve the majority of the community (I am assuming that the non=PM's out number the PM's so please correct me if I am wrong). I really do not think that it would be anyones intention to "insult" the owner by asking. Out of curiosity, how often does this type of question get asked by PM's when they hide their caches and do not make them public? I just realized this was never asked/clarified. Then what really needs to be done is make it part of the "rules" or "terms" of this Geocaching site that it is not allowed to ask the owner of a PM only cache to make it public.
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If you are getting a mountain of emails/pm's I am sure there is a block/ignore button if you are being bothered on a constant basis. You say it takes more time out of your day to respond. Well then don't respond. Nothing dicates you that you must reply to all emails/pm's. When I mentioned personality, I was referring to a sense of entitlement. You can not determin this from someone asking a simple question if you could make a PM only cache available for non-PM's. Isn't Geochacing for someones personal entertainment? I geocache, not for others entertainment, but my own. So why judge someone as being rude for thinking about a cache that they would enjoy? There is no harm in asking to make it public. Why does a question have to serve to improve the cache? I did not realize there was this rule in place. Reacting like this only deters people from asking questions in the future in fear that the could be labeld as rude. This whole thread is not serving the Goecaching community well. We are here to enjoy the sport/hobby/game. Arguing about something as petty as this can really turn people off in ever trying it. Ewwww... I am about to puke... a couple of your posts sent lately to this thread have provoked the same reaction in me... I smell the stink of a sense of self-entitlement, and I am allergic to that stench. Let me take you back to my original post in this thread, and ask you: Would you contact your electrical utility company and ask them to start providing all your electric power for free? Would you contact your propane/natural gas supply company and ask them to provide all your heating/cooking/hot water gas for free? Would you contact your cable TV company and ask them to provide premium highest-level cable TV services to your home for free? Would you contact your local gasoline station and ask them to provide you with free gasoline from now on? Would you contact your ISP and ask them to provide you with high-speed DSL Internet access for free? Would you contact your doctors and dentists and ask them to provide you with totally free services from now on? Would you contact your local supermarket and ask them to provide you with free groceries from now on? And, I have just noted... interesting... you are NOT a Premium Member yourself, and thus, your statements are all suspect from that point of view as well, as a casual obsrdver might suspect that your position is merely one that is self-serving. Good luck with your baggage. . Your examples have no relevance to Geocaching since they do not provide an option of a lower or different service in return for no fee. You come across as a very judgemental person based soley on ones status within the Goecaching community and that reeks of snobism (not sure if that is even a word...lol). I base this on your position that you refer to my statements as suspect since I am one of the many non-PM's. And you even go as far as saying my position on the matter is self serving. Again, making a baseless judgement. For the record. I am a fairly new Geocacher and will eventually become a PM, but I decided at this time it is not needed.
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Changing the actual Cache itself is vastly different than asking to make it public. There was no hard work in deciding if it should be made available to all or just PM's. It is just a few clicks of the mouse (all though I do not know how many clicks it does take as I have not placed one yet), so I can not see how that is insulting. The Op did not state once that the actual essence of the cache was requested to be changed. If that was the case then I could agree that it was inappropriate and how you could consider it insulting, but that was not the case. Ok. You say requests should serve to improve the cache, but at teh same time you are saying that if you received a request to change something physically about the cache would be rude and insulting. You can not have it both ways. Either you want suggestions or not. I certainly do not consider this an arguement at all. Yes many people can benefit from discussions and debates, but to debate whether a question about making a cache available for everyone or not was rude and insulting and even calling the person(s) who posted the question as feeling that they are entitled to have it made available to them is so insignificant on the grand scale of things. Now, if the person(s) posted that the OP must or demanded that they make it avaialable, I can agree to the self-entitlement label, but from what the OP posted I did not get that sense.
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If you are getting a mountain of emails/pm's I am sure there is a block/ignore button if you are being bothered on a constant basis. You say it takes more time out of your day to respond. Well then don't respond. Nothing dicates you that you must reply to all emails/pm's. When I mentioned personality, I was referring to a sense of entitlement. You can not determin this from someone asking a simple question if you could make a PM only cache available for non-PM's. Isn't Geochacing for someones personal entertainment? I geocache, not for others entertainment, but my own. So why judge someone as being rude for thinking about a cache that they would enjoy? There is no harm in asking to make it public. Why does a question have to serve to improve the cache? I did not realize there was this rule in place. Reacting like this only deters people from asking questions in the future in fear that the could be labeld as rude. This whole thread is not serving the Goecaching community well. We are here to enjoy the sport/hobby/game. Arguing about something as petty as this can really turn people off in ever trying it.
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I completely agree with you, but I think that you have missed the fact that Vinny should not be taken seriously. He frequently creates threads taking wacky stances because he thinks it's funny. Certainly, he is enjoying himself, but the truth is that it is very unlikely that the email exchange ever happened. Mostly, it's best to simply give an eye roll and move on when you see one of his threads. I only popped in because I was somewhat surprised that the thread hadn't fallen off the page, yet. I am deadly serious. As stated in my original post, the majority of the requests to make the cache non-PM were made NOT via email, but on this forum, in my original thread about PUC #13. Many posters to this thread have already visited the original thread and read the original requests. Then it is even easier not to respond to those you do not want to. Ignore their request. Again. Simple.
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Think of it like this... if you put your home # on the Do Not Call List then you have made it quite clear you don't wish to receive calls from solicitors. If said solicitors know not to call, but call you anyway (even politely), the fact that they called is impolite. When feel they have the right to call you despite your being on the list then that's self-entitlement, passive-agressive and rude. Putting your number on the DNC list or your cache on the PMO list is your right. Having people call or email you despite that fact is not cool. Pretty simple. Not really the same thing. One is an actual phone call that intrupts your day. The other is an email that you choose to open (or not) when you want to. You can also choose to reply or not. Also, where does it say that if you publish a Cache as a PM's only Cache that you are not allowed to send an email/pm to the the owner of said Cache. Besides, how can you read into someone personality and say they are being rude. That would be baseless assumption. It still seems like making a mountain out of a mole hill.
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I do not understand getting so bent out of shape when some people who are a non-PM's are just asking a simple question, if you could make it viewable for non-PM's? From what you quoted it does not appear they were rude nor is their even a hint of a sense of entitlement. Just politely say that you want these caches for PM's only. Pretty simple.
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Ok I have a question that is probably very simplistic, but I just do not know. I have unzipped and ran the setup on my hard drive. Now, how do I out the topo maps on my micro sd card? Do I use the trip-waypoint manager? Sorry for such a noob question.
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People wanting to steal or destroy caches?
D-Roc replied to TampaDude's topic in General geocaching topics
...and I got the following from Zate, the closer of the thread, in response to my message: On the 1st part, he's wrong, we could take him to court. We wouldn't win, but the point was to get him to pay attention. It worked. See 2nd part. As far as how Funk feels about all this, all he knows is he's been banned from both forums. Perhaps ignorance is bliss. Oh, wait, he demonstrated signs of that before he was banned... Interesting the only reason he/she banned the offenders is because they signed up on this forum to harass. Nothing about the exessive language. I guess they are ok with that. -
Thanks Ken....I've discovered that City Navigator is exactly what I need....I've gone to Walmart, Best Buy, Future Shop and The Source and all they have is the updates. Anyone know where I can buy it from a Canadian retailer? I just bought mine from gpscentral.ca You get a free TB with every 50.00+ order. I only bought the Canada CN maps on a preloaded micro SD card. You can get the North America CN maps there preloaded or not.
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No worries! You shouldn't need to have it on the hard drive for it to work. A couple of questions, 1) Operating System? 2) Does it do *anything8 when you try to run it? 3) I assume it unzips OK? There is a way around the problem if you can't get the installer to run, so don't delete it (its just mildly more difficult). I'd like to figure out where the problem is though. Dale I did not think I would have to, but I am not the most knowledgable when it comes to computers. 1) Xp 2) You can hear the puter "trying" to do something, but nothing ever comes up 3) I think it unziped ok. I am not at home where my flash drive is. You know. Come to think about, I am not sure I even saw that it needed to be unzipped. Hmmmm.. I have to check tonight as maybe this is a case of user error. I will let you know tonight. I just want to get it on my 4 gig micro sd card that I got for 12.99 Oh and I forgot to add that I only have 1gig of HD space left. I thought that might be part of the issue. OK stupid me I never unzipped it. I did that and all went well, I think. However, I assume that I need to use the mapsource trip and waypoint manager that came with the GPS to transfer the TOPO mpas to my GPS. Well I had that already loaded. Went to launch and received an error and it would not launch. So no biggie. Removed it and re-loaded it. Same error came up. See below. FYI - computers have never been nice to me. Ever!!! Error Information: App: MapSource At: 12/17/2008 9:47:29 PM (UTC) OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3 Processor: x86, Processor Level: 15, Processors:1, Model: 2 Stepping: 9, RAM: 523760 TDB_PRODUCT.CPP-219-6.13.7.0
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Dup Post. Sorry
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I am not going to max it out. I just figured that why not get a 4 gig for the same price or even a bit cheaper than a 2 gig.
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No worries! You shouldn't need to have it on the hard drive for it to work. A couple of questions, 1) Operating System? 2) Does it do *anything8 when you try to run it? 3) I assume it unzips OK? There is a way around the problem if you can't get the installer to run, so don't delete it (its just mildly more difficult). I'd like to figure out where the problem is though. Dale I did not think I would have to, but I am not the most knowledgable when it comes to computers. 1) Xp 2) You can hear the puter "trying" to do something, but nothing ever comes up 3) I think it unziped ok. I am not at home where my flash drive is. You know. Come to think about, I am not sure I even saw that it needed to be unzipped. Hmmmm.. I have to check tonight as maybe this is a case of user error. I will let you know tonight. I just want to get it on my 4 gig micro sd card that I got for 12.99 Oh and I forgot to add that I only have 1gig of HD space left. I thought that might be part of the issue.
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I downloaded this to my 8g flash drive with U3. I tried running it from the falsh drive and the exe file never ran. Ended up not responding. Did I do something wrong? Do I need to run it off my HD? Do I need any other program? Sorry for such a noob question.
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What Fascinates You About Geocaching?
D-Roc replied to brewmeister's topic in General geocaching topics
My wife and I like it for several different aspects. The way that we can get out as a family. It gives us an opportunity to bond and explore at the same time instead of staying inside. Keeps us active. The satisfaction that we found something that is hidden. Going to places that I would have missed normally and learning about any history (if any) of the area. Being able to go on vacation, visit family and still be able to Geocache. They way that this can be as casual as you want (go caching on a whim) or make this an obsession.