ecanderson
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Everything depends upon the web cam you have! If it's a PTZ (pan/tilt/zoom) camera, then it's designed to be controlled somehow. If you'll tell us exactly what you have, we can check to see what software control mechanism is intended for it. Some require a very specific app. Some have only a phone app available. Some work from a web browser on either a phone or PC, or yet another very specific app just for a PC.
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How was the reset performed if it wouldn't 'switch on'?
Page + Enter + Power assumes the device is powered on. Or is that what caused this?
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On 12/31/2020 at 11:01 AM, dennistubaplayer said:
... but What I am still unsure about is if I would label it as a multi or a mystery. Does anyone know? Thanks all! Happy New Year!
What you have created in your mind, SO far, is a multi with a field puzzle attribute. It requires no knowledge to be gained or anything to be figured out before arriving the posted coordinates. I assume your camera can be manipulated over a cell phone?
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On 4/15/2019 at 3:35 PM, The Rat said:
All the Cliff Knowles novels are now FREE! No strings, no ads, just free. See the link for details. Cliff Knowles Mysteries are now FREE
And he just recently released another one. Quite different from the others, but still a good read.
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If it's ladylover and manlover you're talking about, I'm not sure it's going to be a big enough issue.
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Oh, I have. ASR-33. Old MARS network.
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That last statement reminds me of the 300 baud acoustic model BBS days, when you really could.
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OH -- by ALL means kill off the *.gzz file that came with your device. As suggested, that may be part of the issue. Whatever cache information is in that file will likely be horribly outdated by now.
You can find it by hooking it up to your PC and looking in the Garmin/GGZ folder.
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No, not if the sync was successful.
Is it showing things about your account correctly, e.g., your find count?
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Looks like the tile server is dropping one there.
If you move to other locations on the map, where does the box appear, if at all?
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2 hours ago, Lynx Humble said:
That option would kill my phone battery.
Shouldn't. A large part of the juice sucking will be the continuous display use, and you've only got one of those.
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On 12/19/2020 at 5:47 PM, rragan said:
They put release note updates for the Geocaching app.
Why not the Adventure Lab one? Different team I suspect not clued into the procedures. The update was not on FB either.Rogue operation in most respects.
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Now you can, through the options in your profile in the app, hide the ones you have already done.
And recent versions of the app show a star/gear sort of looking thing in the middle of 'new' ones.
Not all ideal, but certainly better than it used to be.
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That's too cute, Darin. I was thinking something more along these lines:
Not the sort of thing you want to try to reverse engineer!
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Spaghetti code, we used to call it!
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There's no reason a cacher can't set out a parallel AL and standard multi-cache, and the multi could have whatever virtual or physical stages you like and can get approved by the reviewer through the normal process. As long as they can be run independently, who's to care?
One could even request simultaneous enable, just as we do for mysteries and ALs now.
Edit: Looks like daBruce already covered that.
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On 12/22/2020 at 7:33 PM, Lynx Humble said:
Yeah finally a real update this year on this app.
Next step will be to be able to do multiple AL/geocache at the same time without jumping back and forth between pages.
A little tricky, and haven't tried it for the AL app, but it is possible to run multiple instances of may apps on Android. You could keep one open for each adventure.
https://www.online-tech-tips.com/smartphones/how-to-run-multiple-instances-of-an-app-on-android-mac/
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1 minute ago, thebruce0 said:
/me thinks there may be variable names and structures and other hard code using various forms of "needs-archived", not just front end display text - with the two tightly connected
@thebruce0
Since we're only talking about modification to the HTML text displayed, there's no coding reason I can think of that would wrap that text string around any actual data variable for the web site. It would be odd, if true. The displayed string won't be derived from a variable name. The names might happen to match to keep the code understandable, but that's of no consequence.
And as far as the official phone app goes, that's new enough that it shouldn't pose those kinds of issues.
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48 minutes ago, niraD said:
What could possibly go wrong?
Have you ever worked with legacy code?
Um ... yes. In fact, I just 'un-retired' three weeks ago to help a good friend out of a ditch. The only person who understood the control software for his product gave 2 weeks notice, and now I'm in the process of working on code developed in Delphi 6 (a queer GUI superstructure underlaid by Pascal). FWIW, the current version of the Delphi IDE is 10.4. The original code was written in a long ago obsolete language for 6502, and is now running on Win10. That give you any idea of where life is for ME? So yes, my request stands, unsympathetically, as written.
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Unclear as to why it would be a major engineering project unless there's some change in function implied as well. I think, but could be wrong, that the only change being requested is in the textual description of the function. That shouldn't change 'logging flows', and while API partners and Garmin would need to be notified of the change in text, it could be rolled out by those entities as new code versions and new models are created. Nothing requires that this all be implemented concurrently across the entire infrastructure, just rolled out as possible to improve the clarity of the intent of the feature. Until such time as each point of contact with the text changes, we'll be no better or worse off than we are now, but as it begins to appear in more and more places, the UI will have been improved. Yes, that does mean a lack of consistency across all platforms until it's fully implemented by all, but that doesn't seem to be that big of a hit in that regard.
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2 hours ago, icezebra11 said:
So it was only gale force at your place eh? ;-)
Let's just say I put up a wind sock for Santa in case it kicks up that like again tomorrow night!
Maybe he'll leave me something?
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Yes, the reports have been coming in about Chrome becoming overly cautions about PQ downloads. There's another thread on that somewhere around here, so you aren't the first.
Then again, it could be they were 'in the ether' after midnight last night and simply got blown away in the gale force winds we had along the Front Range!
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We see this fairly frequently around here for 'team' hides (Keystone's #1 reason).
For example, when the annual Wingin' It event committee sets up hides that are published during our annual event (which we'll miss this time for the first time in 12 years), the 'committee' claims credit for the hide, though the account actually used is that of one of the members.
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7 hours ago, robertlipe said:
Windows actually made some changes recently (in Windows years) to have fewer dirty blocks waiting to be flushed to the USB in case of an abrupt removal.
See, e.g. https://www.howtogeek.com/410353/how-to-optimize-usb-storage-for-better-performance-on-windows-10/Chuckle --- that's the rumor, yes <g>.
My Oregon 450 was the biggest bugger in that regard. It's become a matter of habit to eject/disconnect it (and any other USB storage device to which I've written anything) logically before yanking it physically, even in these days of Win10. On prior Windows OS, had too many instances of getting to the garage for a cache run, only to discover that I couldn't find any caches on the device!
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