ecanderson
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Going back to the early Colorado/Oregon days, I've always wanted to be able to back up the profiles & etc on my devices such that, if they blew up, I could restore my device configuration such that it looks just like it did before the incident. In this case, I need to swap the environment from one Oregon 700 to another, and know that if I just back up the entire content of the device to a folder on my PC, I will not see the desired result when I copy all of that back to another Oregon 700 - at least that's the case for a 450. Had this problem with the 450 Oregon, too.
Anyone know what magic is necessary, or if it's even possible, to store and retrieve this kind of information when needed?
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3 hours ago, Atlas Cached said:
You didnt provide that information in the previous post.
The estimated combined accuracy is about 3.15 meters, which is what my non Multi-Band GPSr report. My GPSMAP 66sr and 65s both regularly report just over 1.5 meters.
What previous post? Until this one, I've been talking about the 700, not cell phones. Just sayin' that the S20 does have multi-band, it appeared that you did not believe that to be the case.
And those numbers were taken from inside my office in my house. I don't receive nor do I expect brilliant fixes in here.
Do I need to go outside and gather some better ones?
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In the TOTT thread and the 'high cache' thread. Variety of lengths and not very heavy.
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10 hours ago, Atlas Cached said:
... quicker than the NiMH 'AA' batteries in my other devices, which always seem to take 10+ hours due to the nature of how they are charged.
You using 200mA to charge them?
-ΔV and temperature profile can be a bit tricky to detect 1/10C charge in NiMH. It's not like NiCd where it was pretty easy to spot. Takes a GOOD charger to detect it reliably (e.g., LaCrosse or Maha)..
A little more current (500mA) won't hurt the life cycle count much if you have a decent charger, and it'll save some time if you need it.
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17 hours ago, thebruce0 said:
How is this still not resolved?
It's such a basic level of functionality for many people that I'm still astounded that it escaped the sand box to begin with!
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18 hours ago, The Jester said:
A *bit* dated?
Yes, but as it is the last the FAA has had to say on the topic, relevant.
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The list of airlines that still prohibit the use of a handheld GPSr aboard an aircraft during the CRUISE phase of the flight has become VERY small. The number that prohibit it during take-off and landing has also diminished. The concerns regarding interference just never materialized as actual incidents. A handheld GPSr produces less RF than many other "PED" (personal electronic devices) and are grouped with them. The most recent (though a bit dated) FAA missive on the topic can be found here >> https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/ped/
They set up some standards and then effectively punted it to the aircraft manufacturers and airlines since they didn't want to get into the testing business.
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From our friends at Wikipedia:
Regression testing is re-running functional and non-functional tests to ensure that previously developed and tested software still performs after a change.[2] If not, that would be called a regression. Changes that may require regression testing include bug fixes, software enhancements, configuration changes, and even substitution of electronic components.[3] As regression test suites tend to grow with each found defect, test automation is frequently involved. Sometimes a change impact analysis is performed to determine an appropriate subset of tests.
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1 hour ago, ScribblyBear said:
What's the word count that you're looking for from the cacher? In my case, I'm not a big talker or wordsmith. So trying to write multiple paragraphs on the spot about how I'm feeling about a nice (or cool) hike... My brain goes blank.
As much as you were willing to write here is more than we see a lot of the time from finders, and would be appreciated!
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Excellent. Not knowing if communications are received is a real problem... especially when not replying would be considered rude!
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I guess I (and gchq) have a different expectation of what that list is designed to do.
For what you're asking, it would be far better to open a separate page, not try to manage that function from a drop-down on the page where it is now. Yes, I can certainly see that as an option, but ONLY after someone hits the 'enter' key the first time. As it is now, the display is dynamic based upon the partial text that is entered. If you really want all matches to 'current' text, that's a big cpu time sink (and wouldn't fit on a normal page anyway) and not the way most search databases work.
For the feature as it stands, it is not a search, but a lookup. What it does is confirm that you aren't asking for something that isn't going to show up, or confirm that your completed text entry really has a match. That's all. But for THAT particular page, and that particular function, that's fine by me.
Again, if you want something that does an actual search, it's because you don't know the exact name to type. In that case, we should be treated to Soundex or similar and a proper search engine against the user database. That's a laudable enough suggestion, but as I say, something for another page open entirely.
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Just swapped out a Galaxy S8 Active for an S20. GPSTest is showing GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou all providing data.
35 'in view', 18 'in use'... and that's sitting here in my office. Can't wait to get this thing outside!
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10 hours ago, dprovan said:
Well....I've always considered that a bug even though it appears to be by design and has been that way forever. They get away with it by calling it a lookup, although even you recognize that it's typically used more as a search, so it should have a way to show all matching answers. This has become more of a problem as more and more accounts have that <root><number> format that puts all the discarded newbie accounts first before anyone with a real handle, as demonstrated in your examples.
??? "all matching answers" how soon into the search (number of characters)???
With half a zillion accounts, if it started with the first two characters, "be", just how long would the list be? Or even three characters "ber" would generate HOW big a list?
I understand why they're doing it as they are. I don't want to scroll down sixty seven pages looking for an entry.
As for MartyBartfast's post, that's just totally weird. There are hundreds of entries after "bernie" that sort sooner. It looks like you have had the "3" in there already, else it has missed an enormous number of previous entries. Worse, they've not even giving you a proper alpha sort.
Don't know why you get 5 and I get 4, though.
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I would imagine someone will ask which app (and perhaps version) you are using to log caches on your phone. Might as well get that out of the way first.
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The search engine only shows the first 4 matches for any number of characters entered. In your case, it requires the full bernie38 to get that far down into the 'bernie' alphanumeric matches.
Not a bug, just the result of a 4 result search. Below, even with all but one character left to input, the top 4 are all earlier in the sort (the last is Bernie3107) than you. It has to get past the '31' (and any others like it) before it would display the '38'. It's an alphanumeric sort, so 3107 comes before 38.
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Somebody must be working since we got the 'new' icon on the markers, but that's about all we've seen. Doesn't seem like much progress for all of that time.
So what's this 'off site' Faceplant site where they actually discuss this product (vs. doing it here?)
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44 minutes ago, Atlas Cached said:
I've already had my units apart to inspect the internals.
It's not rocket science.
It is when you drop one of the torx screws onto a medium pile carpet!
Time to go to the caching toolkit for a magnet!
I noted above that you said changing orientation from vertical to horizontal on the 65s dropped signal by 80%, and that you had hoped firmware might overcome that. Don't think there's any hope for that. Sounds far more like an antenna orientation issue. Unlike the antenna designs on the non-helical ("quad helix") styles that lay flat to the board, and like to be held flat, my experience with older helical antenna units (e.g., 76) was that they preferred an upright orientation for signal strength.
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On 12/3/2020 at 5:23 AM, IceColdUK said:
Seems that both the ‘Download completion statistics’ (i.e. the link shown on the page) and the backdoor ‘StatisticsPlayer’ URL are both broken at the moment.Download Completion Statistics is working for me. It's the player stats that still loops to credential screen.
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I think H&M may have been asking if portrait was also possible.
Somewhere in the many "create" threads here is an assessment by several people as to what happens to photos (aspect, crop, whatever) that are uploaded.
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I keep meaning to go back and look, but is the distinction (when you open them) whether there is one red dot and four gray, or five red dots?
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How about you report my post up in the upper right to see if anyone is paying attention. Make up whatever reason you like!
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We have the same issue here in Colorado. Change the X or Y axis by a couple of feet, and suddenly you've got a +/-Z axis problem of hundreds of feet.
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Whoops! An identify confirmed! We won't tell, but good luck to the elves, and thanks for all the effort here again this year.
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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!