Vencislago

Last year I went to Madrid in Vueling, I was sitted near the window with my yellow Garmin on my hand. I tried holding it against the window, locked enough satellites and then switched off the GPS. One of the guys from the crew saw my GPS and gave me a 5 minute reprehension. I showed him that the device was off and said that the GPS only has a reception antenna (the signal is already there, I just catch it) and it would not interfere with the airplane. Still then, I listened "You would cause an airplane crash and kill everyboby!". The fun part was that everybody stared at me like if I had an yellow bomb. It should be fun to see the speed, altitude and the route of the flight. This entire post just to say that even an old yellow etrex can grab satellites if you hold it against the window.

I was googling for things to do with my GPSr (hacks, updates, new features) and found the term "geocaching". Went to geocaching.com and register. Then found so caches around Lisbon and one in Madrid Every time I go to a diferent place, I try to find some caches

@GIRAPHSTAFF: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...0e-4488a098105d EDIT: It's in Portugal heheh

All my PC are running Ubuntu. Only my laptop has dual boot with XP for some university programs that I didn't found versions running in Ubuntu. There were some compatible versions but teachers didn't liked them. Using Ubuntu solved lots of problems at home, specially my father's desktop who was a magnet for virus and worms. Since I have an yellow Garmin eTrex, using Linux isn't a problem.

Some caches are already translated. One part in Portuguese and the other in English. The last one I found, p.ex. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...e0-31073be781b4 Google translate things with some accuracy. If you need some translation help that google won't do, you can ask me. I'm Portuguese By the way, in wich villa are you? Enjoy my country.