fratermus
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> I'll give a little of my background. I am a manager
That's ok. We'll still listen to what you have to say. :-) [my dilbert moment]
> One of the ways is through the pictures or program
> themselves not just the bat. exe files etc.
I would be interested to learn more about viruses in the past that were transmitted by .bat files (using whatever command interpreter you like ) themselves. Or by any usual image files (jpg, gif, png, tif) or picturedisc.
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During a recent find, my geopartner thought it would be funny to leave a plastic tarantula guarding the cache. This doesn't sound too funny to me. In fact, I have been feeling terrible about it.
There is one in Carrollton Tx that has a plastic tarantual glued to the container. Funny, if a bit heart-thumping at the moment...
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I'm wanting to get started in geocaching, are these $100 receiver units worth buying?
I just bought a lovely used Legend for $100 off the forums. So, yes.
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Can I copy Mapsource topo maps to my hard drive?
I have copied my metroguide maps to HD and then used sendmap to send them directly to the GPSr.
The trick is figuring out which map goes to which area. I think I used strings and grep to find the mapname as given in mapsource.
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I want to go paperless with the help of my palm m130 pda. I already use gsak to transfer the waypoints to my garmin etrex legend.
You can take the GSAK -> .html export -> plucker or sunrise -> plucker on PDA.
Ranting sidebar:
I find GSAK maddening, like it was programmed by someone who had never seen another program's interface. Totally counterintuitive and I have been doing techdork stuff for about 30 yrs.
I know that is kin to heresy in this forum but there it is. I have deleted it and use gpsbabel+gpxspinner for my parsing+htmlgenerating needs, and sunrise for pluckerising.
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pda's are somethign new to me. I want to purchase one but dont want to spend a lot of money at this time. is this unit something fairly basic and easy that will be good for a starter pda?
PocketPCs tend to be pricier than palm-based PDAs, but lots of folks love them.
It might be useful to figure out what software you want to run, then use that to back into which platform to buy into.
In the palm world (which is all I know), you could get a pretty decent m500 or something (expandable using sd card) for ~$50. A non-expandable 8mb model for maybe $20 or so.
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Logging a DNF because I have not found it makes no sense .
I think that sensible people could go either way on the issue.
The text of the DNF entry is probably more important than the DNF itself.
"Here on vacation, couldn't find it" is a different beast than "been here 12x with someone who has already found it, and we can't find it now".
If the cacheplacer feels strongly about it, s/he might put a note to that effect in the cache listing.
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Altitude is from "MEAN HIGH TIDE SEA LEVEL"
Ahh, so maybe some big waves are coming in when the OP is trying to get altiude reaadings. :-)
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The b&w 8mb Legend does not autoroute.
Garmin sells many sets of software, some of which do not route, some route on PC, and some route on selected GPS units.
If you have a laptop and routable maps, you can run the garmin freeware nRoute to do turn-by-turn, voice annunciated, autorouting magic.
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I asked for MetroGuide v6 (because it's getting cheap out there). Got v7 instead. Nice upgrade, but I don't have a DVD drive yet. Good excuse to get one. Yay!
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I use Spinner/Plucker to load gpx files to my pda and have recently been having a problem with Plucker locking up on certain files. It locks as it is loading the files, and locks in the same place depending on the file, e.g. file 145 of 1157.
Just happened to me, and it happened whether the .html output was from spinner or gsak, so the problem does not appear to be related to gpxspinner.
I installed the javabase sunrise distiller and it worked like a charm. I've put my plucker distiller out to pasture.
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It would take forever to check all those pages, but if there's no other way...
Output the PQ as html, then process for your handheld with plucker, isilo, sunrise, whatever. Tell it to follow links as desired and you'll end up with the pics on your palm.
A bit of work upfront, but it's automagic after that.
My current setup is PQ --> gpxspinner --> sunrise --> treo 600 smartphone thingy
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Am I on my own from there? Or, could a gps get me closer?
The GPS will get you closer, but it still takes a while to develop the instincts on where things are likely hidden. Gotta calibrate the spidey sense.
It might be worthwhile to hook up with a caching buddy for a few outings. It can be discouraging to find nothing several times in a row in the beginning.
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The first GPS I bought for caching was an Etrex Legend blue; inexpensive but still feature-rich and easy to learn. When I got more serious I got a 60C and love it for the expanded memory, color screen, and caching-specific features.
I think it would be hard to go wrong with teh blue Legend. I have loved mine; got it from the dear wife last christmas and I use it many times a week.
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Here's an update for anyone who's watching.
Received this weeks copy of the PQ. Plucker locked up as it had been.
Installed the sunrise desktop (about3mb, java-based) and it worked fine. Also considerably faster and it better compression.
I'm happy.
The resulting file hotsyncs as you'd expect and is viewable in plucker. I am giving serious thought to moving to sunrise for my html-parsing needs.
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My PQ --> GSAK-->html-->plucker setup has been working fine for a year.
The html output from my most recent PQ seems to be locking up the Plucker (desktop) distiller.
it runs for about 2mins and locks up hard and has to be killed with the Task Mangler. The python job persists and must be killed too.
Fair enough. I figured my recent GSAK upgrade must have broken something. So I did
PQ --> gpxspinner -->html-->plucker and it hangs in the same place (file 186). I assume there's something funky about that file, but I can't imagine what it would be.
Reinstalled pluckerdesktop. No joy. Dropped in the most recent python distiller. No joy. The PQ is about half the size of the max I have exported and converted to .pdb before.
So far I haven't found the distiller logfiles, and when it locks it does so completely so you can't scroll to the current file to see which one is causing the hang.
Any ideas? I'm going to try again with this week's pq and see if it improves. Otherwise I'll try another implementation of the distiller, or move it to Linux to see if that helps.
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In recent thread, Jeremy called the waaaambulance on people who need parking coordinates. BEING one of those people, I found it hilarious, and not at all offensive, so let's not get into that.
I think parking coords can be useful. Consider these possibilities:
* parking over HERE is safer/better/whatever. Parking of THERE may not be, for whatever reason.
In the past, I put out two caches that were very easy when approached from one direction, and difficult from all others. I put a parking tip in the encrypted hint in case someone wanted to use it.
* parking here and then walking to the cache might be favorable from a "note the huge squirrel family on the left!" POV. In this sense the parking spot is not completely unlike the first stage of a multi. (apologies to D.Adams).
I do like the wandering aspect of having a GPS. NonGPS people probably think that having coords to something dictates one's path and navigation. For me it is the opposite; knowing exactly where a thing is frees me up to take unknown and fun-looking routes.
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Your definition is unnecessarily restrictive, in my opinion. A cache inside a shop is inherently commercial in that it promotes the place it's located at.
People put stuff near historical markers, neat parks, etc, with the intent of promoting the place it's located at.
If I were a biz owner I'd put a cache up near my store, put goodies in it, and advertise it on my own website. A fun little easter egg for geocachers.
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The current game is really to find waymarks and enter them in, not seek out existing waymarks and log them. You'll be disappointed if you're looking for local waymarks since it is a beta and not really a POI database - at least currently. Once there is a larger collection the nearest search will be a lot more useful.
I think there is a decent chance the the POI database angle may end up being the tail that wags the dog.
I do think that some locationless caches were pure game ("find three red things in a row and log a haiku about it!") but many were being used as a shared interest location database: speed traps, drive-in movie theaters, botannical gardens, etc.
On GC, normal cache listing and finding are both games. The input on Waymarking.com may also be a nominal game but the output has the potential to be truly useful beyond the gameplay.
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SHARP OZ590A 8MB POCKET PC PDA USB not OZ590
Just beginning to try to find a PDA on ebay.
Anyone have any thoughts on the one above? How much should I expect to pay for it?
So far I've not had much luck tracking down anything worthwhile. Most of what I see listed is either broken junk listed for "parts" (HUH??!?)
or new stuff with reserve prices near normal retail. The rare stuff being sold by an individual sometimes goes for MORE than you would pay in a store.
The one above is by a retailer but I'm hoping it's a low end model that they really will sell at a discount to get you to look at their site. They have a dozen or so listed.
I've also looked at GPSr's with the same results. I'd like to hear from people who have ACTUALLY gotten a good deal on these items at ebay.
Thanks for any help.
You can add "-parts" to your title search to filter out the ones sold for parts.
And I would add "palm" or "pocket pc" to the search, depending on your religious preference.
:-)
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That I would have to whole-heartedly agree with. I have an ex-friend who made a point of flashing his concealed glock at unexpected times. We parted ways over that issue.
A flashed sidearm is not a concealed sidearm anymore.
He doesn't sound like someone I'd hang out with, either.
jc,
Taurus Mill. 9mm
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One man's trash is another man's (or kid's) treasure.
My daugher's top ten list of favorite trade items would definitely include frogs of any type, rubber snakes and lizards, and plastic doggies.
My wife's the same way. She zeroes in on any rubber animals right away...
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Palm is actually a type of PDA device. PocketPC is another. Like the difference between a PC and a MAC, Palm software will not work on a PPC, and vice versa.
I think a Palm emulator for PocketPC has been recently released.
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I left a "must archive" note on the cache site; hopefully the cache will be removed for the safety of others.
What safety issues do you forsee?
Picture Cd For Trade Items?
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deltree, format, or similar commands in a batchfile do not constitute a virus.
I have never seen a *virus* built out of pure batch or ordinary image files. That was my point.