scottpa100

Gosh! I am humbled! Many thanks Scoff.

I've been caching in Krakow - fantastic city but the cache I attempted was not the one you're doing. And I ended up having to DNF the cache in Krakow too . This means I do not have Poland lit up on me maps on my profile page. That was despite a "Sod it!" attitude and shoving my arm into a hole in busy location up to my shoulder in a James Herriott style. Still no cache! Wishing you better luck than I had in Krakow!

Depends if you want the history that is in your GSAK. if not, then the quickest and easiest way to delete everything in the database. (Database menu, delete all waypoints) then just reimport your new pocket query. If you do want to keep the history, then advice that others have provided is appropriate.

Cheers to the black and white flightless bird! I've checked and triple-checked the DNS entries, they're right. But they're going to take a while to get around the internet. Once the settings have gone around, as the penguin says, when you go to www.welshcaching.co.uk or www.cachingcymru.co.uk you'll get to a nice website. At the moment, you get the really simple text page I created this morning. When that changes, then the DNS gubbins have worked and we can all see the work that Penguin has done! Cheers Flightless One!

Fair comment - I've done this and with Eclectic Penguin privately too. See what happens... Peeps keep on posting here too - we need ideas!

Because it's an 'open' forum! But getting back on topic - the Garmin rules of competition say it should be released. It is a limited run of coins. By taking a coin and not releasing it to be in the competition means that there is one less coin available for people who want to take part in the competition.

Oh - I didn't realise we were going to be registering and hosting domains. No problem - HTML or frame forwarding are also available. It's just a 'friendly' name for peeps to remember. You're the leader. You lead, I'll follow. Cha cha cha. Here comes a sweeping assumption. I'm guessing yes too. I don't know PHP, I've done toy forums with it etc http://www.colwynbayhistory.co.uk/boxhuntin/ and they've worked. However, we use IIS5 and 6 at work. I've set-up multiple websites hosting on one server and IIS can do it. And if Mickysoft can do it, the open-source community must be able to too! If hosting any forum / mailing list is an issue I do have a hosting package with 4Uhosting which is not being used. An idea I had and I didn't really see it through so I more than happy for resources that I have and not being used to be used by a hobby which takes up far more time that what it should! I've just had a look and it can do the mailing list stuff too - which I didn't know until now! I've got the basic package - but I'd more than willing to upgrade 'for the benefit of the greater good' if required. As I say, you lead, I'll follow. Cha cha cha. Absolutely, and yes I get excited and go and say things like "We can do this, and this and that..." but it will only be used if the community want it. What does the community want?

Caching? Wales? But your sig says you don't do hills! Wales and hills are like strawberries and cream. They just go together! But I'm sure you'd be welcome Mailing list or forum.

Okay, I've purchased www.welshcaching.co.uk and www.cachingcymru.co.uk and I'll glad forward them onto any forum / mailing list signing up page. Let me know what the DNS entries need to be. Hope I've not over stepped the mark here.

Keeping the coin, despite public display of them, is not honouring the deal. And is false imprisonment. There have been plenty of other threads about normal coins and people saying that if a coin has gone missing, its stolen. Which I agree with. Withholding the coin is stealing it in my eyes. The owner (Garmin) has requested that you (the guardian / custodian) do something with it. And by the looks of it, many are not. If I released a coin and 'coin hoarders' out there thought it was nice, would you stop it in case it gets stolen? But that's not what I want to happen to the coin. I think Garmin have calculated the risks on this one and we should do our side of the bargain.

That's fair enough - I'll tell you what. I'll stick my neck on the block and I'll go and get a suitable URL. They're cheap as chips anyhow. You've offered to take up the hosting (many thanks!) so go with that? And then how about Matrix becomes moderator as offical OP to this thread? First thread on the new forum - who is going to design the Welsh geocachers logo?

I found a plaster (elastoplast type of plaster) in my Snowdon summit cache. Despite the cache being a lok n lok, it does get a little damp in there sometimes. I appreciate that some cachers may have thought a plaster would be handy if you had a blister - but by the time I removed that plaster, you'd only catch something from it...

It happens.... even though it's against the guidelines. I just remove the food and place it in a bin when I can.

Thanks for the plug MrsB. Abercachers is open to everyone whether they are in Wales or elsewhere. It's a bit quite at the moment so some new "faces" would be very welcome. Come and say Hi. The website "owner" and designer is Al Cole (forcesofnature). www.aber-cachers.co.uk If the infrastructure is already there with aber-cachers, would it not be an idea for a rebranding (not changing the strucutre of the forums) to Wales geocaching or something? Anyone who goes to aber-cachers.co.uk automatically gets forwarded to allwalesgeocaching.co.uk or something? I feel like a lone voice here (cue cute kitten awwwwwww) but I think an all-Wales one please?! The north-west of England has a population of nearly 7 million. They have a regional forum. South Wales has a population 2.5 million(ish) and by the sounds of it is going to have a forum. North Wales has a population of about 500,000 (ish). And geocaching is not rugby or football. Geocachers are a small percentage of the population at the best of times. It seems like north Wales cachers (500?) are going to be the only people in the UK who not going to be able to join a regional forum due to naming. If a new forum is setup, I just strongly advocate an all-Wales one. You may even then be eligible to business-eye funding, some Welsh Assembly outdoors / community funding? And by going all-Wales you help improve the chances of getting external government grant funding (possibly ) AND - just though. An all-Wales forum my be able to support a Welsh language thread. I notice a number of cachers up here in Gog are using Diolch etc at the end of cache logs.... Thanks for the opportunity to vent my thoughts. If any help / input is wanted, I'll gladly come on board.

It's good to let us know about the software - it certainly seems to fit your bill of needs. The key things you've said about the application you can do in GSAK but I hear what you're saying about ease of use. And it's always good to have competition. In fact... the fact there is competition. Geocaching has made the big time!!

I know there are logs by dogs of woof, howl and stuff. But I do like the logs by Tashinton. These logs are in English and also written by Tashington (I assume ) and from the perspective of Tashington. Hence notes along the lines of "I was tired after reaching the top of the hill, but I could not understand why my human's were scrabbling around under the rocks at the edge of the cliff" type of thing. Good creative fun.

But it oh so worth every penny... great product.

Hearing all this talk of bears, mountain lions and guns .... makes me glad I cache in the UK! Our bears and mountain lions were hunted to extinction hundreds of years ago. We can have some grumpy sheep to contend with though...

Me! It's just because I come from a Windows background rather than Unix so I need the cuddly fluffyiness of a GUI. And I'm saying VMware purely because that's where my main experience lies with supporting VMware ESX in work. Stick with what you know - though I know I'm not going to get the performance on my home setup that I do in work over ESX.

I have just returned to using *NIX, in my case I'm now using Kubuntu [Previously I have used RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake, Slackware, HP-UX, SunOS and AIX], and instead of busting my chops trying to get GSAK and some other must have Windows applications running on WINE, I am using VMWare [Workstation rather than the Player]. GSAK works fine in VMWare, as do most Windows applications when running on Windows 2000, XP or [spit] Vista as a guest operating system on VMware in Linux. I don't use MemoryMap as I prefer Quo from Mapyx. This also works fine in Windows running in VMWare. No problems using Garmin GPSrs as USB devices with GSAK or Quo inside VMWare. Hope this helps? Regards, Martin That's great Martin - sounds just like what I wanted. I wasn't too sure about Garmin working within the VM environment - you've answered that one. This sounds like it's going to be the business!

Yes, its a nerdy topic and I apologise for the cross posting. I've started a thread on this link to ask people if they've tried running Windows within a VM environment (specifically Vmware player - keep it free) on Ubuntu and then the compatibility of USB drivers etc etc. I ask here because of Memory Map - I don't think it is used as much or as extensively as it is in the UK in the rest of the geocaching community. Would Mandarin / Mrs B close the thread straight away please just so that the original thread can have the answers / questions? Many thanks in advance!

Something else to lose, misplace, carry around in ya pockets... bah humbug

That's the kind of setup I'm planning later in the year as I don't do games so much anymore but I do want to still use GSAK, Garmin Mapsource and Memory Map - essential software for geocaching. I've checked out WINE compatibility of GSAK and Memory Map and it doesn't look good. Then I had the idea of running a big virtual Windows machine on top of Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I won't try it out until later in the year (I need to save up my pennies first!) but I was wondering if any other fellow geocachers had any experiences that I could learn from?

Don't forget Welcome to the addiction. or Welcome to the sport. (Which it ain't cos sports have rules that EVERYONE follows the same way... (scottpa100 steps down from the soap box)

Puzzle caches, rightly or wrongly are less frequently visited. So I publish the 'pretend' co-ords for puzzle caches on busy road junctions. My theory being that for people who have not masterminded GSAK, they just dump all caches on their satnavs. They end up bombing up and down these primary routes and will eventually end up doing the cache just to get rid of it off their tomtom. Or place the co-ords in the middle of a large lake, river or the sea. The phantom sea co-ords are done quite a lot up here in north Wales.