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ive been restraining myself in responce to that same line. i was curious what others would say. so heres my dealo. apple have been absolutely awful with open standards until recently. x86 is arguably the most widely used standard in computer hardware, apple just now complied. it wasnt until os8.6 that the TCP/IP stack was fully adopted even then it wasnt default. they have made great strides in recent years but you have to understand that to many techs its just a gui that makes good use of OpenGL. they are becoming pc hardware runnings a unix kernel and a pretty GUI i'm not attacking apple i believe they have a hand full wonderful programs i'm a huge fan of IMovie. and yes i own an ipod. lets not even get into how long it took them to natively ship with a 2 button mouse. (i know soo many mac friends who use to swear all you would ever want was one button) Adrenalynn, i liked your post without the edit.

That can be arranged... Ok dont take this the wrong way but Adrenalynn how are you not a guy. first a pretty decent understanding of computers "(I worked on postscript drivers for 'OS6, then later worked for Filemaker post-Claris...)" then later "Personally, I'd mount 'em up on my linux boot anyway." now "That can be arranged...."

the cache should be named "for those who dislike micros" i agree though the question isnt whether it would be the biggest but where on earth you u hide it.

the rubber covering on my joystick broke off within a month. however this is my perfered gps unit so i hate to give it up.(i have to have it repaired i need it to be water proof) so this leads me to my point customer service!! it sucks, i do mean sucks. its unbelievable that such a great unit has bad customer service. ive only had it for 2 months so its well under warenty but gettin an RMA for it is like pulling teeth. i just want the rubber joystick fixed so basically wonderful unit long as it doesnt break

Well. Personally... And after discussing it with my fellow geek and geocacher (Slannesh), I'm tempted to go with the USB drive still. This way, geocaching cartoons, images, MP3s, and other things can be swapped and traded if desired. My fault here is I'm trying to appease the posters that got alarmed at the idea of having a USB drive in their laptops. Personally, I think it'd be a hoot to stick a USB drive in my laptop and seeing what folks have left. Like a virtual swag trade. If someone WAS to attack my laptop... There's nothing on it I can't lose and a full format and reinstall would take me all of an hour, thanks to imaging software. while those things can be traded over a sd card i think there is something fitting about using a thumbdrive. i was also thinking could be interesting to send a TB thumbdrive out into the world. (i think i will after shopping for the most durable thumbdrive i can find.) if moisture is ever a problem for you just collect some of those moisture balls that come with alot of new electronics.

team geomac, i think uve come up with a good idea. this thread has gotten the hamster wheel in my head going, thanks wonder if we should be taking guesses how long it will take for the ftf

maybe im just weird but i dont really log DNFs. instead when i do find the cache i mention how many time i failed before doing the happy dance. so due to my method of madness i dont really get to delete DNFs

nuttycomputer how about 2 traditional caches that can be logged by normal cachers but within 1 there is a thumbdrive/sd card that has a phrase the other has an email account you send the phrase to the email address and you recieve the coordinates to a 3rd puzzle cache. that will have some geeky name the email account can be a work account or something (long as its not known on geocaching then who cares) just so dont have to check a whole other email account for 1 cache.

My money is that the first viable Lithiom Ion rechargable will be the CR123 or whatever it is they use in teh surfire flashlights. http://www.greenbatteries.com/crlireba2.html Go adrenalynn,

Me! Twice one of which happened at the top of a mountain where theres only access by 4wd or a long long hike. still can't believe that one but guess geocachers think alike. the other one he had published it but just a few days before and i hadnt got my new PQ yet.

is there any possible way to get google earth to show only active caches. is there some type of filter i can put on the KML feed

i recently had a TB for over a month. i lil before the 2 week point my older brother winded up in ICU then quite a bit else happened. i felt bad but life happens when everything calmed down i placed it. i didnt give the explination but would have if the owner would have emailed me.

Not sure if this was covered in the thread, but lithium type batteries obtain their higher volumetric enegy density from having higher voltage difference per cell (3-3.6V per cell vs. 1.2V per cell for NiMH). When a NiMH cell is fully charged, it reads between 1.4-1.45V per cell, making its starting voltage equivalent to an alkaline, so there's rarely a need to modify the electronics inside a device to accept both NiMH and alkaline. For digital cameras, they are often designed to accept 4 alkalines/NiMHs in a series, and two Lithiums (or a pair of two parallel Lithiums) in a series. For consumer GPSr, I'm not sure if manufacturers want to use up extra room to add circuitry to accept all three types, when a much more pragmatic solution (user choice) exists. Besides, Lithium batteries are more likely to catch on fire if not charged properly. I'm speculating that consumer grade AA size Li rechargeables won't be in the market anytime soon. (Don't forget that Hybrid vehicles use NiMH batteries, not Lead-Acid, Li-Ion/polymer, or alkalines. ) which is why i was soo curious when there was a post above which lead to believe that they might have finally made it to the market. i was fairly sure it was a mistake but curiousity killed the cat.

thank you for that, but my question was more for the oldest active cache period not within a certain state or even country (although i would assume it to be in the US) actually too complicated it how would one find the most logged cache. sry im off topic

what a topic. 557 views in lil over an hour. if that doesnt say something i dont know what does. my $.02 own a explorist 210 and an etrex vista. i perfer my explorist but the vista is always loaded with the current PQ just incase. im gonna have to send my explorist in for service soon, so im torn about gettin a legend for my caching while its in the shop or just making do with my vista (which drives me nuts).

I would Highly Highly advise against this. google earth does not nessarly plot the caches in their proper locations. becuase of all the photo stiching that made google earth possible its difficult for them to have the nessary accuracy you would like to have when caching. some have found that if you zoom in and out / move around the caches themselves will be replotted some entirely else when it refreshes. havin said that its possible for to geocache from maps. if i were you i would use a mapping service such as mapquest to plot the cache on a map. this would be considerably more accurate within my local city i find alot of caches solely by viewing the map on the cache page. not to say i dont take my GPSr just i dont turn it on.

I'm a newbie so this might be a simple question but how would one go about identifying what is the oldest cache in the wild.

sry to be soo off topic but if someone does run across lithium rechargable in AA form i would really be interested.

i want to clear this up before the we have a mac pc debate. yes majority of everything that a mac can access a windows box can to and vice versa WITH 3rd party utilities. alot of old mac stuff does need 3rd party programs to be opened in a windows enviorment. i didnt mean to say the autorun couldnt be easily avoided (its one of the first things i disable on computers). i was merely trying to cover every possible threat. also i agree your definately on to something. if it was near me i would love to go after it the moment it was published. i just like the idea of havin a geekier cache

actually this is a really good twist to the idea. here is where it gets a little geeky. if all someone is doing is placing a photo on to the drive there is actually no possibility that any unauthorized program could possibly excute on the finders laptop. except if there was an autorun script but that would be bluntly obvious. i do mean obvious there would be a little file there saying autorun. so far there is no possible way method of infection because you are not actually running to accessing anything on the thumb drive just adding. as for the log file i will admit if someone is really twisted they could wrap a trojan with log but once again i dont see how someone capable of that is sitting around waiting for a thumbdrive geocache. in recap if all someone is doing is simple adding a file not modifying or accessing any information on the thumbdrive then there shouldnt be any issue wiht viruses. instead of log book they could just name the picture their SN and date

See I dont have to worry about this. another geocacher WILL IDENTIFY ME. this is because i typically geocache with my gf (this buys me more geocaching time) and if she was any more obvious id have to stop taking her. she never puts the gps away (no matter how is near by including police) and always just stares at it saying things like "mine puts it over there. i did once spot 3 girls who looked like the belonged in a mall or something not geocaching. i was just walkin away after rehiding the cache when these 3 girls come up navigating by this device, what threw me was it was pink!. i dont know of any stock pink GPSr. but that cache recieved a log that day from "adventure sluts" i know there is a thread where a guy painted a GPSr pink for his sister.

i'm a newbie period. but man oh man do i know the above. i am soo sick of 35mm film canisters. ive even seen one hidden amoung poision oak. what the heck. guess the joke was on me, i got gloves and signed it.

I've never been a palm/pocket pc person. whenever i go caching i reload my GPSr from gsak just incase anything has changed (a cache was archived) after thats done i press file->print. i get a nice list of all the caches that i have on my unit and when i find one i just put a line through it with a pencil. im a newbie but it has worked for me.

no people i didnt get lost, it was a 30 min drive and i had to get gas. it was a magnetic box on a power transformer behind a store. (not exactly the best place) i guess a guy snoopin around a power transformer at night looks shady cause i had a close run in with the police. i saw someone who was staring at me so i went back to my car. the police showed up and hung out for a bit. so i had to wait. once they left i found it easily. series has 4 caches so far and im ftf for all of them

while im completely intrigued with the idea and it makes me wonder what geeky twist i can put on a cache of my own. i have a slight problem with idea. if i understand your plan you want them to sign the text file on your thumb drive and pull an image off of the drive and post the image on the website in order to prove they found the cache. wouldnt you just wind up with a cache page having X number of copies of the same photo. also it wouldnt be difficult for dishonest person to copy the image someone else posted and use it in your own post. depending on the type of photo you want them to pull, you could load it up with 20 or so photos of the same thing just slightly different. maybe move a little or something. then you could tell them to delete the picture they took off the drive. this way everyone would have a simular photo but none would be quite the same. ive probably just made this too complicated. all the same i REALLY like your idea.