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Are they still pulling airplane parts out?

It is not strange, go for it. I was 60 when I started and most of my finds are while caching alone.

I had my first delivery since Tuesday from USPS today. I am expecting a shipment via UPS. The last two days the tracking page has shown it out for delivery and then at the end of the day, that line was taken off the page. I have no idea when it will get here, but the expected delivery date has been the 25th all along. The irony is that this is a home weather station. Hope your weather station arrives so you can find out what's going on out there. I just checked and mine says it is on vehicle for delivery. Big improvement over delivery not attempted! My package arrived! I once again have a working broiler element, and therefore a working oven! That's a bit more important than my weather station. UPS does not show it out for delivery so I probably won't get it until Monday. No big on that one. Did it arrive today? It came on Monday. FedEx did some delivery on Saturday because a neighbor received a box delivered by them, but UPS did not venture out on Saturday.

I have never experienced that on my 2006 Macbook or my 2009 Mac Mini, but I'd "suspect" you either ran out of memory, or your virtual disk is full as the first things to look into if you really wanted to dig further. I've had to grow my virtual disks a couple times over the years as I've kept the system up to date with updates. Windows gets freaky when the disk is close to full. I will try adding more memory to Parallels VM and see if that helps. I am now running GSAK on my PC laptop and having a backup on my Mac. I don't like doing it that way, but it works. Seems as how someone running GSAK on a PC has now encountered the error I had. The thread on that one is here.

I had my first delivery since Tuesday from USPS today. I am expecting a shipment via UPS. The last two days the tracking page has shown it out for delivery and then at the end of the day, that line was taken off the page. I have no idea when it will get here, but the expected delivery date has been the 25th all along. The irony is that this is a home weather station. Hope your weather station arrives so you can find out what's going on out there. I just checked and mine says it is on vehicle for delivery. Big improvement over delivery not attempted! My package arrived! I once again have a working broiler element, and therefore a working oven! That's a bit more important than my weather station. UPS does not show it out for delivery so I probably won't get it until Monday. No big on that one.

I had my first delivery since Tuesday from USPS today. I am expecting a shipment via UPS. The last two days the tracking page has shown it out for delivery and then at the end of the day, that line was taken off the page. I have no idea when it will get here, but the expected delivery date has been the 25th all along. The irony is that this is a home weather station.

The OP said they have a MacBook, which came out around the time Apple finished transitioning to Intel processors, so the OP's MacBook is likely Intel based. Since the OP is probably not the only one interested in the subject, it doesn't hurt to specify.

Being "smart" and being able to develop software are very different things. No one is refusing to be stubborn. Rebuilding GSAK to run on a Mac would be a major endeavor. Given the complexity of GSAK, you can expect to pay professional programmers tens of thousands of dollars for such a project. There's no way you can mess up your computer at all. Anything you do in the virtual machine is completely isolated from your computer. You can purchase Parallels here here for $80. While you're there you'll also need a copy of Windows 7, so add that to your cart as well. Once you have both downloaded, look at this quick start quide to get started and this user's guide for additional information. Don't forget that this only works for Intel based Macs. If someone has an older PPC Mac, Parallels won't work.

This is contrary to my observation. I am running GSAK (and pushing it pretty hard with macros, API calls, PQs and databases over >15000 records) in Windows 7 in Parallels under OS/X Lion on a MacBook Pro with absolutely no problems. All I can say is that Kai Team looked into it and says the problem I was having is caused by Parallels. The problem I have had does not happen all the time, but does show up, and once it does, that db is useless. Kai Team linked another forum that had the same problem with Parallels and a db using SQLite. See the thread on the GSAK board.

Able to do so ? Unknown. Planning to do so ? Not that I can recall hearing. I run on a Macbook, but multiboot with bootcamp (free) to Win7 to run just GSAK and Streets+Trips. Virtualizing with Parallels or VMware Fusion (about $50 each) works fine as well. Running GSAK as a Mac binary with winebottler seemed to work reasonably well although it was a bit unstable for me as well as painful to set up. Clyde is a very responsive Windows developer who provides great support. The $30 that I pay every couple years to keep up to date with GSAK update is well worth it for me. The power of GSAK to me is the one-click PQ downloads+processing, the incredible macro library and functionality, and the excellent very technical and helpful user community. Each would be a hard thing to catch up on. You have to wonder if it's worth any company's money to invest that at this point. There is a problem running Parallels for a virtual PC. Something in Parallels interacts badly with SQLite and some databases become corrupted. I have several dbs and the largest one keeps running up against this problem.

Looking at the weather on the TV. Lots of snow falling at Stevens. Have fun and be safe.

What kind of area were you in? In canyons (including the steel and concrete kind) or in heavily wooded areas a GPSr will tend to lose the signal. That is what the warning message is really saying. You don't have enough of a signal to process a location. It happens to all units, but the newer ones have better technology and can get by with a weaker signal and still get you a good location. Some will even return coords inside a building. That won't happen with the older units unless you are very close to a window. The problem in the canyon is multi-pathing of the signal. If you don't understand what that is, don't worry about it. In wooded areas, the leaves will block the signal.

There are many caches out there with that attribute set where the owner has, in fact, performed the maintenance, but doesn't know how to remove the attribute. Quite often they perform the maintenance and then log a note instead of Owner Maintenance and leave the attribute. Automatically disabling the cache is not a good idea.

What I do is the caches along a route and then look at those results and bookmark the ones I want to do. Expect to find a cache in most every freeway rest stop along the way. One of the problems with just doing the caches along a route is that it will pick up caches that you can't get to easily from the freeway. By bookmarking the ones I want, I can eliminate those. I can then take those that I have bookmarked and plan a route using Microsoft Streets and Trips. That way I can plan my stops and the time involved. I can then decide where to spend the nights along the way. I really like this aspect of caching as it breaks up the distances involved in a road trip. The problem is that the caches take time. I used to take two days to drive from the San Francisco area to Seattle. I now spend three nights along the way when I drive up the coast instead of I-5.

Sounds like New York City. To me, it sounds more like Italy. There the speed limit signs, stop signs, traffic lights and such are mere suggestions.

Same thing happened to me, only I stopped when the first one I clicked didn't download and was gone from the list of those ready for download. I did check and that one was still listed as being done and I could look at the settings for it.

I think the allowing of archived caches is meant to allow you to count one you found that was later archived. Of course you can't normally find one that is archived since it most likely won't be there.

I could see quite a plume of smoke from that general area today. I was in the Belfair area looking to the north.

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First piece of advice. Don't check a day to run until you are sure you have what you want. You should be able to preview that PQ even though it has not run.

The same as everywhere else on Earth (excepting the Poles) = 0.278% or 1 in 360 (full degrees). This assuming great circle travel, constant angle travel would be more like 49.722% as any degree of north angle will spiral to the North Pole. That also assumes you can measure the "heading" to the nearest degree.

We will meet on Saturday at 9:00 at the Annette Lake trailhead and leave a car there. We will be at the Iron Horse parking lot shortly after that and then hike down to the Annette Lake TH. Anyone is welcome to join us.

I considered that when I saw the thread after I posted this one, but decided not to since this reaches just those in the area. Given that we won't be doing this until Saturday, we are certainly not going to be FTF. Well, it went a whole 24 hours without an FTF, and that's on a beautiful sunny Saturday in Washington. So maybe you have a chance. I am suprised. Although one of the most likely FTFer for this cache was a beta-tester and therefore ineligible for FTF. We shall see what happens. I could actually run up there Sunday, but I will be waiting until Saturday.

Mine ran late tonight and I have downloaded them.