[pestlist] Workshop Papers
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hello - Thank you to all that attend the 2014 Museumpests Conference and a big thank you to the CWF Crew for hosting it. As promised to those that attended my workshop I have posted the work sheet, a sample set and the data diagrams for both Zpest and CollectionPests. The sample data is in Mac Excel format (xls) - if you have any problem downloading any of the items please contact me directly at l...@zaks.com The workshop material is at http://museumpests.net, 2014 conference, look for the workshops link toward the bottom and click it. leon ... -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
[pestlist] test - please do not reply
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- This message was originally HTML formatted. View in a HTML capable client to see the original version.\r\n\r\nJust a test to check for changes. No need to reply. -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
RE: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hello - One of the advantages of this type of list and having the person that designs and writes the software is a part of the list and it provides a direct line of communication not normally available with software products. I appreciate the comments about my products and do pay attention to them. The current suggestions we've been working on were the ability to do a backup of your data to your location and the need to get an Excel accessible export. We now have answers for both. Under the utilities section there is now a one click, all inclusive backup. This is a backup that we can restore your site from. It is not readily human readable, it is made for our restore system to read. This is meant for catastrophic situations - someone mistakenly goes through and deletes a large amount of data for example. We still backup the whole site each night for our purposes. For the Excel export we've added a link on the Reports page to an Export page. There are two options on this page. The first will let you define a start and end observation date (defaulting to your first and last observations entered) and then you can download the information in a CSV file format that can easily be imported into Excel. Once in Excel it can be sorted, graphed, printed and more. The second option is a complete download of all of your images - Maps, Icons, Photos etc. They are in the size and format that they were when you uploaded them. To answer the mapping concern - we have incorporated something that we think will work for many. Under the Map section you can upload a jpeg version of your floor map. Our aim was to make a system that was easy to use but did not require additional software. Once the map is upload you can add icons to the map that represent your traps. Along with a link to the map location there is a link to the trap details. This allows you to visually look at a floor map and see the placement of your traps, click on each icon and see the details of each map. You can delete a trap from a map once it has been placed. There is also a set of generic icons (you can add your own icons in addition) that you can place on the maps. This is good for noting various things such as water leaks, food containers, event notes and more. One of the enhancements we will be working on to the maps section and to the observation section is the ability to scroll through dates and visually observe changes in pest counts. And of course down the road apps are in the vision. I am not a fulltime museum professional. But, most fulltime museum professionals are not programmers. If I did not listen to the practicing professionals in this field I would end up with the greatest program for pest control that programmers would want. Therefore I welcome and depend on your feedback. That way we all win. leon ... -Original Message- From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Katharine Elise Corneli Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:11 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] FW: Zak's software This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hi there, I've only recently joined the pestlist and so apologize if this is a repeat of topics previously covered. We are looking for a good database system for recording IPM information. We had been using Zak's ZPest software for Windows and exporting the data into excel. This was a pretty slow process however and we are now experimenting with an online database by the same developer at collectionpests.com. This too seems to have it's drawbacks and I am wondering if anyone uses it and what their thoughts are. I would also like to know if anyone uses other programs or databases that they could recommend. We have about 80 sticky traps throughout our museum and check them every two months, recording each insect that we find. Then we map any high risk incidents using photoshop. The whole process takes 2-3 days and I would be grateful for any time saving suggestions you might have. Thank you, Katy Corneli Assistant Collections Manager Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Drive Salt Lake City Utah, 84112 801-585-9769 -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set
[pestlist] FW: pest identification
This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. --- Hello - we received the email below - the images were in the rar compressed format. Rar is not native to many computers so I've put his images on a page on the museumpests web site. If you'd like to help him out please go to http://museumpests.net/temppests and view the images. As I usually do, I also suggested that he join our list. Until he does that, which you won't know unless he sends something to us, please send your answers to the list (just so others can follow) and to him, nyilma...@nku.edu.tr leon ... P.S. - I think we had this pest come through a couple weeks ago - must be the season ? From: Nadim YILMAZER [mailto:nyilma...@nku.edu.tr] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 7:39 AM To: i...@museumpests.net Subject: pest identification Dear Sir/Madam, Please attached to find a zipped folder including pictures of some insects we encountered in fur store of our small zoology museum. I wonder if you have chance to identify those insects? (I think they are two adults, two larvae and one pupa. One adult may be a black carpet beetle.) (By the way, I am a cell biologist, not an entomologist). Thank you for your help in advance. Best regards. Dr. Nadim Yılmazer Namık Kemal University Biology Department Tekirdag - Turkey -- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: unsubscribe - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
[pestlist] What a mess - the digest mode. (and I finally typed it correctly)
First - Please - DO NOT respond to this on the list, hitting reply sends it back to everyone on the list, not to just me. Short version: You're off the digest mode and it is turned off because the digest mode didn't work like we thought it would, I'll try to figure it out and let you know when it's OK. You should also know that if you have an auto-responder that responds to the list I will remove your address from the list. You don't need to read the rest of this for the short version. The explanation version: The email list system is part of a mail program I've been using for almost 15 years and it is used by Intuit (Quicken), Tulane, WebMD, Harley-Davidson, Boston Celtics, and on and on - no slouch program. You would have thought that with that kind of endorsement the list manager would be close to perfect. So much for that. Anyway, I've taken everyone out of the digest mode and put you back in the standard mode while I figure out what is going on with it. I'm going to be talking with the company and if it can be fixed I'll try the test list first that I didn't think I needed to do based on their history. The company is Ipswitch if you wanted to know. It looked like any images included with emails sent to the list, and that includes graphics with signatures, were delivered in a system called base 64 which although looking like gibberish was the way you had to encode and send images way back in the beginning of the net. This is a group that should be OK with old stuff but when it comes to this we'll make an exception and see if we can make it new. leon ... Leon Zak ZAK Software Inc. http://zaks.com
[pestlist] Digets Mode
Hello all - I'm am setting up digest capabilities for this list. Digest mode (and it is optional by user) will save the emails that have come in over a certain period and then mail them to you all at once. If the period is set to one day, all emails coming in that day would be sent to you at one time at the end of the day. I can set the digest period and the send time. Digest period options are: daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. If you think you'd like to use the digest mode, please let me know which period you would prefer - I can only set it to one. Leon Zak ZAK Software Inc. http://zaks.com
[pestlist] It's set, votes are in, decision is made.
First, I apologize for not saying this in the first email, if you want to reply please reply directly to me, l...@zaks.com, NOT the list. The results are in and the mode will be DAILY. What this means is IF you choose the digest mode you will get one email a day with all of the in it. If you do not subscribe you will continue to receive the emails as they come in. To change TO the digest mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body of the email put: set mode digest pestlist If you want to change to the standard mode set an email to imail...@musumpests.net and put: set mode standard pestlist You may switch as often as you wish, but you MUST send the email from the same address that you are signed up with. Any questions (if you're receiving this right now, about 1:50pm est, then you are in the standard - non digest - mode) please send an email directly to me, not the list - meaning - don't just hit reply to this. Thanks, Leon Zak ZAK Software Inc. http://zaks.com http://collectionpests.com
