ftp server or ftp server or one-click entry
User Name: wikimember
Password: wiki123
Explaining pandemics is the summary page on the wiki.
Continued from here
DemFromCT – at 09:05
The flu aid and flu surge program links are on Flu Wiki here. We put them up last year during PFAW! ;-)
Here is a link to the cd image 500mb. ( Don’t try to download it without a high speed internet connection. Save to your hard drive and use a cd burning program to copy it to a cd. http://www.pandemicreferenceguides.com/PandemicReferenceGuides.iso
Here is a link to the Print Summary 160 pages 5mb. This is a compilation 18 files from various sources which may be useful in the event of a pandemic. http://www.pandemicreferenceguides.com/PrintSummary.pdf
Lugon- Some of the files have copyright notices. Since I am giving it away just as the creators of the documents have done I hope there is no problem. Here is the disclaimer I put on the main page.
“The documents contained on this website and cd may be copyrighted by their respective owners. They were freely available on the internet. The Pandemic Reference Guides are distributed for education only and not for profit. US Code Title 17, sections 107 and 1309 describe protection of this fair use under copyright law. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/”
Just read the Harvard tabletop manual - how wonderful!!! But I wonder how many communities have actually used it and put it into play. I am sending to our local DOH…who BTW are determine to distribute info on a slower basis. I have been encouraging them to speed things up because we are going to run out of time to spoon feed everyone one piece at a time.
You guys are doing a terrific job of packing this website full of extremely valuable information. I continue to be amazed at all the resources that are tucked in here. I just don’t know how to get to them so instead I just stumble across them when someone provides a link in a discussion thread. Thanks for all this hard work!!!
Just downloaded the 160 page document - WOW. This is truly a great tool to pass along. Congratulations to the team who put this together. Amazing!!!
fredness – at 22:16 When trying to download the CD image I got the following. Did the server melt? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The page cannot be found The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
Please try the following:
Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly. If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted. Click the Back button to try another link. HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. Internet Information Services (IIS)
Technical Information (for support personnel)
Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404. Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.
http://www.pandemicreferenceguides.com/ has this text: You can download the CD-ROM ISO image here. Right click, save as, put in a directory on your hard drive, copy the ISO image to a CD.
Sounds like fredness’ site was fluwikied. :-) (This aludes to a site being “slashdotted”. http://www.slashdot.org was one of the first weblogs with a really high number of visitors. Sometimes, a high number of visitors found one specific piece of news interesting, flocked simultaneously from slashdot to the site the news was about, and overwhelmed it. Admins of that site had to pull it off from the ‘net, buy more handwidth, or get themselves some “mirrors” - sites with a copy of the information.)
I can’t get at it either.
Specifically: The “here” in the “You can download …” doesn’t have a link at all.
Hope this helps.
I put the “You can download” text before I had the ISO done. Late for school/work. Will work on it tonite. It took a few hours to upload. Have not tried to download it yet. Must be a beta version ;)
Dude at 00:35 on Sept.14, thank-you for the offer but pugmom showed me the error of my ways:-) I can get it to open now.
fredness – at 22:16 Here is a link to the cd image 500mb. ( Don’t try to download it without a high speed internet connection. Save to your hard drive and use a cd burning program to copy it to a cd. http://www.pandemicreferenceguides.com/PandemicReferenceGuides.iso
fredness: I tried to download, but it doesn’t work for me yet. Do I need to do more than just point and click? The smaller download worked and was great. Thanks. Now to get them all printed and in the book.
fredness - give us a post when the link is working. I’ll be getting some “home improvement / auto repairs” completed the rest of the weekend, but checking back in later this evening, and working on some runs of FluSurge from my data to post as examples in the next couple of days. Thanks for your work. Good guides you have made available.
Would you like me to put a copy of it on the FTP site? We have unused bandwith there…has anyone had a look at the content of these guides? I can’t get to anything.
Dude, the summary PDF I could reach, the ISO image was not yet complete was the way I understood fredness’ last post. I’ll email a copy you can post on the muse server.
My Main site works. ISO does not. I’ll ask my site host for tech support.
My website host needs to add ISO as an acceptable MIME file type. The file will be downloadable by Tuesday Sep 19.
I think it works now. http://www.pandemicreferenceguides.com/PandemicReferenceGuides.iso
It does work, I’m downloading it (or at least my computer is) and I’m going to bed while it finishes. Thanks for the hard work, fredness!
fredness and others, I was able to successfully download the ISO file over night and will burn to a CD to test it out. Of course I have very good high-speed via cable modem, in excess of 6 MB rates. On slower DSL or dial-up this is going to take a while for anyone to get, but the concept is sound, and having our own “Flu Wiki Continuity Plan” is a way to put walk behind our talk. Multiple copies of the Wiki data at multiple locations in case of Internet disruption during any natural disaster, not just a pandemic, would mean a huge amount of amassed knowledge will not disappear until the original server farm comes back on line. You know, I may not always agree with all I read or see here, but I believe in keeping it available after all the personal efforts the mods put into making this go. Poggie, Melanie, Dem, the Reveres and all, I hope you know how much your selfless actions and expenditures are worth to us all.
And just so you know, I have a successful CD burned from your file, fredness. GREAT JOB!!!!
For the ignorant, what’s an ISO file? What program reads it once it’s on your machine? Will this work on a Mac?
Dude! (not you Dude, I mean Dem) please tell me you have at least looked at my site.
Despite the lack of specific feedback I still believe this is a great way to share a lot of information quickly. I may be able to reduce the number of files to make the download smaller. The question is which ones? Handing someone a disk like this gives them more than they can get from a newspaper supplement on emergency preparedness. It is like having the FluWiki To Go. It could be a Tip of the Week (after we confirm it works of course).
An ISO file is a single file which is a copy of a cd or dvd. It includes multiple files (like a zip file). I made this cd on windows xp. It mainly contains pdf files, some video (how to conduct a pulmonary exam, on handwashing and another on infection control) and audio files (lung sounds both normal and with crackles which are typical of pneumonia). I am not certain how much of this will work on a Mac or Linux.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image “As is typical for disk images, in addition to the data files that are contained in the ISO image, it also contains all the filesystem metadata (boot code, structures, and attributes). All of this information is contained in a single file. These properties make it an attractive alternative to physical media for the distribution of software that requires this additional information as it is simple to retrieve over the Internet. … Most CD/DVD authoring utilities can deal with ISO images: Producing them either by copying the data from existing media or generating new ones from existing files, or using them to create a copy on physical media.”
Dem, sorry that the “geek speak” got ahead of us. Fredness explained it pretty well. In my case, using a Windows machine and Nero CD burning software that came with my burner drive, I only had to download the file, then open Nero, select the menu item to make a disk from an image, and select the ISO file. The program automatically created the CD and it was ready to use as soon as it was complete. If you are using OS 10 on the Mac, it should be able to read the CD created with no problem as it is based on HTML, just like the Wiki pages - only it runs from your CD instead of the Internet (hence it is a backup of information in case the net is down). It sounds a lot more complicated than it is. Consider it like a friend giving you a copy of a video or music CD that you just have to copy to your own CD to be able to use whenever you want, instead of having the cable tv channel available.
And, by the way, thanks for the calming on the Noah and Revere thread. Dude talked me down from a high place recently, and I needed it. A lot of fear is coming out, exactly the thing that will be counter-productive. But in the absence of real data anyone with any psychology or propaganda (I mean information management) background would recognize this is exactly what to expect in a vacuum - nature abhors a vacuum and fills it with anything available. That scares me more than a real outbreak - too much like 9/11 and all the confusion afterward about what was next. Hopefully someone respected and reliable will step up to the platform and take the heat of saying something, anything, before mob psychology becomes viral.
fredness, the site is great, and the idea a great one. The question is as much rhetorical as anything else.
people just want to have the skinny before clicking the link. ;-)
I will download it tonight and see how easy it is on a Mac.
i just down loaded http://www.pandemicreferenceguides.com/PandemicReferenceGuides.iso then viewed it. It started out about Sars at the doctors office. Is this supposed to be helpful or did I miss something?
Libby in Atlanta – at 22:25
You should first open the index.html file on the disk and it will look just like the website. The first section will read:
“This a collection of documents that may be useful in the event of a pandemic. This website is available on a compact disc with all documents predownloaded. This may simplify distribution of important information. Please reproduce this cd freely and give it to anyone who may be interested. Begin by sharing this information with others in your community, workplaces, unions, schools, churches, professional associations, volunteer groups, etc. Contact your state and local Department of Health and share your concerns. Speak with your supermarkets, utility companies and politicians.”
If that isn’t showing up leave fredness a note so he can assist you.
Thanks for the feedback. I guess it needs a readme.txt to explain the technical requirements. Even simply stating where to start.
Yes the SARS and “Viral Haemorrhagic Fever in African Settings” information is relevant. These are similar viral diseases with high fatality rates.
I really have no experience in this with respect to healthcare or programming. I am certain someone can use this model and make a better tool for teaching. At the same time I don’t know of any resource as complete as this coming from any organization. I really wish someone would make a pandemic care manual for the world. Woodson’s 300 page book has me curious.
Same thoughts here, fredness - great minds … :)
Such a manual needs a few chapters:
Some of those parts are written already, either by people who have created copyrighted yet sharable work (all amazing and overwhelming), or here on the wiki (both as wikipages and as forum threads, apropriately indexed). Others could be collected in no time (well, almost) if we focus and ask and reach out.
Then there’s the global “policy” stuff anon_22 is so darn good at, and the blogosphere “awareness” stuff dem and melanie and reveres (in alphabetical order) are so invisibly supportive of. Motivating the big guys. Shifting paradigms. Linking to old rivals (in the political arena).
And how to create, distribute and translate all this stuff. Some favour public domain but I guess wikipedia’s license is good enough - at times my feeling is I couldn’t care less, but … Anyway!
All of these initiatives have individuals’ names all over the place. We current humans are, after all, a surviving strain (we all have a long chain of great-grand-parents). We need to, once again, put our best resources to the tasks at hand.
this belongs in the “strategy” thread - copy it over, please?
It worked beautifully on a Mac. It simply created a disk image, like a new hard drive icon that commonly apprears when installing something new. Click on the index and your browser opens to what looks like the web page. Clink away, easy peasy.
I mainly use Internet Explorer as my browser. When looking and some of the pages on my website using Firefox the page layout, frame and color is wrong. I saw this on Business, Food, Sanitation, http://www.pandemicreferenceguides.com/infopages/quarantine.html | Quarantine]], Homeschool, and Emotional Support.
Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe my Firefox is not the latest version but I was hoping this was compatable for the greatest number of people. Do these work on the Mac?
Dem let me know if you want any of this on the FTP site. Thanks.
it should all go on the ftp as the iso file.
Over the weekend I’ll try to update the ftp index on the “explaining pandemics” page.
Ok, let me make certain I have this right…..you guys have been taking great stuff from the fluwiki & putting it into a downloadable format so we can have a way to access the info even if the internet is down. That’s great. Do I look for only the one link (the pandemicreferenceguides) or do I need to scroll all the way back through to thread 1 to hunt & seek information to download. I THINK the one link is all I need, is that correct? Need to know before I get my husband involved in printing & all that!
I’m-workin’-on-it – at 11:16 - You are correct on the info being made to download and use locally. It is all available on the FTP server you can reach via your browser, just like a web page, by using the links at the top of the page. Dude is providing us the server and the Internet bandwidth to run it. Other contributors have been putting their efforts up as they become available.
To download most files, simply open the FTP web page, right click the item you want to download, and select “Save Target as …”. That will open an “Explorer” window to let you select where on your hard drive to save the file and then click “OK”.
I do suggest, because of problems that sometimes happen saving directly from a website to a CD, that you set up a temporary (maybe call it “flu wiki”) folder, and first save the file to your hard drive, and burn it to a CD and print after you have it locally. That usually keeps you from ruining CD blanks in case the Internet stalls or cannot “feed” your CD burner fast enough to satisfy your burner software.
Thanks for the feed back.
Tray75, thanks for the info! I understand now!
I think all things part of the Flu Wiki large files are available in the one click entry at the top of this page. The cd came from my attempt to organize files to print (or at least have on hand for reference). So the cd is in parallel with both the FluWiki and its large file project. It is for local storage of important information. Sometimes files are taken down from sites and bookmarks (or links) won’t work. It is good to keep a copy of information you feel is important.
I put most of the same links here on the FluWiki and referenced them in the index. To me it is easier to navigate the cd. The FW can be confusing with its multiple entries for emergency plans, prep lists, water pages, etc. It is good that the FW is open and dynamic but suffers from redundancy and the need for consolidation. There are many good pages throughout this site which are worthy of printing depending on your situation.
suffers from redundancy and the need for consolidation
it’s a feature not a bug. people look for different things in different places.
new thread here