---------------------------------------------------------- Lightning-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sat 02/05/11: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:34 AM - Newsletter continues great read (nick otterback) 2. 06:28 AM - Re: Newsletter continues great read (Brian Whittingham) 3. 09:15 AM - Newsletter Digest 2008-2010 (Bill Strahan) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:34:42 AM PST US From: nick otterback Subject: Lightning-List: Newsletter continues great read John, - nice job on this months newsletter. Every one needs to read the tech articl e on the nose block... - Nick=0A=0A=0A ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 06:28:03 AM PST US From: Brian Whittingham Subject: Re: Lightning-List: Newsletter continues great read I agree, wonderful job on the newsletter. Buz did a great for such a long t ime that it will naturally be a hard position to fill! It is great to see a new editor in chief that will carry on with tech tips, customer stories, et c that we have all come to expect. Thanks for taking the helm. Brian W. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 5, 2011, at 7:25 AM, nick otterback wrote: > John, > > nice job on this months newsletter. Every one needs to read the tech artic le on the nose block... > > Nick > > > ========================== ========= ========================== ========= ========================== ========= ========================== ========= > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 09:15:44 AM PST US Subject: Lightning-List: Newsletter Digest 2008-2010 From: "Bill Strahan" I've spent the bulk of the last 4 days in the house due to ice and snow. Yeah, here in Dallas. Crazy. The weather cleared last night, but a call to the airport let me know the runway had 12" snow drifts. Hmmm. I think the snow will melt before I can make those skis I was dreaming about, so I'll be patient. I got so bored that I went through my folder of Lightning newsletters and renamed each one so the names were consistent. "LN YYYY-MM.pdf" was the pattern, so "LN 2010-03.pdf" is the March, 2010 issue. As soon as I finished that, I went online searching for a PDF merge utility. I found one and proceded to merge all the newsletters from each year into a single file. "LN 2008-ALL.pdf" for 2008, etc. Then I merged each of those into "LN 2008-2010-ALL.pdf" What's the point in all of this? Well, I was contemplating standing up a website on AdventurePilot.com that would allow searching of the newsletters. But it occured to me I'd get 90% of the benefits from a single file approach with about 1% of the effort. I like that ratio. I'll probably just merge in the new newsletters periodically, but until then I can load "LN 2008-2010-ALL.pdf" and search three years of newsletters easily. I'll name intermediate merges something like "LN 2008-2011-06.pdf" to indicate the latest newsletter in the collection. If anyone hosting the current newsletters would like the merged PDF of 2008-2010, please let me know and I will send it to you. And John, nice job on the first newsletter! Read this topic online here: http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=329736#329736 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Matronics Email List Services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post A New Message lightning-list@matronics.com UN/SUBSCRIBE http://www.matronics.com/subscription List FAQ http://www.matronics.com/FAQ/Lightning-List.htm Web Forum Interface To Lists http://forums.matronics.com Matronics List Wiki http://wiki.matronics.com Full Archive Search Engine http://www.matronics.com/search 7-Day List Browse http://www.matronics.com/browse/lightning-list Browse Digests http://www.matronics.com/digest/lightning-list Browse Other Lists http://www.matronics.com/browse Live Online Chat! http://www.matronics.com/chat Archive Downloading http://www.matronics.com/archives Photo Share http://www.matronics.com/photoshare Other Email Lists http://www.matronics.com/emaillists Contributions http://www.matronics.com/contribution ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These Email List Services are sponsored solely by Matronics and through the generous Contributions of its members.