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Distributed File Sharing for SAR

By Michael Coyle Posted on 25/05/2009 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with opinion, review, SAR

Many people have asked me over the years how to share files amongst several people who may need to edit the same document. There are many clunky file sharing solutions out there (including the one I developed for my SAR …

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Cloudburst: not yet

By Michael Coyle Posted on 21/02/2009 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with photo, ski, snow, trip

Hoping that a recent road report on Bivouac.com was corrrect (that you could drive to the Roe Creek turoff), Myself, Tom and the two dogs tried to get up Cloudburst via Chance Creek on Friday. This is my second attempt …

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Excercise SILVER

By Michael Coyle Posted on 13/02/2009 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with management, map, scenario, software, training

An Earthquake near Tsawwassen, a structure fire on Hamilton Street, a gas leak at Robson and Cambie, and a dirty bomb in Agasiz. Just another day in Excercise Silver. Silver, the second in the series of preperatory emergency excercises leading …

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Mount Seymour wx

By Michael Coyle Posted on 04/02/2009 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with safety, ski, snow, weather

I was up Mount Seymour on Monday (Feb 02) evening. Near the end of the snowfall, it rained all the way to the top of the mountain, and quite a significant amount. When I was skiing up i observed a 1/4″ …

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How to Convert PDF files to images

By Michael Coyle Posted on 20/01/2009 Posted in Blog Entry No Comments Tagged with how-to, technology

Let’s say that someone has provided you with some highly detailed maps, these maps are in PDF format. Our mapping application needs them to be images. There are about 150 of these files. How do I convert PDFs to images? …

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