What's New -- Knowledge Master News

• MOST RECENT:

  The Crop Knowledge Master is currently being updated, and cross-referenced to the Pacific Islands Distance Diagnostics and Recommendation System.
  A self-help insect pest identification system is being incorporated currently. (6/22/06)

  For information on updates and progress, please contact Mark G. Wright, markwrig@hawaii.edu

  
  Udating will include new pests, new information on pesticides available for various pests on various crops; a self-led pest identification module (linking to recommendation databases) and information on IPM training options for growers.

• July 29, 1998 Knowledge Master opened.
• A revision of the web site is being planned. We are working on a search engine, also. Please send us your suggestions and comments. Your input will help make Knowledge Master better!
• Kbase FTP PDF downloads need to be reviewed before they can be posted. Please be patient as we have them reviewed.
• Jan. 20, 1999 http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/feedback.htm After system maintenence, comment box rejected comments. This was corrected.
• Feb. 5, 1999 Beginning work to redo some pictures. Prompted by request from visitor "Include high resolution photographs of pests to aid in proper pest identification. Include high resolution photographs of beneficial insects to prevent people from mistaking ladybug larvae for pests."
• Feb. 20, 1999 Memory leak discovered on Kbase, causing slow response times and sometimes dropping connections. Working to find culprit. Upgrade may be necessary.
• Feb 20, 1999 http://www.extento.hawaii.edu/kbase/crop/crops/cacao.htm a visitor reported the following error "...I was using the cacao section today and I beleive there is a problem with your description of the pest Rose Beetles (Adoretus sinicus). It gives the information on pinkwinged grasshopper, when you click on it." This has been fixed, thank you for sending your comments!
• March 30, 1999 kbase.ctahr.hawaii.edu (comments server) is being upgraded. Down time will last to April 2, 1999
• March 31, 1999 kbase.ctahr.hawaii.edu is restored. Thanks for your understanding.
• May 12 - 19, 1999 Webserver software has been upgraded. Unfortunately, the current hardware is insufficient to support a search engine just yet. We are awaiting a new server with faster hard drives and more memory. Slowly, but surely we are getting where we want to be. As with any change, some problems may be encountered, please tell us of problems through the comments form. Thank you.
• June 7, 1999 Memory leak caused webserver to stop responding.
• June 8, 1999 The IPM Site has been updated for 1999.
• July 1, 1999 A new Server arrived! During the next month, I will begin transfering the site to its new server. Please notify me of any problems you encounter during the transition via the comments form.
• July 8, 1999 We will be replacing the old server with a new server during July 14-15. Thank you for your patience.
• January 20, 2000 Updated Macadamia Protocol Page
• May 19, 2000 Addition to Crop Information->Specialty Crops, Insect and Mite Pest of Commercial Herbs is released.
• May 19, 2000 Some Picture links were broken.  We repaired those, thank you to the visitor that reported the problem.
• August 1, 2000 We added titles and the year of when the reports were written.

• August 1, 2000 we added the following 4 pages to the ornamentals page. Limitations of Classical Biological Control and Conventional Insecticides, New Insecticides Introduced to Fight Old Pests, Biological Insecticides Kill Pests Naturally

• October 5, 2000 Popular Insecticides Banned

• November 16, 2000 Leaf Blight Tolerant Taro Variety Project FINAL REPORT published