Hello Lotusphere 2012!
Sun, Jan 15th 2012 11:00a Andy Pedisich 5 or 6 years ago I would come to Lotusphere and see people that I hadn't seen in a year. Each time I ran into someone we went through a little pre-conversation dance. It was like this: "Hey! How ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Location at the LS12 Sunday Night Reception
Mon, Jan 9th 2012 8:20a Andy Pedisich We'll be at the reception on Sunday night, weather permitting. We usually try to hang out here, since it is far enough from the bands that you don't have to shout. You can pretty much forget cell ph ... [read] Keywords:
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Here’s a great explanation of Social Business
Sun, Jan 8th 2012 6:20p Andy Pedisich I found this because of a post on Bruce Elgort's blog. It's one of a series of videos posted on YouTube by IBM. Thanks Bruce! This particular one features IBM's Irene Greif, who is the Director of ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Cloud Generates New Job Descriptions
Thu, Dec 29th 2011 12:10p Andy Pedisich Many messaging and collaboration professionals currently in development and and administrative roles kind of wonder what will happen to them during the shift to the cloud. Will their jobs go away? Wi ... [read] Keywords: collaboration
development
AdminSmackdown in Barcelona
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 7:00p Andy Pedisich Will you be anywhere near Barcelona in November? You should be. It's one of the most gorgeous cities in Europe. From November 16th to the 18th, Barcelona will be hosting The View's Admin Europe 201 ... [read] Keywords: admin
5 Hour Outage for Office 365
Wed, Aug 17th 2011 10:43p Andy Pedisich This is not a slam. It's just a fact. The incident start time was 3:00 PM. That means it was 3 hours between the outage and the beginning of the restore of service. And my math says it was 5+ ... [read] Keywords: office
Catching up - posting sessions from Admin2011
Tue, Jul 5th 2011 12:40p Andy Pedisich It's the beginning of the second half of 2011, and I am attempting the big Ketchup. Here's why. We spent from June 20th until June 24th soaking up the 106+ degrees of Las Vegas with an astounding 20 ... [read] Keywords:
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Admin2011 Las Vegas, not over, but having a great time
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 11:00p Andy Pedisich This is one of the best crowds ever and an admin conference. There are around 450 admin and such here, and the sessions have been lively with a lot of instant feedback, And I have only done two so f ... [read] Keywords: admin
Admin Smackdown in Las Vegas
Tue, May 17th 2011 6:40p Andy Pedisich I'm planning on a very ultra busy June. It's not like I'm not busy now, but I expect things to get more frantic in June. And June is just about my favorite month of the year. It's nice and warm, ... [read] Keywords: admin
An evening with Cake
Mon, Apr 18th 2011 7:30a Andy Pedisich Last night we saw and heard Cake at the Keswick Theater in Jenkintown, PA, about 1/2 hour outside of Philadelphia. They are appearing there tonight as well and I think there are tickets still availab ... [read] Keywords:
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64 bit single sign on fixed in R8.5.2 FP2
Wed, Apr 13th 2011 12:00p Andy Pedisich I think that "tardy" is a word that I haven't used since I was late for school. Nonetheless it is probably tardy of me to mention this. Lotus Notes single sign on using a 64 Bit version of Windows ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Epsilon security breach affects almost everyone
Mon, Apr 4th 2011 9:50a Andy Pedisich Not everyone is going to be affected by the Epsilon security breach. My cats, for example, have no email accounts, so they will be OK. Ironically, they both love fishing. But many many many other u ... [read] Keywords: email
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Fixpack 2 fixed more bugs than in fixlist
Fri, Apr 1st 2011 12:10p Andy Pedisich There is usually more than meets the eye with FixPacks. That's why IBM/Lotus is always surprised when administrators consider them "optional". I had a user who could not see the body text in his mai ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Fix Pack 2 for Release 8.5.2 is available
Mon, Mar 28th 2011 1:00p Andy Pedisich New fixpacks are kind of an anomaly. Just when you think everybody knows about one being released, you find someone who is surprised to know it's happened. This newest one was released last week. G ... [read] Keywords:
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Sametime and RDP don’t play well together
Tue, Mar 22nd 2011 6:20p Andy Pedisich Let's file this one under... "Here is one of their stories that 'never happened'...from one of their files... that 'doesn't exist'." So there's an old Sametime 7 server in a weird location, but it s ... [read] Keywords: sametime
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Free sloppy code developed by Admins for renaming folders
Tue, Feb 8th 2011 6:30p Andy Pedisich Rob Axelrod and I support a bunch of domains. As you might suspect, there are all kinds of issues that make their way through the food chain to us. One of them was a case where a user with a 6 year o ... [read] Keywords:
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More on Java GetAllDocumentsbyKey issue
Tue, Feb 8th 2011 11:40a Andy Pedisich Thank you to everyone who threw in their two cents on the Jave based GetAllDocumentsbyKey problem I am seeing. Thanks you for the responses to this blog, Jesse and Richard. There were also emails, an ... [read] Keywords: java
The Mighty Domino Configuration Collector
Wed, Feb 2nd 2011 10:30p Andy Pedisich I've decided that the Lotus Domino Configuration Collector document, which was actually item #6 in my list of future things to post, should be the thing I post first. As I have mentioned, Rob and I d ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Things I will post in the coming days
Wed, Feb 2nd 2011 7:30a Andy Pedisich Here is some stuff I will post. 1. Some other presentations showing how to do the extreme statistics extraction in some other formats. 2. Some other spreadsheet templates in some other ... [read] Keywords:
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Wow, what a Lotusphere!
Tue, Feb 1st 2011 9:10p Andy Pedisich This turned out to be quite an extraordinary Lotusphere. First and foremost, I'd like to personally thank all of the attendees who came to our sessions. When we first found out that our Sunday ope ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
Posting live from Lotusphere 2011
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 6:20a Andy Pedisich Cripes, I am still out of it from last night but I made it. I'm sitting in the bloggers section next to andrew pollock. I'll see if I can get something live goingon here. Guest speaker, Kevin Space ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
Our sessions at Lotusphere 2011
Wed, Jan 26th 2011 6:50p Andy Pedisich I'll be heading down to Orlando town on Saturday for Lotusphere 2011. It will be good to see old friends again. In the old days, you'd hit The Fear and usually you really had no knowledge of what an ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
Here’s why I was looking at the loopback adapters
Wed, Jan 5th 2011 10:13a Andy Pedisich I know it must seem pretty esoteric to be yabbering on about the right addresses for loopback adapters. But the conversation is really an extention of something that started before last year's Lotusp ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
2010: The year I gave up on broadcast digital TV
Sat, Jan 1st 2011 1:50p Andy Pedisich You can't fault me for trying. I was curious. I wanted to see what it was like. DTV, I mean. We have had broadband and cable access for almost 20 years, pretty much since it was available. I was j ... [read] Keywords:
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Adventures in overheating laptopness
Thu, Dec 2nd 2010 7:30p Andy Pedisich Alice has been hot for the last several months. I couldn't back her up or she would overheat and shut down. I couldn't do a video Skype Chat without overheating and shutting down. It was messy. ... [read] Keywords: laptop
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Hubble Telescope Advent Calendar
Thu, Dec 2nd 2010 1:10p Andy Pedisich When I was a kid we used to have an Advent Calendar on the wall in the dining room this time of year. This was a Christian calendar of the month of December where each day was represented by a little ... [read] Keywords:
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A nice tip from someone else
Sun, Nov 28th 2010 8:50p Andy Pedisich I'm finishing up the Thanksgiving holiday weekend by rediscovering Frank Zappa for the upteenth time. Tonight I am re-listening to "He used to cut the grass," from the "Joe's Garage" record. I wish ... [read] Keywords:
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Happy 12th Birthday to Technotics!
Mon, Nov 22nd 2010 8:50p Andy Pedisich It's hard to believe. Technotics just turned 12 on November 16th. And just many other busy dads, I forgot its birthday. I'm going to try to make it up to Technotics by taking it to a football game ... [read] Keywords:
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DAOS Savings, a new app, and Sufjan Stevens
Thu, Nov 11th 2010 2:00p Andy Pedisich Just a few quickies here. Rolled out DAOS to 4 production sized servers. Saved an average of 30% total storage space. In real numbers that was 1,741 GB, which is 1.7 TB. Rolled out a customized se ... [read] Keywords:
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John Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity
Mon, Nov 1st 2010 4:10p Andy Pedisich Last Saturday, October 30th, I had the pleasure of attending the John Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity. Linda and I took the train from Philadelphia to Washington DC with a couple of friends. It was ... [read] Keywords:
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Speaking at the Tri-state Lotus User Group
Fri, Oct 8th 2010 10:40a Andy Pedisich This coming Monday, December 11th, I will join a number of excellent speakers for a one day event in New York City. It's the Tri-state Lotus User's Group and it's happening at 590 Madison Avenue in N ... [read] Keywords: lotus
Arcade Fire takes video to new heights
Tue, Sep 28th 2010 9:20a Andy Pedisich Get Google Chrome. Then go here. http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com Be prepared to make a picture or type some words. Don't worry. The birds will avoid your mouse pointer. Arcade Fire's song i ... [read] Keywords: google
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Our day in Koln at the Cathedral
Sun, Sep 19th 2010 8:01p Andy Pedisich I'm a day behind in postings, but here goes. Friday we hit the cathedral in Koln, which is a magnificent place that took hundreds and hundreds of years to finish. Keep your eye on the spires. We ... [read] Keywords:
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Aachen Visit
Sun, Sep 19th 2010 5:00a Andy Pedisich Friday, we took a day trip to Aachen to see the cathedral and see what the town is doing for their annual holiday. It's a great town which a cathedral that has been through a lot since 1200. I spott ... [read] Keywords:
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Post from Germany - Heidelberg and Mainz - Part 1
Thu, Sep 16th 2010 6:10p Andy Pedisich It rained Wedesday morning so we ran between the raindrops and went to Church of the Holy Spirit of Heidelberg. It's an awesome old Gothic church that has been through trials and tribulations like you ... [read] Keywords:
Modifications change cloud reign to rain
Wed, Sep 15th 2010 4:00a Andy Pedisich Nice cloud, Microsoft. Except when it rains. http://www.cio.com/article/611313/Microsoft_Apologizes_for_Service_Outages. Yeah, "unforeseen". Who possibly could have imagined that something you d ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Post from Germany
Wed, Sep 15th 2010 4:00a Andy Pedisich We arrived yesterday and drove directly to Heidelburg from Frankfurt. This was a great idea, as the drive was only a very short hour and we were able to get in some great tourist time once we got set ... [read] Keywords:
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Proposed itinerary for trip to Germany
Fri, Sep 10th 2010 6:30p Andy Pedisich My thanks to all the world travelers who suggested places to visit in Germany. We considered a lot of things in making out plans. I did not want to spend too many hours driving. We wanted to see mo ... [read] Keywords:
SMTP spike in CPU - Domino 8.5.2
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 4:00p Andy Pedisich Here are some things I've tried. When it first happened it resembled a problem that I have seen where the transaction logs can't keep up because of long running transactions. I tried re-configuring ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Good reasons to upgrade to Release 8.5.2
Thu, Aug 26th 2010 9:40p Andy Pedisich I'm always trying to push forward. I use everything in my bag of tricks to try to encourage clients to stay current. In nearly every case I've seen, IT departments are very overwhelmed and understaf ... [read] Keywords:
