Due to a non-cooperative calendar, we are regrettably unable to provide the attention needed for this year's SkiLUG event and thus, I must cancel it at this time. I did speak with several people at Lotusphere about this as well; they understand and gave me their support. I appreciate having good friends in the Lotus Community. Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in attending, speaking, and helping make the event rewarding. Additionally, New England Lotus User Group for partnering with us and LotusUserGroup.org for their interest in promoting our event. I also want to thank the team of volunteers who gave of themselves to assist me this year. Having stated that, there exists some good news...
We will be back in March of 2013! Yes, that is correct, we are just pausing the event for one year. Look for announcements throughout 2012 regarding exciting updates, the agenda, speakers, dates (of course), and the new location. Also, you can follow us on Twitter with the #SkiLUG hashtag and @skilug account too.
SkiLUG 2013 will be a winter LUG unlike any other in North America -- well, at least north of Florida.
IBM Softwware Admins -- Customizing Your Linux Core Dumps
Tue, May 1st 2012 9:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. Applications crash. It is a fact of life with administration, as we have to clean-up the mess when they do. In Linux these memory protection situations, CPU violations, or other software bug snafus typically manifest themselves in a core file, when occurring outside of Domino--which uses its own type of crash files. In UNIX or Linux, you may see the occasional core file laying around the / filesystem, or throughout your home directory if you were running the program that crashed. But what if [read] Keywords: administration
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LotusLearns -- The Good, The Bad, and Yes, It’s Ugly (Underneath)
Fri, Apr 20th 2012 10:09p Bill Malchisky Jr. Plenty of members in the blogger community are discussing this important topic. I am all for aggregating content to make people find information easier for how they use the web. The issue is that most of the blogger content is protected by copyright. That is sacred. Being a published author, this topic is sensitive for me. Very early in my consulting career, I was on a project where a consultant working for a competing firm and from a country that had few protections for the written word, borrow [read] Keywords: lotus
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Regrettably, SkiLUG 2012 Is Cancelled, But There Is Good News...
Sat, Jan 28th 2012 11:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. Due to a non-cooperative calendar, we are regrettably unable to provide the attention needed for this year's SkiLUG event and thus, I must cancel it at this time. I did speak with several people at Lotusphere about this as well; they understand and gave me their support. I appreciate having good friends in the Lotus Community. Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in attending, speaking, and helping make the event rewarding. Additionally, New England Lotus User Group for partnering with [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Best (practices) Session on Compliance Hits Lotusphere Today (Monday)!
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 8:09a Bill Malchisky Jr. Thrilled to be giving the only session on compliance in the Best Practices track. With scores of new regulations coming out of Washington and eDiscovery lawsuits climbing dramatically year-over-year, this session is quite timely. Join me today in the Swan Toucan, at 5:00 PM EST for an entertaining and information session to learn about the current trends and why you should take it seriously, lest your firm end up as a front page story for the wrong reasons. . Title: BP204 Smart Plays with Com [read] Keywords: admin
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Congratuations to IBM! Taking Top Honors Twice with Linux
Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 4:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. This week Linux Journal released their best of Linux Readers' Choice Awards 2011. The poll offers a winner and runner-up in 45 categories of products, ranging from various hardware to software segments. Examples include: Best Graphics Chipset, Best New Office Suite, Best Distribution, and Best Desktop Vendor. For the Best Linux Server Vendor -- IBM took the top spot. Having used the runner-up and their support, plus other vendors over the years, I can absolutely testify to the quality har [read] Keywords: ibm
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Excellent GIMP Learning Resource Collection
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 6:17a Bill Malchisky Jr. Linux Today featured an abstract to a full article in the Ostatic blog covering some updated resources on GIMP -- the highly advanced and capable open source image editing tool. It's free and it's fantastic. But, with all of the included features, the learning curve can be quite daunting for many. The open source community responded with some pretty impressive documentation, which is getting better with each release. The original resource comes from the source itself, GIMP GIMP Documentat [read] Keywords: community
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Netbook Performance Woes? Open Source Has An Answer
Wed, Oct 12th 2011 6:12a Bill Malchisky Jr. What I love about the open source community is that they can quickly respond to industry/user demands in a small fraction of the time of their closed source counterparts. Here is a great example. Netbooks are useful devices, slightly less popular now with the advent of the tablet, but they are still selling and have their place. To that point, many of the operating systems that run on them tend to force users to make a decision between two mutually exclusive capabilities: features vs performance [read] Keywords: community
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