IBM Adds 200 Partners to LotusLive Cloud Services
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 6:10p Gregg Eldred It appears that IBM Lotus may be striking at Microsoft and its end-of-life for Essential Business Server with a recent press release announcing 200 partners who "plan to sell LotusLive."
IBM today announced more than 200 partners are planning to sell to their customers LotusLive cloud services. The news comes in just two months since the introduction of the LotusLive partner program as evidence of increasing migration to the cloud for collaboration capabilities.
. . . As part of today's ne [read] Keywords: collaboration
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A Dumb Thing That Gets Me Emotional - Marine Corps Advertising
Mon, Mar 15th 2010 4:00p Gregg Eldred For the most part, a lot of advertising just flows over me without eliciting a response. However, when I see an ad for the Marine Corps, there is a response, usually a very emotional one. Sitting in a semi-darkened movie theatre this weekend with family, Number One Son sitting next to me, this ad appeared on the screen:
Green Zone isn't supposed to be a tear jerker, but it started out that way. *sigh* [read] Keywords: application
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Selecting the Right Smartphone - Flowchart
Mon, Mar 15th 2010 11:50a Gregg Eldred After reading Guy Wakely's post concerning the selection of a new smartphone, I found this flowchart that may provide some assistance. Funny, but Palm is not represented. [read] Keywords:
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ITWire: Big Lego Blackberry built
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 11:50a Gregg Eldred Lego artist/sculpter/genius Nathan Sawaya has created the ultimate in geek toys, a giant Lego RIM Blackberry Tour 9360 complete with working LCD screen. The 'artwork' stands at about 1.5 metres high and follows one of his previous projects, a similarly giant Lego iPhone. Clearly Sawaya has no particular loyalty to either.
More > The photo accompanying the article: [read] Keywords: blackberry
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IBM Whitepaper: Administering IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 servers for beginners
Thu, Mar 11th 2010 10:40p Gregg Eldred IBM Lotus has published a whitepaper on administering Domino 8.5. From the abstract:
This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of how to administer IBM Lotus® Domino®, explaining the fundamental components and terminology so that new administrators can feel familiar with the product. Specifically, we explain key features and functionalities such as the Notes.ini file, the Data Directory, IDs, server commands and documents, and server activities. Also included are discussions of [read] Keywords: admin
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Redbook: Best Practices for Building Web Applications for Domino 8.5.1
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 11:00p Gregg Eldred This IBM Redbooks wiki has the following objectives:
Provide guidance on Best Practices for Domino Web Development, with emphasis on the new XPages design element. This wiki introduces the key new features of XPages and discusses how and why these features are meaningful within the context of Domino Web Development.
Provide hands-on tutorials and sample code, which give you the opportunity to work with XPages and to understand the improvements in Domino 8.5 Web application development. As a fou [read] Keywords: domino
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The Husband Store
Tue, Mar 9th 2010 10:10p Gregg Eldred A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City , where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to t [read] Keywords:
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PCQuest: Preview: Lotus Notes/Domino vs MS Exchange/Outlook 2010
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 1:00p Gregg Eldred The first of several installments from PCQuest where they compare and contrast IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 and Microsoft Exchange and Outlook 2010 has been published. The initial article looks at licensing and a high level view of features.
Email servers have evolved considerably over the years. From being basic solutions that send/receive emails, they've become full-fledged platforms that enable unified communication in an enterprise, allow social networking, and even enable workflow auto [read] Keywords: domino
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Number One Son: Marine
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 4:00a Gregg Eldred Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985
Number One Son is now a United States Marine.
After 13 weeks of only communicating with him via letters, on March 4 we finally saw and spent time with Number One Son.
March 4 was Parent's Day at Parris Island. It started by arriving at the Parade Deck at 7:00 AM to watch the start of the Motivational Run. At that hour, all of the recruits [read] Keywords: wiki
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Overheard
Sun, Mar 7th 2010 10:50p Gregg Eldred Tech1: "Oh, man, they include the
web address of their Exchange server in the presentation. Webmail.RNCHQ.Org/Exchange,
expect the hacker onslaught any minute now."
Tech2: "Why bother? They already ruined a perfectly good machine by
putting Exchange on it."
Thanks, Matt. [read] Keywords: exchange
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University of Dayton: Moving Students from Lotus Notes to Gmail?
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 11:31p Gregg Eldred I'm not sure why, but I am enjoying the discussion that is occurring at the University of Dayton concerning e-mail. Currently, all students and staff are on the university's Domino servers. But that will probably be changing. I've talked about UD twice, once about the students forwarding their Notes mail to more familiar messaging systems and then about a paragraph in a Letter to the Editor. Now, the student newspaper, Flyer News, is reporting that the university is evaluating a move from Domino [read] Keywords: domino
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Big Bang Theory: Vanity Cards
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 10:20p Gregg Eldred Silly me. I have been DVR'ing/taping/recording (whatever you want to call it these days) Big Bang Theory primarily so that I can stop the recording to be able to read the vanity cards that close every episode. Little did I know that they were available on the internets. For example, here is the one that appeared after this evenings episode:
I worked for Stan Lee twenty-five years ago at Marvel Animation in Los Angeles. My favorite memory is sitting in his office with the legendary Johnny Carso [read] Keywords: office
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SnTT: SMTP TLS on Domino
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 12:12p Gregg Eldred As I have been getting quite a few referrers looking for SMTP TLS on Domino or Domino TLS, a friend has graciously provided this primer on enabling TLS with Domino. This post now fully peer reviewed and correct
For the purposes of illustration here, I have used 192.168.0.1 to mean the public IP address of your Domino SMTP/mail router server, domino.company.example to mean your Domino server's fully qualified host name and keyfile.kyr to mean the keyring file used for TLS.
Using SMTP TLS [read] Keywords: admin
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Whom God Would Destroy by Commander Pants
Wed, Feb 24th 2010 12:00a Gregg Eldred I have to think that I am lucky. Over the
course of the past year, I have been introduced to quite a few new authors.
Where I was once hesitant to take a chance on a new author, I now relish
the opportunity to delve into characters and writing that is fresh, new,
and, in almost all cases, original and funny. When the author, Commander
Pants, contacted me to review his (I assume) novel, Whom
God Would Destroy, I welcomed
the opportunity. This novel builds to an amazing and satisfying climax
and w [read] Keywords: community
Wired: RIM CEO Offers a Peek at New BlackBerry Browser
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 10:40p Gregg Eldred Finally (although RIM has not announced the release date).
BlackBerry addicts wonât have to wait much longer to get a true browsing experience through their smartphones.
A new BlackBerry browser based on the Webkit layout engine is on its way and it will be extremely ânetwork efficient,â Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis told attendees at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona Tuesday. What RIM did not mention is that Webkit layout engine is also used [read] Keywords: blackberry
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TG Daily: Sexting attracts teens to Blackberry Messenger
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 10:01p Gregg Eldred I suppose that this is one way to have an iPhone killer. Sexting is bad according to LG Electronics, but it may be good for RIM, which has seen a record number of teens and young people signing up for a blackberry over the past year, attracted mainly by the magnetic pull of its Blackberry Messenger service.
"A lot of kids say they would rather a Blackberry than an iPhone because of BBM," a Blackberry spokeswoman told TG Daily at a Mobile World Congress (MWC) press event on Monday night.
"T [read] Keywords: blackberry
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I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 9:00p Gregg Eldred After finishing Stephen Hunter's previous
Bob Lee Swagger novel, Night
of Thunder, I was wondering
if I would ever return to one of my favorite characters in fiction. That
novel was a disappointment. After reading an interview with Stephen Hunter,
in a magazine, I had renewed hope and interest for his latest installment,
I,
Sniper. It seemed that Hunter
was returning to the formula that made Bob Lee Swagger one of the best,
most thrilling characters in fiction.
The ghosts of Vietnam are stil [read] Keywords:
Mid West Lotus Users Group Conference 2010 - News and Updates
Fri, Feb 12th 2010 4:53p Gregg Eldred Shortly after Lotusphere 2010 concluded,
planning for the Mid
West Lotus User Group Conference
began in earnest. That doesn't mean that there has been no work on the
conference prior to Lotusphere, but now we are really focusing on delivering
another information laden two day event. As announced last year, the dates
are August 19-20 and it will be in Cleveland.
Hotels have submitted proposals, and we have whittled them down to three
alternatives. At this moment, the hosting site appears to b [read] Keywords: lotus
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Preview: Twitter for BlackBerry Application
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 1:10p Gregg Eldred The Inside BlackBerry Blog has a preview of the forthcoming Twitter for BlackBerry Application.
The Twitter for BlackBerry smartphones application has been designed to take advantage of the BlackBerry platform to create a user experience that will be familiar to both Twitter and BlackBerry smartphone users. Some of the areas that we have focused on are:
Push technology and Message List integration to notify you of your direct messages as soon as they arrive.
Send/Share BlackBerry menu inte [read] Keywords: application
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SnTT: Accessing Archives on USB Hard Drives or: Watch for .acl files
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 11:10a Gregg Eldred An interesting issue occured after upgrading Notes and Domino to 8.5.1. The Notes clients and the Domino server were upgraded without any issues. However, most users were archivnig their mail to a shared 1TB USB hard drive hanging off of a server. At first, everythiing was fine, from opening the archives to moving mail into them. Then, a few people would report that they were receiving an error message when they tried to either open their archive or add documents to it:
Short term fix was t [read] Keywords: acl
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eWeek: 10 Things Apple Doesnt Want You to Know About the iPad
Tue, Feb 9th 2010 9:42a Gregg Eldred eWeek has posted a slide show on a few of the items that are lacking with the recently announced iPad. Among the issues are no USB or Firewire ports, no Flash support, and no printing capability.
Apple has been touting its iPad since it was first announced a few weeks ago. But after the hype wears off and we take an honest look at the iPad, we quickly find that there are some major flaws with the company's tablet device that it just doesn't want us to know about. When a consumer picks up the i [read] Keywords: apple
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New TSA Logo - Part II
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 5:20p Gregg Eldred Back in January, vowe posted about a TSA Logo contest being run by Bruce Schneier. Checking back today (thanks, Matt), there are a "few" more entries. Hilarious.
More > [read] Keywords:
Reference Card: Using IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Reference Card
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 9:50a Gregg Eldred On the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki is a Reference Card for Lotus Notes 8.5.1 that you can use to help your users navigate the Notes client and perform some of the more common tasks.
To download the reference card from the wiki, you will need to register. As one commenter pointed out:
...Otherwise you just get an obscure "Error 400" and will sit there like me scratching your head thinking it's a broken link. Heaven forbid that people just download public content anonymously.. sigh!
Updat [read] Keywords: domino
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William Lin: Install Lotus Domino Server 8.5.1 on IBM Cloud
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 6:00p Gregg Eldred Started from January 25, 2010 IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud is opening a new Pilot Service for selected customers. Whoever with or without cloud experience should deem this as a great opportunity to be the first few people to taste IBM Cloud and it is FREE! Follow the instructions on front page you should be able to register and get the right to create your own application server(instance) on IBM cloud right away!
More >
After following William's steps, you wil [read] Keywords: domino
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ZDNet: IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 9:40a Gregg Eldred While ZDNet announces the release of Lotus Symphony 3.0 beta, author Larry Dignan points out two issues with the alternatives of Microsoft Office:
The challenge for alternatives to Office is clear: Break customer inertia. We all know the potential ROI case. Alternatives are largely free vs. paying Microsoft for Office. However, customers generally like Office and have no tolerance for that PowerPoint document that may not be formatted correctly with an alternative.
Inertia and formatting/comp [read] Keywords: collaboration
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FUDWatch: Lotus Keeps The Executive Revolving Door Moving
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 5:20p Gregg Eldred While I think I understand the short tenure of the General Manager position at IBM Lotus (it is, after all, a very large organization and this can be considered somewhat "normal"), FUDWatch has their own view of the "revolving door" at the top of IBM Lotus.
I'll never understand it. I could have a dozen top men from Big Blue explain it to me for hours on end, and I still won't completely get why IBM keeps shuffling people in and out of Lotus Software's general manager position. I know IBM sta [read] Keywords: ibm
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Work is Not the Place Use the Internet to View Swimsuit Models
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 2:20p Gregg Eldred Excellent artcile accompanying the video
In the meantime, we now understand exactly why it was that US regulator The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found it so difficult to detect Bernie Madoff's fraud - several SEC staff were apparently spending their time trying to use the regulator's computers to access porn sites instead of helping to combat crime.
More > [read] Keywords: application
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Information Management: AVATARs Data Center
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 12:10a Gregg Eldred Based on the numbers, I am guessing that you have seen the movie, Avatar. How about a look at the data center that processed the digital images you witnessed?
. . . Our center is about 10,000 square feet, and it's only half full. But we run a lot of machines - about 4,000 quad-core HP blades, 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage. It all has to be packed together for performance, and we use multiple 10 gigabyte links to connect the gear.
More > [read] Keywords: network
Channel Register: Microsoft and IBM cloud collab claims deflated
Mon, Feb 1st 2010 10:30a Gregg Eldred Channel Register takes a stab at the numbers game that both IBM and Microsoft play when touting their respective software offerings.
IBM and Microsoft have a storied history of slinging the number of "seats" they've scored for their respective platforms, Lotus Notes and Domino numbers clashing with figures for Exchange and Sharepoint. Particularly around Lotusphere, IBM's annual conference to hype its collaboration wares. With market growth tepid but expectations for the cloud on the rise, th [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBMs New Exhibit at Walt Disney World in EPCOTs INNOVENTIONS
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 4:40p Gregg Eldred IBM's "Smarter Planet" is now on display for visitors at Walt Disney World's EPCOT theme park. It's nice to see that IBM refreshes their exhibit space at EPCOT, keeping it fresh and relevant.
IBM today unveiled a new experiential exhibit at INNOVENTIONS at Epcot® at the Walt Disney World® Resort, which invites guests to discover the possibilities of building a smarter planet. The exhibit is powered by a new Smarter Data Center, providing a real-life demonstration of optimized computi [read] Keywords: ibm
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NEOLUG February Meeting Announcement
Fri, Jan 29th 2010 4:30p Gregg Eldred Join us and your peers at the Northeast Ohio User Group on Thursday, February
18th from 9:30am - 2pm at the Twinsburg Library in Twinsburg Ohio.
10050 Ravenna Rd.
Twinsburg, OH 44087
Phone: 330-425-4268
Special Guest Speakers are:
Brandt Fundak - Olympic
Steel (Object oriented programming using LotusScript - 10am - 11:30)
Chris Blatnick - IBM
(Mobile Connector for Notes - 11:45 - 1:30)
Lunch will be provided by VOX
Mobile.
*The NEOLUG website [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1: Upgraders Guide - Save 22%
Thu, Jan 28th 2010 10:11a Gregg Eldred You review the book, Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1: The Upgrader's Guide, and the next thing you know, Amazon is sending you an e-mal that you can purchase it for 22% off the cover price. The interesting thing is that they didn't realize that I reviewed that book, but rather reviewed another Lotus Notes and Domino book, Survival Guide for Lotus Notes and Domino Administrators, [read] Keywords: domino
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iSeries and Domino: Compatibility Matrix
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Gregg Eldred Great resource for those organizations that are running Lotus Domino on iSeries; Lotus Software for IBM i operating system (the new name for i5/OS) Compatibility Guide. Not only does it show you the versions of Lotus software that are compatible with various versions of i5/OS, it also tells you the release of Domino that is required for related Lotus products.
Thanks, Evan.
Technorati tag: Lotus Domino iSeries [read] Keywords: domino
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ITWorldCanada: Lotusphere 2010: Nine things (including William Shatner) seen and heard
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Gregg Eldred An article on ITWorldCanada's site has some interesting, easily digestable snippets from the Lotusphere Opening General Session (I think). There is one point that I don't think I have seen in any other Lotusphere report:
Picciano didnât refrain from taking shots at rivals Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. âOur competition believes in disruption just for disruptionâs sake,â he said to a slide illustrating a falling house of cards on which were the faces of Steve Ballmer, Steve [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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A Small Problem with this Blog: Do You Have Advice?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Gregg Eldred Recently, I noticed that I am missing one of the blocks on this blog; Recent Entries.
I have confirmed that it is enabled. I have also edited and saved the block, hoping that would get Recent Entries to appear. Of the things that I have not done are:
Run Fixup and Updall against the blog
Delete the Recent Entries block and recreate it
Open the blog in Designer and investigate the code behind the block or the view
While I am running a early version of the template, V1.3.1, I've had no issu [read] Keywords: updall
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The Twitter Book by Tim OReilly and Sarah Milstein
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Gregg Eldred It probably comes as no surprise that Twitter
usage grew 1,382 percent in just three years. It is a service that, once
you understand it and its power, can become a part of your daily life.
In more ways than just telling the world what you had for lunch. To help
people understand that growth and to assist them with the use of Twitter,
Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein have authored The
Twitter Book. This little
book, all of 234 pages, can be read in one sitting. Or, more likely, kept
at arms reach [read] Keywords: applications
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Lettermans NBC Promo For Jay Leno
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Gregg Eldred The current late night problems on US television is not something that concerns me. But that doesn't mean that I am unaware of what is going on. When, and if, I watch a late night show, it;'s David Letterman. That's why this "promo" that Letterman showed the other night, for Jay Leno's "new" Tonight Show, made me laugh. [read] Keywords: application
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Security Advisory: IBM Lotus Domino Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Gregg Eldred Secunia is reporting an LDAP issue in Domino 8.5 Fix Pack 1 that could cause a Denial of Service issue with your Domino server.
Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in IBM Lotus Domino, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the processing of LDAP messages, which can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted LDAP me [read] Keywords: domino
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The 5 Greatest Warriors by Matthew Reilly
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Gregg Eldred Shakespeare, he isn't. However, every time
I see a new novel from Matthew Reilly, I have to read it. His latest novel,
The
5 Greatest Warriors, has recently
hit the bookshelves and I immediately picked it up. As this is not the
first novel I have read by Reilly, I knew exactly that I would be enjoying
a thrill ride that few authors can deliver. You push onward, reading to
the very end so that you can finally get to the point where you can catch
your breath. The characters never get to rest and n [read] Keywords:
Future Book Review: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1: The Upgraders Guide
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:22a Gregg Eldred Usually, I do not preannounce books that I have on my reading list. However, the kind people at PACKT Publishing have provided me with a reviewer's copy of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1: The Upgrader's Guide. As part of their promotion, you benefit with a sample chapter: Chapter 8: What's New in Notes/Domino 8.5 Development. The introduction to the chapter explains its purpose:
One way this is being done [collaborating more effectively in an organization] is by allowing developers new and [read] Keywords: domino
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PCMag.com: The Top 10 Simpson's Tech Moments
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 3:20p Gregg Eldred To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of The Simpson's, PCMag.com has a list of their "Top 10 Simpson's Tech Moments." Excellent choices, to be sure. However, my best "Tech Moment" in a cartoon has to be from another Matt Groening series, Futurama:
Link: PCMag.com: The Top 10 Simpson's Tech Moments [read] Keywords: application
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CIOInsight: 12 References You Don't Want to See
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 1:59p Gregg Eldred CIOInsight has a slideshow of "12 References You Don't Want to See" that comes from a reference-checking firm. These were told to the firm in 2009.
Link: CIOInsight: 12 References You Don't Want to See [read] Keywords:
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PCWorld: Verizon Prepping for Palm Pre, iPhone, Reports Say
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 10:19a Gregg Eldred Good news for people who want the iPhone or Palm Pre but don't want to switch to AT&T (in the US). PCWorld is reporting that Verizon is upgrading its systems for both devices and is hoping that when AT&T's exclusive deal with Apple expires, it will be positioned to handle the iPhone.
Verizon Wireless is gearing up to launch the Palm Pre early next year and is also making upgrades to its network to accommodate the Apple iPhone, according to reports today.
A mysterious Palm Pre Plus i [read] Keywords: apple
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RedPaper: IBM Lotus Domino Integration using IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 9:59a Gregg Eldred IBM Lotus has published a RedPaper on Domino and IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator:
In this IBM Redpaper publication we take you step-by-step through a series of integration scenarios to help you start building your own solutions with IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator. Once you have mastered some basic skills you will be wiring your IBM Lotus Domino applications (both the shrink-wrapped and home-grown varieties) more tightly into your infrastructure, and you will also be sharing data between IBM L [read] Keywords: domino
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December Dream: Qualifying for the Final BCS Rankings by John Trombetti
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 10:29p Gregg Eldred It seems every year, about this time, there
is a lot of discussion concerning the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision and
its Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The BCS was designed to create a national
champion for Division I collegiate football teams. However, one thing that
you can say that it does is create controversy. This year is no different,
especially since Congress is now weighing in, saying that a "national
champion" cannot be determined without a play-off system in Division
I (the other div [read] Keywords: notes
White House E-Mail - The Final Chapter?
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 4:19p Gregg Eldred For those with short term memory loss, you may not recall that the Bush White House lost millions of e-mail messages during the ramp up to the war in Iraq, as they moved from Lotus Notes and Domino to Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. It was such a compelling issue, that David Gewirtz wrote a very good book on the topic. Now, it seems, that the final chapter has been written.
he White House has settled lawsuits from advocacy groups over millions of missing e-mails, the legacy of what may have be [read] Keywords: domino
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What I Found on the Bookshelf (not mine)
Fri, Dec 11th 2009 10:29a Gregg Eldred Some of you are aware of my "discovery" yesterday. Here is proof that I wasn't kidding.
First up, Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2.2 on 5.25" floppies.
And here are some of the other items, dBase III Plus, GW-Basic version 3.3, and MS-DOS version 3.3. [read] Keywords: lotus
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How to Get People to Love Lotus Notes? Maybe eProductivity is an Answer
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 11:29p Gregg Eldred But it could also be any application that helps the users realize the potential of their messaging and collaboration software. However, in this case, it was eProductivity.
I hated Lotus Notes!
This is the second organisation that Iâve been with that uses Lotus Notes. In each case although I could see that there was a lot to Lotus Notes that the organisations werenât using I got frustrated with it because it seemed merely to be a clunky e-mail client.
But then, to be fair, non [read] Keywords: collaboration
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SnTT - Domino HTTP Task Cannot Bind to Port 80
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 11:09p Gregg Eldred Performed an upgrade of a Domino server today, from Release 6.5.6 to 8.5.1. Everything was going well until I discovered that the HTTP task wasn't loading. Manually entering load http gave me the error:
HTTP Server: Error - Unable to Bind , port 80, port may be in use
Was IIS running on the server? No. Was there some other process grabbing port 80? A netstat -anb in a Windows command window didn't reveal anything. What about a TechNote? I did find one that seemed to fit the issue:
Domino 8 [read] Keywords: document
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Migrating Outlook Calendar to Lotus Notes - Part 2
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 11:09p Gregg Eldred Still waiting for the happy ending.
Today, I applied a patch to the Transend Migrator for Lotus Foundations tool. It is now on release 8.3. Deleted the calendar entries in Lotus Notes, and reran the tool. The calendar entries are now categorized, however the color coding is missing. To refresh your memory, this is what the current Outlook calendar looks like:
And, in Outlook, this is how the user has categorized the entries::
Finally, the resulting Lotus Notes calendar:
As this [read] Keywords: domino
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Plain Dealer: Christmas Ale: It tastes like Christmas in Cleveland
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 9:19p Gregg Eldred Does your craft brewer's Christmas Ale get a front page article in your metropolitan newspaper? Ours does. Some Clevelanders call her winter's mistress, an irresistible temptress who warms them through the holidays.
Others call her a ninja whose stealth attacks repeatedly shock them, leaving them cold and alone -- and sometimes naked -- lying on a floor.
Men sing songs exalting her strength and pen poems pining for her return after she's gone.
But she's no lady.
This femme fatale i [read] Keywords: php
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Migrating Outlook Calendar to Lotus Notes - Part 1
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 12:09a Gregg Eldred This little story will probably have a happy ending, as the technical support people, specifically Jason, at Transend are extremely helpful. However, let's look at a sample migration from Outlook to Lotus Notes, using the newly released Transend Migrator for Lotus Foundations 8.2.
Here is the original calendar in Outlook:
And these are the categories for those calendar entries:
The interesting thing to me, a "Notes Guy," is the ease at which Outlook allows the user assign and color c [read] Keywords: foundations
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At 1710, My Number One Son Left Home . . .
Sun, Dec 6th 2009 10:02p Gregg Eldred . . . and when we see him next, it will be March 4, 2010, and he will be a Private in the United States Marine Corps.
Back on June 3, I told you of his enlistment in the Marines. At time, six months seemed like a really long time. And now, he is gone.
Yesterday, we had a meeting with his recruiters who gave us final instructions. If you have ever had to take one of your children to university, you probably rent a van to haul all of their stuff. That "stuff" probably includes televisions, ref [read] Keywords: notes
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SnTT - Resolving Two "Annoyances" for Notes Mail Users
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 2:59p Gregg Eldred For the most part, upgrading from Lotus Notes 6.5.x or 7.x to Lotus Notes 8.5.x is painless for the users. However, in my travels, I have spent time resolving the same two "issues" for several organizations. Granted, a little training, setting of expectations, or a small Notes 8.5.x pilot group would go a long way in alleviating these "issues," however time can be precious. To that end, here are the two things that I find myself adjusting.
First, images do not display in HTML mail. An example [read] Keywords: designer
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Where to Find Some of the Best Beer in the World? Cleveland!
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 9:19p Gregg Eldred A Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter points out two new books where Great Lakes Brewery beers are reviewed favorably against some of the best craft beers in the world.
Two new books that dissect, rate and analyze craft beers around the world are raising a toast to Cleveland's Great Lakes Brewing Co.
The books are "World's Best Beers (One Thousand Craft Brews from Cask to Glass)" by Ben McFarland (Sterling, 288 pp.) and "The Naked Pint (An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer)" by Christina Perozz [read] Keywords:
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BNET: IBM Continues To Show that It Gets the Cloud
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 10:49a Gregg Eldred BNET, looking at IBM's cloud initiative, has three points that shows the company has learned a lot about the cloud and is well positioned to leverage it and be a dominate cloud vendor.
One of the lessons demonstrated by making Tivoli available on Amazon Web Services and even DB2 available on EC2 is that vendors have to realize that success means thinking beyond traditional business boundaries.
. . . The second IBM lesson is use the technology yourself, let people see you using it, and then [read] Keywords: ibm
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Messaging Migration Tool for Lotus Foundations
Mon, Nov 30th 2009 4:59p Gregg Eldred Responding to the marketplace, and their Business Partners, IBM Lotus Foundations has announced the availability of a messaging migration tool for Lotus Foundations Start. It is a special version of the Transend Migration tool, and it:
Supports migration only to Lotus Foundations Start (and IBM Lotus Notes and Domino).
Includes "batch templates" which greatly simplify the migration process (because both the source and destination platforms for the migration are known) for customers moving to Lo [read] Keywords: domino
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Podcast - 10 Steps to Evaluate Google Apps for Lotus Domino Users
Mon, Nov 23rd 2009 11:00p Gregg Eldred Bitpipe.com has a 30 minute podcast that discusses Google Apps as it pertains to organizations that currently use Lotus Domino.
In this mediacast, IT expert Jonathan Brown, offers 10 concrete and measurable steps for organizations that currently use Lotus Notes/Domino to determine whether Google Apps is a good fit for their organization. Steps include selecting a pilot project, calculating ROI, estimating training requirements as well as discussing situations where Google Apps may not be a goo [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Open Mic Replays - A Great Notes/Domino Resource
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 9:09p Gregg Eldred A great question came up at the recent NEOLUG meeting: "Where are the Open Mic replays and answers to the questions?" Here are some of them:
June 2009: Domino Configuration Tuner
June 2009: Customizing the Lotus Notes install kit
August 2009: Upgrading to Lotus Domino 8.5
September 2009: IBM Lotus iNotes for Domino 8.5
September 2009: Upgrading to Lotus Notes 8.5
September 2009: Calendar & Scheduling Best Practices using Resource Reservation database
October 2009: Discussing Domino Attachme [read] Keywords: domino
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Baseline: 10 Reasons Your Team Hates You
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 3:39p Gregg Eldred Baseline Magazine has a slideshow on the "10 Reasons Your Team Hates You." Which could also be titled "Why You Hate Your Boss." In addition to the reasons, they provide some quick fixes. [read] Keywords:
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SnTT: Starting the Domino 8.5 Console - Notes.INI Setting
Fri, Nov 20th 2009 10:39a Gregg Eldred If you are new to Domino 8.5.x, you have discovered that when Windows starts the Domino Service, you are no longer presented with the Domino console. In order to view to console, you have to launch the Domino Console application (usually sitting right there on the Desktop).
When you first install, or upgrade, your Domino server, the Domino console application will launch without an issue. However, I have found that after a restart, the Domino console will not launch, as it presents you with a [read] Keywords: domino
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NEOLUG November Meeting
Mon, Nov 16th 2009 1:19p Gregg Eldred Join us and your peers at the Northeast
Ohio User Group on Thursday, November 19th from 9am -1pm at the Hudson
Library** in Hudson, Ohio. Special Guest Speakers are Chris Blatnick
- IBM (What is new in v8.5.1), Gerald Hetrick - Vox Mobile (BES 5.0)
Agenda
9 - 9:30 - Breakfast (Courtesy of IBM)
9:30 - 11:15 - Chris Blatnick
11:30 - 12:45 - Gerald Hetrick
The Hudson Library and Historical Society
96 Library St, Hudson Ohio 44236
**Since we are using the Hudson Public Library, doors w [read] Keywords: administration
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New Blogger - Phil Salm
Mon, Nov 16th 2009 1:09p Gregg Eldred A few discussion with Phil, over the course of several months, has resulted in a new voice in the blogosphere. Phil's area of expertise lies within Lotus Sametime and Unified Telephony, as two of his posts reveal:
What version of Sametime is needed for Lotus Unified Communications?
Poor Man's Click-to-call with Cisco and Lotus 8.x
Welcome, Phil. I look forward to reading many more of your posts. While Unified Communications is interesting, I hope you relate some stories on your production [read] Keywords: lotus
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CNET: New BlackBerry software will make your phone cooler
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 11:29p Gregg Eldred "OpenGL ES" and "Eclipse" may not mean much to you if you're not an application developer, but ordinary BlackBerry owners will soon be able to benefit from the string of announcements uncovered on Monday at RIM's second, annual BlackBerry Developer Conference.
BlackBerry-maker RIM announced on Monday enhancements to its BlackBerry application development platform--including four APIs for developers to more easily integrate ads, payment services, geolocation, and push notifications for third-pa [read] Keywords: application
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iPhone vs. Blackberry Owners - Differences
Sun, Nov 8th 2009 9:29p Gregg Eldred Retrevo, an electronics shopping site, has released the results of a survey they performed on the differences between iPhone and BlackBerry users. The sample size was 445 iPhone and BlackBerry users in the United States and across gender, income, age, and location. The results are . . . amusing. For example, more women use the iPhone, iPhone users find people with out-of-date smartphones to be a turn-off, and more iPhone users text or e-mail a break-up. And then there is how the respondents use [read] Keywords: blackberry
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How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In by Jim Collins
Thu, Nov 5th 2009 9:09p Gregg Eldred I am sure that you are familiar with Jim
Collins' other works, Good to Great and Built to Last. In
those books, he examines some of the best run companies. In his latest
book, How
The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In,
he takes a different approach by examining the reasons why companies decline.
Using a well reasoned and documented argument, he attempts to answer whether
failure or decline can be detected early and avoided, at what points in
a company's history can decline be rev [read] Keywords: notes
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Memory Leaks in Domino 8.5.x
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 10:39a Gregg Eldred A little while ago, I tweeted that two organizations have reported memory leaks in Domino Release 8.5.x. The organizations run Domino on different platforms, but are experiencing the same issue. Since that tweet, I have been looking for a publically available information that describes this issue. Today, I found the TechNote, with a little help.
You may experience performance issues (not hangs) on Domino Release 8.5.x. The performance may appear to be degrading based on workload. This issue i [read] Keywords: domino
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Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child
Sun, Nov 1st 2009 9:29p Gregg Eldred Two things made me hesitate to pick up
Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, Gone
Tomorrow. The first was the memory
of the 12th entry in the series, Nothing
to Lose. It was a different Reacher
novel, one with a message that hit the reader over the head. The second
was that I had heard that Child phoned in this installment. I wish that
I remembered where I heard that, as I want to point out that this Reacher
novel is as good as any Child has written.
Reacher is traveling through New York
Ci [read] Keywords:
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AmazonBasics Ultra High Speed HDMI Cable Braided (6.5 Feet / 2.0 Meters) [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]
Sun, Nov 1st 2009 8:19p Gregg Eldred Frankly, I am price conscience when it comes to HDMI cables - I have a very hard time justifying a $60 (or more) for an HDMI cable. The AmazonBasics Ultra High Speed HDMI Braided Cable is a cable that simply works and comes at an attractive price.
Good looking braided cable that feels expensive and will serve your HDMI cable needs. It arrives in Amazon's "frustration free" packaging which means that it is shipped in a simple brown, recyclable cardboard box (with a little paper outlining the [read] Keywords:
