To Flash or not to Flash
Mon, Sep 26th 2011 5:41a Jim Casale What's the point of promoting a "HTML5"
site when the site depends on Flash?
Cnet
News says
"Today,
Pandora unveiled a dramatically overhauled site design. Beyond a welcome
new look, the code behind the site now uses HTML5 in favor of Adobe
Flash. In its own press
release, Pandora credits the switch to
HTML5 for opening up creative new cross-platform advertising opportunities
and allowing for a more flexible overall site design."
After not being able to run the new
P [read] Keywords: firefox
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The saddest and happiest day of our lives
Sun, Sep 11th 2011 6:13a Jim Casale It was 10 years ago today America was attacked
by terrorists. Both my wife and I knew people who died at the WTC and know
NYC fireman and police officers who worked at ground zero.
It was 28 years ago today I made the
best decision in my life and married my wife (although some days I bet
she might wonder about her decision)
For the last 10 years we have unofficially
celebrated our anniversary on 9/10 although we have never really talked
about it. It's just something we did.
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Unwanted "McAfee Security Scan Plus"
Thu, Aug 25th 2011 5:11a Jim Casale I've seen McAfee's Security Scan Plus
on a few workstations at a client
recently, and I was puzzled as to how they wold allow this to be installed
along with their normal antivirus software. Now
I know why - thank you Adobe [read] Keywords: security
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It's the firewall and everything else but the real problem
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 4:55a Jim Casale A recent problem with my Slingbox has left
me unimpressed with Sling Media's tech support. So much so that I would
recommend against purchasing any Sling Media product.
A few weeks ago my Slingbox stream started
acting up. The stream started freezing, I would get warning messages saying
the quality of Internet was poor, and other assorted oddities. I had attributed
it to poor Internet service as I was already having issues with VPN disconnection
and not being able surf the web.
[read] Keywords: network
Wikimania has been extended until the end of July!
Wed, Jun 22nd 2011 5:57a Jim Casale Wikimania has been extended until the end
of July. I have a lot of schwag to give away but you need to participate
to get some of it. Help the community and get yourself a bunch of schwag
by going to the Lotus Product wikis and submit a Wiki article today. Details
here.
PS - I am working on more ways to participate
in the community and score some schwag. Stay tuned for details [read] Keywords: lotus
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Ever find a solution to an issue that you couldn't find any information about?
Wed, Jun 8th 2011 6:16a Jim Casale Did you ever find a solution to an issue
that you couldn't find any information about? Then you should be creating
a wiki article and submitting it to Wikimania.
Share your knowledge with the community and get some schwag for your efforts.
Don't forget - I will be giving away 3 copies of "Mastering
XPages" and information on
a chance to win an iPad. [read] Keywords: xpages community
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We have our first Wikimania entry
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 10:23a Jim Casale The first Wikimania
entry has been received! Don't be the only geek to miss out on some cool
schwag. Submit your Wiki article today to receive a promotion pack today.
With this being "Learn
XPages Month" what better
way to get a free copy of "Mastering
XPages" [read] Keywords: xpages blogSphere
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Wikimania starts today!!
Wed, Jun 1st 2011 4:05a Jim Casale Wikimania
is finally here. Head on over to www.wikimania.us
to find out how you can get a promotion pack with great schwag including
a few copies of "Mastering XPages", bucky ball sets, and information
on how to win an iPad. Wikimania
promotion is running for the entire month of June, but don't wait until
the last minute. Submit your wiki article today! [read] Keywords: xpages wiki
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Ten days until Wikimania
Mon, May 23rd 2011 5:48a Jim Casale Wikimania is almost here. I hope you are
coming up with some great ideas for informative wiki articles.
The schwag has started to arrive. I've
mentioned three lucky community members will receive Mastering XPages books
courtesy of IBM Press. What I haven't mentioned yet is the chance to win
an iPad. Yes, you heard it right. By submitting an article to one of the
IBM Lotus Wikis during the month of June and forwarding the link to the
article to entry@wikimania.us
you will receive i [read] Keywords: ibm
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Only 3 weeks until Wikimania
Wed, May 11th 2011 7:10a Jim Casale Mark your calendar.... Wikimania
starts Wednesday, June 1st. If you don't know what Wikimania
is it's simply a promotion to encourage you to contribute your knowledge
and experience to the Lotus Wikis. It's rather simple - contribute an article
to one of the Lotus Wikis and get a promotion pack courtesy of some really
cool Lotus Business Partners, IBM
Press, and yours truly.
When you contribute an article to one
of the Lotus
Wikis between June 1st and June
30th send the link to [read] Keywords: ibm
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xpages community
An Outlook extention finally catch's up to Swiftfile
Wed, Apr 27th 2011 6:10a Jim Casale It appears Outlook has finally caught up
with Swiftfile (after how many years?) It is a third
party add-in that costs $5. By
the way, if you're running Outlook 2010 you'll have to wait for a dedicated
version. [read] Keywords: outlook
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You'd think IBM Press didn't have a good selling book on Xpages
Tue, Apr 19th 2011 6:13a Jim Casale After unsuccessfully trying to get an Xpages
book donation for Wikimania I went to the IBM Press website as they had
suggested to see if buying it myself was an option.
OK. If I sign up I could get 30% off
by answering a couple of questions. Not a bad deal. I might be able to
pull this off.
The first question was pretty simple.
What areas of interest do I have?
Scrolling down I see Exchange. No surprise
there.
Even further down I see WebSphere. No
sur [read] Keywords: domino
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Issues with Domino SNMP on partitioned AIX servers
Mon, Apr 4th 2011 6:09a Jim Casale It appears Domino SNMP on partitioned AIX
servers is broken. This does not affect a single DPAR running in its own
LPAR. It only comes into play when you are running multiple DPARs in a
single LPAR. Here is the issue.
You configure the AIX SNMP service and
the Domino LNSNMP service as per the instructions. If you load the quryset
task on one of the Domino consoles the task loads as it should. You can
query Domino using SNMP. As soon as you start the quryset task on a second
Domino pa [read] Keywords: agent
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Calling all Business Partners, ISV's, and Vendors
Mon, Apr 4th 2011 6:09a Jim Casale Wikimania is coming.... Based on last years'
hugely successful WikiMadness (big thanks to Chris
and David
for last years' promotion) , WikiMania is a fun way to get community members
contributing to the IBM
Lotus Product Wikis.
But we can't do it without your help.
If you have any giveaway items you can donate to this promotion I'd
love to hear from you. No donation is too small or too big.
If interested in donating to this promotion
please contact me via email.
Mor [read] Keywords: ibm
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Slow network response in VMware Server
Wed, Feb 23rd 2011 5:11a Jim Casale Have you been working with VMware on your
PC or laptop and noticed that coping files in the virtual machine to be
extremely slow? It's not your imagination. There seems to be a Windows
setting that brings network response to a virtual halt (pun intended).
I was working with some virtual machines the other day and was seeing extremely
slow networking. At the time I had just attributed it to trying to do too
much at once on my laptop. It turns out that was not the case.
Every once in [read] Keywords: laptop
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DAOS is two years old
Mon, Feb 14th 2011 5:23a Jim Casale I never did get to ask the Product Managers
at LS11 when they will add DAOS support to the Domino backup API. You'd
think two years after introducing a really killer feature for Domino they
would make it a bit easier to backup Domino when that killer feature is
enabled. DAOS is by no means extremely hard to backup. It's just
more up front work for administrators, as well as sometimes problematic
should you have to restore a DAOS enabled application with missing NLO's
To be clear, [read] Keywords: domino
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So you need to block auto-forwarding of email to Internet email accounts
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 6:14a Jim Casale A question came across the Twitterverse
a couple of weeks ago asking if anyone knew how to block auto-forwarding
of email to Internet addresses. One of my former colleagues found this
technique on the Interwebs so I thought I would share it with everyone
To prevent users from using a rule to
auto-forward to Internet addresses you need to make the following configuration
changes
Set the configuration document for
your mail servers
Delivery Controls -> user rule mail
forw [read] Keywords: lotus
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Disney Magical Express and flights on non US carriers
Mon, Jan 17th 2011 8:12a Jim Casale After setting up my reservation for the
Disney Magical Express I found out that my roommate did not book his trip
to get to the Disney Yacht and Beach Club. The issue is air carriers outside
the US do not have agreements with Disney to pick up luggage for transportation
to your room. You CAN however book transportation on the Magical Express
provided you claim your own bags and bring them to the bus yourself.
I have confirmed this with the Disney
Reservation center. Hope this saves [read] Keywords: reservation
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Starting a new position today
Mon, Nov 29th 2010 6:14a Jim Casale For those of you that don't already know
I have recently accepted a position with GROUP
Business Software.
I will miss the great people I have
worked with over the last 15 months (and I am sure they will miss my sense
of humor , but I look forward to meeting and working with my new colleagues
at GROUP. [read] Keywords: blogSphere
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One more take on the TSA procedures
Sun, Nov 21st 2010 10:12a Jim Casale It's obvious the TSA has been under fire
recently in the news. Many people have voiced outrage and disbelief in
what they feel is intrusive, degrading, and harmful screening now being
performed at US airports. I think there are many different reasons for
the backlash but ultimately this backlash all points back to the screening
process currently being implemented by the TSA.
The current screening process can be
broken down into several components. If you are lucky enough to pass thro [read] Keywords: agent
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Xmarks reborn?
Thu, Sep 30th 2010 4:29a Jim Casale Well no, not really. Not in the real sense
of being able to use Xmarks service. There has been a lot of chatter
about the demise of Xmarks and how many people are left without a way to
sync their bookmarks. It can be done with your own server, but how many
of you out there have your own server? Some people have suggested they
would be willing to pay a small fee to be able to sync their bookmarks.
That's were the rebirth happens. Although it may not work across
browsers or operating syst [read] Keywords: firefox
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Sametime 8.5.1 Media Manager issues
Mon, Aug 30th 2010 4:26a Jim Casale If you are installing or upgrading to Sametime
8.5.1 you need to be aware of potential issues if your server has multiple
NIC's and IP addresses. An issue
that was in Sametime 8.5 appears
to still be in 8.5.1. Having recently done an 8.5 to 8.5.1 upgrade we were
unable to use audio or video in meetings. It seems components of the Sametime
Media Manager are binding to the wrong IP address when the server has multiple
NIC's and IP addresses. A HotFix from IBM fixed the issue but I am wond [read] Keywords: domino
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