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Using Multiple Profile Types in Lotus Connections
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I will be speaking at Lotusphere 2009
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I am not suprised, one can say we saw this coming ( and I have no problem with it)
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You can't make this stuff up
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I guess a lot of people are running Notes 8 on OS/2?
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This story does not have a happy ending...... and how stupid is my town
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Test Post Please Ignore 
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 1:29p Mitch Cohen
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You can't make this stuff up 
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 7:53p Mitch Cohen
Like many of the other people presenting
at Lotusphere I am heads down trying to complete my sessions before the
submission deadline this Friday. I was on the phone with one of my
co-presenters this afternoon when my phone rang. I am not sure why
I felt the need to answer the phone, but this is how the call went:
Caller: Hello Mr. Cohen I am calling
on behalf of IBM in regards to Lotusphere 2009, we see you attended in
the past, and were wondering if you are interested in attending?
Me: I [read] Keywords: ibm
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Using Multiple Profile Types in Lotus Connections
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 8:36p Mitch Cohen
A question came up today on how to display
different data for different types of employee profiles in Lotus Connections,
the answer is to create different types of Profiles and assign users in
to that Profile type.
Before you begin make sure you have
backed uo your profiles-confg.xml, and follow the instructions for checking
out the file
before editing.
Profile types are defined in the "profiles-config.xml
file in the section, this is the start of the
default profile:
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I will be speaking at Lotusphere 2009
Wed, Nov 19th 2008 7:51p Mitch Cohen
The Lotusphere 2009
breakout session lineup has been
posted here. I will be presenting two sessions at Lotusphere
Show302: "Getting
Your Feet Wet with IBM Lotus Connections" with Chris
Whisonant of Lotus
911 who is responsible for building
and administering bleedyellow.com.
Don't let the title fool you we will doing a lot more then getting
our feet wet, we will be installing and configuring a complete Connections
environment in less then two hours on stage
Abstract: If you're a Lotus Dom [read] Keywords: admin
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bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
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Help is on the way for duplicate calendar entries
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 8:52p Mitch Cohen
If you have been using Notes as your
calendar for a while at some point you have probably had to deal with a
duplicated meeting entry, and especially if it was a repeating meeting
it was next to impossible to resolve the duplicate, you were generally
better off leaving both entries and dealing with it. I had heard
that in Notes 8.5 there was some work around resolving issues with duplicated
calendar entries, and this morning while straightening out my calendar
I came across this
Saying O [read] Keywords: admin
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Connections 2.0.1 and Quickr Integration
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 8:51p Mitch Cohen
One of the new features coming in Connections
2.0.1 is integration with Quickr. The first release will be integration
with the J2EE Version of Quickr, with Domino Quickr integration coming
at a later point and time. Some Technotes are filtering out in the
Quickr Integration
Technote
1323218 Publish to Quickr dialog has empty folder list when there are no
existing Quickr libraries
Technote
1323207 Folders that have long names or that are nested are truncated in
the Publish to Quickr dialog
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Why IBM should send Lotusphere 2009 Session Acceptances on Monday
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 8:51p Mitch Cohen
Last night over dinner with Stuart
and
Keith we were discussing what
to expect next Tuesday as we here in the US go to the polls to elect our
next president, given the level of politically related blog posts on Planet
Lotus over the last few weeks,
one would logically expect a frenzy of activity come elections day. Now
don't get me wrong, I will go vote on Tuesday and believe it is important
that everyone else (well everyone except for
Luis) goes and votes, but if I
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Lotus Connections 2.0.1 is coming
Thu, Oct 30th 2008 8:51p Mitch Cohen
Lotus Connections 2.0.1 is due out tomorrow,
a few technotes have been coming out over the course of the week.
Technote
4020964 Download Lotus Connections 2.0.1
Technote
1233108 Favicon is larger than the max size allowed by default
Technote
1315638 Underscore ( _ ) character treated as a space in Lotus Connections
2.0 keyword search
There are many other technotes out there
as well, I am still looking for a complete fix list, 2.0.1 is primarily
a release contain fixes, with a couple of [read] Keywords: connections
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bleedyellow.com
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System Availability and Redundancy
Fri, Oct 17th 2008 4:11a Mitch Cohen
If you really want to be able to guarantee
system availability you need some form of redundancy, and testing that
redundancy before a failure is probably a pretty good idea, which
is why
this article on recent problems with the Hubble Space Telescope
while impressive, makes me wonder why they never tested.
The two-day repair
began early Wednesday as NASA engineers began commanding Hubble from the
ground to switch to a backup system after its main data relay channel failed
last month. But rem [read] Keywords: |
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My Office 
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 8:55p Mitch Cohen
Since apparently we
are
all
sharing
our
office's
here is mine. [read] Keywords: office
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Do you want to help improve Lotus Documentation and Technical Content?
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 8:55p Mitch Cohen
Have you noticed there is a new
Ideaspace on Ideajam?
The Lotus Technical Content team is now using IdeaJam as a way of
soliciting suggestions and feedback on providing better content and documentation.
As further background last week,
myself, Handly
Cameron, Stuart
McIntyre, Jon
Mell, and Luis
Benitez, as a result of a conversation
that started on Twitter,
on gaps in the
Lotus Connections Infocenter,
had a nice call with the team at IBM responsible for that documentation.
We had a great cal [read] Keywords: connections
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Shea Goodbye
Sun, Sep 28th 2008 8:36p Mitch Cohen
For the second season in a row the Mets
were eliminated from the play-offs on the last day of the baseball season.
Unlike last years September collapse, while the Mets blew a lead
again this year, they really lost this season with 29 blown saves tying
a team record. Think about it, the Mets finished one game out of
the play-offs, if they could have closed out one or two more games there
would still be baseball left for the Mets to play this year.
Since the season is over today's game
was al [read] Keywords: wiki
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Abe and Jack's six month checkup
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 8:33p Mitch Cohen
Abe and Jack turned six months old on
Tuesday, and today went to the doctor for their six month checkup. Drumroll
please.... here are the results
Abe is 14 lb 4 oz and and 25 1/4 inches
Jack is 17 lb 5 oz and 26 3/4 inches
Tomorrow morning Abe and Jack get to
try food for the first time, and I will have the video camera rolling to
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LoLA is O-O-O Over
Wed, Sep 24th 2008 9:52p Mitch Cohen
This afternoon LoLA wrapped up, what
was really an incredible few days here in South Florida. While there were
a couple of sessions this morning the main focus of the day was continuing
to work on the presentation of the "Top 10 must do" list, as
well as some other feedback. After lunch was the closing session
which mainly consisted of the four work groups presenting their findings
to IBM and the rest of the attendees. One thing people learned from
my top 10 list is that apparently I can't co [read] Keywords: ibm
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LoLA Day 2
Wed, Sep 24th 2008 12:13a Mitch Cohen
The morning began with a town hall style
meeting with all of Monday's presenters on stage to take questions from
the audience. There was a moment which really clarified what this
week is about, with a couple of minutes left in the session the moderator
asked Bob Picciano if he wanted to make any closing remarks, which he declined
to do as he felt the time was better spent taking additional questions.
The IBM team is really here to listen.
Following the town hall meeting, I attended
a meetin [read] Keywords: atlantic
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archiving
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She was a showgirl (or LoLA Day 1)
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 12:27a Mitch Cohen
The first full day of LoLA is finally
wrapping up for me at almost midnight. Today's schedule had one session
for all attendees in what felt like an all day Opening General Session,
Bob Picciano started the day off with an overview of the Lotus Strategy,
followed by Alistair Rennie delivering a report card on the status of Lotusphere
2008 announcements (since LS08 ND 8.0.1, ND 8.0.2, Quickr 8.1, Connections
2.0, Lotus Mashups, Symphony, Sametime 8.0,and Sametime Advanced
have all shipped, with [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Her name was LoLA
Sun, Sep 21st 2008 11:32p Mitch Cohen
The Lotus Leadership Alliance kicked
off today at the Westin
Diplomat in Hollywood, FL. I
arrived in time to attend most of the Lotus Connections customer advisory
council meeting, which was followed by the opening reception. Tomorrow
things really get underway with the opening general session and a full
day of strategy and roadmap sessions from each of the product groups within
the Lotus brands.
Today was the third consecutive Sunday
that I flew out of Newark
Airport, and in an incredible
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You can rent this space for 30 days. Interested?
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Catching up, and heading out again
Fri, Sep 19th 2008 8:48p Mitch Cohen
This week I was in San Francisco attending
the Frost
& Sullivan Growth, Innovation
and Leadership conference. On Tuesday I participated in a panel moderated
by Melanie
Turek (blog)
on Unified Communications. It is always interesting to have the
opportunity to discuss my experience with Sametime and UC, and hear what
others are doing with UC with Sametime and other products.
This was my first time in San Francisco
and I did manage to ride on a cable
car, and take a quick boat trip
to s [read] Keywords: connections
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Collaboration University Wrapup
Thu, Sep 11th 2008 8:02p Mitch Cohen
I am back home after a busy few days
in Chicago for Collaboration
University, not sure where all
the time went, somehow I managed not to blog anything while I was there..
On day 1 of CU I presented with Chris
Miller on Installing and Configuring
Lotus
Connections. The keynote
address was delivered by Ed Hackett a retired Marine Colonel, titled "Collaboration
When it Counts". Julian
Robichaux has a good
write up on his keynote address.
On day 2 of CU I managed to attend a
number of session [read] Keywords: collaboration
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On the way to Collaboration University
Sun, Sep 7th 2008 8:50p Mitch Cohen
Newark
Airport appears to be a ghost
town on Sunday morning, I made it from my house to the gate in about 35
minutes. With any luck I will be in Chicago on time and even be able
to catch some football today. I am looking forward to Collaboration
University which kicks off tomorrow
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Happy Birthday Molly
Fri, Sep 5th 2008 6:48a Mitch Cohen
In a very busy
week of milestones for Molly today
she turns five! Happy Birthday Molly!
Note: For those of you following
along at home on Twitter
to avoid any confusion this past Sunday we had Molly's birthday party,
today is her actual birthday. [read] Keywords: twitter
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Molly's first day of kindergarten
Thu, Sep 4th 2008 7:59p Mitch Cohen
We are all very proud of Molly as she
headed out for her first day of kindergarten today. [read] Keywords: |
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Lotusphere 2009 Registration (-93 from 2008)
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 7:59p Mitch Cohen
Well I knew last years 27
would be hard to beat, so this year I managed 120
I booked myself into the Disney
Yacht Club as I have done the
last few years, while it adds a little walking each day (lets face
it a few more steps one way or the other really does not matter in the
grand scheme of things) I prefer staying there to the Swan or Dolphin.
In other news Twitter
managed to withstand the anticipation
of the site going live, which certainly made today a very active day on
Twitter.
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Is it really a Showstopper?
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 5:59p Mitch Cohen
There is quite a bit of focus this morning
on Technote
1316457 Removing users from Lotus Connections,
according to the Technote:
Once a person is
entered into the Connections system they should never be removed.
Now lets look at this a little deeper,
except for in certain
exceptional cases do you really
want to delete users from Connections? I don't think so, part of the value
of Lotus Connections is to be able to preserve the tacit knowledge of employees
who retire or otherwise leave the [read] Keywords: connections
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Day one of the IBM Premium Support Seminar (and other miscellaneous information)
Mon, Aug 25th 2008 11:24p Mitch Cohen
Today was day one of the annual gathering
of IBM Premium Support Customers in Boston. The event brings together
customers, their premium support managers, and members of the support and
field service organizations. In many ways this is a mini Lotusphere
of sorts (a lot smaller, and significantly less walking). The seminar
kicked off with a keynote address delivered by Bob Picciano, this was my
first opportunity to hear him speak since he took over the General Manager
role from Mike Rhodin. I [read] Keywords: connections
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Jerry Seinfeld... you lost me here.
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 8:14p Mitch Cohen
Those who know me, know that I am a huge
fan of Seinfeld, but Jerry has lost me with his latest venture
Microsoft (NSDQ:
MSFT) has hired comedian Jerry Seinfeld to anchor a $300 million advertising
campaign designed to burnish the image of its struggling Windows Vista
franchise, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Microsoft seems to thing that Jerry
will make people want Vista, do people really choose there OS cause they
like the commercials?
The software maker
is desperate to coun [read] Keywords: apple
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Cut and Paste coming to iPhone?
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 7:14p Mitch Cohen
This would be a really nice addition to
the iPhone
Cut
and Paste for iPhone from Cali
Lewis on Vimeo. [read] Keywords: application
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Quickr Hotfix Installer
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 12:26p Mitch Cohen
For those following Quickr you know
that Hotfixes are a regular occurence (my opinion on the frequency of Hotfixes
can be read here).
One of the biggest complaints is that until now the process to install
a hotfix was manually copying files into many different directories making
it a time consuming process and one prone to error. Well good news,
starting with Quickr HF 19 which is due out imminently there is a Hotfix
Installer (for Windows only).
The Hotfix is contained in a Jar file,
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Lotus Traveler Fix Pack 2 is available
Wed, Jul 30th 2008 7:49a Mitch Cohen
Technote
4019898 Lotus Notes Traveler Fix Pack 8.0.1.2
contains the details and download information for Traveler 8.0.1.2 or fix
pack 2. The release notes list the following fixes in this version:
LO27829-
Traveler stops pushing data because file name case mismatch
LO28880-
Notice accept failed when SMTP routed
LO29236-
Underscores in subject with Danish Characters
LO29261-
Server Doc lookup failed during startup
LO29250-
Device Stop synching because mail file is not resolved
LO29364-
"Unab [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Lotus Connections Technotes, and a fix for Fix Pack 1
Fri, Jul 25th 2008 4:48p Mitch Cohen
Lots of new technotes released on Lotus
Connections today you can get all of them on the Lotus
Connections support page. A
couple of technotes worth highlighting
Technote
1313795 Lotus Connections Support Statement for virtual environments
much like Technote
1106182 for Domino IBM will support
it unless they come to suspect the problem is caused by the virtual environment
in which case the problem has to be reproduced in a non virtual environment.
Technote
4019929 Discussion Forum topics [read] Keywords: connections
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Is it or isn't it a "third party application"?
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 10:20a Mitch Cohen
For a while now I have been working
with both Lotus and Tivoli products that interact with each other, specifically
Tivoli monitoring for Domino, and Tivoli Storage Manager TDP. On
more then one occasion a Domino server crash has been attributed to a Tivoli
process, but that is not the part that drives me crazy. What gets
me is when Lotus support refers to a Tivoli application as a "third
party application". So this morning I was doing some work in
TiVoli Directory Integrator (TDI) and discov [read] Keywords: domino
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Abe and Jack's four month checkup
Tue, Jul 22nd 2008 2:08p Mitch Cohen
Time is sure flying by here, Abe and
Jack had their four month checkups today, and are both growing nicely.
Abe weighed in at 12 lb .5oz
and Jack weighed in at 14 lb 13oz
If you are interested you can compare
the results of their two month
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Lotus Connections Fixpack 1 is out
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 9:24p Mitch Cohen
Lotus Connections Fix Pack 1 is available
on Fix
Central. Still waiting the
documentation of what fixes it contains, but by all accounts it does contain
the fixes to support Firefox 3. Will install and test tomorrow. [read] Keywords: connections
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I will be speaking at Collaboration University
Fri, Jul 11th 2008 3:24p Mitch Cohen
Rob
Novak made the announcement on
his blog today, Curious
Mitch goes to Chicago. I
am honored to be working with Rob, the team at SNAPPS
and the rest of the Collaboration
University team presenting two
Lotus Connections sessions. If you haven't already Register
today for Collaboration University
2008. [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Happy first blogiversary
Wed, Jul 9th 2008 9:02a Mitch Cohen
Hard to believe but it has been a year
since the launch of this blog, which also means it has been a year since
the US version of Collaboration
University 2007 where after weeks
of procrastinating I finally started blogging. This is also a good
time to remind you to register now for Collaboration
University 2008 coming up this
September in Chicago and London.
In a year I made some friends through
my blog, and hopefully along the way imparted some useful information,
and have in some way cont [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Got power?
Tue, Jul 8th 2008 1:06p Mitch Cohen
If you are like me you have probably
found that when you have a day that you are on the go, you tend to drain
the battery in your mobile device. I am currently using a Verizon
8830 Blackberry and / or an iPhone. While I like both of them, neither
can stand up to a full day of phone calls, browsing, and instant messaging.
I recently found a nice solution the Lenmar
Power Port. The Power Port
is compact and lightweight and when fully charged can charge a blackberry,
iPhone or any other USB pow [read] Keywords: blackberry
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ipod
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Wrapup of the Catalyst Conference and San Diego last week
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 1:29p Mitch Cohen
Last week I had the opportunity to attend
the Burton groups Catalyst
conference in San Diego. I
was one of the panelists in a session titled "The Practitioners Handbook:
Social Software in Action" moderated by Mike
Gotta. It was an opportunity
to discuss my experiences with Social Software in general, as well as some
of the specifics of
Lotus Connections and why I am
working with that platform. The panel discussion was well received
with many good questions both during the panel and in conver [read] Keywords: connections
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Don't mess with these guys!
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 8:50a Mitch Cohen
Abe and Jack @ 3 months
(Grandma and Grandpa get credit for
this picture) [read] Keywords: |
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Sametime Advanced and Notes 8.0.1 so happy together.
Thu, Jun 26th 2008 8:04p Mitch Cohen
Back in May
I complained about the Sametime Advanced plugins not being supported with
in Sametime embedded in Notes 8.0.
Today IBM released a Sametime Advanced plugin that is supported in the
Sametime client embedded in Notes 8.0. Technote
1308259 has the download link.
Of course when I last wrote about this it was back in May and I was
actually running Notes 8.0.1, now I am running Notes
8.5 Beta1 so here is hoping this
works in 8.5 as well. [read] Keywords: ibm
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NBC to provide free olympic coverage downloads...... but only on Vista
Mon, Jun 23rd 2008 11:23a Mitch Cohen
For anyone interested in the upcoming
summer
Olypmics NBC announced technology
to allow you to program your areas of interest and automatically have them
downloaded to your PC for viewing off line. This sounded pretty good
given the 12 hour time difference to Beijing, and the difficulty in finding
coverage of a specific sport during TV coverage until I got to the last
line of the article
Users must have
Microsoft Windows Vista to use the service, which runs on the operating
system's Media C [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Lotus Connections 2.0 fixes part 2
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 3:05p Mitch Cohen
LO30634:
BlogsAPI Compatiblity - Old Service document includes incompatible work [read] Keywords: connections
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ibm
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Fixes for Lotus Connections 2.0
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 9:45p Mitch Cohen
Looks like a few fixes are trickling
out for Connections 2.0
LO30655:
Communities is not using anti-virus
LO30573:
Address IE memory leaks
LO30568:
Problem in the JavaScripts used for NamePicker in Activities
Technote
4019498 will provide instructions
for downloading and using the Update Installer for Lotus Connections V2.0.0.0 [read] Keywords: connections
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June 17th is Firefox Download Day
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 8:09a Mitch Cohen
Tuesday is the release of Firefox 3,
download your copy on Tuesday and help set a record
Spread
Firefox
You can also check out this link 20
top add-ons that are ready for Firefox 3
to see if your favorite plug-ins are listed. [read] Keywords: firefox
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Connections R2 Information Center
Mon, Jun 16th 2008 7:45a Mitch Cohen
The Connections R2 Informaton Center
is up and running
Lotus
Connections 2 Information Center [read] Keywords: connections
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Detailed requirements for Connections 2.0
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 8:53p Mitch Cohen
Technote
7011798 updated today in anticipation
of the release of Connections R2 tomorrow. No real surprises in this
document, I will just highlight a few of the changes/new items
If you are using IE6 make sure to read
this MS
Article 942840 and
download the jscript.dll file to fix slow browser perfomance
Domino LDAP 7.0.2, 8.0 and 8.0.1 are all specifically
listed as supported (don't forget WAS
Fix Pack 52839 if using Domino LDAP)
WAS version for R2 is 6.1.0.13 (WAS
Fix Pack 13, as wel [read] Keywords: connections
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domino
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microsoft
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Is there a familiar theme here?
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 3:26p Mitch Cohen
Connections 2.0 ships tomorrow, Quickr
8.1 is out, as is Sametime Advanced, take a look at all three and you will
notice something very familiar, the UI, regardless of if you do or don't
like the UI, that is a separate discussion, it is nice to see IBM making
good on the promise of a consistent look and feel across the different
products. [read] Keywords: connections
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What is wrong with these people?
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 2:45p Mitch Cohen
So I think we can all agree that baseball
and football players today are overpaid and spoiled, take for example the
Giants
Plaxico
Burress who coming off of a Super
Bowl win is unhappy with his contract
And while Burress
was on the field, he refused to practice because of what he called "a
business decision." It turns out that the receiver who caught the
game-winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XLII is unhappy with the progress
of negotiations for a new deal.
So lets make sure we underst [read] Keywords: |
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Whats new Installing Lotus Connections R2
Thu, Jun 12th 2008 1:30p Mitch Cohen
Lotus Connections R2 will ship tomorrow,
it contains quite a number of improvements, one area that is greatly improved
is the Installation process, the highlights are summarized here:
Connections
R1
Connections
R2
Database Creation
Manually via SQL Scripts, lots of manual
steps to run per database
Database creation wizard, create all
six databases in a few simple clicks
Population of Profiles Database
Manually, requires editing of configuration
files, and running of batch files.
Databas [read] Keywords: connections
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Is that to stay or to go? (Taking Activities offline)
Sun, Jun 8th 2008 9:34a Mitch Cohen
On of the features promised in Notes
8.5 is the ability to take Activities off line, thanks to Luis Benitiez
(blog
twitter)
here are the steps on enabling Activities to go. Once enabled you
can both view, edit and add content to your activities which will all synch
back when connected.
First you do need to be running the
Notes 8.5 Public Beta, once you
have that download, and installed, you can enable off line Activities by
editing a configuration file.
In your \framework\shared\eclip [read] Keywords: ibm
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Using Activities to manage your IBM PMR's
Thu, Jun 5th 2008 9:33p Mitch Cohen
Today in conversation (and by conversation
of course I mean Twitter)
a question came up on how to best manage PMR's (Problem Management Reports
aka what you open when something is not behaving as it should) with IBM.
My solution to this has been to use
Activities in Lotus
Connections.
Why use Activities, simple it is the
perfect tool for the job and here is why. I created an Activity
Template, the template is pre-populated with some general information that
you need when opening a PMR su [read] Keywords: connections
dogear
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The Graduate!
Thu, Jun 5th 2008 11:30a Mitch Cohen
Molly at her pre-school graduation,
she did a great job with her lines and all the songs made her parents and
grandparents very proud! [read] Keywords: |
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My (not so) new iPhone and DWA Ultralite in Domino 8.5
Tue, Jun 3rd 2008 11:05p Mitch Cohen
About 2 months ago I got an iPhone,
and have been testing the new DWA Ultralite mode on it, now that it is
in Public Beta I can talk about it a little here. I would include
screen shots, but as of now I have not found a way to take a screen shot
of an iPhone with out first jail breaking it, something I really don't
feel like undertaking right now. (any suggestions for this let me know
please)
First off, my general impressions of
the iPhone, the interface is incredible, especially the web bro [read] Keywords: domino
dwa
ibm
inotes
lotus
notes
template
traveler
applications
bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
interface
iphone
ipod
mobile
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I wish they gave tests like this when I was in school
Fri, May 23rd 2008 2:08p Mitch Cohen
My kind of test, questions on the front,
answers on the back!
The OCR (Oxford,
Cambridge and RSA) examination board admitted on Thursday that, because
of a "printing error," papers sent to schools had answers to
questions on the back page.
Every
pupil's dream: the exam with answers on back [read] Keywords: |
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The twins 2 month checkup
Thu, May 22nd 2008 4:04p Mitch Cohen
Hard to believe but tomorrow Abe and
Jack are two months old, and today they went to the doctor for their checkup.
They are both doing well and growing nicely. Weighing in at
8 lb 15 oz is Abe, pictured here on the scale
and weighing in at 10 lb 4 oz is Jack [read] Keywords: |
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Quickr Entry, Standard one the other or both
Thu, May 15th 2008 12:45p Mitch Cohen
Quickr 8.1 comes in 2 flavors Entry
which is the Personal File Sharing, and Standard which included both. You
can toggle between install types via a notes.ini setting. If you
install Quickr Entry, your notes.ini will contain "QRD_InstallType=1",
and when you hit the home page it will look like this
You can Upgrade to Standard by simply
changing the ini parameter from 1 to 2 "QRD_InstallType=2" as
documented here in the Quickr InfoCenter,
when you hit the home page you will now see this [read] Keywords: domino
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I don't eat the dog food, and I don't drink the dish soap either
Tue, May 13th 2008 9:45p Mitch Cohen
Carl
via Jake
was wondering about people eating dog food, and for some reason wanted
my opinion, well, I don't eat the dog food, and I don't drink the dish
soap either, but I found someone who did.
WELLINGTON, New
Zealand - Two women were hospitalized after a New Zealand cafe mistakenly
served dishwashing liquid as mulled wine, a newspaper reported Tuesday.
Well apparently the first person drank
it by mistake, the second person volunteered
She spat out the
liquid when she experienced a [read] Keywords: |
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Cleanup unsuccessful device installations in Windows
Tue, May 13th 2008 3:04a Mitch Cohen
Recently I had a problem on my laptop
where no new USB Drives could be installed, hard drives or USB keys that
had been previously been installed connected and worked fine, but a new
device would never install successfully. After searching around a
little I found this trick to see "Hidden Devices" in Device manager
to be able to clean up the failed installs. To cleanup failed installs
(or see other installed devices that are not present) do the following
1. open an command prompt and type " [read] Keywords: laptop
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Installing Sametime Advanced plug-ins in Notes 8.0.1 and a few other complaints.
Mon, May 5th 2008 8:27p Mitch Cohen
One of the items on my radar right now
is Sametime Advanced, not having the resources to install it right now,
I am playing with it at bleedyellow.com.
In order to really use it, I wanted to install the plugins, into
my Sametime client integrated in Notes 8.0.1, sounds easy right, point
to the update site and the plugins should come down, well not so easy,
on the first attempt I got this
After a Brief chat with Chris
Miller and Chris
Whisonant it was determined that
if I simply un-check [read] Keywords: connect
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bleedyellow
bleedyellow.com
community
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Lotus Connections on Blackberry
Mon, May 5th 2008 8:18p Mitch Cohen
Blackberry released the Lotus Connections
Client for Blackberry today, the first version fully supports Profiles
and Dogear. The download is available in two flavors, one for loading
via Desktop Manager, and one for Over the air download.
This is version 1.0, I would expect
to see a lot more in future releases which are being worked on now. I
have not played with it much yet, but profiles search is nice, and fully
integrated with the Blackberry for phone and e-mail.
Blac [read] Keywords: connections
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domino
ibm
lotus
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desktop
server
twitter
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I guess a lot of people are running Notes 8 on OS/2?
Tue, Apr 29th 2008 1:23a Mitch Cohen
Browsing around tonight I came across
recently updated
Technote 1088423 How to place a Notes database on a CD or DVD,
overall a handy technote to have around if you ever need to archive an
NSF to a CD and expect to be able to open the database with out copying
it back to a hard drive. For some reason this paragraph caught my
eye
3. Do an operating
system level copy (use a DOS or OS/2 copy command)
maybe it is time they removed the part
about the OS/2 Copy command? This coming from a pe [read] Keywords: ibm
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database
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Sametime 8.0.1 is out, and has some nice improvements
Fri, Apr 25th 2008 9:16a Mitch Cohen
Adam
Garetenberg blogged about many
of the new
features in Sametime 8.0.1 yesterday.
Carl
points out some of his favorites,
including AdminP support to update contact lists (finally!!) note this
is currently on Windows only. For me one of the things I have been looking
for is the ability to control screen sharing across two monitors, see Adam's
post for a screenshot, I have been waiting for this for a long time.
On the Sametime Gateway side, there
is now support for SIP Connections that are [read] Keywords: adminp
connections
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lotus
policies
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Yahoo changes that will effect connectivity with the Sametime Gateway on April 24th
Tue, Apr 22nd 2008 11:29a Mitch Cohen
If you are using the Sametime Gateway
and connected to Yahoo make sure you read Technote
1303292. On April 24th Yahoo
will be moving to new gateways, so you will need to adjust your firewall
rules for the new Hostnames/IP Addresses which are documented in the technote.
Thanks for the heads up Vinny. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Things you find in the cabinets when cleaning for passover
Wed, Apr 16th 2008 7:23p Mitch Cohen
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The twins have names (finally)
Sun, Apr 13th 2008 8:41p Mitch Cohen
We had the Bris for our sons today,
and they now have names. The baby formerly known as "A"
was named Abraham Jared, and is being called Abe. The baby formerly
known as "B" was named Jack Benjamin, and is being called Jack.
Will be trying to get back to some normal
blogging, but it might be a bit slow until after Passover. [read] Keywords: blogging
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Two weeks have flown by
Sun, Apr 6th 2008 9:29p Mitch Cohen
The twins are two weeks old today, they are both doing great and we have scheduled their Bris for next Sunday at which time we will give them their names
I am headed back to the office this week, and try to sink back in to work, lots to catch up on with Quickr 8.1 and Sametime advanced, as well as Lotus Connections stuff I am working on, and lots of beta code refreshes that need to be downloaded and installed. [read] Keywords: connections
, lotus
, quickr
, sametime
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Homecoming!
Tue, Apr 1st 2008 1:46p Mitch Cohen
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The twins are one week old
Sun, Mar 30th 2008 8:51p Mitch Cohen
Hard to believe bit it has been a week already, they are both doing really well and we hope to have them home real soon. Baby A is on the right and Baby B is on the left. [read] Keywords: |
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The New Ride
Wed, Mar 26th 2008 3:35p Mitch Cohen
The Cohen family once again will all
fit in one car [read] Keywords: |
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Update on the twins
Tue, Mar 25th 2008 12:33p Mitch Cohen
Thanks to everyone for their good wishes
via comments, tweets and e-mails. By far the most popular question
I have been getting is about the babies names. Right now the babies
have not been given names, by Jewish tradition baby boys are given their
names on the eighth day at their Bris.
Our twins were born a few weeks early so their Bris will likely be
delayed a bit beyond the eighth day (we wait until the doctor clears them
medically which takes precedence over anything else). One more note [read] Keywords: |
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Twin Boys!
Sun, Mar 23rd 2008 7:43a Mitch Cohen
Baby Boy Cohen A born 4:04 AM 4 lb 15oz
Baby Boy Cohen B born 4:36 AM 5 1b 4
oz
Mother and babies are doing well, and
the big sister is very excited.
More information later on [read] Keywords: |
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Think you have a tough boss?
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 10:38p Mitch Cohen
It can't be all that bad if they are
allowing bathroom breaks.....
The manager distributed
the bags to 25 male field technicians, telling them not to waste time leaving
a job site to search for a public bathroom, the Rocky Mountain News reported
Thursday.
Union:
Workers told to use urine bags [read] Keywords: |
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IBM Predicts Five Future Trends That Will Drive Unified Communications
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 7:52p Mitch Cohen
IBM released their five predictions
for Unified Communications which were delivered during Mike Rhodins keynote
address at VoiceCon
1.The Virtual Workplace will become the rule. No need to leave the office.
Just bring it along. Desk phones and desktop computers will gradually disappear,
replaced by mobile devices, including laptops, that take on traditional
office capabilities. Social networking tools and virtual world meeting
experiences will simulate the feeling on being there in-person. [read] Keywords: collaboration
, ibm
, applications
, desktop
, instant messaging
, integration
, mobile
, networking
, office
, unified communications
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Many people who know me will disagree with this
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 6:25p Mitch Cohen
You Are Fairly Normal
You scored 60% normal on this quiz
What's Normal About You... And What's Not?
Thanks Gregg [read] Keywords: |
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Lotus Connections and Oracle
Wed, Mar 19th 2008 11:11a Mitch Cohen
Until now all of the work I have done
with Lotus Connections has been with DB2 as the Database, but following
my own advice for selecting a database platform,
I will ultimately be using Oracle as the database, so I decided to
give it a try now and begin the learning process.
The good news, overall the process was
really no different then DB2, I found one bug (if you could even call it
that), and had Connections up and running in no time. Following the
instructions for Creating
Oracle Databa [read] Keywords: connections
, dogear
, lotus
, bug
, database
, db2
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Connectivity to extst.ibm.com...... a complaint
Tue, Mar 18th 2008 10:05p Mitch Cohen
As I mentioned a while back my
ability to connect in to the IBM
Sametime environment regularly
makes my life easier, so it continue to frustrate me that almost a month
after Notes 8.0.1 shipped the embedded Sametime client still can not access
the extst.ibm.com servers. Chris
Pepin blogged about this recently
and others commented there as well. So someone please explain to
me how the product is GA and shipping, but IBM seems to consider it a risk
to the stability of the Sametime server? I hav [read] Keywords: connect
, ibm
, notes
, sametime
, bleedyellow
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BlackBerry is baseball fan's best friend
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 5:39a Mitch Cohen
MLB.com has an article this morning
on Blackberry support for MLB.com and Blackberry alerts for your teams
news.
You don't have to
look hard to find a baseball fan carrying a BlackBerry these days. They
hold onto them like Chase Utley holding onto his Rawlings glove at second
base -- practically fixed appendages for much of the time. As long as they
are going to be that vital as a companion, they might as well be put to
the best use for baseball season. Total team immersion has never been e [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Things I wanted to blog about today....... but never got to
Tue, Mar 11th 2008 6:40p Mitch Cohen
One day out of touch yesterday seems
to have set me back three, but here are things I would have blogged about
today if I had time
Gia
Lyons is now blogging publicly,
and even better has loaded up her new blog with a lot of content that had
previously been posted on her internal IBM blog. If you don't know
who Gia is, she
will tell you all about herself right here.
If you missed it when Adam
Gartenberg posted it, you have
to watch the You Tube video "You
are so Fired", it is funny,
and m [read] Keywords: connections
, ibm
, lotus
, sametime
, blogging
, oracle
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Road Trip
Sat, Mar 8th 2008 6:19p Mitch Cohen
Heading up to Boston for a wedding early
Sunday morning. I believe this is my first trip to Boston not related
to IBM or Lotus. Driving up this morning, and back on Monday. My
wife is not making the trip so it is just Molly (age 4 1/2) and me.
Should be a four hour marathon of "why, why, why" . Wish
me luck. Don't forget to spring your clocks ahead and change the
batteries in the smoke detectors. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Detailed system requirements - Lotus Connections 2.0 beta
Fri, Mar 7th 2008 2:07a Mitch Cohen
Technote
7011798 Detailed system requirements - Lotus Connections 2.0 beta
I have to go through this in a little
more detail, and it is beta so I would expect it will change a little before
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