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Lots of new Lotus announcements today...
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The PlanetLotus effect
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An example for IBM to follow?
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This so makes me never want to be a Microsoft partner again...
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Download all Lotusphere presentations in one go..
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This fantastic quote arrived in my MS Technet newsletter just a moment ago (emphasis mine):
Hi all,
What can I say but WOW! The UK launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 took place last week and it was incredible to see 3,000 IT professionals and developers in one place. I have to say I think my favourite part of the day was the fantastic community area that included Swagily Fortunes and Who Wants to be a Swagillionaire! The other highlight was the attendee who got a little too comfortable on the bean bags whilst watching one of the streamed sessions, as I am sure I heard him snoring.
Mmmm, try explaining your attendance at this "business-focused event" to your boss after he reads that ;-) |
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Is your organisation ready to enter Social Media? Really? 
Thu, Nov 27th 2008 9:16a Stuart McIntyre
Many organisations are looking at the success of Facebook, Twitter and other Web2.0/Social Media sites and thinking they must get involved. Well, as we know, it isn't always as easy as that, particularly for the more mainstream "traditional" businesses. Mitch Joel takes a look at why some organisations are failing with this effort, and comes up with some questions you might want to ask:Here are the bigger questions your organization needs to be asking before entering these channels: - Ar [read] Keywords: community
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Collaboration Matters 5 - UKLUG2008 with Warren Elsmore 
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:16p Stuart McIntyre
Warren Elsmore joins Neil Burston and I to review the UK Lotus Users Group (UKLUG) event that took place earlier this year in London. This podcast is 7.8mb and runs for 17 minutes at 64kps (small enough to download direct to your iPhone). Enjoy! Collaboration Matters Podcast - Episode 5 - UKLUG 2008 [read] Keywords: collaboration
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What’s new in iPhone 2.2?
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 2:56a Stuart McIntyre
The Apple iPhone 2.2 update page is now up: What’s in this update: * Enhancements to Maps o Google Street View* o Public transit and walking directions o Display address of dropped pins o Share location via email * Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls * Enhancements to Mail o Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email o Improved formatting of wide HTML email * Podcasts are n [read] Keywords: apple
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iPhone now has podcast download
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 1:58a Stuart McIntyre
iPhone 2.2 includes the functionality to download podcasts direct to the iPhone, both over Wifi (as expected) and over cellular networks (yaay!). This is the view of podcasts in the iTunes application: and after searching for a given podcast: So that was why the Podcaster app was banned... I can see this being oh so useful when stuck on a train or at an airport. Thanks Apple. [read] Keywords: apple
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iPhone firmware 2.2 is available
Fri, Nov 21st 2008 1:16a Stuart McIntyre
The long-awaited new firmware for the iPhone is now available via iTunes: The list of what's changed hasn't yet made it to Apple's iPhone Software Updates page - I'm sure that will come in the next couple of hours. [read] Keywords: apple
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Lest we forget... 
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 7:59a Stuart McIntyre
My father-in-law is very engaged in the political discussions around the UK's loss of sovereignty to the EU. This is his post for today:"The European Union has achieved the great dream of the Great war generation," President Sarkozy said today at Verdun No, no, no. Their blood was not shed for this. The great War generation was fighting for freedom from tyranny. The European Union eats into that hard fought for freedom, tiny bit by tiny bit on a daily basis, with the support of our poli [read] Keywords: |
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Hosted Notes announcement - No, really!
Tue, Oct 21st 2008 6:13p Stuart McIntyre
Ed nearly announced this today, but here is the real thing:IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging delivers services for quicker deployment At a Glance E-mail is indispensable to today's business. And while its benefits are numerous, so are the challenges that it presents. With IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging you can have a team of experts and cutting-edge infrastructure dedicated to improving the performance of your messaging environment while reducing the costs of your in-house solution. N [read] Keywords: document
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The engagement formula
Thu, Oct 16th 2008 9:29p Stuart McIntyre
Its always great when a topic that you have been thinking about for a while suddenly gets distilled by someone else in the blogosphere. This happened just this morning with regard to the question of how I manage my time engaging with others on Twitter, blogs and forums - in fact, in all types of social networking. Angela Maiers writes (in a link that a friend shared on Twitter):As a critical reader and writer, Twitter or otherwise, you must be purposeful in how you engage. You get what you p [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The engagement formula
Wed, Oct 15th 2008 3:28a Stuart McIntyre
Its always great when a topic that you have been thinking about for a while suddenly gets distilled by someone else in the blogosphere. This happened just this morning with regard to the question of how I manage my time engaging with others on Twitter, blogs and forums - in fact, in all types of social networking. Angela Maiers writes (in a link that a friend shared on Twitter):As a critical reader and writer, Twitter or otherwise, you must be purposeful in how you engage. You get what you p [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Partial feeds are the work of the devil
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 4:09p Stuart McIntyre
As you can see, I sit on the fence on this one! I love RSS feeds - they rock. Whether it's for aggregation, or for mobile or disconnected access, RSS feeds are a great way to get the latest info. This might be blog posts, podcasts, forum entries, bookmarks, comments, tweets or whatever. Then when you add in synchronisation between computer and mobile device (e.g. the NetNewsWire/FeedDemon/NewsGatorGo combo) you really do have access to all the info you need wherever you are. So to tho [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Partial feeds are the work of the devil
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 3:45p Stuart McIntyre
As you can see, I sit on the fence on this one! I love RSS feeds - they rock. Whether it's for aggregation, or for mobile or disconnected access, RSS feeds are a great way to get the latest info. This might be blog posts, podcasts, forum entries, bookmarks, comments, tweets or whatever. Then when you add in synchronisation between computer and mobile device (e.g. the NetNewsWire/FeedDemon/NewsGatorGo combo) you really do have access to all the info you need wherever you are. So to tho [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Running a Domino web server?
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 9:19a Stuart McIntyre
Do you run a Domino web application server in your organisation? Or do you host any Domino-based blogs? If the answer to either of these questions is 'yes', this setting might be of real value to you, particularly if you are suffering poor performance from your Domino HTTP stack. Go to the server document for your web server, then Internet Protocols/Domino Web Engine. Check the setting of the "Run web agents and web services concurrently?" parameter. This should be enabled. It is [read] Keywords: document
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Running a Domino web server?
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 9:09a Stuart McIntyre
Do you run a Domino web application server in your organisation? Or do you host any Domino-based blogs? If the answer to either of these questions is 'yes', this setting might be of real value to you, particularly if you are suffering poor performance from your Domino HTTP stack. Go to the server document for your web server, then Internet Protocols/Domino Web Engine. Check the setting of the "Run web agents and web services concurrently?" parameter. This should be enabled. I [read] Keywords: document
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Lotus forums
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 9:09a Stuart McIntyre
I love the Lotus forums - you know, the product support forums for each of the products, Quickr, Connections, Notes/Domino, Sametime etc. The community support on them is excellent, better than most other vendor support forums I've come across. A lot of folks outside and inside IBM give up many many hours to answer queries and to follow up on issues posted on there. However (you knew that was coming didn't you), I am becoming concerned that there is a trend toward less and less involvement [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus forums
Tue, Oct 14th 2008 8:51a Stuart McIntyre
I love the Lotus forums - you know, the product support forums for each of the products, Quickr, Connections, Notes/Domino, Sametime etc. The community support on them is excellent, better than most other vendor support forums I've come across. A lot of folks outside and inside IBM give up many many hours to answer queries and to follow up on issues posted on there. However (you knew that was coming didn't you), I am becoming concerned that there is a trend toward less and less involvement [read] Keywords: connections
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Does Notes break the W3C standard for web links?
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 1:00a Stuart McIntyre
As you have probably spotted, I use Domino Blog for my blogs. When composing a post, I add any links using Create/Hotspot/Link Hotspot. Now I am not 100% sure that this the recommended approach, but it does the job nicely, and saves hand-coding them. However, when sorting out some RSS feed validation issues this morning I noticed that the links added are not enclosed in double quotes, e.g.: It is my belief that hrefs should always be enclosed, and the W3C page relating to this tag s [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus URLs redux
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 12:56a Stuart McIntyre
You may remember that I had a bit of a moan at the inconsistencies in Lotus' URLs earlier on this week - lotus.com/{product} and www.lotus.com/{product} going to different places etc. Well, I've just posted an entry to the Symphony Blog and another inconsistency hit me - all the info re: Lotus Symphony is at... symphony.lotus.com. That is the address that is coded into the site and is used in all marketing materials. So, the obvious question arises! Why can't IBM use this as the stan [read] Keywords: connections
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Does Notes break the W3C standard for web links?
Fri, Oct 10th 2008 12:42a Stuart McIntyre
As you have probably spotted, I use Domino Blog for my blogs. When composing a post, I add any links using Create/Hotspot/Link Hotspot. Now I am not 100% sure that this the recommended approach, but it does the job nicely, and saves hand-coding them. However, when sorting out some RSS feed validation issues this morning I noticed that the links added are not enclosed in double quotes, e.g.: It is my belief that hrefs should always be enclosed, and the W3C page relating to this tag s [read] Keywords: domino
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Win an iPod Touch! Domino Blog Import contest
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 11:29p Stuart McIntyre
Win a new iPod Touch! The Domino Blog Import contest I have a need for a Notes/Domino tool, a very simple tool... I want to be able to take one or more existing RSS blog feeds (say from a Nucleus, Blogger or Wordpress blog) and a Domino Blog database and to "automagically" import all the entries and comments from the RSS feed(s) into the Domino Blog DB. The tool needs to maintain the content, formatting (as much as possible), links, images, author and timestamps of all t [read] Keywords: domino
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Win an iPod Touch! Domino Blog Import contest
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 11:19p Stuart McIntyre
Win a new iPod Touch! The Domino Blog Import contest I have a need for a Notes/Domino tool, a very simple tool... I want to be able to take one or more existing RSS blog feeds (say from a Nucleus, Blogger or Wordpress blog) and a Domino Blog database and to "automagically" import all the entries and comments from the RSS feed(s) into the Domino Blog DB. The tool needs to maintain the content, formatting (as much as possible), links, images, author and timestamps of all the po [read] Keywords: domino
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Win an iPod Touch! Domino Blog Import contest
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 10:42p Stuart McIntyre
Win a new iPod Touch! The Domino Blog Import contest I have a need for a Notes/Domino tool, a very simple tool... I want to be able to take one or more existing RSS blog feeds (say from a Nucleus, Blogger or Wordpress blog) and a Domino Blog database and to "automagically" import all the entries and comments from the RSS feed(s) into the Domino Blog DB. The tool needs to maintain the content, formatting (as much as possible), links, images, author and timestamps of all t [read] Keywords: domino
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Sametime Unyte 8.2 announced
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 9:32a Stuart McIntyre
Announced today:IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting 8.2 strengthens global collaboration among businesses and enhances the customer Web event and meeting experience Within the next few months, IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting will include these exciting features: * Support of PDF and ODF document formats in addition to Microsoft formats * A waiting room for attendees who join a conference prior to the host * Performance acceleration for international customers so all attendees, [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Sametime Unyte 8.2 announced
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 9:17a Stuart McIntyre
Announced today:IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting 8.2 strengthens global collaboration among businesses and enhances the customer Web event and meeting experience Within the next few months, IBM Lotus Sametime Unyte Meeting will include these exciting features: * Support of PDF and ODF document formats in addition to Microsoft formats * A waiting room for attendees who join a conference prior to the host * Performance acceleration for international customers so all attendees, [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration Matters 4 - The Journey from eLearning to Social Software
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 11:25a Stuart McIntyre
Luis Benitez joins Neil Burston and I to talk about his role in IBM, his journey from eLearning to Social Software and the Lotus Connections product. In this episode we cover: Luis' role in IBM/Lotus and what he's been involved in previously What business value can be derived from Lotus Connections The real-world benefits that he's seen Connections deliver to his customers Why Luis loves Lotus Connections! This podcast is 18.8mb and runs for 40 minutes at 64kps. Enjoy! Collaboration [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Community Lounge
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 10:59a Stuart McIntyre
The organisers of the Web2.0 Expo event coming up soon in Berlin have just announced that they are making a lounge available for community events:Community Lounge Web 2.0 Expo Europe is the gathering place for the European community and beyond to come together and discuss what’s happening, and what’s about to happen, on the Web and in our community. In that spirit, we offer you our Community Lounge – a place to hang out, network and hold meetings. Offerings: * Wir [read] Keywords: community
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Community Lounge
Fri, Oct 3rd 2008 10:31a Stuart McIntyre
The organisers of the Web2.0 Expo event coming up soon in Berlin have just announced that they are making a lounge available for community events:Community Lounge Web 2.0 Expo Europe is the gathering place for the European community and beyond to come together and discuss what’s happening, and what’s about to happen, on the Web and in our community. In that spirit, we offer you our Community Lounge – a place to hang out, network and hold meetings. Offerings: * Wir [read] Keywords: community
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Follow-up re: Connections fix installers.
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 9:29a Stuart McIntyre
You may have read my earlier missive regarding how the Lotus Connections fixpack installer could be easier to use. Well, it may not be easy, but it does work in the end. You just need the secret code! So here is my version of how to install a Connections 2.0 fixpack and associated fixes: 1) The usual stuff. Stop all WAS services. Backup your system. Back it up again. Test the backup. etc. 2) Download the Lotus Connections update installer from Fixcentral 3) Unpack and install into { [read] Keywords: connections
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Follow-up re: Connections fix installers.
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 9:05a Stuart McIntyre
You may have read my earlier missive regarding how the Lotus Connections fixpack installer (and the overall fix delivery process) could be easier and more intuitive. Well, it may not be easy or intuitive, but it does work in the end. You just need the secret code! So here is my version of how to install a Connections 2.0 fixpack and associated fixes: 1) The usual stuff. Stop all WAS services. Backup your system. Back it up again. Test the backup. etc. 2) Download the Lotus Connect [read] Keywords: connections
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This *should* be easier...
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 6:34a Stuart McIntyre
I am trying to be positive, I really am. I'm trying not to rant in public, honestly. I'm trying not to get so frustrated, but I have failed. Again. Fixpacks and Lotus Connections. Go to Fix Central and take a look at the fixes available for Lotus Connections 2.0: (that is the first three of seven listed, plus the update installer). The first one is a FixPack, the rest are individual fixpacks. So here's the order of my thoughts this morning: I wonder whether FixPack1 is [read] Keywords: connections
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This *should* be easier...
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 5:41a Stuart McIntyre
I am trying to be positive, I really am. I'm trying not to rant in public, honestly. I'm trying not to get so frustrated, but I have failed. Again. Fixpacks and Lotus Connections. Go to Fix Central and take a look at the fixes available for Lotus Connections 2.0: (that is the first three of seven listed, plus the update installer). The first one is a FixPack, the rest are individual fixpacks. So here's the order of my thoughts this morning: I wonder whether FixPack1 is [read] Keywords: connections
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Collaboration Matters Podcast Episode 4 - The Journey from eLearning to Social Software
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 4:19a Stuart McIntyre
Luis Benitez joins Neil Burston and I to talk about his role in IBM, his journey from eLearning to Social Software and the Lotus Connections product. This podcast is 18.8mb and runs for 40 minutes at 64kps. Enjoy! Collaboration Matters Podcast - Episode 4 - The Journey from eLearning to Social Software [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Collaboration Matters 4 - The Journey from eLearning to Social Software
Tue, Sep 30th 2008 4:02a Stuart McIntyre
Luis Benitez joins Neil Burston and I to talk about his role in IBM, his journey from eLearning to Social Software and the Lotus Connections product. In this episode we cover: Luis' role in IBM/Lotus and what he's been involved in previously What business value can be derived from Lotus Connections The real-world benefits that he's seen Connections deliver to his customers Why Luis loves Lotus Connections! This podcast is 18.8mb and runs for 40 minutes at 64kps. Enjoy! Collaboration [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The Girl Effect
Mon, Sep 29th 2008 5:49a Stuart McIntyre
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Installers, paths and partitions
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 2:19p Stuart McIntyre
Some lessons learnt from installs this week: Before starting a Lotus installer on Windows, particularly Quickr/Domino and Connections, check your %TEMP% and %TMP% variables within Control Panel/System/Advance/Environment Variables. Ensure they are short as possible, e.g. c:\temp rather than c:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp. Why? The directory structures that Lotus uses for the installers are pretty long and very descriptive, and if your %TEMP% and %TMP% are not short you wil [read] Keywords: connections
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Installers, paths and partitions
Thu, Sep 25th 2008 3:07a Stuart McIntyre
Some lessons learnt from installs this week: Before starting a Lotus installer on Windows, particularly Quickr/Domino and Connections, check your %TEMP% and %TMP% variables within Control Panel/System/Advance/Environment Variables. Ensure they are short as possible, e.g. c:\temp rather than c:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp. Why? The directory structures that Lotus uses for the installers are pretty long and very descriptive, and if your %TEMP% and %TMP% are not short you wil [read] Keywords: connections
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Fail Whale mk2
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 8:22a Stuart McIntyre
Not seen this one before: [read] Keywords: twitter
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Fail Whale mk2
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 8:18a Stuart McIntyre
Not seen this one before: [read] Keywords: twitter
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Resetting Websphere security
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 6:40a Stuart McIntyre
Another WebSphere Application Server (WAS) tip... If you, ahem, forget your WAS Admin password, then you will be locked out from your Websphere console, and won't be able to stop the WAS server. A bit of a bind I can tell you... Well, fortunately this can be rectified as long as you have access to your WAS server's OS platform:To disable global security, edit the server security.xml file. The security.xml file can be found in the /AppServer/config/cells/ directory. To disable global [read] Keywords: admin
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Resetting Websphere security
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 6:34a Stuart McIntyre
Another WebSphere Application Server (WAS) tip... If you, ahem, forget your WAS Admin password, then you will be locked out from your Websphere console, and won't be able to stop the WAS server. A bit of a bind I can tell you... Well, fortunately this can be rectified as long as you have access to your WAS server's OS platform:To disable global security, edit the server security.xml file. The security.xml file can be found in the {mountpoint}/AppServer/config/cells/ directory. To di [read] Keywords: admin
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WebSphere not starting after a reboot?
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 4:49a Stuart McIntyre
If you are running on Windows, and WAS 6.x refuses to start after a reboot, giving a Windows 7204 event and a message similar to:Timed out waiting for service to respond to command, after 60 secondsthen check the user the service is running under. On certain systems (particularly if IPv6 is installed I think) running as a "Local System Account" doesn't give the application enough rights to access all the resources it needs. Change this to a system admin in the AD, and it seems to start up ok. [read] Keywords: admin
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WebSphere not starting after a reboot?
Tue, Sep 23rd 2008 4:42a Stuart McIntyre
If you are running on Windows, and WAS 6.x refuses to start after a reboot, giving a Windows 7204 event and a message similar to:Timed out waiting for service to respond to command, after 60 secondsthen check the user the service is running under. On certain systems (particularly if IPv6 is installed I think) running as a "Local System Account" doesn't give the application enough rights to access all the resources it needs. Change this to a system admin in the AD, and it seems to start up ok. [read] Keywords: admin
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UKLUG wrapup
Sat, Sep 20th 2008 12:39p Stuart McIntyre
Tuck this UKLUG away as another "how the heck did they do that??" event. Community-organised, community-delivered and community-presented (with a few notable exceptions - thanks Ed!), UKLUG 2008 was a hugely impressive two day affair. Held in a beautiful and historic building (Church House, home of the Church of England General Synod ad war-time location of the UK Government), with great hospitality (awesome food, folks), generous sponsors, headline speakers, impressive customer case stu [read] Keywords: connections
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UKLUG wrapup
Sat, Sep 20th 2008 12:25p Stuart McIntyre
Tuck this UKLUG away as another "how the heck did they do that??" event. Community-organised, community-delivered and community-presented (with a few notable exceptions - thanks Ed!), UKLUG 2008 was a hugely impressive two day affair. Held in a beautiful and historic building (Church House, home of the Church of England General Synod ad war-time location of the UK Government), with great hospitality (awesome food, folks), generous sponsors, headline speakers, impressive customer case stu [read] Keywords: connections
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Some essential Notes.ini parameters
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 10:29a Stuart McIntyre
I've been doing a fair amount of work with Domino and IIS recently, implementing a single-sign-on Active Directory authentication solution for an academic institution. It has been interesting work, challenging for sure, and I definitely bear the scars. As ever, there is a good mix of well-documented IBM information, great third-party posts and HOWTOs, and a load of undocumented stuff that is only found by trying, testing and failing! This organisation wanted to use a number of well establis [read] Keywords: admin
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Some essential Notes.ini parameters
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 6:52a Stuart McIntyre
I've been doing a fair amount of work with Domino and IIS recently, implementing a single-sign-on Active Directory authentication solution for an academic institution. It has been interesting work, challenging for sure, and I definitely bear the scars. As ever, there is a good mix of well-documented IBM information, great third-party posts and HOWTOs, and a load of undocumented stuff that is only found by trying, testing and failing! This organisation wanted to use a number of well establi [read] Keywords: admin
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iNotes Ultralite hits apple.com
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 11:24a Stuart McIntyre
I reckon this looks rather good, don't you think? [read] Keywords: ibm
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iNotes Ultralite hits apple.com
Tue, Sep 16th 2008 10:00a Stuart McIntyre
I reckon this looks rather good, don't you think? [read] Keywords: ibm
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Web 2.0 Expo Europe
Fri, Sep 12th 2008 7:48a Stuart McIntyre
For anyone interested in Web 2.0 or social software (e.g. Lotus Connections) and based here in Europe, this is definitely a conference to attend. Organised by O'Reilly and TechWeb, Web 2.0 Expo aims to be THE event to attend for:designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, business strategists and anyone passionate about creating a better web ecosystem.The agenda looks to be interesting and relevant, and with really high quality speakers (including James Governor ( [read] Keywords: connections
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Web 2.0 Expo Europe
Fri, Sep 12th 2008 7:22a Stuart McIntyre
For anyone interested in Web 2.0 or social software (e.g. Lotus Connections) and based here in Europe, this is definitely a conference to attend. Organised by O'Reilly and TechWeb, Web 2.0 Expo aims to be THE event to attend for:designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, business strategists and anyone passionate about creating a better web ecosystem.The agenda looks to be excellent, and with really high quality speakers (including James Governor (Redmonk), John [read] Keywords: connections
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How connected are you?
Fri, Sep 12th 2008 4:31a Stuart McIntyre
Seeing as it is universally recognised that all us Lotus bloggers are ASWs (!), you'll be wanting to know how's you're rated as far as being "connected" in the community, right? Well, at least in the Twitter world, that's now possible, albeit in a rather simplistic way. Enter, twitter.grading.com. Simply type in your Twitter ID (or someone elses), and you get an indication of how they rank for "influence". E.g. my ID gives the following:Twitter Grade: 80 - Rank #3,453 out of 17,554 The T [read] Keywords: lotus
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Competition for Quickr?
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 3:09a Stuart McIntyre
In searching for some info on Lotus Quickr this morning, I came across this sponsored ad: A couple of things sprang to mind: 1) I haven't come across many Google Adwords ads that are so directly for a competitive product. It's an interesting strategy, that I am sure produces variable results. Perhaps getting Lotus Notes/Quickr/Connections into the search results for Microsoft Exchange/Sharepoint etc. might bear fruit? 2) ThoughtFarmer is new to me - it looks an good solution from the [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Connect, Collaborate, Innovate
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 3:59a Stuart McIntyre
This new Lotus strategy brief (entitled 'Build your collaboration strategy with IBM') has just been published, attempting to explain why organisations should look to combine collaborative technology with cultural change in order to develop an IT strategy that delivers real business results. It starts by explaining that innovation is essential in today's marketplace, and that collaboration inside and outside the firewall helps to drive it:Innovation improves business outcomes, and successf [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Lotus URLs redux
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 3:59a Stuart McIntyre
You may remember that I had a bit of a moan at the inconsistencies in Lotus' URLs earlier on this week - lotus.com/ and www.lotus.com/ going to different places etc. Well, I've just posted an entry to the Symphony Blog and another inconsistency hit me - all the info re: Lotus Symphony is at... symphony.lotus.com. That is the address that is coded into the site and is used in all marketing materials. So, the obvious question arises! Why can't IBM use this as the standard for all its Lot [read] Keywords: connections
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Collaboration software - a free alternative
Sat, Sep 6th 2008 5:49p Stuart McIntyre
Another great find via Twitter, this time from @idonotes - thanks Chris ;-) Welcome to kablink, the new home of icecore.org Make Teams Work Online communities. Social networking. Team Collaboration. When it comes to team collaboration, everyone wants the latest Web 2.0 technology—wikis, blogs, file sharing, secure threaded discussions, and the list goes on. And every software vendor swears they have 'The Best' of each tool. Here's the point: You need all this groupware in one i [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Give us back our lotus.com!
Thu, Sep 4th 2008 9:57a Stuart McIntyre
Up until very recently, any URL that started lotus.com (or www.lotus.com) would be redirected to http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/ and then the rest of the url appended, e.g. http://lotus.com/quickr became http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/quickr/ (or http://www-some strange random number.ibm.com/impossible/to/remember/url/quickr for short) This was true for all the major Lotus products. However this no longer works, with a 404 appearing. I know that lotus.com has long be [read] Keywords: ibm
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40 years of IBM Redbooks
Thu, Sep 4th 2008 4:04a Stuart McIntyre
I missed this press release last week:IBM ITSO Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Providing Free “IBM Redbooks” IBM today is reaffirming a continued investment in producing the popular IBM Redbooks series, as part of its recognition of the 40th anniversary of the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO). The ITSO develops and delivers skills, technical know-how, and materials to IBM technical professionals, business partners, customers, and the IT marketplace in general. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Protector announced
Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 11:59a Stuart McIntyre
Ed has already posted indicating this will be announced very soon, well here it is...IBM Lotus Protector for Mail Security 2.1, a new Lotus offering based on proven technology from IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS), protects organizations from Internet-based spam, viruses, "phishing" attacks, and other malware. Deployable as either a software-only solution on a virtual server, or as a plug-and-play appliance using separately purchased hardware from IBM ISS, Lotus Protector for Mail Security of [read] Keywords: domino
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Interesting Connections technote
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 6:20a Stuart McIntyre
This Lotus Connections Technote was pointed out by Handly Cameron on Twitter:Question What procedure should be followed when an employee leaves an organization where IBM Lotus Connections is implemented? Should those users be deleted from the Profiles, Dogear, Activities, Blogs applications? Answer Once a person is entered into the Connections system they should never be removed. Doing so may invalidate the data's consistency. For example, In Activities, the log for who did what and when t [read] Keywords: connections
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D’ya think it might be time?
Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 8:20a Stuart McIntyre
For Lotus UK to stop paying for Google ads for the Lotusphere Comes To You sessions held back in April? I'd think it might be better for this money to be going toward getting folks to Lotusphere 2009 or else to be getting more people aware of ND8? [read] Keywords: lotus
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An example for IBM to follow?
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 4:39a Stuart McIntyre
Received this from VMWare this morning, as part of a VMWare Partner newsletter:We recognize that in the past you had to pay for Internal Use Licenses to run VMware virtualization solutions in your own production environment. Effective September 1st, I am happy to announce we will be offering Internal Use Licenses, at no charge, for VIP Partners who meet the minimum certification requirements. We want you to have first-hand experience in your business with the benefits the customers are realizing [read] Keywords: collaboration
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The PlanetLotus effect
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 3:46a Stuart McIntyre
Volker has been having fun with PlanetLotus over the past day or so, pointing out in the comments that:People tend to follow the herd. Large numbers lead to larger numbers, or in a swarm effect: more fish. And "more fish" does matter, since you are not writing this for yourself, or do you? A site like Digg (or Connections for that matter) leads more people to "popular" links. Making a link appear more popular leads to more people following that link, which ultimately means more readers. Pimping [read] Keywords: connections
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Whitepapers and TLAs
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 3:19a Stuart McIntyre
There's an interesting new Web2.0 whitepaper available from IBM, entitled "Putting the power of Web 2.0 into practice. How rich Internet applications can deliver tangible business benefits". In general, it's not bad in terms of content:With Web sites such as Facebook and YouTube drawing more and more Internet traffic each day, Web 2.0 is rapidly emerging as the next big wave in Web site design. Often defined as “Web as a platform,” collective intelligence or rich user experien [read] Keywords: document
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16 days and counting
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 1:30a Stuart McIntyre
(Photo courtesy of City Birches) R.E.M. at Twickenham, 30th August. Yaay ;-) [read] Keywords: |
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Lotus Sametime Virtual Workshops
Thu, Aug 14th 2008 12:19a Stuart McIntyre
A series of Sametime virtual workshops are coming up in the next few months:26 Aug 2008 - 28 Aug 2008, Virtual workshop (09:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. eastern time) 23 Sep 2008 - 25 Sep 2008, Virtual workshop (09:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. central time) 14 Oct 2008 - 16 Oct 2008, Virtual workshop (09:00 a.m. - 05:00 p.m. central time)Open to Customers, IBM BPs and IBMers, these sessions aim to help you learn: * Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Lotus Sametime 8 server * Lotus Sametime Co [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Apple to be worth more than IBM?
Wed, Aug 13th 2008 11:29p Stuart McIntyre
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW to its friends) is reporting that Apple's market capitalisation has overtaken that of Google and is closing in on IBM:The current market capitalization of Apple is US$159.37 billion, squeaking by Google's market cap of US$157.56 billion. Next in Apple's sights ought to be the old man on the block, IBM. Their current market value is around US$170 billion. It may take a while for Apple to catch up with Microsoft, though -- at the present time MSFT is worth about U [read] Keywords: ibm
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DWA support for Mac - why no presence awareness?
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 8:17a Stuart McIntyre
Another gotcha on the Mac.Question Is Lotus Domino Web Access (iNotes Web Access) supported on the Macintosh operating system (OS)? Answer DWA 8.x: DWA 8.x is supported on the MacOS starting with DWA release 8.0. DWA 7.x: DWA 7.x is supported on the MacOS starting with DWA release 7.0.2. Mozilla Firefox is the supported browser.Hoorah!There are no plans for DWA to support the Macintosh Safari browser.Whilst this is an issue for many Mac users, I can understand it as a limitation [read] Keywords: domino
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TechJam returns
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 1:09a Stuart McIntyre
The Lotus Tech Sales team in the UK are back with another TechJam event:Lotus TechJam II - The Agenda - Tuesday 2 September 2008 @ IBM Staines The event will cover the following topics, and will be delivered by a team of Lotus technical experts from the UK and Europe. - General Lotus Update - the technical vision - Websphere Portal - a view from the Boeblingen Labs - Mainsoft - Lotus and Microsoft SharePoint Coexistence - Lotus Connections - Under the hood - UC2 Demo - li [read] Keywords: connections
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Classic photo!
Thu, Aug 7th 2008 11:01a Stuart McIntyre
How many of us have felt this way at times in our careers? ;-) (pic courtesy of the Brillmeister) Head on over to Ed's photos from the Lepovsky-palooza from yesterday. Sad to have missed the party ;-) [read] Keywords: | </ |
