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And finally… 
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 8:51p Alexander Kluge
…even Lotus Notes 8.5 beta runs on my iMac - fast and without any problems. Alexander is a happy camper now. [read] Keywords: lotus
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iPhone - my first 24 Hours
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 3:49a Alexander Kluge
These are my first 24 hour remarks for my iPhone 3G.
What I like:
- The iPhone feels great in your hand. And it looks good - the coolest mobile device ever.
- User experience is the best I have ever had on a mobile device - and I had a lot of devices.
- Browsing the web is also the best I ever experienced on a mobile device
- PIM Apps are very easy to use - I like!
- App Store: Great idea, installed many usefull app.
What I don´t like:
- Battery life is the worse I can remember of any mob [read] Keywords: javascript
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What would you do, if you were in charge of Lotus?
Mon, Sep 15th 2008 8:54p Alexander Kluge
Today I had the time to read all the comments to last weeks posts about Lotus Notes’ core strengths and weaknesses. Finally Volker asked: What would you do, if you were in charge of Lotus?. And Alan Lepofsky, now Director of Marketing at Socialtext, hits the mark:
[...] DRAMATICALLY simplify the product portfolio down to only 3 offerings: Notes/Domino, Sametime, and Connections.
Gone as standalone products would be Quickr, Doc, Workflow, Portal, Forms, Portal, Mash-ups, Traveler, Symphony [read] Keywords: connections
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From my Inbox
Tue, Sep 9th 2008 4:53a Alexander Kluge
I received a few emails regarding my post on Google Apps and my sceptical view on Microsoft Exchange AND Lotus Notes. One of my friends from Denmark just asked:
“hey alex, what happend? you are a Notes-guy, man! Are you leaving? will you work for Google? Are you about to leave our community? give me a call…”
Dear Christian,
1. Just wrote what I think and what I want to share with others.
2. Yes, and still I am.
3. Yes.
4. No.
5. No.
6. I will. [read] Keywords: javascript
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Ambient awareness
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 8:49p Alexander Kluge
What an interesting read about the Brave New World of Digital Intimacy, about using and consuming all that social software tools like Facebook or Twitter out there in the digital world:
Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye.
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Filesharing and synchronizing
Mon, Sep 8th 2008 8:49p Alexander Kluge
I am using Foldershare, a peer-to-peer service for synchronizing files, since years. It does a good job for some usecases at the borderline between my private and my professional life. In my professional life I have Lotus Notes and Quickr, we never used Foldershare.
In the last weeks I had some occasional looks to other services providing help in organizing files online. I tested wua.la and ran into several problems. It has a Java client and caused some conflicts on my machine. When it was up an [read] Keywords: javascript
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Some thoughts on Google Apps
Thu, Sep 4th 2008 8:52p Alexander Kluge
So this used to happen a few years ago from time to time: a customer meeting with me and some other vendors. Somehow the discussion starts about Lotus Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange. The good and the evil. Platform dependency vs. freedom of choice. Mail-only client vs. platform for applications. Performance, backup, pricing, yada yada yada. But these kind of discussion seemed to stop a few years ago.
Today I had a kind of déjà vu experience. Me and my beloved competitor discussing about the ques [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta 2 on Ubuntu
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 8:48p Alexander Kluge
Just installed Lotus Notes 8.5 Beta 2 on my Ubuntu machine while holding a telephone conference. The Debian installer worked like a charm - I even did not have to uninstall the Beta 1. Rebooted. Done.
First impression: Start up much faster. All bugs I have noticed in Beta 1 are gone now. Lotus Sametime plugin is now running properly while in Beta 1 the chat window did not open at all.
One strange thing: there is no location awareness in this release, even in the preferences for Sametime there is [read] Keywords: ibm
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Eight Oh Two
Tue, Aug 26th 2008 11:52a Alexander Kluge
Upgraded my X300 Windows Vista machine to Lotus Notes 8.0.2. Upgrade was smooth, startup is much faster than before. Office 2007 Fileviewer works now. Thats it. Lets see how it behaves the next hours on my desktop.
Still wait for the next Lotus Notes 8.5 beta for my Ubuntu machine.
One question comes into my mind: If something improves so much like the startup time in 8.0.2: What did they do wrong in the former 8.x releases? [read] Keywords: javascript
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Good news about DAOS
Thu, Aug 21st 2008 8:48a Alexander Kluge
Chris Miller writes about his experience with the new Domino Attachment Object Store (DAOS).
It works, right out of the box folks. [...] The benefits of usage and savings were staggering in the on disk sizes. Savings were in the 40-50% range right now. Here is the good news many people are missing. It is not shared mail in any way. it uses new NLO (Notes Large Object) file types and the darn thing works across ANY freaking database that shares the attachment and is enabled for DAOS.
I just stum [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes or Exchange?
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 7:27a Alexander Kluge
Please help us finding a better answer than the official statistics, go to Volkers site and add your input.
Statistics that seem to contradict each other make me curious. So let’s put an end to the discussion how many of the worlds largest corporations use Notes or Exchange.
Go to this wiki: http://dominoorexchange.pbwiki.com/, state your name and mail address and use the invite key “that is the question”.
Now you can look at the current list and add your own knowledge. We shou [read] Keywords: javascript
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That went smooth!
Wed, Jun 11th 2008 10:47a Alexander Kluge
That was easy. Installed Ubuntu 8.04 with English language support (German installation will let you not install the Lotus Notes 8.5 beta!). Solved my old 1920*1200 display issue: Ubuntu simple detected the screen and I have widescreen now. Happy User. Did not work with 7.10 and even after the upgrade to 8.04 I was not able to set resolution the right way.
Then installed Sun JRE 6, installed ttf-xfree86-nonfree, ran Lotus Notes 8.5 installation by executing setup.sh from the installation directo [read] Keywords: javascript
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Opening Attachments in Notes 8 on Ubuntu 8.04
Mon, May 26th 2008 11:29a Alexander Kluge
As we upgraded some desktops to Ubuntu 8.04 nobody of these users could open attachments directly within the Lotus Notes context. Now we found a workaround:
“When a customer clicks an attachment within the Lotus Notes® client for Linux®, the Open Attachment dialog box provides the customer with options to Open, Edit, or View the attachment. When any of these three options are opened the dialog box disappears and no action is taken.
Generally, this problem is seen with attachments that a [read] Keywords: ibm
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iPhone entering Lotus shops
Tue, May 20th 2008 7:36a Alexander Kluge
From a recent conversation with another IBM business partner:
If all those people who told me the last days they will purchase a next generation iPhone really do it - we will have a serious problem integrating that stuff into our customers Lotus Domino environment…
Fully agree. That will raise many unwanted questions for us too. I already had those questions because many executives already have an iPhone and want to use it for business.
Nobody can say we have not been warned. [read] Keywords: domino
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How I got started with Lotus Notes
Tue, Apr 8th 2008 4:07a Alexander Kluge
Ed Brill wrote about Lotus bloggers examining their roots in Lotus Notes. I think its time for me to do so as well.
I think it was end of 1993. We just started a consulting company in the human ressources business offering trainings and organizational development support. Always looking for new business opportunities a manufacturer of modems and fax equipment offered us to start a new business as a reseller of his hardware solutions. Unfortunately we did not manage to sell even one of these high [read] Keywords: javascript
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Snooze
Tue, Feb 26th 2008 4:03a Alexander Kluge
Since I installed Notes 8.0.1 I get reminded of my calendar entries again and again.
Why? Because IBM changed the order of buttons in the alarm popup! “Snooze” is now on top. “Done” is second. I have no idea why they changed it. I got used to it for years now. I always clicked on the first button.
Maybe this counts as an UI improvement. [read] Keywords: ibm
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8.0.1 up and running
Thu, Feb 21st 2008 9:11a Alexander Kluge
So after some initial problems Lotus Notes 8.0.1 installed without problems on WinXP and on Ubuntu.
But: Where is the Widget and LiveText feature in my Ubuntu version? Menu is missing, preferences entries as well.
Update: No Widget in Linux Version of Notes 8.0.1. Very disappointing. “We ran out of time. We wanted it in there, but ran out of time for this release.” [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Notes 8.0.1 - How to find the right download file
Wed, Feb 20th 2008 5:37p Alexander Kluge
Today we hosted our anual “Lotusphere Comes To Berlin” event. It was a big success, more attendees than last year, good speakers, interesting discussions - and a broadband internet connection for downloading todays release of Lotus Notes 8.0.1 which was announced yesterday. Just in time for our event.
So I downloaded the 420 MB package “C19U1EN”, the Lotus Notes 8.0.1 Win32 client. Tried to install it. Failed.
“The upgrade you are attempting is not supported.” [read] Keywords: admin
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Sync Lotus Notes Contacts with Social Networks
Thu, Feb 7th 2008 4:59p Alexander Kluge
Syncing contacts with external adress books is still a mess with Lotus Notes - as it is with external calendars. XING provides a plugin that imports contacts into Lotus Notes Personal Adress Book, but these contacts will not stay synced. Other social networking site like LinkedIn or Plaxo don´t offer any service for Lotus Notes.
Today I was asked if we would like to test and sell ViCo for Lotus Notes which lets you sync your Personal Adress Book with multiple social networks simultaneously. It [read] Keywords: javascript
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Please clear your desktop
Wed, Dec 5th 2007 10:41a Alexander Kluge
I know, these Lotus Notes 8 videos have been around for a while. But I just had the chance to watch it today. And I like it. So fasten your seatbelt. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Fehlermeldung des Tages
Tue, Nov 6th 2007 9:11a Alexander Kluge
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Notes does not print
Wed, Oct 31st 2007 3:36a Alexander Kluge
Don’t expect Lotus Notes to print what you see on your screen. This has been true for all releases of Lotus Notes. But on Ubuntu printing has become more miraculous than ever.
Printing Notes documents on Ubuntu 7.04 feisty fawn worked - but the results were extremely poor. Now that I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibon the print functionality has become completly useless. All workstations on 7.10 are not able to print.
Instead of a improperly formatted text the printer will now simply prin [read] Keywords: lotus
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New notes in an old symphony
Tue, Sep 25th 2007 1:52a Alexander Kluge
There was a lot of discussions about IBM introducing Lotus Symphony (again). It does make if you look at it from the Eclipse point of view and the integration strategy with Lotus Notes 8. And it is definitly a good initiative by IBM supporting the ODF file format and presenting an alternative solution for MS Office. But still I wonder who else should choose Lotus Symphony over OpenOffice but the Lotus Notes 8 shops - and there are not much yet that rooled out the Eclipse based new Notes version. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Notes travels
Wed, Sep 19th 2007 8:40a Alexander Kluge
So finally there will be a built-in mobile solution in Lotus Domino. IBM will release a product called Lotus Traveller in 2008 within the code stream of Lotus Notes 8.0.1. At DNUG in Dresden this June I read on one of the roadmap charts a feature called “push mail” in the 8.0.1 release, but nobody could give me more information about this.
So while Ed Brill talks about “push mail” the official announcement today calls it “real-time replication”. From what I ca [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Vicious Cycle
Wed, Sep 12th 2007 3:19a Alexander Kluge
One problem with Lotus Notes 8 and the Sametime Integration seems to be solved. Yesterday my geolocation settings appeared again. There is a simple user profile setting on the Sametime server side to enable geolocation support. Beta 3 did not check for that setting, the gold release does check it. So it was a matter of server administration, but there is still a question about licensing.
On Win32 this feature now works as designed. On Ubuntu it does not. Like in Notes 8 Beta 3 on Ubuntu entering [read] Keywords: administration
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Location awarness - where is it gone?
Thu, Sep 6th 2007 2:47p Alexander Kluge
Can you see it? No, you can´t see it because it is gone. Since Lotus Notes 8 is gold the location information displayed in the Sametime 7.5.1 plugin is gone.
I checked the ND8 forum and found one possible answer: Location information will only be displayed when working with a Lotus Sametime 7.5x server. So I went to my admin and asked him to upgrade asap. But the answer was: we are allready on Sametime 7.5.1.
Interesting enough: Because I entered the geolocation information while using Lotus No [read] Keywords: admin
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Eight
Tue, Aug 28th 2007 4:19p Alexander Kluge
Just returned from vacation. Lotus Notes 8 finally arrived. Even before I started to clean up my mailbox I installed Notes 8 on my Ubuntu machine and on my WinXP Laptop. Everything went fine. Uninstalled the last beta, installed the new stuff - no problems so far.
I am working with Notes 8 since eight months now. Its a a huge step forward from my point of view. Looking at the discussion about the overloaded UI I have to say: To compare a fat client like Lotus Notes, which is able to do anything [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Notes 8 Beta 3 on Ubuntu
Fri, May 25th 2007 3:23p Alexander Kluge
I had some trouble installing Lotus Notes 8 Beta 3 these days - like some other testers. Deinstalled Notes Beta 2 with the uninstaller.bin, installed the new Beta 3, rebooted - nothing happend. The start icons seemed to be dead links.
I did this several times, cleaned the data directory and everything that was left from old installs. But the new Beta 3 did not work at all.
Finally, I setup a new clean Ubuntu workstation and installed Lotus Notes 8 on the clean machine. Same effect. All icons app [read] Keywords: ldd
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Notes 8 Beta 3 Available Now
Thu, May 24th 2007 1:54a Alexander Kluge
Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino 8 Beta 3 are available for download now. Go and get it -> here
Update: Windows: Uninstalled Beta 2, installed Beta 3, runs perfect, looks good, many bugs are fixed on my first look. Ubuntu: Uninstalled Beta 2, installed Beta 3, Notes does not start. And it seems I am not alone. Yes, I know, Ubuntu is not supported - but Beta 2 was ok. [read] Keywords: domino
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My little Linux diary - continued
Tue, Apr 24th 2007 6:09a Alexander Kluge
I stopped using my new platform for a few days. Meanwhile my Linux experts fixed the performance problem by simply changing the network adapter hardware. For some reason the built in adapter slowed down Fedora after upgrading to the latest Fedora release.
As I tried to use Sametime with Firefox on my Fedora machine I realized there was no Java Runtime Environment installed. Tried it, failed several times, did not understand all that instructions and the different package types I read about in th [read] Keywords: ibm
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