Reduced Air Prices from Philly to Boston for Admin2010
Fri, Mar 12th 2010 12:30p Andy Pedisich I was trying to arrange my flight from Philly to Boston for the Admin2010 conference. I found, once again, that the air fare prices were unbelievably high. USAir was wearing a mask and had a point ... [read] Keywords:
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Speaking at Admin2010 in Boston.
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 2:40p Andy Pedisich I was officially notified that I'll be speaking at Admin2010 in Boston this year. It's one of those 2 in one conferences, with the Developer 2010 conference coexisting along side. There is one admis ... [read] Keywords:
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It’s my birthday, I’’ll just be me today
Mon, Mar 8th 2010 12:30p Andy Pedisich I've always liked the fact that my birthday comes right before spring. It gives me a chance to take a fresh look at life and see what I can do to re-invent myself, to see what things I can simplify, ... [read] Keywords:
Two quick things on this snowy morning
Thu, Feb 25th 2010 11:40a Andy Pedisich I've floated this with the Notes forums and other appropriate places and have never had a solid response. Here's the skinny. A user has two location documents, one for working off-line and one for wo ... [read] Keywords: notes
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A bunch of recommended maintenance for Traveler
Wed, Feb 24th 2010 10:30a Andy Pedisich I'm a Traveler fan. It's completely changed my life on the iPhone. It's easy to use and to maintain. If you're a fan too, and you're an administrator type, you would do well to check out the recomm ... [read] Keywords: traveler
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A snowy week in Philadelphia provides lesson in humility
Sat, Feb 13th 2010 4:43p Andy Pedisich This was a heck of a snowy week in Philly. Last weekend we had some 28 inches of snow. Then Tuesday night the snow started again and came down until the evening on Wednesday leaving another 16 inche ... [read] Keywords: notes
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Ode to Planet Lotus
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 3:11p Andrew M Pedisich Ode to Planet LotusOh ye gatherer of geek thoughts,Ye 'old summarizer of ethereal ebb and flowAbout Notes, about hopes, about dreams.We missed the comforting warmth of your blueAnd the starkness of yo ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Licking my Lotusphere wounds
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Andy Pedisich It's the Saturday after Lotusphere and Linda and I are safely ensconced at home again. My sincere thanks to the many attendees who made it to our Domino HTTP session at 10:30 AM Sunday, and even m ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Today and tomorrow at The Fear
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Andy Pedisich Our session on HTTP on Domino went well. We had some laughs and did our information transfer dance. We saw some old friends and met new ones. This is the third time I have presented a session at L ... [read] Keywords: domino
Timing is a funny thing
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Andrew M Pedisich Yesterday in the early evening, I posted my ramble about many things, including "the cloud". This morning, I get a "pre-Lotusphere" press announcement about Panasonic going with LotusLive.I looked f ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Avatar and a nice perspective on the cloud
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Andy Pedisich Just got home from seeing Avatar in 3D in iMax, What a great flick, and totally worth seeing. My only question is, where did they find that planet and how did they get their 3D cameras to work ther ... [read] Keywords:
Avoiding the feed reader in Notes 8.5.1
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Andy Pedisich Got a client who doesn't want the feedreader to be installed in Notes 8.5.1. I tried pulling the critical lines out of the UpdateSite.zip and hacking the Install.xml, but can't get there without erro ... [read] Keywords: notes
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Fixpacks galore!
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:12a Andy Pedisich This is a broadcast to all admins we can conjure up. There has been a FP1 released by IBM/Lotus. Please don't skip Fix Packs just because you don't see something that applies to you. IBM sometime ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Possibly the best test configuration I have ever created
Mon, Dec 14th 2009 12:09p Andy Pedisich First of all, I decided to name my newest laptop Alice. She's about two and a half month's old. It's important to name inanimate objects that you work with most of your waking hours. That way you ... [read] Keywords: laptop
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Lotus snuck onto my iPhone
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 2:59p Andy Pedisich There I am tracking the flight of one of my kids he heads home from a visit. I'm using FlightStats, which will give you a cool GUI where you can see useful statistics on altitude, airspeed, and arriv ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Notes splash screen now features errors?
Tue, Nov 24th 2009 6:59p Andy Pedisich I don't judge, I just tell you about it when I see it. I was playing around with a parameter one of my clients told me about. They were trying to set the client NOTES.INI variable ViewsCheckMarkSel ... [read] Keywords: notes
Important INI setting for 8.5.1 servers
Tue, Nov 17th 2009 10:09a Andy Pedisich There are a lot of things I wanted to talk about today, like upgrading to Windows 7, using an XP 64 VM, tons of security stuff that's come up in the real world... but as I scamper off to the emergency ... [read] Keywords: security
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Back in Philly after a load of travel
Wed, Nov 11th 2009 1:09p Andy Pedisich I'm back in the office after being pretty much away since October 29. That week was the Admin Boot Camp Las Vegas, which was a real success. I picked up a bug there which gave me a nice broiling 100- ... [read] Keywords: admin
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First leg of Admin Boot Camp 09 completed
Sat, Oct 31st 2009 12:59a Andy Pedisich Rob and I had a great time in Las Vegas with AdminBootCamp09. Nice folks, all of you that attended. Sometimes when attendees ask questions during the presentations we get a little bogged down, but y ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Using 8.5.1? Don’t forget to enable instant spell checking
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 1:30p Andy Pedisich New in Release 8.5.1 - Instant Smell Checking It's snot turned on by default. When it is, it corrects my stupid mistakes like when I transpose the ward "the" by typing "teh". It still won't corr ... [read] Keywords:
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Post from the Admin Boot Camp in Las Vegas
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 1:09p Andy Pedisich This is the beginning of the second day of Admin Boot Camp 2009 in Las Vegas. There's a very nice crowd of administrators here, most of which have been working with Notes for over 8 years! There are ... [read] Keywords: admin
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Loopbacks, Vista vs XP
Fri, Oct 23rd 2009 10:19a Andy Pedisich With Windows XP, I could create loopback adapters, assign them IP addresses, and use them with Domino partitions on my laptop. I'm trying to duplicate this configuration with Vista64, and very soon w ... [read] Keywords: domino
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An ideal Notes deployment scenario
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 11:09a Andrew M Pedisich I happened to catch this at an IBM presentation and thought it was an extremely good summary of making the best use of all the tools when you do your Notes upgrade or even your initial Notes installat ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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8.5.1, Traveler and the iPhone
Tue, Oct 13th 2009 2:39p Andy Pedisich Yesterday and today have been filled with downloads and upgrades. All of the upgrades were to the various servers in my immediate universe. I did our production mail server, a few office boxes, all ... [read] Keywords: traveler
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Getting Release 8.5.1 into the building
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 10:39a Andy Pedisich I've talked to admins who have been trying, without success, to get a foothold on bringing Release 8.x started in their domain. They have an eye toward upgrading everything, but just can't seem to ge ... [read] Keywords:
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Getting ready to take this new show on the road
Wed, Oct 7th 2009 8:59a Andy Pedisich I have just one more session to write. I love speaking at conferences and still, after speaking about Notes since around 1993, you'd think I'd be used to the process of creating the sessions that I' ... [read] Keywords: notes
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Bugs at Lotus - they got my monkey
Thu, Oct 1st 2009 11:19a Andy Pedisich I turned around for a second and they were on him. He's clean and OK now. A bit traumatized from the experience, but basically OK. - Andy ... [read] Keywords: lotus
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Ed Brill blogs about the release date for R 8.5.1
Wed, Sep 30th 2009 11:30a Andy Pedisich If you're not a big blog follower you may have missed Ed Brill's post about Release 8.5.1. From everything I've seen and touched, Release 8.5.1 has the goods. It's the one you should probably be ... [read] Keywords:
Shooting yourself in your own foot
Fri, Sep 25th 2009 11:29a Andy Pedisich I'm pretty much a control freak when it comes to upgrading the design of the address book prior to an upgrade. I don't just push the new design over the old template because it almost always brings o ... [read] Keywords: nd8
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Looking for help in all the right places.
Sat, Aug 29th 2009 11:09a Andy Pedisich This is exactly my methodology. http://www.xkcd.com It was only a couple of weeks ago that I was helping someone and they said, "Wait a second! Did you just look that up in Administrator's Help?" ... [read] Keywords:
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Social networking is kinda scary sometimes
Fri, Aug 28th 2009 11:59p Andy Pedisich I just got back home after driving my youngest 456 miles to a college in the state of Ohio. Keynon College has to be one of the most beautiful colleges I have ever visited. Linda and I went to a co ... [read] Keywords: networking
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Installing the 8.5 basic client fp1
Thu, Aug 13th 2009 2:49p Andy Pedisich I have to admit that I fell on top of this one. I'm tasked with developing a Smart Upgrade kit for one of my nicest clients. They want the basic client and FP1 installed. The client part was a sn ... [read] Keywords: nd8
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Crickets and tumbleweed
Thu, Jul 30th 2009 10:59p Andy Pedisich It's been pretty quiet here. Too quiet. It doesn't properly reflect what's going on. Actually, I've been busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Busier than a set of jumpe ... [read] Keywords: nd8
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If Microsoft admits it, it must be bad
Mon, Jul 6th 2009 10:39p Andy Pedisich Here's some skinny from the Comcast news site about that virus from last week. And here's the ZD Net version of the story. I'd bet at least a dollar that FireFox is not immune. This is all Zero d ... [read] Keywords: firefox
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Faster links to get to those IBM press releases
Fri, Jun 5th 2009 10:19a Andy Pedisich Those two IBM press releases I mentioned yesterday are now available at a "normal" location where you'll find all of IBM's press releases. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/index.wss This is the re ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Let’s move all contacts into the mail file
Fri, Jun 5th 2009 8:39a Andy Pedisich Like you, I read some other people's blogs. I follow quite a few. The funnier they potentially are, the more often I read them. Life needs more entertainment. Recently, that little likeable Irish g ... [read] Keywords: nd8
A link to great developerWorks article about Ultralite
Tue, May 19th 2009 1:29p Andrew M Pedisich I'm only two weeks late in finding this new developerWorks article about iNotes and Ultralite, but that doesn't make it less relevant.If you're serious about understanding the when, how and why of ult ... [read] Keywords: inotes
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New part of brain opening
Sun, May 10th 2009 12:39a Andy Pedisich Yesterday my son, Isaac, gave me his copy of Java All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies. I've programmed in a lot of languages, starting with Fortran way back in college. I learned that by candleli ... [read] Keywords: java
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Here are the important numbers
Tue, Apr 28th 2009 10:09p Andy Pedisich Yes, I've been working to the max, but it's important to be rounded and grounded. I planted 64 potato plants. For those of you who have never done this, here's how you do it. You purchase a bunch o ... [read] Keywords:
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Recovering from Admin2009 and getting back to work
Sun, Apr 19th 2009 9:29p Andy Pedisich Thank you, thanks, and thanks again to everyone who attended and/or presented at Admin2009 in Boston. It was hard work as it was four days of speaking and trying to help while Linda worked our Techno ... [read] Keywords:
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Limits to Yahoo Mail’s unlimited storage
Tue, Apr 14th 2009 7:53a Andy Pedisich I stumbled across this over the weekend while musing requests to give users a mail system with no restrictions. These requests were driven in part by the allure of systems such as Yahoo mail that off ... [read] Keywords: nd8
Things I love to find in the wild
Tue, Apr 7th 2009 6:59a Andy Pedisich I was doing a domain consolidation last week. I found one of the servers hadn't been restarted in close to a year. I almost felt bad having to restart it. It was nearly a sentimental experience. ... [read] Keywords: notes
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How to cause a complete server meltdown
Wed, Mar 25th 2009 7:19a Andy Pedisich Here's a sure-fire recipe to follow if you want to cause complete havoc and spend a bunch of hours trying to fix mail files and inboxes on your Domino servers. First, allow unbridled growth of the si ... [read] Keywords: domino
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Shuttle watching time
Tue, Mar 17th 2009 8:20p Andy Pedisich If you enjoy looking up, now is the time to print out a schedule for the possible appearance of the space shuttle attached to the space station soaring over your backyard. Give the kids a couple of c ... [read] Keywords:
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Tickets in the ticket pouch
Tue, Mar 17th 2009 5:09p Andy Pedisich This year is shaping up from an entertainment perspective. First, saw Emo Phillips at the Sellersville Theater about a month ago. He's a very funny and strange man. It was one of those "laugh until ... [read] Keywords:
Some ideas to help you be less glum
Wed, Mar 4th 2009 2:39p Andy Pedisich Last week was a bit of a glum week for me. I found myself scraping along, trying to keep my head up, focused on the things I had to do. The reasons? Multiple. Friends losing jobs. Cutbacks. The ... [read] Keywords:
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More on de-fishing sidebar
Thu, Feb 26th 2009 10:49a Andrew M Pedisich I just want to clarify about previous post regarding removing the fish from the sidebar. I received a couple of comments indicating that you could just remove these gadgets from the Widgets container ... [read] Keywords: nd8
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How to get the fish out of your sidebar
Tue, Feb 24th 2009 8:49p Andy Pedisich This one deserves a little explanation. I like the idea of widgets quite a bit. Being primarily an Administrator I tried to add a bunch, but of course I did it wrong and added the gadgets and thi ... [read] Keywords: nd
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Patch Saturday
Sat, Feb 14th 2009 2:19p Andy Pedisich Apparently, Patch Tuesday also happens on Saturday. This is for my desktop system. Chalk up 5 for Valentine's Day. - Andy ... [read] Keywords: desktop
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WindowsUpdate
Wed, Feb 11th 2009 11:19a Andrew M Pedisich I've decided that I will post an entry every time Microsoft updates my Windows XP system.I'm not going into gory details about what was updated. I merely want to call attention to the number of times ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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It can’t be us. It must be you!
Sun, Feb 8th 2009 10:39p Andy Pedisich Wonderful tip from Microsoft after an IE7 crash. I am not missing any updates. But thanks so much for being passive-aggressive. - Andy ... [read] Keywords: microsoft
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Downloadable stuff on the Resources page
Sat, Feb 7th 2009 5:19p Andy Pedisich Several attendees contacted me about the downloads from the sesion at Lotusphere 09. I swear, they're all there. Everything I can think of from Lotusphere 09 is available now on the Resources page ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
American Sign Language Translators at Lotusphere ’09
Sat, Jan 24th 2009 7:09p Andy Pedisich I forgot to mention this during Lotusphere '09. I think that every session room had a American Sign Language translator to provide some access for the deaf attendees. I don't remember noticing them ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
Lotusphere 09 is just a fading memory
Fri, Jan 23rd 2009 12:29p Andy Pedisich I'm always surprised at how sore I am when I get home for Lotusphere. This year I was very careful about partying since I had so very much to do. Before I get right back to work, I have a few co ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Speedgeeking at Lotusphere
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 10:39p Andy Pedisich Rob and I did a thing called SpeedGeeking tonight. That is an affair where Lotusphere puts up about 20 small tables in a big room, each manned by experts in one thing or another. Tonight, we showed ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Final prepping for our upgrade session at the sphere
Tue, Jan 20th 2009 11:39a Andrew M Pedisich Rob and I had a working breakfast this morning then hightailed it up to my room for a quick conference call with a client. Then we had a hilarious time prepping for our session Wednesday morning on 2 ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Live Blogging 5
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 3:49p Andy Pedisich Meeting no longer recorded in proprietary format. Quicktime's available. Attendance is up 2% from last year. To me, any growth in attendance is stunning considering how the economy has tanked. Clo ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Live Blogging 4
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 9:50a Andy Pedisich Just verified with other folks that this is the fastest paced OGS we've ever seen. Speakers are getting like 5 minutes each. IBM is going to be working with OpenNTF. IBM will help us make money! 3 ... [read] Keywords: ibm
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Live blogging 3
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 9:29a Andy Pedisich 50% of Notes domains are going to some flavor of Release 8. Don't I know it. We're very busy. Here comes the first demo. May the demo gods be with you. The name flashed by too fast for me to g ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Live Blogging
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 9:09a Andy Pedisich We're starting to talk about mobile devices. Jim Balsillie from RIM is speaking. It's been 10 year to the day that Crackberries were released to the world! It was a life changing invention for so m ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Live Blogging
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 8:49a Andy Pedisich Dan did a little schtick. Would have liked to see him longer. He's quite an historic pop figure. Oh, the Lotusphere 09 theme is resonance and they had Blue Man Group resonating by banging tubes as ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Wotta day!
Sun, Jan 18th 2009 10:09p Andy Pedisich Lotusphere 2009 Diary: Sunday Up at 5:25. Rob picked me up at 6:15. We made a 7:55 flight. Got to Orlando (MCO) at 10:30. Stopped and had Big Macs for lunch. Got to Lotusphere and checked in arou ... [read] Keywords: lotusphere
