Heading to IamLUG? Still Time to Join an Outstanding Group of Individuals Attending
Tue, Apr 30th 2013 2:52p Bill Malchisky Jr. This year, Linux School: Advanced Administration for IBM Software debuts at IamLUG. This offering, covers a lot of useful tools and installation tips for IBM products on Linux. We'll cover a lot of information and am looking forward to showcasing useful utilities which can save you time when troubleshooting. There is still time to get there, find decently priced air fare, and join a great group of peers to learn. Have you signed-up yet? Here is the official list of IamLUG Sessions and speake [read] Keywords: administration
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Running Adobe Acrobat Reader on Ubuntu x64
Thu, Apr 11th 2013 6:17a Bill Malchisky Jr. Adobe Acrobat Reader is i386 code that needs one i386 library file --- when installed on an x64 OS --- omitted with the native x64 installation of Ubuntu 12.x. As such, you'll see this error. To fix the issue, run this command From here you'll see this window, which will flow into several screens of files being unpacked and then installed. It's quite a lot. When finished though, Acrobat will run. The process continues with suggested packages and alerting the end-user t [read] Keywords: linux
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Some Fun at BLUG
Thu, Mar 28th 2013 7:14a Bill Malchisky Jr. Our illustrious BLUG organizer Theo Heselmans had a surprise for us. During a special event for the speakers and sponsors, he arranged for a Dutch artist to arrive and sketch caricatures for anyone invited. As I recall, there were 31 completed in about three hours (plus time for a couple of breaks). So the artist named, Tice, worked tirelessly creating art. He had two LCD monitors setup, the second was facing the victim volunteer, so we each could see the picture evolve. I believe that Tice used [read] Keywords:
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Train Tips for European Traveling
Wed, Mar 27th 2013 6:15a Bill Malchisky Jr. Train travel is fun and certainly exciting. You can easily get to anywhere with enhancements to the multi-country rail network in Europe. Here are a couple of tips (hardly plenary, I'll add) to aid you on your way. 1. Rail travel is expensive on mainland Europe (UK is quite reasonable comparatively); with the advent of cheap (for some travel situations) airfare like Easy Jet https://www.easyjet.com/ ,but if you have luggage you need to move around, it can be by far the easiest and most cost [read] Keywords: laptop
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BLUG Slides Uploaded
Tue, Mar 26th 2013 6:15a Bill Malchisky Jr. After a fabulous event in Leuven, Belgium with BLUG 2013, I adjusted the deck to account for a few new morsels provided by IBM since the release of IBM Domino 9 (link in yesterday's post). I also provided the changes to the BLUG Team to ensure currency and consistency across versions. The slides are located in My Presentations section. Title: Infrastructure Fitness and Design Simplicity for IBM Mobile Connect Session ID: A13 Track: Administration Absolutely enjoyed the event and to be p [read] Keywords: administration
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A Few Quick Points on Domino 9, x64, and Linux
Mon, Mar 25th 2013 6:12a Bill Malchisky Jr. IBM released Notes Domino 9 this week and it has been a firestorm of zeal, anticipation realized, fun tweets, community upgrades, and success stories overall. Included in the server code are two x86 Linux installation flavors for the first time. This allows one to run native Domino code in either i386 or x64 mode. If you attended Linuxfest at IBM Connect 2013 with myself, Wes Morgan and Daniel Nashed, my BLUG 2013 session, or my private Domino training sessions since December, you were ahead [read] Keywords: administration
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IBM Connect Slides Uploaded
Tue, Feb 5th 2013 7:10p Bill Malchisky Jr. I took some time today to update My Presentations page and insert the latest (updated) slides from my IBM Connect 2013 session. Title: Infrastructure Fitness and Design Simplicity for IBM Mobile Connect Session ID: BP406 Track: Best Practices Really enjoyed speaking once again with the Lotusphere/Connect team and working with René Winkelmeyer as well. Happy reading and enjoy the slides. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. Great to meet some many people at IC13 this year t [read] Keywords: ibm
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New Upgrade Tool in Fedora 18
Fri, Jan 18th 2013 6:14a Bill Malchisky Jr. Fedora 18 comes with a new upgrade tool entitled, FedUp. It allows you to perform system upgrades. You can also install it on Fedora 17 so that you can load the RPM there and then utilize the tool to get to version 18. This is a command line tool (CLI), which will download several to a lot of packages (depending upon your configuration), a new kernel, initrd, the will reboot the box to perform the final operations. Know that the code is new and may very well change before Fedora 18 is released. [read] Keywords: notes
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A Difficult Change of Plans Regarding SkiLUG
Thu, Jan 17th 2013 5:14a Bill Malchisky Jr. This is the blog entry I never thought I would have to write. With apologies, SkiLUG 2013 is cancelled for this year. My team and I started planning SkiLUG 2013 during Lotusphere 2012 and garnered a lot of interest in what we were planning for the community. People from multiple time zones were excited. From that basis, we started immediately with finding a location and proceeding with all of the action items that one does when planning such an event. Things were going along well, until... H [read] Keywords: ibm
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Linuxfest IV is back for IBM Connect 2013
Wed, Jan 9th 2013 5:16a Bill Malchisky Jr. Wes Morgan and I will be co-hosting the fourth manifestation of this informative session. Although, my partner on the desktop side for the past three years, Joe Litton, will be unable to join us, Wes immediately stepped-up to help. This event is a fun way for all of us to provide the best single source of Linux related answers for all of your ICS software at IC13. For those that have not attended previously, it is also a nice way to wind-down IBM Connect and enjoy your lunch with fellow attendee [read] Keywords: ibm
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Soccer Saturday Final Details Announced
Tue, Jan 8th 2013 7:13p Bill Malchisky Jr. I updated the original post with the final details and a new bonus activity afterward. Play or cheer... happy to have you join us on the beach! See you at the Dolphin. Click here for the details [read] Keywords:
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iNotes Tip: Getting the Lotus Learning Widget to Install on 8.5.3
Wed, Dec 19th 2012 5:09a Bill Malchisky Jr. The Lotus Learning Widget is a great piece to add to your IBM / Lotus iNotes installation and have great information readily available for your end users. The Lotus Wiki has a nice step-by-step piece providing the widget code. One small issue, the code is incorrect. The third line of the original code contains a sole "&" sign inside the palleteItem tag. It needs to be changed to a "&" instead. Once you do that, you will have a nice clean Lotus Widget available to use. Give it a s [read] Keywords: ibm
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How Linux Is Built
Mon, Nov 5th 2012 5:13a Bill Malchisky Jr. While perusing The Linux Foundation's site for future conference dates, I stumbled upon this short but informative video, describing how the open source community collaborates to build Linux. Even if you prefer Windows, you are mostly likely using Linux in your day to day routine. This video is a "...powerful and inspiring story of how Linux has become a community-driven phenomenon." , to quote their site. So, take three minutes and enjoy the show. Learning can be fun. http://youtu.be [read] Keywords: community
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LMC Corner -- Ensuring You Are Using The Right Java Build
Fri, Oct 5th 2012 6:09a Bill Malchisky Jr. To determine if IBM Java is installed on our machine, type: #rpm -qa |grep IBM Then, find the subdirectory for the java executable $ls /opt/ You'll see IBMJava2.... (the rest is version specific e.g.: IBMJava2-1.4.2) $ls /opt/IBM [tab][tab] ; [tab]jre/[tab][tab]bin/java Record this path for use below. Notations A. You are probably wondering why I prefaced the "ls /opt" command with the RPM sequence? Simply put, just because a product [read] Keywords: ibm
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An Extreme BitTorrent Test Case
Mon, Sep 17th 2012 6:11a Bill Malchisky Jr. Let me describe an unexpected test of BitTorrent performed over UKLUG travels, which further strengthened my respect for BitTorrent as a technology. All major desktops offer BitTorrent clients, for acquiring large downloads in an efficient manner. For those that are unfamiliar, BitTorrent allows for the ability to borrow bandwidth from many locations in parallel, while properly assembling your target file efficiently on your local system. Run a MD5 calculation and you can easily verify the file [read] Keywords: laptop
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Soccer Saturday Comes to IBM Connect 2013!
Fri, Sep 14th 2012 6:11a Bill Malchisky Jr. Meets When viewing recently the European Cup (UEFA EURO 2012) with several friends in a Skype chat, we realized that many of us not only enjoy watching soccer (football, for non-Americans), but many of us also enjoying playing the sport. After a few quips regarding getting together to play... someone asked, "Why not at Lotusphere?") The idea was born. I called the Dolphin Swan immediately to learn about the possibility for a small field to play soccer with my friends and fellow Loti at I [read] Keywords: ibm
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Big Day for IBM Social Business
Wed, Sep 12th 2012 8:09a Bill Malchisky Jr. Today is when IBM gets to announce some new product enhancements surrounding their analytics and mobile capabilities for their social business offerings. Press announcements, customer success stories, and product information are all making headlines today. Great news for IBM and this ever growing market. Recall that IDC has named IBM --- for the third straight year --- number one for this market segment for business class software. A significant endorsement of the IBM strategy success in this sp [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Join Colleen Burns and Myself on the June IBM Collaboration Solutions Community Webcast!
Mon, Jun 25th 2012 7:13p Bill Malchisky Jr. Having a busy year and most grateful for the work. So, taking a brief moment to remind those that are not on the community webcast e-mail list about the meeting this week. Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2012 Time: 10:00 AM EDT Place: Online; URL provided upon registering If you have not registered yet, here is the official announcement. The format will have both Colleen Burns and I speaking for a few minutes each covering an inspiring story of collaboration. Please join us! Looking forwar [read] Keywords: collaboration
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IBM Softwware Admins -- Customizing Your Linux Core Dumps
Tue, May 1st 2012 9:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. Applications crash. It is a fact of life with administration, as we have to clean-up the mess when they do. In Linux these memory protection situations, CPU violations, or other software bug snafus typically manifest themselves in a core file, when occurring outside of Domino--which uses its own type of crash files. In UNIX or Linux, you may see the occasional core file laying around the / filesystem, or throughout your home directory if you were running the program that crashed. But what if [read] Keywords: administration
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LotusLearns -- The Good, The Bad, and Yes, It’s Ugly (Underneath)
Fri, Apr 20th 2012 10:09p Bill Malchisky Jr. Plenty of members in the blogger community are discussing this important topic. I am all for aggregating content to make people find information easier for how they use the web. The issue is that most of the blogger content is protected by copyright. That is sacred. Being a published author, this topic is sensitive for me. Very early in my consulting career, I was on a project where a consultant working for a competing firm and from a country that had few protections for the written word, borrow [read] Keywords: lotus
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Regrettably, SkiLUG 2012 Is Cancelled, But There Is Good News...
Sat, Jan 28th 2012 11:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. Due to a non-cooperative calendar, we are regrettably unable to provide the attention needed for this year's SkiLUG event and thus, I must cancel it at this time. I did speak with several people at Lotusphere about this as well; they understand and gave me their support. I appreciate having good friends in the Lotus Community. Thank you to everyone who expressed interest in attending, speaking, and helping make the event rewarding. Additionally, New England Lotus User Group for partnering with [read] Keywords: lotus
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The Best (practices) Session on Compliance Hits Lotusphere Today (Monday)!
Mon, Jan 16th 2012 8:09a Bill Malchisky Jr. Thrilled to be giving the only session on compliance in the Best Practices track. With scores of new regulations coming out of Washington and eDiscovery lawsuits climbing dramatically year-over-year, this session is quite timely. Join me today in the Swan Toucan, at 5:00 PM EST for an entertaining and information session to learn about the current trends and why you should take it seriously, lest your firm end up as a front page story for the wrong reasons. . Title: BP204 Smart Plays with Com [read] Keywords: admin
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Congratuations to IBM! Taking Top Honors Twice with Linux
Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 4:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. This week Linux Journal released their best of Linux Readers' Choice Awards 2011. The poll offers a winner and runner-up in 45 categories of products, ranging from various hardware to software segments. Examples include: Best Graphics Chipset, Best New Office Suite, Best Distribution, and Best Desktop Vendor. For the Best Linux Server Vendor -- IBM took the top spot. Having used the runner-up and their support, plus other vendors over the years, I can absolutely testify to the quality har [read] Keywords: ibm
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Excellent GIMP Learning Resource Collection
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 6:17a Bill Malchisky Jr. Linux Today featured an abstract to a full article in the Ostatic blog covering some updated resources on GIMP -- the highly advanced and capable open source image editing tool. It's free and it's fantastic. But, with all of the included features, the learning curve can be quite daunting for many. The open source community responded with some pretty impressive documentation, which is getting better with each release. The original resource comes from the source itself, GIMP GIMP Documentat [read] Keywords: community
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Netbook Performance Woes? Open Source Has An Answer
Wed, Oct 12th 2011 6:12a Bill Malchisky Jr. What I love about the open source community is that they can quickly respond to industry/user demands in a small fraction of the time of their closed source counterparts. Here is a great example. Netbooks are useful devices, slightly less popular now with the advent of the tablet, but they are still selling and have their place. To that point, many of the operating systems that run on them tend to force users to make a decision between two mutually exclusive capabilities: features vs performance [read] Keywords: community
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IBM Marketing Follow-up -- Attention Lotus BPs, Be Heard!
Sun, Oct 9th 2011 11:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. Just wanted to alert you to the progress made with IBM marketing and also to an opportunity to provide feedback. IBM marketing is listening and are open to learning what is wrong with an eye towards fixing things. How long that will be and what that entails remains unknown currently. But, I am pleased to state that they are serious about understanding the core problem; I am serious about working to remove the disconnect between what senior management feels is happening and what we experience. [read] Keywords: ibm
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SkiLUG 2012 Registration is Open!
Thu, Sep 29th 2011 6:09a Bill Malchisky Jr. Yes, SkiLUG 2012 --- The Skiquel --- is live. After several weeks of long nights with our team of quality Lotus community volunteers, we are pleased to get things moving. Registration for attendees, speakers and sponsors is open. Take a look at http://skilug.org and sign-up. Ski ya! [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2011 Content Available Now in Lotus Greenhouse
Wed, Aug 10th 2011 1:18p Bill Malchisky Jr. Joyce Davis helped fight the good fight for the Lotus Community and we won. Today, her team released a significant quantity of Lotusphere 2011 content covering all tracks--with MP3 files in many cases. This allows the larger audience in the Lotus customer and partner space to benefit from the presented knowledge. The ability to access the information after the event is something where many have been vocal, and IBM listened--to their credit. That's Great, But How Do I Access It? Two things y [read] Keywords: ibm
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Devious Bank Fraud Malware Discovered
Mon, Aug 8th 2011 2:10p Bill Malchisky Jr. Today, noted security blogger Krebs on Security posted a story coming out of Germany on a nasty Trojan horse affecting Windows users. If you access online accounts, or your family members do, then this post should be of interest to you. The full story is located here, entitled, "Trojan Tricks Victims Into Transferring Funds" There exists a decent two paragraph synopsis on a linking blog: Bruce Schneier's synopsis Either way, be careful with financial accounts, keep your malware updated [read] Keywords: blogger
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Mac OSX Lion Tech Tip: Fullscreen Support for Browsers and Cocoa Apps is Available!
Thu, Jul 21st 2011 11:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. Currently, Lion's Fullscreen support is limited to Safari, iLife apps (e.g. GarageBand), and some of the standard Apple provided OSX tool at the moment. I prefer to have apps that do not take-up the full screen unless I specifically request it, as with document editing programs. That has been one of the benefits of the Mac environment and in one way what distinguished itself from Windows. What is the benefit of Safari full screen on a 27" monitor? Most Windows machines do not come with such a [read] Keywords: notes
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Mac OSX Lion Install Tips & Considerations
Thu, Jul 21st 2011 12:11a Bill Malchisky Jr. Yes, the big news today is that Mac OSX Lion (10.7) is released. One of the best parts is the instant gratification of an on-line installation. Ubuntu has been offering this for over three years, so I am glad to see Apple finally catch-up in this regard. :) But seriously, with so many new features, functions, and capabilities, invariably there are things that will be addressed in the first round of patches. Looking at this post may assist you deciding if you should upgrade now or wait a bit. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Excited to be Speaking at IamLUG Again. Join the Community and Head to St. Louis!
Tue, Jul 19th 2011 6:10a Bill Malchisky Jr. I am thrilled to be attending IamLUG for the third consecutive year. This time I will be providing two presentations and can't believe the event is less than two weeks away! First is a deep-dive technical session on using Linux with your Lotus products --- server-side, specifically --- encompassing at least three key products. Titled simply enough, Lotus on Linux Report -- Technical Edition. As always, I gladly will entertain all your questions on life, Linux, and the pursuit of a Windows-f [read] Keywords: ibm
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 -- Part V: Contrasting Unity with Gnome 3
Fri, Jul 1st 2011 12:19a Bill Malchisky Jr. O.k. after a busy month I am glad to be back and posting the final segment of the Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 series...the time also gave me the opportunity to really learn Ubuntu and scribe a better review for this post. For those that have not upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 or are curious, one major improvement is to the window manager--now called Unity. There are many enhancements, some of which I covered in previous posts in this series. But it is not based upon Gnome 3 which is also beautiful in [read] Keywords: administration
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 -- Part IV: Unity Tips and Tricks
Thu, May 19th 2011 6:11a Bill Malchisky Jr. Here are a few tips on using the new desktop in Ubuntu to save time and a bit of frustration with the question, "Well how do I do now?" that you are sure to experience at some point. The post will cover a couple of points in each of these areas: Mouse tricks Keyboard shortcuts Desktop Tips Suggested Tools and Utilities And since I've learned that in the first two days' posts within this series...the Domino blog template apparently can not handle multiple image files in a blog [read] Keywords: domino
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 -- Part I: Good Design Makes a Difference
Mon, May 16th 2011 6:11a Bill Malchisky Jr. UPDATE -- Unfortunately, the HTML rendering engine decided to reorder several of the screenshots and arbitrarily crop two. Everything is fine on the back-end. This result, I find infuriating after all the time I spent this weekend writing multiple posts. In the end, the quality failed to deliver, and uncertain at this time. So, I apologize up-front. I will take another look later in the day on Monday. This is the first installment in a five part series on Ubuntu 11.04. The team at Canonical ma [read] Keywords: notes
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Final Push Before UKLUG
Sat, May 14th 2011 6:10a Bill Malchisky Jr. Well, just finished making my final checklist for UKLUG and this weekend will be busy--including launching several Linux related blog posts this week. Very much looking forward to seeing Manchester in a few days. If you are attending this great user group event, I will be providing a very technical session on Lotus and Linux. Stop by and say, "Hello." Should be a lot of fun. See you soon! [read] Keywords: lotus
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Compliance and the Domino Administrator: My First THE VIEW Article is Available
Tue, May 10th 2011 6:10a Bill Malchisky Jr. Proud to write that my first article with THE VIEW Journal is now available. You can find it here: Compliance and the Domino Administrator: Essential Knowledge, Planning, and Journaling. It will appear in the June print edition of the periodical as well. I thoroughly enjoy assisting my clients remain compliant with their Lotus environments. Hope the information in this piece is helpful. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for reading. Here's the abstract: Discover what you nee [read] Keywords: domino
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Spring Cleaning Tip: Uninstalling Unused Ubuntu Kernels
Mon, Mar 21st 2011 6:09a Bill Malchisky Jr. Now that Spring is here, let's talk about cleaning up your system. If you want a technical post on Linux.... you got it. This session is chock-full of useful command-line tips and syntax to help make using your Linux desktop system a lot easier, while building your confidence. Any questions, contact me directly or leave a comment to this post. As many people are now using or testing Ubuntu, I wanted to provide some technical desktop tips to help keep your machine streamlined and allow you to ad [read] Keywords: administration
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LS11 Session Review Articles
Wed, Feb 16th 2011 11:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. As I mentioned earlier this week, one of the tasks completed at this year's Lotusphere2011 included working with the LotusUserGroup.org and authored several reviews for their site and newsletters. Here are the links to several of them, available via their website. I enjoyed the experience and the opportunity to once again work with the good people at LotusUserGroup.org. What's New in IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 Presented by Art Thomas and Dave Kajmo Messaging and Collaboration Strategy Presented [read] Keywords: collaboration
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My Morning with 30 College Students at LS11 and A Blown Opportunity by IBM
Tue, Feb 15th 2011 12:14p Bill Malchisky Jr. One of the highlights of the event was to see 500 Florida based college students at the OGS during LS11. A lot of people have covered this facet of the event, so I will tell my piece from a different perspective. Upon going to the Product Showcase floor early on Monday, I noticed the students had broken into groups of four to eight and were walking around the floor, trying to take it all in. Pretty much every group I saw had the same look: overwhelming. Most have never been to a top tradeshow [read] Keywords: ibm
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Speaking at IdoSphere TODAY
Tue, Feb 15th 2011 6:24a Bill Malchisky Jr. Today is the first day of a great new event in the Lotus Community: IdoSphere. A wonderful event by Mr. Idonotes himself, Chris Miller. He will be hosting the event that allows both admins and devs to see many sessions that are of Lotusphere caliber but did not make the final list. So, as an attendee, you now have the opportunity to see and hear live the speakers that submitted them, via a great opportunity Chris is providing the community. This year at Lotusphere, many attendees had a thirst [read] Keywords: domino
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A Passionate Plea for DDE on Mac at Lotusphere2011
Mon, Feb 14th 2011 8:11p Bill Malchisky Jr. One of the sessions I attended on Day 2 (Day 1 for coders), was the INV107 - Application Development Strategy. The session covered the application development trend line with Brent Peters listed, but he was unable to attend on the session. The best part, in my estimation, came during the Q&A period. I looked to my left at the end of the row next to the microphone a passionate man holding his Mac Book Pro laptop high in his extended right hand, all while making a great point. This man was [read] Keywords: domino
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Back, healthy, and did a lot at Lotusphere2011
Mon, Feb 14th 2011 5:08p Bill Malchisky Jr. Feels great to be back and write on my blog again. Enjoyed a very busy January preparing for Lotusphere, then a busy conference, and got ill while visiting my family the weekend after the event. So, rather than scribe my post-conference blog posts, I was in-bed recovering. Bad timing, but c'est la vie. So, here is my first of several posts on Lotusphere and what I've been working-on. Very busy conference this year... First, hosted the Lotusphere Speedboats on a very warm, sunny Saturday [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotus iNotes D8.5.1 FP5 Login Error
Fri, Jan 14th 2011 5:14a Bill Malchisky Jr. "Error encountered retrieving data: Bad HTTP status: 500 (internal Server Error)" IBM just released a new Technote on a CHF error relating to iNotes. It affects D8.5.1 on Windows if you installed CH1 for FP5. The fix is to uninstall CHF1 and wait for the CHF2 update, which they are expected to release shortly through Fix Central. To know for certain if you are in-scope, login to iNotes and verify your build number. If it is 304.11 then remove CHF1 as suggested in the document. If you are [read] Keywords: ibm
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Linux Installfest at Lotusphere 2011
Fri, Jan 14th 2011 5:14a Bill Malchisky Jr. Joe Litton and I will be co-hosting the second manifestation of this informative event. It's a fun way for the both of us to give of ourselves to the community. As there is only one Linux session this year, this is really the only opportunity to get quality technical information for Lotus on Linux as LS11. Linux paraphernalia in unknown and interesting quantity to be provided. If you got questions, we got answers. Hope to see you there. -=-=- Linux Installfest at Lotusphere 2011 Inter [read] Keywords: inotes
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Lotusphere 2011 Speedboats! Midday Saturday Activity
Wed, Jan 12th 2011 5:17a Bill Malchisky Jr. If you are one of the fortunate people to arrive early to Lotusphere this year, then you may be curious as to which activities are available. Saturday evening will have Turtle's Annual ESPN Zone bash. Preceding that, is B.A.L.D. which usually takes place mid-afternoon at Big River Grille & Brewery on The Boardwalk. But what can you do before 3p? Of course the parks are there and you have Downtown Disney for shopping. But what if you want something else that is exciting? Here's an answer: s [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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The Migration Trend Continues: Russian Government Is Moving to Linux
Tue, Dec 28th 2010 5:21a Bill Malchisky Jr. Today, the Russian Prime Minister announced that Russia is moving to free software by 2015, with the biggest change being a move to Linux in 2012. Those of you that have attended my Linux sessions at LUGs, know that I am passionate about increasing adoption of this great operating system -- not just because it is incredibly stable and reliable, but it also can save companies significant sums of money in various ways. Besides, Lotus products run great on Linux. This year (2010), one of the suc [read] Keywords: domino
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Christmas in New York: The Locals Tour
Mon, Dec 27th 2010 5:23a Bill Malchisky Jr. Whether you are planning to take advantage of the snow in Manhattan this week to see the lights, or are planning a future visit, here is route path to take so you can get into the Christmas spirit---New York style---without wasting time (something New Yorkers loathe). If you have more than one afternoon to see everything, then I will add some bonus items below. I have lived in NYC or worked there and commuted since 1995 and frequently provide unique tour experiences for friends and colleagues in [read] Keywords: apple
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And Now For Something Completely Different -- Mom’s Co-worker Gets Inducted into Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame!
Fri, Dec 17th 2010 6:14a Bill Malchisky Jr. Year's ago, my mother introduced me to her co-worker, Neal Smith. Really nice guy and we enjoyed a great conversation. She then mentioned to him that I was a musician (years previous) and mentioned that he played drums with Alice Cooper. Since then they both changed companies and are now working together again. This week, the big announcement went through their office that he is being inducted into the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame, everyone got giddy with delight. Mr. Smith is a great guy. He is we [read] Keywords: office
Immaterial Replication Entries Found Post Domino 8.5.1FP5 8.5.2 Upgrades
Sat, Dec 4th 2010 11:18a Bill Malchisky Jr. Spoke with a client yesterday. Upon their upgrading to D8.5.1FP5 from FP3, they started seeing extraneous long entries about template replication. 11/30/2010 14:34:47 Starting replication with server Mail/Servers/FOO 11/30/2010 14:34:47 Pulling imapcl5.ntf from Mail/Servers/FOO imapcl5.ntf 11/30/2010 14:34:47 Pulling cca50.ntf from Mail/Servers/FOO cca50.ntf 11/30/2010 14:34:47 Pulling schema.ntf from Mail/Servers/FOO schema.ntf 11/30/2010 14:34:47 Pulling icl.ntf from Mail/Servers [read] Keywords: administration
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SkiLUG is (finally) Live! Non-skiers are Encouraged as Well. Come Hither, Peruse, and Register
Fri, Dec 3rd 2010 8:18a Bill Malchisky Jr. After my original pre-announcement post back in September, and a Herculean effort by the volunteer team for customizations and testing, we are happy to roll-out the main site for this original LUG event format. Whether you ski or want to learn, enjoy ice skating, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, or just relaxing with a hot toddy by the fire, there is something for all of you at this event--coming 25-27 Feb 2011. So, please, take a moment, to review the site. We've secured great rates with the Inn, [read] Keywords:
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Linux Tip: sysinfo, Getting Detailed Technical Data on Your Linux System
Thu, Dec 2nd 2010 6:15a Bill Malchisky Jr. For those that know me well, or have worked with me on a project know that I am less of a fan of GUI's for administration and prefer the command line interface. It is fast, takes little bandwidth and generally provides increased capabilities over its graphical cousin that would otherwise clutter the UI. However, I also understand that they are not for everyone...particularly beginners on Linux who come from a Windows existence. That is why I like sysinfo. In short, it provides a detailed set of [read] Keywords: administration
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Domino on Linux Tip: top, It Just May Be an Admin’s Best Friend
Mon, Nov 29th 2010 4:15a Bill Malchisky Jr. For those that do not know, 'top' provides a ton of system information in a compact space, plus the 'top' system hogs. It is a very flexible program that provides a lot of power and the ability to resolve problems quickly. From the man page: "The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. The types of system summary information shown and the typ [read] Keywords: admin
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ILUG 2010 and Why IT Events Rock
Fri, Nov 19th 2010 4:12a Bill Malchisky Jr. Well after a few weeks off from blogging for personal reasons in OCT and a terrific time in Belfast with ILUG and some post-conference vacation, I am taking a few minutes on my flight back to Newark, NJ to type some reflections on that event. First, the vast team of volunteers on the conference committee did a great job putting things together and they provided an excellent conference facility: Ramada Belfast Shaws Bridge. Next, I'll just pen some random thoughts in an arbitrary sequenc [read] Keywords: ilug
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Big Changes with OpenOffice
Wed, Oct 6th 2010 3:27a Bill Malchisky Jr. As Oracle is less than 100% committed to open source initiatives and now owns Sun's Java and OpenOffice product lines plus killed the open Solaris project this year, people in the open source community are concerned about the future of these popular offerings. Solution? Open source to the rescue! Enter LibreOffice. Created by a group of OpenOffice developers, these individuals decided to form the Document Foundation which is based around OpenOffice.org. In other words, it is the continuation of [read] Keywords: foundations
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SkiLUG -- Pre-announcement
Fri, Sep 17th 2010 5:31a Bill Malchisky Jr. Pre-Announcement Yes, it's true...a unique Lotus User Group experience is coming your way soon.... Fri through Sunday, 25-27 February 2011 at Sunday River, ME. The conference property will be in Bethel, Maine and is a gem. We'll have a short and memorable conference on Friday...one dinner as a group...plenty of activities on both Saturday and Sunday: Alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, and snowmobiling for starters. Enjoy a weekend conference and plenty of time with yo [read] Keywords: lotus
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New to Ubuntu Linux? Here’s a Free User’s Guide
Wed, Sep 15th 2010 3:27a Bill Malchisky Jr. The latest offering from the Ubuntu Manual Project is now available: A Complete Beginner's Manual for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). Those that are new to Ubuntu or Linux desktop flavors in general should find this guide interesting. Others with more experience, might be able to answer a nagging question that they have had about Gnome, never got around to answering, and just deal with their roll-your-own work-around. Experts may find it useful to give to friends or family members that call them for [read] Keywords: desktop
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