One of the more hilarious products I've seen, is the hair dryer my daughter got for Christmas: "Braun Satinpro satin ions 2200" It has a special button that produces "satin ions". These ions, presumably charged "satin atoms", are told to be soothing and calming. Here's an explanation from the outside of the box:
Why do ions make hair shine? Ions are natural elements found in the environment. While positive ions produce static, frizzy and dull-looking hair, negative ions instantly tame frizz and static stress, making hair more manageable and shiny.
HAHAHA! It's fantastic! Do they really get away with things like this? It's just buzzword bullshit, fraud, deception, please pick your choice.
The most annoying product, however, is the Gilette shaver called FUSION POWER STEALTH.
Think of it: Buy this razor, and you are the rightfull owner of a shaving device with it's own fusion reactor (advanced nuclear power), and it's even invisible on radar screens!! Big time! What annoys me is that I would very much like to avoid products with such silly names, but since Gillette is the only razor available, I'm forced to buy this silly shit whether I like the name or not.
Strange problem, simple workaround
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 8:49a Bjorn Thomassen Issue: Had a strange issue today, when Domino 8.0.2 would not install on two VMWare servers. It seemed that the setup database wasn't copied along with the other files, so when the server finally started for the first time, no setup was available. Workaround: Installed Domino 7.0.3, did the initial setup there, and then installed 8.0.2 on top. Strange, though. [read] Keywords: domino
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Is RIM server 5.0 mature enough?
Wed, Jun 10th 2009 6:25p Bjorn Thomassen We downloaded the RIM server 5.0 last week and installed - uh - tried to install it - on a Windows 2003 server. Blackberry is quite new in Norway actually, the home market has been dominated by Symbian and Windows mobile based phones. We downloaded the RIM 5.0.0 software from blackberry.com and installed it right away, but no go.  We met peculiar problems; like: 1. Do not specify Norway as your country in Windows Regional Settings, otherwise the installation will fail :-D (Yes it's true) 2 [read] Keywords: administration
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Cool Lotus things I didn't know about
Sat, May 30th 2009 8:12a Bjorn Thomassen A good reference to NOTES INI HERE --> http://www.admincamp.de/notesini/name?openviewControl + Break on MacBook Pro is [Cmd]+[.] Notes.ini preferences plugin --> http://www.infosana.com/products.htm#notesini_pluginRemote console in the sidebar --> http://www.nsftools.com/blog/blog-05-2009.htm#05-19-09 (Thanks Odd-Ã…ge) [read] Keywords: lotus
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Norwegian Lotus User Group: Notes.ini/Gregory Engels
Fri, May 29th 2009 3:12a Bjorn Thomassen "How many ways do you know to modify the notes.ini file ?" said Gregory Engels, implying that he knew of at least 10 himself. Hell, I didn't know more than 4. Gregory was stand-in on short notice for Paul Mooney, who had to cancel. I was really disappointed about that, mr. Mooney's presentation skills are among the best in the Lotus world, and his "Admin Blast" is more than an ordinary admin/geek session, it's more of a show actually, with lots of humour but still packed with valuable info. M [read] Keywords: admin
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Norwegian Lotus User Group: What Ed said
Thu, May 28th 2009 5:48p Bjorn Thomassen Ed Brill is always exciting as keynote speaker, this time he gave us an updated overview of the Lotus family at a strategic level - not too interesting for geeks maybe, but OK. The most interesting part is always where he (maybe) hints on what is to come in the close future. It's important to emphasize that this is what I thought I heard, and not necessarily what mr. Brill actually said: * Lotus Notes sales is still increasing, despite the financial crisis * Lotus Foundations Branch office wil [read] Keywords: domino
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Nokia E90 Communicator - requiescat in pace
Wed, May 20th 2009 8:08p Bjorn Thomassen I lost an old friend last weekend: My Nokia E90 Communicator suffered a painful death after being squeezed into a banana in my backpack. My old friend lived for a couple of hours after that, but then without warning it passed away quick & quietly. My employer refuses to let me have a new one, saying that phone models are company policy and that everyone must obey the present rules. That sounds simple, but after ten years madly in love with 9210, 9500, and 9300, my life now feels really mis [read] Keywords: notes
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Hunting giant trout again
Thu, May 7th 2009 4:25p Bjorn Thomassen Lake Skogseid is well known for the giant trouts and chars. Last year my then 10 year old son caught a 2 kilo (4 lbs) specimen, while his friend got a stunning 4,7 kilos giant brown trout on the same trip. This year it was more down to normal again, with 14 small brown trouts as the result of 8 hours of fishing. On the other hand - we had a terrific dinner, I brewed this year's first can of coffee on the camp fire, and had yet another wonderful and memorable day together with my sons. Who could [read] Keywords: blogger
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Required HW and SW for Windows servers (Lotus 1996)
Mon, May 4th 2009 3:05a Bjorn Thomassen - We had hundreds of users on boxes like these! - The Lotus Domino server for Windows requires the following hardware and software: A PC with an Intel 80486 or Pentium processor or system with a Digital Alpha processor (only if you are using Windows NT) One of the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 95 Microsoft Windows NT version 3.5 or 4.0 Note If you are using the Standard Edition of Windows NT, check the list of supported software on the side panel of the box containing the L [read] Keywords: domino
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Spring in the mountains
Tue, Apr 28th 2009 6:06p Bjorn Thomassen While my Telemark skis are resting in the cellar, the jogging shoes have plenty to do. This scenery is from a an early morning mountain trip last weekend. Spring has finally started in the mountains :) [read] Keywords: blogger
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Attending LSBG conference in may
Mon, Apr 27th 2009 3:09p Bjorn Thomassen I'm attending LSBG spring conference for the first time this year. (LSBG = the Norwegian Lotus User Group). Rumours say that we might get a sneak preview of the new 8.5.1 client and the Quickr for Blackberry, which of course is interesting. The rest of the programme looks promising as well, and combined with keynote speakers like Ed Brill and Paul Mooney this conference should have all chances of being a success. [read] Keywords: lotus
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A db's size from 8.0.2 to 8.5
Sun, Apr 19th 2009 5:05p Bjorn Thomassen I installed 8.5 on a server this weekend, and monitored how the size of a mail db changed during the upgrade and with different compression options checked. After each change I compacted the db with command LOAD COMPACT path\dbname.nsf -c Ver.ODSSIZEOPTIONS CHECKED 8.0.248534 773 760LZH and design comp8.548534 773 760LZH and design comp8.551533 200 896LZH and design comp8.551511 442 944LZH, design and data compression [read] Keywords: ods
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Preparing for DAOS
Tue, Apr 14th 2009 5:29p Bjorn Thomassen One of our mail servers has nearly reached 1 terabyte and is slowly running out of disk space. Again. My colleagues who are responsible for the backup robots aren't pleased with the situation, and neither are we, "the yellow people" as they call us. So while the rest of the staff went on easter vacation, I started to plan for the implementation of DAOS on this particular server. In order to free some disk space, I needed to start a general compacting job with a space reduction parameter -B. In [read] Keywords: domino
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Making HDR images using Photomatix
Mon, Apr 13th 2009 6:25p Bjorn Thomassen Downloaded a demo version of Photomatix Pro a few days ago. Here is my first HDR image: Photomatix requires a set of exposures, and then use the best from each exposure. Here are my source images: The demo version leaves a water mark in your HDR image, but if you are an experienced photoshopper it shouldn't be too difficult to get rid of it. I consider buying a license, though. ($99) [read] Keywords: blogger
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The last snow
Mon, Apr 6th 2009 3:06p Bjorn Thomassen Easter time in Norway means visiting the snow covered mountains one last time. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Upgraded to 8.5 without problems, climbed a mountain instead of doing bug fixing
Sun, Mar 29th 2009 5:25p Bjorn Thomassen The 8.5 upgrade was carried out without any problems at all. We upgraded three different companies within three hours, did the necessary error checking, and then prepared ourselves for the usual user complaints. There were none.. So instead of resolving Lotus issues I spent the weekend like this:
Mount Livarden (approx 700 m) is a rather small peak, but the view from the top is just fantastic. I recorded this video on my mobile phone today, while I was resting at the top. The climb from the s [read] Keywords: lotus
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Does this make any sense?
Tue, Mar 24th 2009 5:47p Bjorn Thomassen I live 500 meters from an electrical shop that sells almost anything. Today I visited the store in order to buy a digital SLR camera for my daughter's birthday, and found out that the cheapest Canon SLR with a normal 18-55mm lens cost roughly NOK 4800,- (approx. $762,-). I found that to be a bit too expensive, so I visited all the other electrical shops in the area, just to find out that 4800,- apparently was the lowest price available. Then I checked the internet, and found that the same shop [read] Keywords: blogger
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Can Ubuntu be an alternative to XP?
Fri, Mar 20th 2009 2:48p Bjorn Thomassen Last weekend I brought home two old HP PCs, both with 1GB RAM and approx. 100GB disk space. My aim is to use some of my spare time to build a Linux based workstation that can be smart enough, cool enough and maintainable enough to function properly in our company. At this point I may need to mention that the IT management have not approved this, nor have they any plans of replacing the Windows workstations with Linux. The only achievement I see in this is to keep my knowledge of Linux up to dat [read] Keywords: lotus
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WInter holiday in the mountains
Wed, Mar 4th 2009 11:06a Bjorn Thomassen We always enjoy a few quiet days in the mountains at this time of year, when the darkness of the polar winter is over and spring is only a few weeks away. This time we brought an ICE mobile broadband router, which enables both me and my teenage kids to have a 2MBit internet access through the NMT450 mobile telephone network. The low transmitting frequency and the analog signaling technology gives the ICE router a wider coverage area than the more modern GSM/GPRS/3G networks, and makes it a very [read] Keywords: gadget
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Making "Hetevegger"
Mon, Feb 23rd 2009 6:30p Bjorn Thomassen My hometown Bergen was for many centuries dominated by german and dutch trading companies, who bought and sold mainly fish products. Almost everyone here have at least one german or dutch ancestor, and many of the old words and traditions are still alive in the city. This weekend we had for example shrowtide buns with icing sugar and whipped cream, and today the highly traditional "Hetevegg". The word Hetevegg origins from the German Heisse Wecken, meaning Warm Buns. It's an enormous bun, and i [read] Keywords:
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BCC ClientGenie: First impressions
Fri, Feb 20th 2009 4:29p Bjorn Thomassen Lotus Notes desktop administration isn't cheap. At least not cheap enough for us, so one of the goals with the Lotusphere trip this year was to find good 3rd party tools for automating maintenance tasks and try to bring down the TCO for the Lotus applications. The BCC ClientGenie is a set of such tools, and at first sight just what we needed. You install two DLLs on each workstation, make the necessary configuration documents in a db on the Domino server, and woops: You can put or delete icons [read] Keywords: administration
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One of those rare saturdays
Sat, Feb 14th 2009 11:44a Bjorn Thomassen .. when you have time to do something else than house cleaning, shopping or work.We've had some snow here now the last week. It's not common around Bergen but it sure is welcome.  Here's me at the Livarden mountain, at the topmost cairn about 700 meters above sea level :) The mountain in the background is the eastern side of  the Ulriken, the "signature mountain" of Bergen. [read] Keywords:
Planning our notes domain 2009
Fri, Feb 6th 2009 3:26p Bjorn Thomassen Last autumn we managed to migrate all companies from Novell Groupwise to Lotus Notes 8.x. It was a tough job, but we managed to get them all safely over just before the annual system freeze period started. The system freeze period in our enterprise is soon over, so now it's time to decide what to prioritize this year. We had our first strategy meeting today, and this is what we concluded: First of all: Fix all issues with the current configuration (2-3 weeks) 2. Start planning for Lotus Sympho [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotusphere 09 - What I told my wife
Fri, Jan 30th 2009 7:05p Bjorn Thomassen Lotusphere '09 is history, and so is the jet-lag. Life goes on. It's good to be back in Norway, though Florida is a nice place to be in the middle of winter. It's good to be back with my family, my colleagues, the bad weather, the nice food, the tastier beer, and my good old bed. My impressions of Lotusphere 2009? It was nice. It's no use telling what everyone else already have said, so I think I stick to that: "Lotusphere 09 was nice". Personally I would had expected more new stuff, but since [read] Keywords: ibm
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I was there when Benjamin Zander spoke
Thu, Jan 22nd 2009 6:48p Bjorn Thomassen All you poor guys who had to leave early and didn't attend the closing session: Cry blood and bleed yellow, you missed one hell of a speaker. Conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (doesn't sound juicy, eh?) gave us a fantastic moment that lasted over two hours. (It seemed like a short moment though). People laughed, cheered, sang and cried, as the old man spellbound his audience in something that must have been one of the most fantastic performances ever witnessed at Lotusphere. I dare [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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KALDT !!
Wed, Jan 21st 2009 7:46a Bjorn Thomassen Onsdag morgen, og utenfor her i herlige tropiske Florida er det - null - grader.Ikveld er det den tradisjonelle parkfesten, men værmeldingen sier minus tre grader og vind, så det spørs om det blir noe arrangement.  [read] Keywords: apple
Lotusphere OGS: Lotus Online Services
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 10:46a Bjorn Thomassen http://www.lotuslive.com "Vi har tatt våre fineste tjenester og gjort dem tilgjengelig for alle" Bluehouse heter nå Lotus Live Engage, tilgjengelig Q1 i år Lotuslive partners: Salesforce, LinkedIn og Skype Dette ser faktisk bra ut! Tror jeg må kikke mer på dette. Keynote session 8:30 imorgen [read] Keywords: bluehouse
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Lotusphere OGS: UCC
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 9:46a Bjorn Thomassen Sametime unified telephony: Snaddersystem som integrerer Lotus teknologien med sentralbordet. Ron Sebastian kjører noen overbevisende demoer Tilgjengelig i mars 09 Lotus Sametime 8.5 Sterkt forbedret videokonferanse og forbedret audio bit Tror jeg skal se deres keynote session imorgen 03:00 pm [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere OGS: Lotus Notes 8.5 sekjsonen
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 9:26a Bjorn Thomassen Kevin Cavanaugh - Lotus Notes 20 år Bursdagstale. bladibladi Symphony: 200000 brukere allerede Lotusscript er støttet Lotusscript Støtte for Office 2007 i kommende versjon SAP: Alloy er det nye navnet til Atlantic Tilgjengelig i mars Og så kom Ron Sebastian omsider. Verdens mest utsatte demomann? LinkedIn i sidebaren - kjekt NOTES 8.5 Sametime contacts: Dra&slipp direkte fra Sametime til mail (to: feltet) Masse nytt i notes klienten Støtte for Google calendar Støtte for å legge f [read] Keywords: atlantic
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OGS Lotusphere 2009 #2
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 8:46a Bjorn Thomassen Coca Cola - Jean Michel Ares forteller om hvordan konsernet utnytter SAP og Lotus teknologi. Litt tungt og kjedelig. Tydelig at han snakker om noe andre har forberedt for ham. [read] Keywords: lotus
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OGS Lotusphere 2009
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 8:46a Bjorn Thomassen 12326 nye kunder siden slippet av Lotus Notes 8, sier sjæfen. Dan Akroyd er årets hovedtaler. Morsom. Salen er full! Hvor mange folk er det her i år? 6000? 7000? [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2009: Søndag
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 8:46a Bjorn Thomassen Ny dag, tid for å finne frem og gjøre seg kjent. Vi startet med å samle troppene og lokalisere bossholdeplassen der Lotusphere bussene skulle stoppe. Da vi endelig fant den, sto der 7 busser og ventet på oss. Utrolig! Søndagen er litt utenom rytmen for oss som ikke er leverandører, men like fullt oppegående i Lotus teknologi. Jumpstart sesjonene, som er det vi kunder skal bry oss med liksom, er forsåvidt OK, men i mange tilfeller kanskje litt for enkle. Uansett - stor moro for nye og el [read] Keywords: domino
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Switching to Norwegian during Lotusphere 09
Mon, Jan 19th 2009 12:29a Bjorn Thomassen There's so much to blog about, but so little time.. In order to tell as much as possible I'll blog in my native language for a few days. I will try to translate blog entries to English when I have the time. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Arriving in Orlando
Sat, Jan 17th 2009 12:05a Bjorn Thomassen Traveling from Norway via Iceland to Orlando means flying almost constantly in the sunset. When the plane landed at Keflavik, Iceland, the sun set. It was almost dark before we got onboard the next airliner and continued westwards. Somewhere between Iceland and Greenland we caught up with the sunset again, the dim daylight returned slowly, and suddenly it was day again ! I'm writing this somewhere over Atlanta. The airplane is quiet. Some are sleeping, while others (like me) are a little too exc [read] Keywords: lotus
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Got Windows 7 installed on my MacBook Pro
Tue, Jan 13th 2009 6:45p Bjorn Thomassen I spent a few hours this evening downloading and installing the Windows 7 public beta on a VMWare fusion partition on my MacBook, and it all went fairly well. Much better than I had expected. The most difficult part was to locate an .ISO file with the '7 beta on. There seems to be something wrong with Microsoft's download system, at least I didn't manage to get the file from them. Instead I went here --> http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/09/direct-download-links-for-windows-7-beta-iso- [read] Keywords: notes
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Installing Mac boot camp 2.1 on an existing WinXP SP3 partition
Sat, Jan 10th 2009 7:46p Bjorn Thomassen This must be the first time I've run into trouble with the Mac updates. I ran the update application manually from my bootcamp (windows) partition, and found new versions of Safari, iTunes, and many other pop apps. Of course I installed them all. The largest one however, the Bootcamp 2.1 update, did not complete as it should. Â After several attempts I ended up doing a manual download and install, and finally I was able to see an error message. Heey! "Error applying transforms. Verify that the s [read] Keywords: apple
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Considering LotusBeer in Bergen
Fri, Jan 9th 2009 6:45p Bjorn Thomassen We were quite a few Lotus geeks from Bergen at ILUG in Dublin this year, and after - uh - "a few Guinness" one night someone came up with the idea of copying the LotusBeer "conference" in Aberdeen. (http://www.lotusbeer.com/frunobulax/lotusbeer.nsf). The idea is simple: Gather as many of your Lotus colleagues, customers and friends as possible and get as drunk as you like at a pub somewhere. (If you got the nerves, also invite a few of your competitors...) OK, so I said I would take the initiat [read] Keywords: ilug
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What a nice evening
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 7:06p Bjorn Thomassen 1) I just noticed that I got an "A" on my project manager exam. And frankly - I deserved it. I've been working like hell night after night to deliver something I could call a nice piece of work. 2) I've been playing with notes 8.5 all evening, on both Win32 and MacOS. And it looks OK. I love new software ! 3) And I've been looking into the Twitter thing, since everybody seem to twitter nowadays. My ID is "Supernotes", btw. [read] Keywords: notes
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Ready for take-off
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 2:46p Bjorn Thomassen Thank you all for advicing me on this matter! When I saw your replies I realized that it had to be something wrong with my prior application. I did the registration one more time this evening, this time using a Windows XP laptop instead of the MacBook. This time there were no problems during the 4 registration steps, so now I am ready to go. Finally :) [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Always problems before we reach Orlando
Sun, Jan 4th 2009 2:46p Bjorn Thomassen The old Visa Waiver Program has changed. When I tried to apply electronically for a visa (the old green forms are history) I never got a receipt showing my application number, and now I wonder if the registration process just terminated or if my application form still is somewhere in the system. I did the registration 3 days ago. Have any of you applied, and how long did it take before you got your application number? [read] Keywords: forms
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iNotes 8.5 for iPhone also works on Nokia E90 communicator
Sat, Jan 3rd 2009 7:25p Bjorn Thomassen You can use your Nokia E90 with the iPhone interface in Lotus iNotes ver. 8.5. The 8.5 final release isn't available yet, but Lotusphere Online's mail service uses this version, so every LS09 attendee with a username and password can test the new version as much as they like. Flip your E90 open, and type in the following URL: http://www.ls09.info/mail/XXXXXX.nsf/iNotes/Mail/?OpenDocument&Form=m_HomeView -where XXXXXXX.nsf is to be replaced with your own LS09 mail file. Your username is th [read] Keywords: ibm
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These people contributed to project "Big Domain"
Sat, Dec 27th 2008 7:46p Bjorn Thomassen When I started off in my new job this autumn, I soon realized that I needed someone to consult regarding the design of the new Lotus Notes domain. The management wanted to migrate several companies, who all shared one Novell Groupwise domain, over to Lotus Notes. Designing notes domains isn't something you do every day, so the task seemed a bit -uh-overwhelming in the beginning. Two months later we have built that domain and migrated all the users to Lotus Notes 8.0.2. What's special about thi [read] Keywords: administration
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Why do ions make hair shine?
Thu, Dec 25th 2008 6:45p Bjorn Thomassen One of the more hilarious products I've seen, is the hair dryer my daughter got for Christmas: "Braun Satinpro satin ions 2200" It has a special button that produces "satin ions". These ions, presumably charged "satin atoms", are told to be soothing and calming. Here's an explanation from the outside of the box: Why do ions make hair shine? Ions are natural elements found in the environment. While positive ions produce static, frizzy and dull-looking hair, negative ions instantly tame frizz and [read] Keywords:
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Wood grouse for christmas dinner
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 12:32p Bjorn Thomassen Every christmas as long as I can remember, my old father has told the story of his own memories from the time he was young. Naturally it's always the same stories, and one of them is about the merry dinner party at christmas eve. My grandfather was a passionate hunter and flyfisher, so while all other families in the neighborhood had pork or fish at christmas eve, my father's family had Wood Grouse. The Wood Grouse is the largest grouse in Scandinavia, with a wingspan of approx 1.2 meters (4 fee [read] Keywords:
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Completing project "Big Domain"
Sat, Dec 20th 2008 5:34p Bjorn Thomassen Last week we migrated the last users to Lotus Notes. The NAB now consists of seven different companies, each with their own group structure, policies and certificates. The companies have their own notes servers, and it's not permitted to access the other servers for anyone but IT support. At the same time we migrated the users from Novell Netware to Windows server, and just to top all that every desktop computer was reformatted and reinstalled. This operation has been carefully planned for six [read] Keywords: lotus
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Most of you do not use IE
Fri, Dec 5th 2008 6:49p Bjorn Thomassen Here's you. I was a bit surprised when I saw the low score for IE/Windows, honestly.Personally I use both Safari, Firefox and IE, and find all three to be excellent, so the browser war has never been really interesting. But it's sure nice to see that Linux and Mac together represent over 15% of the hits. I use both and really love them too :)  [read] Keywords: firefox
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Finishing my project manager exam
Thu, Dec 4th 2008 6:29a Bjorn Thomassen After two decades in the IT business I have finally got the opportunity to be a student in the evenings at the Norwegian School of Management (BI), besides my full-time job as a Lotus specialist. The course has been very interesting, but also painful! I did not know that many of my mistakes as project manager over the last ten years are classical issues and common among all IT projects. I only wish I had done this course earlier, there's so much to learn here. Well, the project exam lies on the [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lotusphere 2009 OK
Thu, Nov 27th 2008 7:08p Bjorn Thomassen Ah what a good feeling: Lotusphere and hotel reservation finally arranged.It's oh so nice to have something like that to look forward to. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Old bug finally gone :-)
Sat, Nov 22nd 2008 6:10p Bjorn Thomassen Last year I made a script that creates new connection- and location docs. The meaning was to embed the code in a button and send it to laptop users, in order to configure the Lotus Notes client to connect to their mailserver via a passthru server when the user were on travel. Unfortunately, the were several issues with the code. The most significant error was that even if the client sometimes managed to connect to the mail server via the passthru server, most times it wouldn't. A few days ago I [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus is so happy - on facebook
Sat, Nov 22nd 2008 7:09a Bjorn Thomassen Cool way of marketing a new product :-) Sad that it took so long, my Nokia is quite happy with the AOMSeven now, works like a charm. We're using both Lotus Traveler and AOM7 at the moment. If the Symbian support on Traveler works satisfactory I guess we will prioritize this, since it's free. Time will show. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Going to Lotusphere 2009
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 5:29p Bjorn Thomassen Yup, it's soon time for Lotusphere again. 8800 kilometers each way, jet lag, weariness, ... and it's still worth it:-) We're doing the booking this week, and if everything works out the way I hope, we will be quite a few colleagues who do the journey this time. The enterprise I work for is migrating from Novell GroupWise to Lotus, and one of our main targets this time is to sort out which third party products we need in order to make the maintenance of the growing Lotus environment as simple an [read] Keywords: lotus
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Testing AOM7 pushmail
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 7:08p Bjorn Thomassen Project "Big Domain" will reach it's climax next week, as 5 new companies move into the Lotus Notes domain. While new servers pop up, we also test a new pushmail product: "Always On Mail 7" from Seven.com. We still haven't found a satisfactory sollution for our Nokia and Ericsson phones, but maybe this product will work. We have used the mSuite ver.4.x from Commontime earlier, but the mSuite Symbian client did'nt work well with our Nokia Communicator phones, so we ditched it. Another shitty thi [read] Keywords: admin
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Google as a file finder
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 4:29a Bjorn Thomassen Here's a nice tip about how to find PDFs, PPTs, or even MP3s using Google: Type in the following string: -inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(pdf) "" -and replace "description" with the search text you want. If you for example want to find MP3s, simply replace the "+(pdf)" with "+"(wma|mp3)" and so on. Please look at this post as a description of how to use Google in an advanced manner, rather than an encouragement to unlawful do [read] Keywords: google
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8.0.2 CCH1 Hotfix is out
Sat, Nov 1st 2008 7:29p Bjorn Thomassen Got problems with freezing 8.0.2 clients? Call IBM support for a copy of their latest 8.0.2 hotfix. In one particular office we had as much as 20-25% of the Notes 8.0.2  clients periodically out of order last week due to this freeze issue.  After installing the hotfix, the problems disappeared on all computers. So get it now. [read] Keywords: ibm
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This year's last strawberries
Sat, Nov 1st 2008 7:08p Bjorn Thomassen Winter has definitively arrived in western Norway, with night temperatures below freezing point and a wonderful winterly blue sky all day. Spotted these strawberries the other day, a few pale red reminders of the summer that passed.  Still tasted good though, even if it's suddenly the wrong season now. [read] Keywords:
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One NAB, multiple organizations and mail servers
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 8:49a Bjorn Thomassen The planning process for the "Big Domain" goes on. In a two weeks time we start to migrate more organizations and users from Novell GroupWise to Lotus Notes 8.0.2. There's still a few issues to solve, for example: When multiple organizations are sharing one single NAB, is it still possible to have separate SMTP/mail servers for each organization? I asked the same question at notes.net. Wondering if anyone knows anything about this. Hmm. http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/DateAllThreadedW [read] Keywords: ldd
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Makes you think, eh?
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 7:48a Bjorn Thomassen We had a quite amusing story here the other day, when a member of the parliament got criticized for having spent an enormous sum of the tax payer's money on pay-per-minute fortune-tellers. Apparently, the desire for a look into the future got so overwhelming that she called 793 times in one nine-month period. The story was known after the parliament's internal audit refused to cover her bills. After a few lame attempts to explain the whole phone bill away she was forced to resign. Her political [read] Keywords:
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What I want for the Lotusphere 2009 Opening Session
Sun, Oct 19th 2008 6:12p Bjorn Thomassen Maybe it's impossible to top the performance of Neil Armstrong at LS '07, but I know what really would rock the 09 opening session:  AC/DC  :-) Just noticed that all tracks on their upcoming new album are available for free listening on their web site . If you have a few minutes, please do the following experiment:Go there, start the music, close your eyes, and pretend that you are at the opening session at LS '09.  Don't pay to much attention to the person dancing on the chair next to you, [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Arranging internal Notes 8 mini seminars
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 6:10p Bjorn Thomassen We're installing Notes 8.0.2 in the company at the moment. Yohoo.. Instead of using the SmartUpgrade function and leave the problems to the users, we decided to invite the users to a 2-hour mini-seminar and do the upgrade there. In this way the users get a proper dose of information and a bit of training while we upgrade their computers. We've been running two seminars each day, and will continue to do so until everybody's upgraded to 8.0.x. We used a set of CDs to automatically upgrade all th [read] Keywords: lotus
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The presetfeeds.opml
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 6:30p Bjorn Thomassen Here is a customized presetfeeds.opml, as we use it in our organisation.
The directory location is /install/notes/notes.802/deploy/extra
""Notes 8 Preset Feeds
9/28/07 12:14 PM [read] Keywords: ldd
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Making an install routine for Notes 8
Mon, Oct 6th 2008 7:49a Bjorn Thomassen In order to install Lotus Notes 8 in the organisation, we plan to use both LAN and CDs. People will come to a short course, bringing their laptop with them, and while the users gets their info about the new version, we install it for them right away. Installing 8.0.2 is pretty straight forward, but we discovered an error in the install point of the existing Notes 7 client which forces us to do a few tricks with the registry before we start to install the new version. The issue is caused by a r [read] Keywords: lotus
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Upgrading the mail server from 7.0.3 to 8.0.2
Sat, Oct 4th 2008 6:48p Bjorn Thomassen I followed this IBM technote, but made one big mistake: Time IBM advises that you, before upgrading, run exhaustive consistency checks against all databases, then do a full index update on all, and finally a compact (copy style). That seemed like a good idea, but the server has over 500 gigs of data, so the small upgrade job ended up as a twelve++ hour indexing, fixing and shrinking operation. The install process took just 30 minutes. The extra backup took a day (I always prefer to have two b [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sametime servers on the internet?
Mon, Sep 29th 2008 3:49a Bjorn Thomassen Other posts on this subject: Need help with Notes domain structure The design process of our new notes network is moving forward. The comments and E-mails regarding the last post all indicates that mixing several organizations within the same notes domain may do the trick, so this week we will establish a test environment to analyze how this somewhat unusual configuration will work. We've also established contact with technical resources at IBM, to ensure a proper evaluation of the domain design [read] Keywords: ibm
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Why I love my Mac
Sun, Sep 28th 2008 6:08p Bjorn Thomassen The Mac is in excelent condition, the Acer has crashed again I've used a MacBook Pro for 3 months now, and beleive it or not - it has not crashed. Not once. I even run Windows XP on it, on it's own partition, but still it just won't crash. In the same period I have also used : an Acer 8204 with Windows XP - it crashes at least once a day, most often while I'm eating lunch, and a big poweful HP 8710p which only crashes once in a while.I am pretty sure that my next computer will be a new MacBook [read] Keywords: mac
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Need help with Lotus Notes domain structure
Mon, Sep 22nd 2008 7:09a Bjorn Thomassen My major task this autumn is to design a big new Lotus Notes environment for a Norwegian enterprise. This task needs careful thinking, and although I've been working with Lotus Notes since 1992, I've never had the opportunity to do an admin task as big as this before. The enterprise consists of several independently run companies. There is, as far as I know, no plans for selling any of these. There is a technical possibility though, that some day in the future companies can be sold or bought. T [read] Keywords: admin
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Organizing flea markets is a study on human collaboration
Sun, Sep 21st 2008 6:08p Bjorn Thomassen We ran a flea market to support the local school band this weekend. 30 parents struggled  for two days, trying to make the flea market run as smoothly as possible.  It's really amazing to study how humans, who hardly know each other, instantly start to collaborate in a quite advanced fashion once the situation demands it.  I was pointed out as the boss of the market, but frankly I did not have to take many decisions. Working at a flea market demands the you have the ability to rapidly organ [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Hysterical fun: The "Yearbook yourself" website
Thu, Sep 18th 2008 5:31p Bjorn Thomassen Stumbled across this website yesterday. It's one of those totally worthless but still very funny web sites that quickly steal an hour of your working day. You just upload a photo of yourself, and the yearbook generates a series of passport photos look-alike images, beginning in 1950 and ending up close to present. Here's the 1956 version of me. Have fun! [read] Keywords:
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The last days of the dragon flies
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 6:49p Bjorn Thomassen Indian summer again this autumn, as it was last year and in 2006 as well. We should have had low temperatures and heavy rain, but instead the sun shines and the temperature is as high as it is in summer. I spent this weekend up in the mountains with my wife and kids. It isn't unusual with snow at this time of year, but instead we've had two wonderful sunny days with temperatures up to 15 degrees (Celsius). The magnificent and enormous dragon flies are still out on patrol along the lakes and r [read] Keywords:
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Mighty Mouse made my Mac go mad
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 6:08p Bjorn Thomassen I thought the absence of system crashes on my MacBook's finally had come to an end this weekend, as the Firefox web browser, and soon other applications as well,  had to be terminated by force again and again. Applications seemed to freeze, the mouse wouldn't work properly, it was impossible to click on anything, although the mouse pointer moved around the screen as it should. System restarts didn't help, disabling the network cards didn't help. I tried every solution I was able to think of, [read] Keywords: applications
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Two hours at the river bank
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 6:50p Bjorn Thomassen Came home from work and found my youngest son occupied with the Nintendo Wii console again. Damn. I mean - the weather is fine, the temperature is pleasant, and no-one should sit and watch TV on evenings like this! We ended up by the local salmon river and had two wonderful hours there together. The catch wasn't big, just a few brown trouts which we had for supper later in the evening, but the light was magical and the contact between us was as good as it can be. It was pure magic for a father [read] Keywords:
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Michael Moore on Norway
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 6:09p Bjorn Thomassen Saw one of the deleted sections on Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko" today. Michael Moore is a specialist on making provoking documentaries, but to see Norway as an example of what is possible to achieve in the health sector was a bit surprising. Unfortunately this country isn't quite as good as Michael Moore says it is, but he isn't lying either. It sure is nice to live here, and I guess I would never move to another place. [read] Keywords: application
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8.5 b2/Ubuntu Linux: Problems with upgrade
Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 5:10a Bjorn Thomassen After a rather successfull 8.5 upgrade/install on the MacBook, things got back to normal when I tried the same on my Linux Mint machine. Linux Mint is an Ubuntu 8.04 compliant distro with a few add-ons, like video and sound codecs, and an advanced application install system. I've used the 8.5 beta on Linux for some time now, and was eager to see how the new beta would work. The .deb file started as it should, and everything looked OK, untill it was time for the app to start up for the first tim [read] Keywords: ibm
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17 Crabs, 32 mackerels and two happy kids
Sun, Aug 31st 2008 4:53p Bjorn Thomassen Man does not live by computers alone. I've been super-daddy this weekend, and it feels good. While my wife went to work, my two sons and I set for the sea, to one big fishing trip, the biggest of them all. We brought rods, lines, nets, and crab traps, and had two fantastic days. On Saturday we caught quite a lot of mackerels, and used some of them as bait in the crab traps. The rest of them has either been given away, or made into smoked mackerel the same evening :) This morning we returned to [read] Keywords:
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8.5 b2/Mac: Looks great
Sat, Aug 30th 2008 6:12p Bjorn Thomassen Installed the beta2 today, on my MacBook pro. It looks great, feels great, and the speed is - great! It's actually loads so fast that the "splash screen", that use to appear while the application loads, actually shows up after the blue Eclipse screen has been loaded. It feels faster than the 8.0.2 Win32 version. -By the way: Has anyone noticed that in 8.0.2, sometimes the GUI won't show up when you start the win32 version? I've also noticed a bunch of other anomalies, yesterday I even had to re [read] Keywords: lotus
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Tango for 1
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 5:13a Bjorn Thomassen Found this on my mobile phone today. It was recorded in Dublin at the time of ILUG 2008 and shows a rather funny dancer with his girl friend, or doll, or both. [read] Keywords: ilug
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Yet another scam: Don't open the attachment...
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 4:30a Bjorn Thomassen This message made it through our virus detection system, but luckily the scam is so obvious that no-one should fall for it. Hello! Attention! The wire sent to Maksim Zverev, Moscow, Russia has been blocked by our security service.Your credit card issuing bank has halted the transaction by the demand of the Federal Criminal Investigation Service (case No. 99834 since the recipient has been undergoing the international retrieval by the InterPol. Please contact the closest Western Union office [read] Keywords: agent
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Cruisin' on my way to work
Thu, Aug 28th 2008 4:09a Bjorn Thomassen This is how Lotus consultants in the western part of Norway may spend their mornings :) One of my customers have their headquarters on an island west of Bergen, and the days I work for them I have to spend an hour every morning and afternoon on the car ferry. In weather conditions like this, it isn't a bad thing at all. The scenery is just beautiful. From the ferry you might spot animals like the enormous White-tailed eagle (Wingspan 2,5 meters), which is common in these waters, or maybe seals [read] Keywords: lotus
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Time to start up again
Sun, Aug 24th 2008 4:48p Bjorn Thomassen The summer is almost gone, and it´s time to start working again. Tomorrow morning we start the planning process on migrating a few companies to Lotus Notes, version 8.0.2, to be accurate. This will also be the first day that I bring my MacBook Pro only, and rely completely on this machine. The MacBook has proven itself as a fast and very stable laptop - in fact, after 7 weeks it has not yet crashed, not a single time! I run the Lotus Notes 8.5 beta for Mac, together with a rich variety of appl [read] Keywords: lotus
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Tall ships race comes to Bergen
Tue, Aug 12th 2008 7:09p Bjorn Thomassen Quite a party it was this weekend, when the sailships in this year's "Tall ship's race" visited Bergen. The harbour and fish market were packed with people day and night, the parties went on and on until sunrise and further, and everbody seemed to have a real good time. All good things must come to and end, sooner or later. The last ship left this morning, but this weekend will not be forgotten for many years. [read] Keywords:
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Screw MSN for Nokia E-series
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 5:30p Bjorn Thomassen When I purchased my Nokia E90 Communicator, I soon found that Nokia was providing a slick MSN Messenger/MS Live integrator for free. This little utility worked wonderfully for eight months, but now it won't anymore, well that is unless I start paying 2 euros per month for the service. It really pisses me off. But there's still free alternatives out there. I've just installed Fring, a free MSN/ Skype/Yahoo/IM/ICQ etc messenger and VOIP client for Symbian Series 60. It looks promising. It's my i [read] Keywords: mobile
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Going fishing again
Fri, Aug 8th 2008 4:28p Bjorn Thomassen As the light, sub-arctic summer slowly fades away and the nights get darker again, the huge sea trouts return to their spawning river. Next week is the time for our annual trip to north-western part of Norway, where we fish for atlantic salmon and big sea trout. The picture shows the largest fish from last year's trip: A 4,2 kilo (8 lbs) male sea trout. And as the picture shows, I was more than lucky to get this fish out of the water! Our total catch last year was 17 sea trouts and 1 salmon, wh [read] Keywords: atlantic
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Greetings from Crete
Tue, Jul 29th 2008 5:47a Bjorn Thomassen 30 degrees (C), dark blue sky, and a murderous sun for nearly a week now. I already long for the cool august evenings along the river banks, hunting big sea trout with my 15' fly rod. All that seems a bit far off at the moment, here in warm, noisy Crete. As with most Scandinavians, my body isn't quite comfortable with this climate. My skin has got the typical boiled lobster look and I'm sweating like hell. Agia Marina is a small place next to Platanias, at the NE side of Crete. It looks like [read] Keywords:
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Migrating a small enterprise to Lotus Notes
Tue, Jul 15th 2008 8:45a Bjorn Thomassen I've got a new job! My days as Lotus Notes consultant will be over on october 1st, when I start my new career in a mid-size norwegian enterprise who's moving to Lotus Notes this autumn. It will be quite a challenge, moving approx. 1000 people in different companies into an existing Lotus environment, and building a common platform for messaging and collaboration across the enterprise. When the job is done, the Lotus structure will include roughly 1500 people in 7 countries. (Yepp, things are sm [read] Keywords: administration
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Fly tying tools: Home-made bobbin
Thu, Jul 10th 2008 9:23a Bjorn Thomassen It's not fun to pack your fishing gear and fly tying things and traveling far away, and then realize that your bobbin is'nt there. Well, here's my solution: You need a bottle of wine, some time to think (preferably before you get to deep in the bottle), an aluminium tube (for tube flies), and some steel wire. It actually works great. [read] Keywords: blogger
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About Laura123
Fri, Jul 4th 2008 8:27a Bjorn Thomassen I recently published an article about replacing an iPod battery and received quite a few comments on this. Most of them was from a woman called Laura123, a 47 year old enthusiastic lady from somewhere in the US. A quite interesting point that I made in the article was the somewhat special marketing techniques that the company ipodjuice.com use. If you search the internet for iPod battery replacements this company manages to get a major part of all the returned hits in Google, through a variety [read] Keywords: blogger
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...which happily resulted in this:
Sat, Jun 28th 2008 6:24p Bjorn Thomassen This must be the most special computer I've ever owned: An Apple MacBook pro 17" It feels like working with Ubuntu on steroids. The reason for this unexpected pleasure will have to remain uncommented for a few days, but WOW! This is just so cool... Being a novice in the Mac part of the world sure raises a lot of questions, I mean: I've never used a Mac before and have difficulties with odd little things like locating the Delete key, or the square brackets. And another thing. Why is suddenly the [read] Keywords: apple
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Laptop with poor cooling
Wed, Jun 25th 2008 8:26a Bjorn Thomassen This is my Acer Travelmate 8204 in it's present working position. Something's happened to the cooling system, so if I don't place it like this it gets overheated and stops working. The fan is working, perhaps it's just not well enough attached to the CPU, who knows. Until it's fixed again it makes my working day quite challenging I must say :( [read] Keywords: blogger
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Integrating LightBox JS libs into my Notes publisher
Tue, Jun 24th 2008 10:24a Bjorn Thomassen Lightbox is a popular javascript based library used for displaying pictures. It's easy to install and has a slick interface, but would it fit into a Domino based publishing system? One of my customers was willing to try, so I went ahead. After a few initial problems I finally got the Lightbox core system up&running. I had to install all of the Lightbox resource files onto the server's HTML directory in order to make it play. This is not the way I prefer to do things, but there was no more ti [read] Keywords: domino
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A near-salmon experience
Fri, Jun 20th 2008 8:24p Bjorn Thomassen This year's first trip to my favorite salmon river could have resulted in a beautiful 6-8 pounder salmon, but just before the fish was ready for landing, the line broke. My fishing mate Ståle was the one to fight the fish, something he did fiercely for half an hour before he was defeated. The salmon took a Muddler minnow made of brown fox hair, thereby the name "Fox Muddler". Poor Ståle, he'd really deserved that fish. Hmmm. Seems like I have to return to the river bank once more this weekend [read] Keywords:
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This junk mail made me laugh
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 3:44p Bjorn Thomassen (Click on the image to see a larger version) This is a classic junk mail, and naturally I did not click any of the links or images within the message. They all seem to lead to the same location by the way. My first thought when I saw the message was Hell, Microsoft has sold my email address to the bad guys, then I got really pissed and nearly clicked the Unsubscribe link, but of course I did not :) Allthough Microsoft has irritated thousands of users with a rather arrogant behaviour, it's still [read] Keywords: blogger
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Voss Cup with my sons
Sun, Jun 15th 2008 6:44p Bjorn Thomassen Voss Cup is an annual football tournament taking place at Voss, approx 100 km NE of Bergen. The participating football teams are from 7 to 12 years old, and due to the size of this football cup most of the parents have to sleep in tents or in school gyms around the village. Hotels and lodges are fullbooked years ahead. This year the temperature fell below freezing point saturday night, but thanks to rugged winter gear and high quality tents we all survived. I hope. It was cold as hell and I'm r [read] Keywords: blogger
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Replacing my iPod battery
Wed, Jun 11th 2008 6:24p Bjorn Thomassen My old iPod 30 GB has suffered from a weak battery for some time now, but when the capacity suddenly dropped below an hour of playing time there wasn't really any other option than replacing the old battery. I mean - I grow fond of things, and my old iPod has been around for some time now. I know it and it knows me. You can't ditch a friend just because the battery is weak .. Found a replacement battery on http://www.ipodjuice.com, ordered it, went to ILUG and forgot about it. Until yesterday. [read] Keywords: ilug
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ILUG2008 Day 3
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 8:51p Bjorn Thomassen Customizing the look of notes 8: Coding tips and user interface guidelines for creating a company wide look and feel (Mary Beth Raven) It's possible to alter the colors of your notes client and create a design that matches your company's graphical profile. That's good news. The process, on the other hand, seemed very tricky and I don't know if I'm ready for fiddling with this. Still too much to do! Another subject was the graphical design (images&colors) in the notes 8 client. Chris Recklin [read] Keywords: domino
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ILUG2008 Day 3 photos
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 8:12p Bjorn Thomassen Gaelic/irish does not look familiar.. The green brigades - the amazing gang who made this gig possible Sponsors and speakers The electrical system in Dublin is -eh- unusual :) [read] Keywords: blogger
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ILUG 2008 Day two
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 7:52p Bjorn Thomassen Started up around 09:00 with a "Mission impossible" session: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: How to move a Domino Windows Server to Linux cluster in less than an 60 minutes" (Charles Robinson) Charles did the job and managed the task quite easily, allthough he had very little experience with this sort of presentation. (He said). Quite convincing stuff, but I'm not sure I would dare to do this. at least not with an important server. The day from Notes Hell and how I got through it without breaking a sweat [read] Keywords: domino
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ILUG2008 Day 2 : A few images
Fri, Jun 6th 2008 7:11p Bjorn Thomassen Fluffy with his new friends Odd Aage, Bjorn and Christian Fluffy panics Ed Brill had a nice session, with presentation material from DNUG 2008 (Deutche User Group) and Lotusphere 2008. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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ILUG 2008: Day 0 and 1 (English version)
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 7:55p Bjorn Thomassen We arrived at the Camden Court hotel quite late on tuesday, after a rather long journey from Bergen via Amsterdam. We had some problems with our flights, an hour delay could easily have resulted in a unintentional night at the Schipol airport, but happily we reached the Dublin plane within minutes before take-off. Rune and Magne are happy to be here It's allways a good thing to use the yellow/black Lotusphere backpacks, other Lotus geeks recognize you immediately. We were spotted by IBM chief g [read] Keywords: admin
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ILUG2008 dag 0 og 1
Wed, Jun 4th 2008 3:50p Bjorn Thomassen Vi ankom hotellet heller sent på tirsdagen, etter en reise på ca 4 timer. Flyforsinkelser og slikt gjorde det litt spennende med hensyn på om vi i det hele tatt ville komme frem, men det gikk altså slett ikke så verst. Fra vi ankom hotellet gikk det slag i slag: IBM sjefsdesigner Mary Beth Raven oppdaget oss idet vi ankom resepsjonen, og derfra og ut kvelden holdt vi oss med gule fagfolk og hadde det riktig så trivelig. Lotusmennesker er hyggelige mennesker, og det er ikke vanskelig å omg [read] Keywords: admin
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Dublin, here we come
Tue, Jun 3rd 2008 6:11a Bjorn Thomassen Got my suitcase packed, I've managed not to forget the camera, toothbrush, ipod, passport etc etc. Was thinking of bringing my Linux Mint laptop with the 8.5 beta as well, but one of the ongoing projects was'nt finished on time, and now it seems like I have to spend quite a few hours in my hotel room with my windows based development laptop while the others are drinking Guinness and having a good time. The 8.5 beta 1 for Ubuntu (debian) linux is quite good, actually. It runs stable, and all [read] Keywords: notes
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Fishing this weekend
Fri, May 23rd 2008 6:09a Bjorn Thomassen This week has been exhausting, with lots of working hours at night, a few deadlines, and many impatient customers. There's still a lot to do, but in order to survive I'm forced to take most of the weekend off this time. It's always nice to go fishing. The weather forecast is promising, the boat is ready, and everything is set for a nice weekend in the norwegian fjord scenery. If things work out well, we should catch quite a few cod, ling, pollock, mackerel and maybe a few crabs as well. The sma [read] Keywords: application
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Many norwegians at ILUG this year
Fri, May 23rd 2008 3:08a Bjorn Thomassen ILUG2008 is almost here, what a joy. It seems like there's going to be quite a few norwegians here this year, I know about 12-13 participants from my hometown alone. The Norwegian Lotus User Group (NOLUG??) has their own gig this week, but it's not easy to compete with the impressing speakers list in Dublin, nor the size of the event. 450 people on a 3-day Lotus event, that's quite huge! It is my first trip to ILUG in Dublin, so I'm not sure what to expect there. Will try to update the blog reg [read] Keywords: ilug
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Moving from Ubuntu via Kubuntu to Linux Mint
Thu, May 22nd 2008 6:26a Bjorn Thomassen My Ubuntu laptop needed a reinstall after months of software testing. The main reason, though, was that the Compiz desktop effects stopped working when 8.04 Hardy Heron was installed, and this irritated me beyond, beyond ... I decided to try the Kubuntu distro, just to try something new. The main difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu is the window manager; Ubuntu uses Gnome, while Kubuntu comes with KDE. Day 1 of my short Kubuntu career I'm not a very experienced or skilled Linux user, and mus [read] Keywords: ibm
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Those Macs ..
Thu, May 15th 2008 8:45a Bjorn Thomassen I don't know whether this image is authentic or not. The point is that the Mac design and brand has grown so big that it really might be authentic . I would like to own one myself, to be honest. :-) [read] Keywords: apple
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Kjempeørreter
Thu, May 1st 2008 6:44p Bjorn Thomassen Årets første tur til Skogseidvann er over, og denne gangen slo fisket riktig så bra til. Som eldstemann er det min oppgave å ro, løse floker og konflikter, lage mat, dirigere, parlamentere, reparere osv. De yngre fisker. Da vi omsider kom hjem, hadde vi 33 ørret og 1 røye. To av ørretene var enorme, hhv 2.0 kg og 4,7 kg. Det var de to ti-åringene som fikk monstrene, og de måtte dra dem opp helt alene, slik tradisjonen krever. I tillegg mistet vi to monstre til. Jepp, dette var en fan [read] Keywords: blogger
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Ligg unna ørreten, lillebror!
Tue, Apr 29th 2008 6:44p Bjorn Thomassen Så var våren her for fullt. Drepte 125 brunsnegl i hagen i ettermiddag, så nå er freden over for denne gang. Vel: Første tur etter ørreten ble arrangert på søndag. Minstemann var rå og effektiv, i løpet av en times tid hadde han seks fisker. Alt i alt ble 8 vårslanke fisker på 100-250 gram med hjem, der de endte som kveldsmat for husets sønner. Selv om krangling mellom brødrene er noe dritt, gjør det en gammel fisker godt å høre at det de kranglet om var hvem som hadde fått m [read] Keywords: blogger
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Domino 8 on Slackware Linux works OK
Thu, Apr 24th 2008 6:24a Bjorn Thomassen One of my junior colleagues with the mysterious nickname mr Andrew Vina was told to install a new Domino 8 server at our office this winter. Installing Domino servers isn't the most challenging job, even for a junior consultant, so mr Vina wasn't that keen on doing this. At least, not right away, maybe next week. (In our company, if someone says he can do it next week, it really means some day in some remote future) So, in order to make this a bigger challenge, he was given the freedom to choose [read] Keywords: domino
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Norway's desicion to vote YES to OOXML was taken by 1 person.
Tue, Apr 22nd 2008 5:23a Bjorn Thomassen The process which led to Norway’s Yes vote on OOXML was so surrealistic that it deserves to be recorded for posterity. Here’s there chairman's version of the story. (He resigned a couple of weeks ago in protest against Standard Norway’s decision to vote Yes) http://topicmaps.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-norway-vote-what-really-happened/ [read] Keywords: ooxml
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Oh no - We've got the "time is too far in the future" error
Fri, Apr 18th 2008 7:04p Bjorn Thomassen Two weeks ago, one of my best customers called and said they had some trouble with the mail routing. Sounds standard? Well, not this time. It turned out that the system time had gone bananas due to a failure in the time server config. Two notes servers had left their lovely april-date&time and had landed in september 2008. And the worst part: Nobody discovered this before 18 hours had passed. When I finally got to log in at the affected servers, almost every database had a new "Modified" da [read] Keywords: adminp
lotus
notes
traveler
blogger
database
server
17
7 dager til ny Ubuntu, oppgraderinger ramler inn
Thu, Apr 17th 2008 7:22a Bjorn Thomassen Hver gang jeg starter opp Ubuntu laptoppen min nå for tiden, suser det inn nye kodeversjoner til min 8.04 beta. Egentlig er maskinen ganske stabil allerede, men like fullt strømmer det inn hundrevis av MByte i nye oppdateringer. Egentlig ganske fantastisk å observere at så mange mennesker leverer kode GRATIS til disse prosjektene. De sitter der, time etter time, og lager noe som vi andre nyter godt av, uten å tjene fem øre. Dugnadsånden er absolutt ikke noe særnorsk fenomen. [read] Keywords:
227
Pimping my notes desktop ..
Thu, Apr 17th 2008 7:22a Bjorn Thomassen Stumbled across this site today and downloaded their "FREE MarvelClient Skinning Edition for IBM Lotus Notes ". Yepp, it's time to pimp your good old, dull workspace, if you have time for it. The installation is pretty straightforward, took me two minutes. Then it's just to fire up Photoshop/Gimp or whatever, and start making your own Lotus Notes workspace. Cool. [read] Keywords: ibm
lotus
lotusnotes
notes
blogger
desktop
workspace
38
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron BETA
Sun, Apr 6th 2008 3:12p Bjorn Thomassen Installerte betaversjonen av Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") i helgen. Møtte stort sett ingen problemer, alt virker - unntatt Compiz "visual effects". Jeg oppgraderte fra 7.10 versjonen ved trykke Alt-F2 og gi kommando update-manager --devel-release. Deretter gikk det meste av seg selv. Enkelte spørsmål måtte besvares underveis, de fleste av type "Konfigurasjonsfil xxxx finnes allerede. Ønsker du å erstatte denne eller beholde den?" Deretter var det bootings, og så var vi oppe på 8.04, uten [read] Keywords: apple
, desktop
, firefox
, linux
Nordmenn på ILUG 2008
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 9:41a Bjorn Thomassen Stor oppslutning i regnbuebyen om det irske arrangementet, foreløpig er vi 12 personer fra ulike bedrifter som reiser over 3.juni. Hva er så ILUG2008? Arrangementet er blitt beskrevet som et Lotusphere i miniatyr, med løsere snipper. Arrangementskomiteen i Dublin er selv ganske godt kjente ansikter på Lotusphere, og trekker derfor lett med seg internasjonalt kjente størrelser som Mary Beth Raven og Ed Brill til sitt arrangement. Årets ILUG er kraftig utvidet og har plass til 450 mennesker [read] Keywords: ilug
, lotusphere
, notes
21
Første fisk 2008
Mon, Mar 17th 2008 7:56a Bjorn Thomassen Minstemann med det definitive vårtegnet på våre breddegrader. [read] Keywords:
51
Minor bug: Notes Traveler terminated abnormally
Thu, Mar 13th 2008 5:16p Bjorn Thomassen A minor bug appeared this morning: The Lotus Traveler software had stopped working during the night. A quick look in the log.nsf showed the following message: 13.03.2008 01:23:54 Process C:\Lotus\Domino\TRAVELER.EXE (1708/0x6AC) has terminated abnormally It turned out that the 8.0.1 database design of the NAB had been overwritten by the administration server, which still runs on 7.0.2. All design elements required by Lotus Traveler had been deleted. We ran a "Replace Design" on the NAB and re [read] Keywords: administration
, domino
, lotus
, notes
, nsd
, traveler
, bug
, database
, desktop
, server
70
Notes Traveler server up & running in 3 hours
Wed, Mar 12th 2008 8:31a Bjorn Thomassen We started from scratch this morning, and managed to install the first Notes Traveler server at one of our customers. We started with a Windows 2003 (R2 SP2) server image, then a Domino 8.0.1 and finally the Notes Traveler software. No error messages. Nothing. We haven't had any problems at all. It just works. It's close to terrifying. The Notes Traveler client software gave no problems either. The most time-consuming bit was actually to configure GPRS on a few of the older mobile phones. Conf [read] Keywords: domino
, notes
, traveler
, mobile
, password
, server
163
Notes Traveler - first impressions
Sun, Mar 9th 2008 5:54p Bjorn Thomassen Colleague Andrew Vina (alias) did a good job this weekend, a few hours after we finally received the download URL he installed a new server and put the Notes 8.0.1 Traveler software on-top. A few hours later he started to send his usual SMS messages in pure triumph, and a few minutes later he realized that he might as well send them via Notes mail from his mobile device. So - what's his first impressions? 1) It's quite simple to install and configure this software 2) And it really works ! 3) T [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, lotusnotes
, notes
, traveler
, mobile
, server
90
Propelltyver - go fuck yourselves
Sun, Mar 9th 2008 5:12p Bjorn Thomassen Den lille femtenfoteren skal på vannet om noen dager, og i den forbindelse ble dagen idag brukt til å bunnsmøre samt vaske den stolte farkost. Der vi har den lille båten vår er det ikke så uvanlig at propellen skrus av før vinteren, særlig ikke på båter med innenbordsmotor. Hvorfor man gjør dette, vet jeg ikke, men jeg antar at det skyldes faren for propelltyveri i løpet av vinteren. Denne naboen her hadde i så måte beskyttet akslingen godt, samtidig som han fikk lagt igjen en le [read] Keywords:
21
Grabbe analog video, part 2
Thu, Mar 6th 2008 3:47p Bjorn Thomassen For en to måneders tid siden nevnte jeg et lille prosjekt som går ut på å overflytte gammel VHS video til digital video, og lagre den som DVD plater. Nå som det analoge bakkenettet nærmer seg slutten og Riks-TV blir eneste alternativ for oss uten tallerken, skal VHS spilleren snart parkeres for godt og nyere teknologier overta. Jeg forsøkte først denne luringen her: (IKKE KJØP DEN !) Amentio.no solgte denne for kr. 470,- , og følger du denne linken kan du selv se at de sier den har s [read] Keywords:
14
Lagret lengst, men verdt å vente på?
Mon, Mar 3rd 2008 6:13p Bjorn Thomassen Våropprydningen i kjelleren i helgen brakte stort sett gammelt nytt, hvilket selvfølgelig er litt OK. Spesielt interessant ble det imidlertid ikke før jeg kom til å flytte på noen små skuffeseksjoner: Bak skjulte det seg nemlig noen gjenglemte kostbarheter: Hansa Juleøl, årgang 1993, klasse 3 varianten ! 14 1/2 år gammelt juleøl. Jeg har ikke lyst å smake på dem. Har smakt gammelt juleøl før jeg, og den smaken er nærmere spesialavfall enn fludium for å være ærlig. Men flaskene [read] Keywords:
23
29.februar, og vår i vest
Fri, Feb 29th 2008 5:34p Bjorn Thomassen Vinteren er ikke lenger hva den var, og takk og pris for det. Idag skriver vi 29. februar, og snøen ligger fremdeles tjukk over deler av landet. Ikke i min hage. I min hage har det egentlig ikke vært vinter, ikke annet enn de fire timene det snødde her en morgen. Der en tidligere hadde skispor og sprengkulde, spirer nå smørblomst, hvitveis og løvetann. Gjøk og sisik har vi ikke sett mye til enda, men trost og stær synger alle dage, og jeg plystrer fornøyd med, mens jeg sniker meg rundt [read] Keywords:
17
Slem fisk goes west
Tue, Feb 26th 2008 4:04p Bjorn Thomassen Før Lotusphere startet, ringte en kunde og faglig kollega med den triste melding at han ikke kunne delta på Lotusphere i år. Før samtalen ebbet ut, hadde vi imidlertid lagt grunnlaget for noe annet: Den første koordinerte Lotus-tur til Dublin, Irland. Folket her i Regnbuebyen har alltid hatt blikket rettet vestover, og ingen av oss lokale Lotus mennesker har kunnet unngå å legge merke til det fantastiske arbeidet Paul Mooney og hans kumpaner legger ned i det irske Lotus brukergruppe semi [read] Keywords: ilug
, lotus
, lotusphere
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Ubuntu 7.10 / Notes 8.0.1: Ingen topp kombinasjon
Sun, Feb 24th 2008 9:44p Bjorn Thomassen Etter en times gjennomprøving er førsteinntrykket nokså klart: Dette er mere en servicerelease til 8.0.0 enn en fullrelease av 8.0.1. Før jeg starter, må jeg selvsagt ta forbehold om at det ikke er min egen maskin som forårsaker feilene, den er etterhvert temmelig full av ustødig programvare, og det er ikke umulig at dette påvirker maskinen negativt. I tillegg, med klar referanse til tidligere skriverier om Ubuntu og Lotus: Jeg har ikke ofret en geit eller gris ennå, så dermed er egne [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, notes
, desktop
, eclipse
, firefox
, widgets
13
skrevet på mob.tlf fra hyttekroken
Tue, Feb 19th 2008 3:30p Bjorn Thomassen Det gårfremover med verden! Her sitter jeg i sofaen på hytta og oppdaterer bloggen,ved hjelp av tastaturet på min mobiltelefon! Imorgen blir det verre, da skal jeg laste ned 8.0.1 versjonen vha naboens åpne WLAN, men det er det ingen som vet :-) Gamle Norge begynner å bli veldig- moderne, ja selv hyttelivet har opplevd en modernisering de siste årene. Som svogeren min kommenterte det ved middagsbordet idag: "Da vi var unge, leste vi gamle Allers og Norsk Ukeblad på hytta. Idag ser ungen [read] Keywords:
28
Lei av å debugge NSD filer ?
Fri, Feb 15th 2008 5:39p Bjorn Thomassen NSD filene som lages i etterkant av et krasj er skikkelig digg for interesserte konsulenter og geeks! Fire flotte filer genereres ved hvert krasj, de lagres i katalogen /IBM TECHNICAL INFORMATION på servers datakatalog. Innholdet er av hva en tekniker kan drømme om: Alle registre, alle viktige filer, memorydump, brukerliste, åpne filer- you name it - we got it! Tidligere var NSD debugging vanligvis en jobb i seg selv: Først fant man den feilende prosessen ved å søke etter ordet PANIC i l [read] Keywords: ibm
, ldd
, lei
, lotus
, notes
, nsd
, linux
, server
27
Noe av det nye i Ubuntu 8.04, "Hardy Heron"
Wed, Feb 13th 2008 1:45p Bjorn Thomassen Imorgen er det kodefrys for nye features i den kommende versjonen av Ubuntu, som etter planen skal være ute i siste halvpart av april i år. Oversikten over nye ting i Ubuntu 8.04 er ganske imponerende, selv om mye her er ting som sluttbrukeren aldri vil legge merke til. Versjonen skal bli langtidsstøttet, så her er nok mange bugfixer fra 7.10 med også. Du kan sjekke selv ved å lete på https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ Dagens liste er ganske tilfeldig: Single Click Install: Enda enklere install [read] Keywords: lei
, lotus
, notes
, desktop
, wiki
Lotusphere i perpektiv
Tue, Feb 12th 2008 10:45a Bjorn Thomassen Sitter på flyet fra Bergen til Oslo, på vei for å fortelle mine utmerkede kolleger der om Lotusphere 2008. Jeg holdt samme foredrag for Bergenskontoret igår, og etter en gjennomkjøring føler man seg nok ganske trygg for at det hele går bra. Gårsdagens forestilling "tok litt av", kan en si. All entusiasme som lå opplagret etter LS veltet opp igjen, og gjorde at forestillingen ble ganske energirik, tror jeg. Håper jeg. I etterkant nå på flyet, er det tid til å tenke: Hva var det egen [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, blogger
, facebook
, microsoft
, social software
81
The Lotus Museum
Sat, Feb 9th 2008 12:24p Bjorn Thomassen Last week I found a Multi-Language Lotus Notes 3.15 CD release while looking for some other crap in my cellar. Today I stumbled across The Lotus Museum . Apparently lots of old Lotus stuff, but to be honest: I've seen most of it before. Ergo: I'm beginning to grow really mature and/or old. I prefer "mature". [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
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Notes 8.0.1: (899 fixer) i status 4 - gold candidate
Wed, Feb 6th 2008 5:06p Bjorn Thomassen Uvisst hvortid den kommer, men klikker du på http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/r5fixlist.nsf/(Progress)/801, så kan du i alle fall følge med fra nå av frem til slippetidspunktet. Holder på med en oppsummering av årets Lotusphere og skal lage et lite show for kollegene i Oslo og Bergen i neste uke. Vanskelig å si noe sikkert om hvilke lanseringer som slår til i år, det var mye spennende og mye uferdig. Voldsom entusiasme hos Lotus utviklerteam for tiden, det ser ut som om de har den morsomste [read] Keywords: ldd
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
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Lotus Notes 3.15, anyone?
Tue, Feb 5th 2008 5:19p Bjorn Thomassen Rotet igjennom gamle CD'er ikveld, på jakt etter noen fonter fra CDen til gode gamle Corel DRAW! Jeg fant fontene, men også så mye mer: OS/2 Warp 3.0, for eksempel. Jeg husker jeg kastet noen OS/2 1.3 disketter for noen år siden, de var mett av dage og uten diskettleser kunne de ikke leses heller. Men hva er det som dukker opp der? Oi! Lotus Notes 5.0 ! Og litt lenger nedi samme reol: Notes 4.5 , deretter 3.33 og nederst 3.15 versjonen - på CD. Her er de alle sammen: Den forferdelige Window [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
8
LotusBeer - "Sod the conference, we're going down the pub!"
Sun, Feb 3rd 2008 8:02a Bjorn Thomassen Dette må jo kanskje være verdens minst betydningsfulle nettsted: http://www.lotusbeer.com. Foranledningen for at nettstedet ble opprettet er ganske sjarmerende: En av kameratgjengen skulle til Lotusphere i Orlando, Florida- de andre ikke. Hva gjør en da? Jo, en oppretter sin egen nettside, og kjører full rapport fra Lotusbeer i Aberdeen istedet. Årets agenda er jo ganske flott: This years speakers: John will be explaining why his installation of Quickr doesn't work. Pete will be explaining [read] Keywords: calendaring
, lotusphere
, quickr
, java
, xml
50
Petrine er frisk igjen etter 9 år med ME
Sat, Feb 2nd 2008 6:02p Bjorn Thomassen En av fruens barndomsvenninner ringte her om dagen, med en skikkelig solskinnshistorie: Etter et kurs med Phil Parker, mannen bak "The Lightning Process", har hun omsider - etter 9 år med kronisk utmattelsessyndrom, blitt mye mye bedre. Fra å tilbringe dagene i sengen i evig utmattelse, går hun nå på tur med mann og barn, og har det storartet. Jeg studerte teknikken på websidene til Phil, og så til min store tilfredshet at det ikke var snakk om hvit magi, trolldom eller annet overnaturli [read] Keywords:
40
Nokia Communicator E90: Bra på Notes mail
Fri, Feb 1st 2008 5:33p Bjorn Thomassen Selv om størrelsen ikke alltid teller, finnes der et par tilfeller hvor en absolutt scorer høyere ved å være velutstyrt. For eksempel: Har du beveget deg inn i en skummel bakgate i en fremmed by, er det godt å ha en tung, stor mobiltelefon i klypen hvis du må slåss deg ut av knipen. Hvis du er avhengig av briller, er det absolutt en fordel med en telefon som er større enn en engangslighter, særlig de dagene du har glemt brillene. Du imponerer definitivt ikke damene ved å resolutt grip [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, mobile
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Sametime og MSN samtidig: Pidgin
Fri, Feb 1st 2008 4:35p Bjorn Thomassen IBM er veldig nøye med å forklare deg at grunnen til at du ikke får MSN kontaktene dine inn i Sametime ikke skyldes vrangvilje fra IBMs side. Det er sikkert riktig. Men det er ingen som forteller deg at du kan droppe Sametime klienten og MSN messenger, og heller satse på et tredje produkt som faktisk klarer begge kanaler: Pidgin. Pidgin er et gratisprogram som du kan laste ned fra http:// http://www.pidgin.im/ Klienten lages for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unix varianter. Du kan snak [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, sametime
, linux
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AAFM - Anonyme Amerikansk Frokost Misbrukere
Sun, Jan 27th 2008 10:58a Bjorn Thomassen Det er hardt å komme hjem, etter en uke i amerikansk frokostland. Etter en uke i sukkersyndflod skal en lutres med grovbrød og brunost, og det er slett ikke så behagelig som en skulle kunne tro. Jeg tok meg selv i å savne den amerikanske varianten, der energimengden ligger tett oppunder rakettbrennstoff og sukkermengden er så høy at det krystalliserer seg i kroker og sprekker. Det smaker bursdagsselskap med overdrive, og det metter fantastisk. Etter en amerikansk frokost trenger du ikke my [read] Keywords: bes
52
Exit Lotusphere 2008
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 6:48p Bjorn Thomassen Sitter på Lufthansa flyet tilbake fra Lotusphere. Det er over, ingenting mer å hente i Orlando dessverre. To måneder med intense forventninger, endeløse bloggstykker, samtaler og informasjonsinnhenting, og så sitter jeg plutselig her i mørket på et nattestille Lufthansa fly, på vei tilbake fra arrangementet. Var det verdt det? Jeg vil si ja, utvilsomt. Jeg er kanskje litt skuffet likevel, jeg hadde ventet enda mere. Det begynte med åpningssesjonen, som var betraktelig tammere i år enn [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, bes
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Notes 8.0.1 på Ubuntu - Ja eller nei ?
Wed, Jan 23rd 2008 10:29p Bjorn Thomassen Først proklamerer Mike Rhodin at Ubuntu Linux er støttet i den nye 8.0.1 klienten som slippes i februar. Deretter sier en av foredragsholderne senere på dagen at - Nei, den er ikke støttet i 8.0.1, men det er en uttalt vilje fra IBM om å støtte Ubuntu- ikke mer enn det. Snakket med Emmar Hoel (IBM Norge) på mandagen. Han kjører 8.0.1 betaversjonen på Ubuntu uten problemer. Som reklamen for OS/2 1.3 engang sa: "It even prints" Digi.no proklamerer støtte for Ubuntu fra og med 8.5 vers [read] Keywords: ibm
, notes
, linux
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Lotusphere 2008: Onsdag - Litt om presentasjonsteknikk
Wed, Jan 23rd 2008 6:09p Bjorn Thomassen Idag har det vært mye godis å hente, det er det stort sett når en har gjort hjemmeleksen sin og bestemt hva en vil lytte på. Dagens stykke handler ikke så mye om hva som er bra og hva som ikke er, men mer om den himmelstormende forskjellen i presentasjonsteknikk det er på de ulike foredragsholderne. Jeg har opplevd mange ulike typer her, fra de mest innadvendte til de ekstremt, ja nærmest innpåslitne utadvendte talerne. Etter fire dager med foredrag tror jeg at jeg har funnet frem til s [read] Keywords: formula
, lotusphere
, lotusscript
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Lotusphere tirsdag: Mye bra
Tue, Jan 22nd 2008 10:32p Bjorn Thomassen Det begynner å bli vanskeligere å komme seg opp om morran, det er lange dager og kvelder her i Orlando. Finværet er heldigvis tilbake. etter noen iskalde døgn. Dagens personlige godisliste er som følger: AD102 Expand and extend your investements using IBM social software and web 2.0 Greit og liketil foredrag om Lotus Connections, og programmeringsteknikkene som er brukt BP110 The tools every Domino admin should know about, and how to configure them En tøff time med tips haglende fra en e [read] Keywords: admin
, connections
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, mashups
, blackberry
, mobile
, social software
, web 2.0
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Lotusphere 2008: Resten av mandagen
Tue, Jan 22nd 2008 9:48p Bjorn Thomassen Etter General Opening Session var det tid for "Lotus Salon", et nytt innslag under Lotusphere. Tre mennesker, alle med vesentlig forskjellig kalibrering på hodet i forhold til oss andre, presenterte sitt arbeid. Humoristen ZeFrank (http://www.zefrank.com)%20fortalte/ om sin utrolige karriere og viste sine underlige innfall. Golan Levin (http://www.flong.com/) er en digital performanceartist, som bruker digitale medier på en annerledes og veldig spennende måte. Spilldesigneren Jane McGonigal ( [read] Keywords: lotus
, lotusphere
Lotusphere 2008 sunday: Buchan rules
Sun, Jan 20th 2008 5:32p Bjorn Thomassen Just a short note on Bill Buchan's "Web services bootcamp" (JMP206) That man is possibly the best and most funny geek I've ever seen on stage at Lotusphere. He mixes the art of teaching with the art of entertainment, and he does it so naturally! I laughed during the whole session, and I even learned a whole lot about web services as well. Thank you Bill, you're the best. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2008 Søndag: Nye ting som ble presentert
Sun, Jan 20th 2008 4:00p Bjorn Thomassen Frokost og lunch på Lotusphere ser ut som et gigantisk, horisonalt fuglefjell, med stor aktivitet og bråk og ståk. Når 8000 mennesker skal ha mat noenlunde samtidig, blir det bare slik. Etter en klassisk amerikansk frokost (dvs en sjarmerende blanding av ting så kaloririke at de kunne vært brukt som rakettbrennstoff :) var det omsider tid for Business Development Day, General Opening Session. Dette arrangementet er kun for leverandørleddet, og kan innimellom inneholde lure ting å ta med [read] Keywords: domino
, foundations
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, development
, google
, microsoft
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Lotusphere 2008 søndag morgen: K-K-K-KALDT !!
Sun, Jan 20th 2008 6:49a Bjorn Thomassen Kvelden igår endte med et voldsomt regnskyll, praktfulle lyn, og ingen middag. Kroppen er ikke helt tilvant den nye døgnsyklusen ennå, så søvnbehovet kommer i rykk og napp, eller skal vi si hytt og pine. Middagsluren blir fort til en lang natts søvn, men slikt har en jo ikke vondt av. Nå er det på tide å starte opp. Ute er det ISKALDT! Det er bare å hive på seg vintertøyet jeg hadde på meg ved ankomst, for her trengs det virkelig. 7 grader er ingenting å skrive hjem om. Men jeg gj [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Lotusphere lørdag: Hjemme på Swan igjen
Sat, Jan 19th 2008 9:53p Bjorn Thomassen Etter en kald og trist morgen med regn og tett tåke, satte vi omsider kursen for konferansehotellene Swan og Dolphin. Sjåføren vår, en eldre mørk herremann med avslepet innvandrerdialekt, kjørte oss rolig mot konferansehotellene mens han fortalte oss om andre severdigheter på vår vei. På Swan var det ikke helt klart enda da vi ankom. Travle teknikere skrudde opp monitorer og reklameskilter, mens forventningsfulle Lotus mennesker i alle aldre trippet rundt i vestibylen. Her var det mange [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
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Lotusphere 2008: Fredag
Fri, Jan 18th 2008 9:01p Bjorn Thomassen Så var omsider en laaang og kjedelig flydag over. Det er 23 timer siden jeg sto opp, så det blir ikke mange minuttene til, før jeg parkerer i hotellbingen. Lufthansa flyet fra Frankfurt kunne like gjerne hett "LotusHansa", siden det for anledningen var fyllt av tyskere, svensker, nederlendere, foruten 23 nordmenn, og det virket som om 80% av passasjerene skulle det samme som oss. Det florerte av gule og sorte Lotusphere ryggsekker, caps, for ikke å snakke om alle IBM Laptop'ene da. Selv om [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotusphere
, laptop
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Lotus enters the SoupWare market ?
Thu, Jan 17th 2008 3:58p Bjorn Thomassen Ser at vår gode venn Arne Nilsen (mynotesblog.com) er yr og gal idag, og definitivt mentalt av gårde til Orlando allerede. Samme her, men samtidig såpass utkjørt etter dager med stress at det blir så som så med boblingen. IBM'eren Arne lover oss mange utrolige nyheter på Lotusphere - kanskje dette er en av dem? Soupware er jo unektelig noe ganske nytt, og henger bra sammen med Lotus sin satsing på sosial software. Ifjor var det Lotus Notes - i år er det kanskje Lotus Wok ? :-) [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
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Blogleser ansettes ?
Tue, Jan 15th 2008 7:26p Bjorn Thomassen "Jeg trenger arbeid i Bergen...:)" skrev en kar i en mail her om dagen. Han hadde lest Slem Fisk bloggen der jeg klaget på at det var for mye å gjøre og at vi trengte mer folk. Fredag sitter han i godstolen på kontoret vårt og snakker med personalfolket, mens jeg sitter på flyet til Orlando. Det hadde jo vært innmari OK om han fikk jobben da! Er det flere der ute som vil prøve seg? Vi jakter primært på folk med litt erfaring fra IBM/Lotus miljøet, men er du rette typen så lærer vi [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
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Lotusphere Online er åpnet
Sun, Jan 13th 2008 12:49p Bjorn Thomassen Intranettet som lages i tilkytning til Lotusphere åpnet ikveld ca 19:00. Det ser mye bedre ut enn fjorårets, la oss håpe at det tåler trykket bedre enn 2007 versjonen. Mail er på plass, og mange funksjoner som antakeligvis er plukket fra Lotus Connections. Skikkelig social networking. Innholdsoversikten er også kraftig forbedret, dette er faktisk ganske bra saker! BrukerID og passord kommer i E-mailen [read] Keywords: connections
, lotus
, lotusphere
, networking
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Analog Video Capture
Fri, Jan 11th 2008 1:56a Bjorn Thomassen De gamle VHS båndene med private opptak er snart den eneste grunnen for at vi fremdeles har en VHS spiller på lur. Det spørs hvor lenge det varer, for nå har jeg altså gått til anskaffelse av en video capture dings, som skal kunne konvertere de gamle analoge opptakene til digitalt format. Før anskaffelsen forsøkte jeg å gjøre jobben direkte i Linux, men video subsystemet i min IBM Thinkpad A31P var tilsynelatende ikke støttet i Ubuntu 7.10. Det dukket i alle fall aldri opp noen devic [read] Keywords: composite
, ibm
, linux
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Lotusphere: 1 uke igjen
Thu, Jan 10th 2008 5:03p Bjorn Thomassen Så var vi omsider på oppløpssiden. Kofferten skal ned fra loftet, kvitteringer skal kontrolleres enda en gang, passet ligger i skapet der det skal, ja. Er klærne vasket? Er kameraet fulladet? Hva sier værmeldingen - kan det bli problemer med trafikken? Og så videre. Jeg strever med å bli ferdig med et par-tre prosjekter i tide. Det er anstrengende å reise til Orlando, i alle fall før en kommer seg av gårde. Ser at Ed Brill proklamerer at onsdagspartyet blir holdt på Universal Studio [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, planetlotus
, planetlotus.org
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CMS Watch 2008: Noen profetier
Tue, Jan 8th 2008 2:49p Bjorn Thomassen Jeg har ikke lest årets rapport selv og burde følgelig holdt kjeft, men her er altså 11 profetier fra CMS Watch for året 2008. Det skal visstnok finnes flere, men de har jeg ikke funnet enda. Årets samling er ikke spesielt oppsiktsvekkende, men noen overraskelser er der jo: 1) Arkivering overtar som hovedfokus for ECM produsenter HP utfordrer storkara (EMC, IBM og Open Text) 2) Google vil forsøke å innta rollen som verdens største datalagringssenter Selskapet vil tilby datalagring for [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, enterprise
, facebook
, google
, microsoft
, oracle
, security
, sharepoint
, soa
, social software
, web 2.0
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Amerikanske bilder 1: Øltekst med sjarm
Tue, Jan 8th 2008 1:34p Bjorn Thomassen Dagens bilde er fra Lotusphere 2007, og viser noe så vanlig som et mexikansk øl i boks. Corona er forsåvidt et hyggelig øl, brygget på mais og akkurat så anonymt i smaken at det ikke mislikes av hverken nordmenn, mexicanere eller amerikanere. Min svoger, for eksempel, drikker bare Corona og stortrives med det. Bildet kunne jo egentlig være tatt i Norge. Men legg merke til advarselen på siden av boksen! Den amerikanske kulturen er ikke alltid like forståelig, men detaljer som denne e [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Art By Accident 1
Thu, Jan 3rd 2008 2:16p Bjorn Thomassen Jeg kjøpte ny scanner i romjula. Den gamle HP Scanjet 4C'en døde plutselig, etter nesten 12 år i sammenhengende arbeid. Den nye scanneren, en billig Canon 4400, viste seg å ha en egen negativscanner for 35 mm film, og det var den romjula. Det hadde seg nemlig slik at da min gamle far og mor flyttet for noen år siden, ble jeg bedt om å kaste mye og mangt for dem, blant annet en masse gamle negativer. Jeg kastet mye og mangt, men gamle negativer kaster man bare ikke, og det er jeg glad for [read] Keywords:
Domino 8 på Slackware Linux: Hvor ble det av Darth Wader ?
Wed, Dec 19th 2007 2:56p Bjorn Thomassen Login bildet (klikk for større versjon) over er fra vårt lille prosjekt, der vi installerte Lotus Domino 8.0 på en riktig sær Linux maskin. For å gjøre jobben ekstra vanskelig, valgte vi å benytte en av Linuxverdenens mer puritanske distroer: SlackWare. Her får du ingenting gratis, men har du jobbet med Linux siden barnehagen, og lærte vi-editoren før du lærte å snakke, er dette antakeligvis distroen for deg. Og min kollega. Linux er etterhvert blitt så stuerent at du ikke opparbei [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, notes
, linux
, redhat
, server
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Kill Lotus Notes with a smile :-)
Wed, Dec 19th 2007 2:39p Bjorn Thomassen Her er noe jeg fant ut helt alene, og derfor er jeg litt stolt akkurat nå: Notes 8 klienten har samme uvane som de tidligere utgavene, med at den ikke alltid avslutter rent og pent. Prosesser blir hengende igjen, og for brukeren blir det klin umulig å få startet opp igjen uten å måtte restarte. Fy på fingen, IBM! Det har alltid fantes små programmer som har kunnet renske opp etter en rufsete stopp, men nå trenger du ikke dem engang: Bruk istedet standardprogrammet NSD.EXE, som medfølg [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, notes
, nsd
GeniiSofts årlige Lotusphere journal DB er ute (alfa)
Mon, Dec 10th 2007 4:46p Bjorn Thomassen For deg som skal til Lotusphere 2008 i Orlando: GeniiSoft geniale journal database (-unnskyld , applikasjon) er nå tilgjengelig for nedlasting. Denne databasen - øh - applikasjonen, er en god hjelp i arbeidet med å finne ut hvor og når de ulike foredragene starter, slik at du er istand til å planlegge hvor du skal være når. Du kan til og med synkronisere dine valg mot PDAen etterpå, slik at du slipper å starte PCen hver gang du vil finne ut hvor du har tenkt deg i neste omgang. Forelà [read] Keywords: lotusphere
, database
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Linux for rånere: Ubuntu med Mac-look
Sun, Dec 9th 2007 5:21p Bjorn Thomassen Ukens definitive råner-nyhet er denne: En Ubuntu Linux forkledd som Mac, med look&feel fra OS-X Tiger og Leopard, og oppå det hele kjører altså notes 8 :-) Det blir nesten som å ta en Opel Ascona og sminke den opp til å bli en Porsche. Det finnes svært mange beskrivelser ute på nettet om hvordan en går frem for å gjøre dette skikkelig, så jeg skal ikke stjele mer enn absolutt nødvendig og heller henvise til de opprinnelige stedene. I mitt forsøk på å skape meg et navn som [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
, linux
, mac
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Åtteren kjører på Slackware Linux
Sat, Dec 8th 2007 5:40p Bjorn Thomassen Som nevnt tidligere: Vi har en mengde notes servere i selskapet der jeg jobber, noen relativ gamle og andre forholdsvis nye. Da vi sist uke fant å måtte skifte maskinvaren på en av mailserverne, fødtes ideen om å kjøre den på Linux. Hvis poenget her var at vi skulle kjøre en server på Linux, ville vel artikkelen blitt farlig blodfattig, siden alle har en server eller femten som kjører linux. Notes folket bruker stort sett SuSE Linux 9 og 10 samt Red Hat, og denslags har vi hatt en stau [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, notes
, linux
, red hat
, server
Flightsimulator gjemt i Google Earth
Tue, Dec 4th 2007 2:12a Bjorn Thomassen Årets julepresang til gutter i alle aldre: En kollega gjorde meg nettopp oppmerksom på at det finnes en flysimulator i Google Earth. Så nå kan du fly gjennom Norge, eller hvorsomhelst i verden, akkurat der du selv vil. Fly F-16 i Google Earth (ver 4.2 free version eller senere) Windows: Ctrl+Alt+A Mac: Command+Option+A Ha det moro ! [read] Keywords: google
, mac
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Xbox som Domino server ..?
Sat, Dec 1st 2007 2:33p Bjorn Thomassen Vi gule konsulenter har jo alltid vært vant til å kunne kjøre hjerneproduktene våre på de underligste plattformer. Skulle en kritisk applikasjon begynne å få pusteproblemer på NT eller Linux-serveren, kan en jo alltids putte den inn på en iSeries maskin, og skulle ikke det være nok, finnes det jo alltid en mulighet til å lempe applikasjonen inn på et skikkelig dyr av en S/390 stormaskin, bare kunden er stor nok og/eller applikasjonen er kritisk nok. Skaleringsmulighetene er mange, m [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, lotusphere
, notes
, aix
, linux
, microsoft
, server
, wiki
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Lotus Domino 8 på Slackware Linux
Sat, Dec 1st 2007 11:45a Bjorn Thomassen Vi må skifte ut noe gammelt jern på jobben, og har i den anledning bestillt en ny burk som vi i løpet av neste uke skal installere Lotus Domino 8 på. Vi kunne installert Dominoserveren på en Windows Server 2003 lisens, eller en SuSE Linux Enterprise Edition 10.1 (SLED 10.1), men siden dataene er såpass sikre har vi bestemt oss for å gjøre litt forskning når vi først er igang. Vår neste utgave av denne serveren blir derfor installert på Linux varianten Slackware, en rudimentær te [read] Keywords: domino
, lotus
, notes
, enterprise
, linux
, server
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Vi trenger folk ! Massevis !
Fri, Nov 30th 2007 6:20p Bjorn Thomassen Trykket i Lotus Notes verdenen bare øker og øker, det er arbeid i massevis til alle. Firmaet jeg jobber i søker mennesker med Lotus kompetanse, men vil også vurdere nybegynnere og juniorer som er villige til å lære og ser for seg en karriere innen data. Din bakgrunn og utdannelse er faktisk ikke avgjørende, vi er på jakt etter mange ressurser og ser fort om du er typen vi er interessert i. HVEM/HVA VI SØKER: Du liker å omgås mennesker, og har sosiale antenner. Du er interessert i da [read] Keywords: lotus
, notes
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Ubuntu: Lotus Notes 8 er mulig, men ikke enkelt
Wed, Nov 28th 2007 11:26a Bjorn Thomassen Ubuntu er ikke en av de plattformene IBM støtter for sin Lotus Notes/Linux klient. Likefullt burde det være mulig å få sakene til å virke, men foreløpig vet jeg ikke 100% om jeg har klart det. En feil i HTML basert mail får Notes til å krasje med feilkode 127. Mer om det senere. La meg først bare konstatere at Lotus Notes klienten er såpass kilen å få til å virke, at det er en god ide å begynne arbeidet med å oppgradere Ubuntu til 7.10 og legge på alle fixer du får tak i. Hvis [read] Keywords: ibm
, lotus
, notes
, notes client
, applications
, desktop
, eclipse
, linux
, office
, smtp
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Special H
Tue, Nov 27th 2007 3:43p Bjorn Thomassen Vi lever i en merkelig verden. Dagens lille PhotoShop gig er ikke ment som annet enn en betraktning om at slankereklamer egentlig er en god linse mot denne verdens mest hjerteskjærende skjevfordelinger. .Noen dør av mat, noen dør av mangel på mat. [read] Keywords:
8
Dumme reklamer (1)
Mon, Nov 26th 2007 6:59a Bjorn Thomassen Jeg blir så forbannet på disse uintelligente, himmelstormende teite og flate TV-reklamene. Her må det avreageres. Jeg lader begjærlig opp Photoshop, og lager hurtig disse logoene. Kopier dem, spre den ut i verden, gå til kamp mot åndsvak TV-reklame! Vårt våpen er PhotoShop :-D [read] Keywords:
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Ubuntu: Dele ut ressurser i et Microsoft nettverk
Sun, Nov 25th 2007 6:31a Bjorn Thomassen Windows nettverket har sin Linux variant i Samba, som er standard i Ubuntu installasjoner. Med denne kan du dele ut kataloger og amdre ressuerser, akkurat slik du er vant til i Windows verdenen. Du kan til og med kaste ut din Windows NT server og erstatte den med en gratis Samba server, men denne artikkelen handler ikke om det. Det er litt mer kluring for å få delt ut en katalog på en Ubuntu maskin enn det er på en Windows maskin. Straks du har oversikten, byr det ikke på store problemer å [read] Keywords: admin
, administration
, applications
, linux
, microsoft
, server
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Softwarekostnadene ned i fremtiden
Wed, Nov 21st 2007 2:14p Bjorn Thomassen Gartner Group spår at lisenskostnadene på programvare vil synke i årene som kommer. Gartner mener å ha identifisert 7 ulike trender som alle peker mot denne utviklingen. Blant disse finner man business process outsourcing, software as a service, lavkost utviklingsmiljøer som Kina og India kombinert med modulære arkitekturer og SOA, Open Source, voldsom vekst hos kinesiske softwarehus og stor softwareekspansjon på det kinesiske, indiske og brasilianske markedet. Les mere på CNets sider: [read] Keywords: soa
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Årets røkelaks
Sun, Nov 18th 2007 3:52p Bjorn Thomassen - skal snart lages. I vårt hjem er det andaktstemning når den ferdige røkelaksen ankommer omkring månedskiftet. Nygårdsgaten Røkeri har vanligvis ansvaret for kvaliteten, og de skuffer sjelden. I år er det mer røkefisk enn normalt, fire mellomlakser og en firekilos sjøørret skal røkes. Og som alltid er det mulighet for kunder å få en liten smakebit som julehilsen :-) (Bildet: Minstemann Håkon viser stolt frem 2 villakser på tilsammen 8,5 kilo) [read] Keywords:
