A Microsoft Windows Home Server shortcoming
Tue, Aug 17th 2010 9:30p Carl Tyler As I blogged in the past, I've been really
pleased with my Windows Home Server
(WHS), I use it for so many things, it backs up all my machines, it runs
a Domino Server that replicates key databases from other servers, it runs
uTorrent, it's my media server, it's my iPad music server, you get the
idea, this little box not much bigger than a Bible does a lot of things.
Recently it has been having issues though, the system drive had started
to return errors writing to disk C, constantly log [read] Keywords: domino
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Why does a Sametime meeting room with integrated telephony make a lot of sense.
Fri, Aug 13th 2010 1:50p Carl Tyler As many people know, we at Epilio do a lot of
work building integration for companies between their Sametime Web Conferencing
system and their telephone systems, we even do this for vendors, so you
might very well be using some of the integration we built but just don't
know it. If you've ever wondered about the value of using a web conferencing
system that is tightly integrated with a Telephone conferencing system
watch this funny short video that Bilal Jaffrey
posted a link to.
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Sametime Advanced Update for Sametime 8.5.1 now available.
Fri, Aug 6th 2010 9:30a Carl Tyler With the arrival of Sametime 8.5.1, the
Sametime Advanced plug-ins required some updates. Pleased to say
that IBM has these available already no need to delay your 8.5.1 deployments
waiting for the advanced plugins. There is a technote explaing how
to deploy and get the the fixes, About IBM Lotus Sametime Advanced for Lotus Sametime 8.5.1 [read] Keywords: ibm
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STT120MCU.EXE terminates abnormally shown on Domino console
Fri, Aug 6th 2010 8:50a Carl Tyler Often when I take a look at customers Sametime
servers, I'll often see a message along the lines of STT120MCU.EXE terminates
abnormally shown on Domino console. There are a few technotes on
this error and even a couple of hot fixes, but customers still see the
message after following the technotes and applying the hot fixes.
9 out 10 times I find the fix is actually
really simple, in the names.nsf open the server document and go to the
Internet Protocols tab, and on the HTTP tab belo [read] Keywords: domino
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It has only take about 10 years, but Sametime finally supports, wait for it....
Wed, Aug 4th 2010 9:50a Carl Tyler Yes, it's true a technote appeared
on the IBM site this morning titled "Can
Sametime work with Internet Site enabled?". For
the last 10 years the answer has been no, now with Sametime 8.5.1 the answer
is yes. This is great news, although to be honest, the issue is becoming
less important as the web meeting components for Sametime have moved to
Websphere, so unless you're using Sametime Classic meetings it really didn't
matter much.
So thank you IBM for doing something
I predicted [read] Keywords: ibm
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World Cup Blog
Thu, Jun 10th 2010 11:10a Carl Tyler As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've
setup a new blog and twitter account to post World Cup events during our
travels in South Africa.
The blog is http://www.vvorldcup.com
and the twitter account is vvorldcup I've
had the vvorldcup domain for a long time, and yes it is two Vs not a W,
pretty sure FIFA would sue for worldcup.com
The blogging will be done by myself
and my two fellow travellers, Chris Miller
and Andy Higgins. Interestingly
enough we all have a very strong ba [read] Keywords: blogging
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Apple FaceTime, what's cool and what isn't
Wed, Jun 9th 2010 12:01a Carl Tyler And you thought this blog had become a
World Cup blog, ha, you couldn't be further from the truth, I actually
just turned on www.vvorldcup.com for that (and yes that is
two V's not a W) anyway back to the purpose of this blog.
So in the past I blogged a little bit
about my Nokia N800, it
was my device looking for a problem, kind of how I view an iPad for myself
today if I was to get one. One of the features the N800 had was a
camera that could swivel around so you could use it to vi [read] Keywords: apple
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Three days to go!
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 3:00p Carl Tyler It's three days until the World Cup kicks
off, which means you have three days left to get your WorldCup-Pool
entries in, it closes midnight June 10th. On Saturday is one of the
biggest games, USA vs England. If you're in New Hampshire Saturday
afternoon, please feel free to come by my USA vs England party, I admit
the flags etc. may be a little biased towards England, what can I say?
That's who I want to win. [read] Keywords:
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I won the Twilio developers contest
Thu, Jun 3rd 2010 11:20p Carl Tyler I found out this morning I won the Twilio Developers contest
with the Flying Club Booking System I built for the club.
I found it interesting that in the write
up I wrote for them, they removed my references to Domino and how it made
it easy for me to build it, hhhmm, they also didn't publish my picture
which they asked for. Oh my God, it is like that old joke, "Should
I tell my parents I still use Notes or I'm dating Carl?"
Still not to bad for a few weekends
work from someon [read] Keywords: domino
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According to crowd sourcing Brazil will win the World Cup.
Tue, May 25th 2010 3:10p Carl Tyler Well I'm not really sure it's a crowd yet,
but based on the 18 paid entries received so far in my World Cup Pool
site, the highest picked team for winner of the WorldCup is Brazil, followed
by England and Spain, with Portugal and Argentina picking up the rear.
England picks we can pretty much consider patriotic English folks
like myself picking their home country, but Brazil and Spain haven't been
picked by Brazilians and Spanish folks so I consider those selections a
little more based o [read] Keywords:
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A new Unified Communications Interoperability Forum has formed
Thu, May 20th 2010 9:30a Carl Tyler This new group Unified
Communications Interoperability Forum (UCIF)
UCIF is a non-profit
alliance of communications technology companies working together to realize
the potential of unified communications (UC) by increasing efficiency,
decreasing implementation costs and improving the interoperability experience
for UC customers. The UCIF’s vision is to enable interoperability of open,
standards-based UC hardware and software across enterprises, service providers,
and consumer [read] Keywords: ibm
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It's nice when something works the way it's supposed to.
Tue, May 18th 2010 8:30p Carl Tyler I've had a few blog posts recently that
have bitched a bit about Sametime, and to be honest I think with good reason,
lately I have wondered what kind of QA process IBM has been putting Sametime
releases through, do they have one? So I was pleasantly surprised
the other day when I setup something for a customer and low and behold,
it worked first time, and as advertised (rare days in the recent release
of Sametime). The feature in question, Sametime awareness within
Microsoft Sharepoint [read] Keywords: domino
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Plantronics and IBM Offer Tools for Businesses to Collaborate and Work Smarter
Tue, May 18th 2010 6:50p Carl Tyler Today I was happy to see my quote in the
Plantronics
press release endorsing their products working with IBM Lotus
Sametime.
Epilio uses IBM
Lotus Sametime to increase the effectiveness of its virtual workforce by
integrating voice, data and video communications on the PC. "As
an organization with no single physical office location, we rely heavily
on our Unified Communications infrastructure to provide customers with
the high level of expertise and responsiveness they expect. With [read] Keywords: ibm
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Airlines and their weird mathmatics..OneWay vs return
Fri, May 14th 2010 11:50a Carl Tyler So I'm sorting out my Boston - London Leg
for my World Cup trip, and I have an unused airmiles ticket and an unused
BOS-LHR ticket from last year, so I thought, well why not get the return
leg on Airmiles and on the outgoing leg use the $ from the unused flight,
the return ticket I'd looked at was ~$1200 so I thought, a single
must be about 1/2 - 2/3 that cost. Check out the price difference...
Return Price
One Way Price
What kind of crazy mathmatics is that?
I'll ju [read] Keywords:
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Lotus Notes best kept secrets Part 1
Tue, May 11th 2010 8:30a Carl Tyler This appeared in my intelliwatch database
this morning, a nice little hints and tips article at the University of
Windsor.
Lotus
Notes best kept secrets Part 1
Saying it's part 1, implies there might
be more in the future... [read] Keywords: lotus
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BIG fail for Microsoft Secutity Essentials and FireFox Browser.
Sun, May 9th 2010 4:50p Carl Tyler On Saturday morning I did what I considered
a fairly harmless search on Google "What are the most popular torrents"
it returned a few links and I click on one of them. Then my
computer started popping up an insidious antispyware soft message message
about being infected with malware. Now at no point during the
browsing of this site, did I click to install anything, or give permission
to run any applets etc. I guess there is some hole in FireFox, or Flash
or something that allowed this [read] Keywords: application
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My oldest Notes application in production?
Wed, May 5th 2010 11:05a Carl Tyler So many many moons ago, close to 20 years
in fact I created my first ever Lotus Notes database, it was a database
that contained all the UK number singles from 1952 to 1986, not very useful
I know, but it was a good one to use to learn about Notes, testing importing
of data etc. Then came an internal Lotus database Hotline Technical
Faxes, that was basically used as a store for faxes we'd send to customers
who called in and we wanted to get rid of them quickly, and sending a fax
from th [read] Keywords: domino
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What do you think of update sites?
Mon, May 3rd 2010 11:20p Carl Tyler When eclipse update sites were first talked
about in relation to Sametime, they were going to be the saviour to deployment
wows, never visit a desk again to install a few patches, install seamlessly
with no user interaction for example. These were some of the things
we were promised, and sometimes that is what we get. But I can't
help but think IBM is in a big mess. All these different clients,
with different plug-in versions is just one big mess. Then to make
matters worse there are [read] Keywords: ibm
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Batch and CMD file still have their uses
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 7:51p Carl Tyler I bitch about Batch files in IBM installers
(for good reason I believe), but they still have their uses in other areas.
I recently had a situation where I wanted a customer to be able to
easily capture logs on their Sametime server, and have them FTPd to my
server so that I could look at them. A couple of things needed to
happen, I needed to automate the FTP stuff on the server, for uploading
a file. I needed each file name uploaded to be unique, as I had no idea
how many times a day th [read] Keywords: ibm
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Moving physical machines into Virtual Machines with VMWare Converter
Tue, Apr 27th 2010 10:33a Carl Tyler This weekend, I moved my 4 physical servers
that I have at an external hosting site to a single hosted server running
VMWare ESXi. My existing hosting center was in Atlanta I believe
and the new one is somewhere in Texas I think, I don't ever visit the servers
physically so it doesn't really matter, unless I add new servers and want
the in the same location. So I have these 4 servers running Windows
2003 Enterprise Edition, how do I get them across to the new VMware ESXi
server? Well [read] Keywords: domino
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A couple of gotchas on the Sametime Advanced install to watch out for
Mon, Apr 26th 2010 4:30p Carl Tyler Update: He he that was a fun subject line.
Here are a couple of gotchas if you
should decide to undertake a Sametime Advanced installation.
1. Do not use a windows account that
is longer than 12 characters. Honestly I don't know why IBM keeps
doing crazy crap like this with stupid undocumented limitations. But
I found an issue where things weren't running correctly, after a few installs
it still didn't work correctly. Technotes on Sametime Advanced on
pretty scarce, and I'm not s [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotus Knows that during a volcanic eruption Sametime can help you come together...
Sun, Apr 18th 2010 7:50p Carl Tyler Anyone seen these Ads yet? Probably don't
exist, but what a great opportunity it would have been to have had them
plastered over every train station in Europe. Seriously, what a great
opportunity for IBMers to push the benefits of Sametime Meetings. The
Eyjafjallajökull (looks like a cat walked on the keyboard) volcano
eruption has shown how much we all still rely on airlines for all sorts
of things, travel, produce, mail, deliveries, really is a big reminder
of how small we all are. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Greencard aka Permanent Resident
Fri, Apr 16th 2010 4:20p Carl Tyler Just over a week ago, I finally received
my Permanent Residency for the US. Those of you that know me, read
the blog etc. know that every year or so I had faced a renewal process
for my visa that could be approved or declined. I personally believe
that people should have a right to live and work wherever they want in
the world, rather than being restricted by false barriers created by different
clans, religions, war winners or whatever over time, so always found the
process very tedious [read] Keywords:
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Could this be justification for an iPad?
Thu, Apr 15th 2010 12:00a Carl Tyler I believe the iPad will be very popular
with folks like my parents, where the functionality is perfectly adequate.
For me I couldn't justify it, although this certainly makes it more
tempting...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/iCade.shtml [read] Keywords:
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Major UK Google Street View update
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 11:40p Carl Tyler A few weeks ago, Google did a major update
to their street view images for the UK. I decided to look at places
I've lived, and brothers and sisters houses etc. All are now in really
clear detail. When I looked at my parents house
I noticed their car wasn't there and they were no where to be seen.
So being the loving son, I sent my Dad an email explaining how rude
it was of them to be out when I sent Google by. He replied:
They missed us at home, because we were
here [read] Keywords: email
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KFCs latest sandwich isn't a joke
Wed, Apr 14th 2010 11:30p Carl Tyler Honestly the first time I saw this I thought
it was a Saturday Night Live skit or something. Honestly, I love
KFC, but even I know this is wrong on so many levels. I hold out
hope now that they may actually one day bring out a bucket of skin. [read] Keywords: application
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How long do you wait during an install if you have no feedback
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 12:40p Carl Tyler As people know, I've not exactly been a
fan of IBMs attempts to move Domino based products to Websphere, I had
pretty much nothing nice to say about the first attempt Workplace IM, wasn't
nice about Sametime advanced, and I wasnt too nice about Sametime 8.5.
I often wonder how much more successful Sametime Advanced would have
been if it was as easy to install as Sametime on Domino, and I know first
hand great persistent chat solutions can be built on Domino. Anyway,
after spending more [read] Keywords: domino
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A tip for iPad and iPhone users
Wed, Apr 7th 2010 12:30p Carl Tyler I'm sure the apple faithful already knew
this, I didn't, mind you I'm not apple faithful. If you want to capture
what is shown on your iPad or iPod screen, just hold down the home and
powerkey at the same time, you'll hear a camera shutter sound and the image
will be placed in your photo library. Simple and easy. [read] Keywords: apple
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This bug had me scratching my head for a few hours yesterday
Thu, Apr 1st 2010 4:02p Carl Tyler As some of you probably know, Epilio do
quite a bit of telephony and video integration for vendors in the Sametime
space, plus a lot of other Sametime stuff obviously. Yesterday we
were faced with an interesting problem with one of our customers and the
integration we've been building for them. So here's the problem we
were seeing.
Users with Sametime 8.5 installed, were
happily taking part in Conferences with telephony integration and click-to-call
conferencing. One of the users [read] Keywords: sametime
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IBM announces new business suite for IBM Lotus Domino
Thu, Apr 1st 2010 9:00a Carl Tyler The new IBM business suite installs in
5 minutes, it offers a complete RESTapi for interacting with users Notes
Calendars. The product which is new was designed from the ground
up not requiring IBM WebSphere.
Come on it's April 1st people, IBM no
longer makes new products targeted at the Domino platform, and a C&S
Api, seriously how can it get more fake. [read] Keywords: domino
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Got four iPhones spare?
Mon, Mar 29th 2010 8:40p Carl Tyler This song was being played all the time
in Vegas, pretty much every other song I think. Anyway, here's what
you can do with 4 iPhones, iTouchs etc.
How long till the 80s classics are back
being played on iPhones? Vienna anybody or one of my faves Don't
you want me. [read] Keywords: application
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How would you feel if Microsoft referred to Domino as Legacy Domino
Wed, Mar 24th 2010 11:18a Carl Tyler This morning I was on the Sametime 8.5
installation web conference call that IBM hosted. During the call
I heard IBMers refer to "Legacy Domino Components" Seriously?
Legacy? This is IBM say this, not Microsoft. honestly, think
what you're saying, how it can be interpreted. Please someone shoot
around an email making this reference a big no no. Lotus Knows Domino
is not Legacy, but does IBM? Now the people on these calls are smart
people, they're in support, but if someone doesn't [read] Keywords: domino
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