US Department of the Interior: Goodbye Lotus Notes (and Exchange)
Tue, May 22nd 2012 9:00p Gregg Eldred The Department of the Interior has awarded a Google service reseller a $34.9 million contract to bring Gmail and Google collaboration tools to the agency, ending a two-year battle between Microsoft and Google, including a lawsuit by the very reseller that ultimately won a revised contract.
. . . The new contract will move the agency's 90,000 email users from a mishmash of seven distinct instances of Lotus Domino and Microsoft Exchange, as well as disparate instant messaging and collaboration [read] Keywords: collaboration
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FREE: All-In-One Notes/Domino Admin Tool
Tue, May 22nd 2012 9:00p Gregg Eldred This technote contains an all-in-one Admin Tool that consists of a collection of tools that IBM Support provides in various technotes and wiki articles. These technotes usually require an Administrator to create agents to troubleshoot or workaround various issues. This goal of this tool is to eliminate those steps in favor of guided options to perform the required tasks.
What do you get with the ZIP file? Among the list of ten tools, you get:
Out of Office Diagnostic Tool which will assist you [read] Keywords: admin
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Bob Cringely: IBM Will Jettison 78% of Their US Workforce by 2015
Tue, Apr 24th 2012 8:00a Gregg Eldred Bob Cringley has written a series of five articles concerning IBM. The last time he did that, in 2007, he revealed that IBM was ready to offshore and outsource thousands of IBM jobs, impacting employees and customers alike. He was rigth. Now, he returns, predicting, well, here it is in his own words (emphasis, Bob Cringely). The direct impetus for this column is IBMâs internal plan to grow earnings-per-share (EPS) to $20 by 2015. The primary method for accomplishing this feat, according to [read] Keywords: ibm
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Remembrance of Lotusphere Past (LS12): A Marathon, Not a Sprint
Fri, Apr 13th 2012 1:20p Gregg Eldred Two reasons why Lotusphere is a marathon and not a sprint. Especially when you find yourself in the company of two blokes that are highly entertaining. You may even find that they are more entertaining than Boardwalk street performers. As a public service, here is my Pro Tip: These tickets are not welcome at ESPN Club. [read] Keywords: lotusphere
Two Kick A$$ Tools (FREE) for Lotus Notes Clients
Sat, Mar 17th 2012 11:00a Gregg Eldred Sadly, one of the few Open Mic sessions I've missed happened to be the one with the most awesome content.
Back on 13 March, IBM hosted an Open Mic Webcast titled "Install Utilitles for Lotus Notes." It was my mistake not to read the abstract, as I was thinking "InstallShield Tuner" for some reason. This open mic, which you may reference here, did not cover InstallShield Tuner. No, it covered two amazing tools that you NEED to put in your toolbox.
Let me explain.
IBM introduced NICE, t [read] Keywords: ibm
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Foursquare Could Kill You
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 11:10a Gregg Eldred Interesting alternative view of the geo-location services we civilians mostly take for granted, from checking in on foursquare to adding tags to our uploaded pictures.
A deployed service member's situational awareness includes the world of social media. If a Soldier uploads a photo taken on his or her smartphone to Facebook, they could broadcast the exact location of their unit, said Steve Warren, deputy G2 for the Maneuver Center of Excellence, or MCoE.
"Today, in pretty much every single [read] Keywords: facebook
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Lotus: "Over The Top Technology"
Thu, Mar 15th 2012 11:10a Gregg Eldred Legendary accounts of breakthroughs in technology tend to focus on operating systems, displays and new devices.
But one of the most significant yet under-reported trends is for technology companies to try to 'leapfrog' each other with 'over-the-top' technologies. It is this trend that often defines the battle for supremacy in the technology industry.
... [IBM] spent over $4bn buying software firm Lotus because it wanted a small but crucial part of the business: Lotus Notes, with a reve [read] Keywords: ibm
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Updated: Does IBM Lotus Notes Traveler support the BlackBerry PlayBook?
Mon, Mar 5th 2012 7:01p Gregg Eldred There is now an updated TechNote concerning Lotus Traveler and the BlackBerry PlayBook.
Question
Does IBM Lotus Notes Traveler support the BlackBerry PlayBook?
Answer
At this time, IBM does not support the use of Lotus Notes Traveler on a BlackBerry PlayBook. PlayBook support is offered by RIM:
1) For Administrators, RIM has posted details about its support for the configuration in the BlackBerry Device Service Guide.
2) For end users, please reference the PlayBook Users Guide.
IBM [read] Keywords: admin
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Open Mic Webcast: What's the Latest with Notes Traveler? - 24 April 2012
Mon, Mar 5th 2012 6:44p Gregg Eldred Got Traveler? Mark your calendar for this webcast on 24 April.
Abstract
IBM will host an Open Mic webcast with Lotus Development and Support Engineers on 24 April 2012. The topic will be "What's the Latest with Notes Traveler? ."
Content
Date: 24 April 2012
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (15:00 UTC, or GMT -4), for 60 minutes
To ask a question in advance, add a response document to this forum post.
More information, including the ICS which you can use to add the webcast to your calendar, call- [read] Keywords: ibm
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Hot Springs by Stephen Hunter
Mon, Mar 5th 2012 4:33p Gregg Eldred His wife, June, is there, watching President
Truman present him with the Medal of Honor. He earned the medal fighting
on Iwo Jima, one of several islands he led Marines into battle against
the Japanese. The presentation concludes, he heads to the washroom. There,
he unholsters his sidearm, wonders why he is here, in Washington
receiving the Medal of Honor, when the real hero's are still on the beaches
and in the jungles of the Pacific, dead. He puts the gun to his temple.
"Earl," comes the v [read] Keywords:
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HP Input Output: Your Cloud Won't Secure Itself
Tue, Feb 28th 2012 12:50p Gregg Eldred The cloud versus on-premises versus hybrid seems to now be changing some views and conversations. Oh, there will be those that swear by outsourcing a company's network and storage, in the name of "reduced costs." However, it seems that if you listen carefully, the conversation is changing slightly. You have to be willing to hear those other voices.
âThe cloud is really outsourcing,â says Chet Wisniewski, security analyst for Sophos, which was one of the security companies that dre [read] Keywords: network
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The Return of Lotus Foundations
Tue, Feb 21st 2012 5:35p Gregg Eldred Unbelieveably, it has been a while since I saw any news concerning Lotus Foundations. That could be due to the hardware being withdrawn from marketing. Or the withering and death of the much promoted Foundations Business Partner network. Just as I finished working through the pain and suffering caused by this product line, including the marketing, with my therapist, I find this, dateline February 15, 2012:
IBM will be expanding its software portfolio for millions of small and medium businesses [read] Keywords: bluehouse
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As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me by Josef M. Bauer
Mon, Feb 20th 2012 5:18p Gregg Eldred "Clemens Forell" was a German
paratrooper during World War II. He saw action in Rotterdam, Eben Emanel,
and Crete before he was wounded. After he recovered, he was sent, with
his team, to the Eastern Front, dropping in behind enemy lines in the Ural
Mountains. Captured, he was sent to a Siberian labor camp, where he was
sentenced to 25 years of labor in a lead mine. With a sentence like that,
in a very hostile environment, he had two choices; slowly die of lead poisoning
or escape. Forell chos [read] Keywords:
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Sametime applets signer certificate expires on 19 March 2012
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 6:40a Gregg Eldred In the event you were unaware, on 19 March, the Sametime Meeting Server applets are signed with a VeriSign certificate. That certificate expires shortly and you may want to mitigate the certificate expiration warning so that you do not field too many Help Desk calls. IBM has published a TechNote detailing the steps needed to resolve this issue, below.
Sametime applets signer certificate expires on 19 March 2012 [read] Keywords: ibm
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Stony Brook University: Goodbye Lotus Notes
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 6:40a Gregg Eldred Google Apps for Education will be the new university- wide collaboration service, as announced by President Samuel L. Stanley, Jr. in his email on Dec.19. This is a result of the suggestion from the Steering Committee, whose investigation considered issues including but not limited to security, accessibility, and usability.
. . . Lotus Notes was the former program used for most of these functions. But as co-chair of the Steering Committee Margaret Schedel said, âLotus Notes was awkward.â [read] Keywords: collaboration
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100 Incredible Views Out of Airplane Windows
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 6:40a Gregg Eldred I've taken shots out airplane windows but there is always something wrong with them (probably the photographer). Not these pictures.
Thanks, Matt. [read] Keywords:
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Monitoring Traveler Using the Administration Client
Thu, Feb 16th 2012 6:40a Gregg Eldred Good/bad. The good: You can make a modification to domadmin.nsf and then monitor your Lotus Traveler servers using the Domino Administration client. The bad: Traveler has been out a while, there's been a couple of fix packs to Lotus Notes, however IBM hasn't seen it fit to include this modification in the domadmin.nsf template.
Question
How to add Lotus® Traveler® server task to monitor in the Domino® Administrator client ?
Answer
This can be done by following the below design [read] Keywords: administration
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Lotusphere: Will it Jumpstart the IBM Lotus Brand?
Fri, Jan 13th 2012 9:30a Gregg Eldred Now in its 19th year, Lotusphere will once again attempt to make up the ground Lotus Notes lost as a result of shifts in strategy at IBM and changes in the market in the past few years. But with Lotus Notes facing an uphill battle, five days at "the happiest place on Earth" will have to go a long way.
. . . But even with the help of the Connect conference, some in the industry are concerned that Lotusphere '12 may be too little, too late.
Sandy Carter is quoted, but without the exclamati [read] Keywords: ibm
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Are Your Twitter Followers Yours? Or Your Company's?
Tue, Dec 27th 2011 8:20p Gregg Eldred In 2006 Noah Kravitz went to work for Phonedog, a news site specializing in mobile phone related news. During his four years as a writer for Phonedog, his Twitter profile, Phonedog_Noah, picked up 17,000 followers. When he left the company last October, he was told that he could keep the account, provided he tweeted about Phonedog once in a while. When he left, Kravitz changed the profileâs name to NoahKravitz, and proceeded to continue tweeting â including the occasional mention of Ph [read] Keywords: mobile
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Where are the PlayBooks?
Mon, Dec 19th 2011 10:00p Gregg Eldred Ah, the irony: over the past few weeks even RIM has admitted that the BlackBerry PlayBook is so unloved it canât even give it away, and now $1.7m-worth of the 7-inch slates have actually been stolen. A truck transporting 22 pallets of the PlayBook to Ontario, Canada, was parked up for the driver to take a rest break, The Herald Bulletin reports, when it was stolen by person or persons unknown.
More>
"Police said they have no suspects." Of course not, who wants to admit that they ha [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Microsoft Exec: Google's Problems in L.A. Wouldn't Have Happened to Us
Mon, Dec 19th 2011 10:00p Gregg Eldred From an interview with Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's senior director for online services, in Redmind Channel Partner.
RCP: Gartner recently endorsed Google Apps for Business as enterprise ready. Has that upped the competitive stakes, as far as you're concerned?
Rizzo: You know, the interesting thing about that Gartner report, I believe one of the 10 references listed was the city of L.A., and the LAPD has pulled out of deploying Google Apps. So I'd read through that list with a fine-toothed com [read] Keywords: ibm
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We Could've Had a Great Economy
Thu, Dec 15th 2011 7:50a Gregg Eldred I suppose you could consider this a "political" post. With Hermain Cain as President, our economy could've really took off. [read] Keywords:
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RIM in the News (and it has nothing to do with the PlayBook)
Mon, Dec 12th 2011 4:15p Gregg Eldred New details are emerging about the rowdy behaviour of two Research In Motion executives who were fired for disrupting an intercontinental flight â including that they managed to chew their way out of restraints after being handcuffed by crew members.
George Campbell, 45, and Paul Alexander Wilson, 38, each pleaded guilty to mischief for disrupting an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Beijing last week.
The plane landed instead in Vancouver, where a court later ordered them to pay $72,00 [read] Keywords: policies
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IBM Documentation Needs Help
Wed, Dec 7th 2011 9:01p Gregg Eldred Redbooks, for all intents and purposes, are dead. At least as far as IBM Lotus is concerned. The future, we've been told, are wikis, blogs, and InfoCenters. True, most of the IBM Lotus wikis have been populated with the contents of existing Redbooks, however the information in the wikis and InfoCenters is a hit-or-miss proposition.
Let's take a look at one example of a miss.
Installing and configuring the IBM Lotus Sametime Gateway is a lot of fun, the documentation makes it appear a pai [read] Keywords: ibm
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Anonymous Youngstown Company: Goodbye Lotus Notes
Mon, Dec 5th 2011 9:30p Gregg Eldred "Comedy is tragedy happening to someone
else" - W.C. Fields
That pretty much sums up my feelings
toward all of the "Goodbye Lotus Notes" postings I've done lately.
That "someone" is usually IBM. Now, since IBM probably had no
idea that the "Anonymous
Cleveland Company" and this
"Anonymous Youngstown Company" even existed, let alone used one
of their products, the tragedy is happening to me. You may now enjoy the
comedic aspects of this post.
Let's travel back in time when I was [read] Keywords: administration
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Why Do I Blog Companies that Say Goodbye to IBM Notes?
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 9:10p Gregg Eldred Lately, you can't swing a dead cat without
hitting another news item announcing a company leaving IBM Lotus. The press,
Google, and Microsoft certainly like reporting those wins. What the authors
of those articles don't like, from my view, are any follow-up questions.
For example, I have sent e-mails to two authors asking for additional information
from their interviews with the quoted people.
I've yet to receive a response, even in this day of "social."
That said and back to the poin [read] Keywords: domino
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What Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers
Mon, Nov 28th 2011 9:10p Gregg Eldred The four big software vendors -- Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP -- have hidden motives that customers need to understand, otherwise they might be pushed into buying products and services that don't fit their needs.
That's the takeaway from a recent Gartner talk in Australia, reported by IT News.
. . . IBM wants to take over your IT strategy. IBM bills itself as a thought leader, but its real business is selling consulting services. To thrive, IBM account managers try to take control of a [read] Keywords: ibm
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"What is the number of companies that use Notes, Alex"
Wed, Nov 23rd 2011 7:41a Gregg Eldred The answer, according to a company that wants to sell me the database is 17,693.
From the e-mail they sent me:
We have verified a list of Lotus Notes installed companies across the following countries;
Europe - 8530 Companies
United Kingdom - 2000 companies
US - 7163 companies
If it wasn't that the database costs money, I'd be interested in the accuracy of their information. [read] Keywords: lotus
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Anonymous Cleveland Company: Goodbye Lotus Notes
Fri, Nov 18th 2011 11:52a Gregg Eldred Installed Domino 5 on their AS/400. Upgraded Domino to Release 6 then to 7 on the AS/400. They got rid of their AS/400, so I moved Domino to a Windows Server and upgraded it to Release 8, then to Release 8.5. Installed Traveler and Sametime. Then, the economy took a little turn (I'm sure you read something about that) and they did a little downsizing of staff. Then they downsized their office space. Their IT staff level took a hit during all of these changes.There were a few more changes. From [read] Keywords: domino
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Factory of Sadness
Wed, Nov 16th 2011 7:56p Gregg Eldred Worth sharing. Even if I don't give a moments thought to the "professional" football team in Cleveland.
I've always maintained that the only professional football team in the state of Ohio plays on Saturdays in Columbus. [read] Keywords:
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Laughing All Year Long
Wed, Nov 16th 2011 7:14p Gregg Eldred One side benefit of ordering custom t-shirts on the internet are the monthly follow-up e-mails from the company.
When I see that e-mail in my Inbox, without fail, I laugh.
I wonder what I should create for Lotusphere 2012? Thoughts? [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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My ASW Post of Year
Wed, Nov 16th 2011 6:10p Gregg Eldred Well, here it is, for your amusement, ridicule, and comments.
Gregg Eldred, an information technology worker with NextStep Technologies in Avon Lake, said he has an iPad for work, but he ordered a Fire for personal use. He had considered an iPad, but he said he's not sure how much he'll actually use the tablet, so springing for the more expensive device didn't make much sense.
"I really like the feel of paper. I love books. I love carrying them around," Eldred said. "If the Kindle doe [read] Keywords: profile
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General Motors: Goodbye Lotus Notes
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 10:52p Gregg Eldred Let's continue with the headlines.
Google Apps, Googleâs (NASDAQ:GOOG) very own arsenal of application software, can make it big on a large-scale. The search giant has recently signed a deal to provide its e-mail and cloud-based software to General Motorsâ (NYSE:GM) 100,000 employees. [1] While the deal itself is big, what is more important is the precedent it can set for other large firms to adopt cloud-based application software, threatening traditional players like Microsoft (NAS [read] Keywords: ibm
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University of Dayton: Goodbye Lotus Notes
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 10:38p Gregg Eldred Over the past year, or so, I've done three posts concerning the Univeristy of Dayton, their current IBM Lotus Notes and Domino environment, and their supposed move to GMail.
There is no "supposed" any longer; they are moving to the Google cloud.
The University of Dayton will switch from the Lotus Notes email software to Google Apps for Education on Nov. 25.
Starting that day all emails sent to current Lotus Notes accounts will be forwarded to UD Gmail accounts called UDMail, which will [read] Keywords: domino
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The Other 1%
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 10:05p Gregg Eldred "I felt as alien here as I was in Iraq," the 32-year-old recalls of his return to his native Utah. At home, he says, it was impossible to tell we were a nation at war. He couldn't discuss it with pals "without sounding like a Martian," because they had no idea what the war in Iraq was like. The conversation would bog down, stall and then move on to other topics.
More >
Sadly, it's behind a pay wall, however if you have the means to access the November 21 issue of Time Magazine, it' [read] Keywords:
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A Traveler Cookbook with No Recipes
Tue, Nov 15th 2011 10:05p Gregg Eldred So, up until the other day, I haven't blogged in weeks. Now, while I'm waiting for some IBM Lotus code to come down from Passport Advantage so that I can do some remote Notes installs, I am doing a little catching up. The easy stuff. If you saw my pile of books that need to be reviewed, you'd realize that I have a blog post a day for at least the next month.
Let's look at a new (November 2) resource for those implementing a Lotus Traveler environment, Lotus Notes Traveler Deployment Cookbo [read] Keywords: domino
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Difference of Perspective
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 7:40p Gregg Eldred During the quiet times, my thoughts return to Number One Son. It's not that Number Two Son is far from my thoughts, he certainly isn't, it's just that Number One Son is away and has limited access to e-mail and text. I could call him, but I am unaware of his work schedule, so I try not intrude on his time. He forces upon me thoughts and feelings that you cannot understand unless you have an immediate family member in uniform. I look upon those "Support Our Troops," "Pray for Our Troops" [read] Keywords:
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Traveling the North Coast of Ohio by SB Jeffrey
Tue, Oct 25th 2011 11:00a Gregg Eldred Traveling
the North Coast of Ohio is one
of the most interesting books I have read. While I am well versed in the
subject matter, without the book, author SB Jeffrey bends the meaning of
"book." This is an interesting title, as SB Jeffrey explains
that instead of actually writing the book, it is taken from "high
quality wikipedia articles."
Contents: Lake Erie Region; Toledo;
Port Clinton and the Lake Erie Islands; Sandusky and Cedar Point; Lorain
and Vicinity; Cleveland; Ashtabula; Refe [read] Keywords: google
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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Mon, Oct 24th 2011 3:50p Gregg Eldred The year is 2044 and the real world is
a cold, depressing place. Unemployment is so high that there is a two year
waiting list to work at a fast food restaurant. The environment is pretty
much in a shambles, there's a severe energy crisis, famine is everywhere.
The only escape is OASIS, where most of humanity spends its waking hours.
OASIS is a massive virtual galaxy where your avatar can be anything you
want it to be, it's a place where you can live, play, quest on any of the
thousands of pla [read] Keywords:
Booth Babes at IT Conferences Are Bad
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 9:40p Gregg Eldred This week, Iâm experiencing the life of an endangered species. In the sessions and amidst the vendor stalls and hang spaces at VMworld 2011, I am reminded over and over that there is a serious lack of women in technology.
Oh, some of the women in IT are at VMworld 2011. Iâve even had long discussions about technology with a few of them, and weâve all laughed about how great it is that we never have a line in the womenâs restrooms, while the menâs lines wrap out the doo [read] Keywords: virtualization
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How Do You Prove Your Love of Good Beer?
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 9:40p Gregg Eldred I'm guessing it isn't anything like this.
. . . we put out a call on Facebook for others to post their tattoos on the CraftBeer.com wall to see how many other devotees decided to permanently wear their love for craft beer. After an overwhelming response, we narrowed it down to the 32 tattoos that we thought were the best.
More > [read] Keywords: facebook
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Twin Towers
Wed, Sep 7th 2011 11:30p Gregg Eldred Yes, BrickFair 2011 was another wonderful event. Yes, Number Two Son and I saw many amazing LEGO creations. Of all of my pictures from BrickFair 2011, here is one that has to be shared, as the tenth anniversary approaches. [read] Keywords:
Why do Social? For the free beer, of course
Tue, Aug 30th 2011 11:50p Gregg Eldred Free beer for being social? In some cases the answer is yes. Let me explain.
I can be found on Foursquare and Twitter. Occasionally, so as not to totally irritate my Twitter followers, I allow Foursquare to tweet my whereabouts. While in Milwaukee for MWLUG, I checked in at the Sheraton Brookfield and allowed Foursquare to tweet that I was there. I was also tweeting that I was enjoying a couple of Horny Goats, tweets that came from my Untappd account (a beer social network? Frankly, it is the [read] Keywords: network
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Tweeted at Lotusphere 2011? You Helped With an 'Intriguing' Fact
Sun, Aug 21st 2011 11:05a Gregg Eldred For Twitter, there were 86.5 million impressions in June 2010 for Coca-Colaâs Promoted Trend and in January 2011 for IBMâs âLotusphereâ conference there were 35,000 tweets using the hashtag #LS11. Looking at Facebook just a couple of the more interesting facts were that there are now 4 billion shares on the social networking site every day and that 70% of small business owners now use Facebook for marketing.
More >
If I were a gambling man, and judging by my behaviour a [read] Keywords: ibm
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Living with Death
Fri, Aug 19th 2011 4:53a Gregg Eldred A few weeks ago, Number One Son was home on a 96 hour leave. At his current duty station, he does not have access to hard copies of The Marine Corps Times. He used to bring home back issues and share them with me. Now, since I lost that method of supply, I decided to subscribe to the newspaper, and, of course, I recieve a copy every week in the mail. Number One Son could do that, or occasionally browse to the site, but apparently he doesn't.
No matter.
As he is leafing through a back issue [read] Keywords: xml
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The Corporatization of Beer
Fri, Aug 19th 2011 4:53a Gregg Eldred But even I'm shocked by the corporatization of beer. Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller produce 80 percent of the beer consumed here. That's four of every five brews. And almost all of them suck!
Yet the US beer industry is paradoxical. Even as these giants have lurched their way to market domination, we've seen an explosion of excellent local and regional brewers. And the United States, home of such swill as Bud Light and Coors Extra Gold, has emerged as the global standard-bearer for beer [read] Keywords:
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Logitech Ultimate Ears 600 Noise-Isolating Earphones - Dark Silver
Tue, Aug 16th 2011 6:59p Gregg Eldred I've been a fan of over the ear noise canceling headphones for quite some time. Through the Vine program, I decided to widen my horizons by trying a pair of in the ear noise canceling ear buds. After breaking in the buds and determining the proper fitting, the Logitech Ultimate Ears 600 Noise-Isolating Earphones have turned out to be my favorite. First, the packaging is excellent. The hard case is small and keeps the buds and assorted cushions safe and secure. Second, the question of "which bu [read] Keywords:
"Dad, are you alright?"
Mon, Aug 15th 2011 5:53a Gregg Eldred Last week, Number Two Son and I travelled to Washington DC for BrickFair. While I will post more on that later, suffice it to say that few conventions bring me as much pleasure as a LEGO convention. However, this isn't about LEGO or BrickFair, this is about a specific section of Arlington National Cemetery. A section that Number Two Son and I wanted to visit, off the beaten path.
Section 60.
It takes a bit of effort to reach Section 60, however it is a section that is well worth the walk. I [read] Keywords: profile
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MWLUG: Thursday Night Networking Event
Fri, Aug 12th 2011 12:23p Gregg Eldred MWLUG
2011 is shaping up to be another
excellent conference. We have announced a Wednesday Afternoon Event, a
tour of the Miller-Coors Brewery,
for those that plan to arrive early,
Now, for Thursday night, we will be
heading to the Comedy
Sportz Club, for an exclusive
show just for MWLUG attendees. This will include drinks, food, and a ninety
minute comedy show with three comedians. I've been told that there will
be plenty of IT jokes interspersed with the comedians normal show.
Also, t [read] Keywords: linkedin
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Make Me a Sandwich
Wed, Jul 27th 2011 11:13p Gregg Eldred Previously, this wouldn't even get a smile out of me. However, after recently installing a few Domino servers on Linux, it is now one of the funniest comics I've ever seen.
Thanks, Brad. [read] Keywords: domino
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Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Wed, Jul 20th 2011 7:30a Gregg Eldred Moist von Lipwig has done some wonderful
things with the Ankh-Morpork Post Office. However, it bores him which makes
him long for his old life as a swindler and con man. Instead of swindling
people, Moist has bought a nice set of lock picks and spends his free time
attempting to break into the Post Office. His Post Office. Lord Vetinari,
not blind to this, summons him to his palace with a new job opportunity.
Knowing that Moist needs a new challenge, he has just the thing in
mind: running the R [read] Keywords: office
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AntiPowerPoint Party
Wed, Jul 20th 2011 7:30a Gregg Eldred I really do enjoy National Public Radio for bringing me stories I wouldn't have heard any place else. Like a new political party that is forming in Switzerland.
Marco Werman:. . . we turn now to the power of PowerPoint. Supporters of the software, and they are many, say it livens up what might otherwise be a dull lecture. And they say that makes it possible to present a lot of information in an easy to digest fashion. Then there are the PowerPoint haters. Lucy Kellaway is one of them. Sheâ [read] Keywords: domino
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How to download software?
Wed, Jul 20th 2011 7:30a Gregg Eldred Perhaps I am being overly critical of a rash of recent IBM TechNotes, ones that tell you how to download software from Passport Advantage.
Here is but one example of these TechNotes, How to download IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2 from Passport Advantage. After providing you with the hardware and software requirements, the TechNote boils the download into . . .
Required parts To Install IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2 select from the following downloads: CZIF3EN IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.2 (standard configurat [read] Keywords: admin
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Fool Me Once: What We Learned from MWLUG 2010
Fri, Jul 8th 2011 4:50a Gregg Eldred Planning and executing a LUG Conference
is quite a learning experience. While I have much respect for those that
put on larger conferences, a LUG isn't "easy." There are plenty
of people that you could ask if you don't believe me. MWLUG 2009 was easier,
as we were fortunate to have IBM Chicago to assist with the space and logistics.
MWLUG 2010 was totally done by volunteers. The hotel and conference center
were, IMHO, pretty good. The breakout rooms had character, the hotel staff
was quite r [read] Keywords: ibm
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What Purpose Do Segways Serve Now?
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 7:00p Gregg Eldred You remember Segway? I believe that I know a person that has one, I have seen them around DisneyWorld, and quite a few police forces use them. But now, Number One Son may have the chance to experience Segway. In a much different way.
Marines have a new enemy in their sights. They have beards, AK47s and Afghan Pakul hats, but they arenât the Taliban â theyâre Tali-bots.
The Marine Corps conducted a demonstration of the autonomous robotic targets here June 16, paving the way for [read] Keywords: wiki
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Traveler and Android Swipe Pattern Unlock
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 7:00p Gregg Eldred I was wondering about this, as no Android device I currently support with Traveler is using the swipe pattern unlock. Now I know.
Lotus Traveler does not support Android swipe pattern authentication. Also there is no fix developed so far by IBM for this.
There is a feature request # JKHG-8DHLT2 already present with Traveler development team for this requirement and it will be reviewed for future versions.
While this is not supported, I wonder what happens when a Traveler policy requires a p [read] Keywords: ibm
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Monty Python - LEGO Style
Thu, Jul 7th 2011 7:00p Gregg Eldred Last night, Number Two Son and I were enjoying Monty Python and the Holy Grail, when, during one scene, he says, "Someone did that in LEGO." He was, of course, correct. [read] Keywords: python
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WSJ: While My Son Serves
Mon, Jul 4th 2011 5:50a Gregg Eldred It's hard for me to articulate my feelings toward Number One Son, my Marine. It's harder to tell others how I feel. Sure, I use the word "proud" quite a bit. While Number One Son is not overseas, I certainly don't understand deployment, but that may change in future. That's why I have read, and re-read, an article by Dave Shiflett in the Wall Street Jounal and want to share it with you.
Sheldon Kelly, an old family friend who served with the 82nd Airborne and whose own son has done multi [read] Keywords: office
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Swede Dreams
Thu, Jun 30th 2011 10:00p Gregg Eldred Interviewer: The customer should be assembling this themselves.
Factory manager: We haven't figured out how to do that.
Interviewer: It's called an allen wrench.
This is worth every second of the 4:52.
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSwede Dreamswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on Facebook [read] Keywords: application
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Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
Thu, Jun 30th 2011 4:20a Gregg Eldred The death warrant has the name "Alfred
Spangler" on it, as that is the name that man had been using for a
while. Alfred hasn't killed anyone, but he has swindled people out of money.
Quite a bit of money, which is hidden away. He hadn't hurt anyone, as if
he had murdered someone, he'd just moved some numbers around. But here
he was, on the gallows, at a little past dawn. The money, the lack of any
physically injured or dead victims, makes this all a little unfair to Alfred.
The hangman does [read] Keywords: office
Golf Boys - Oh Oh Oh
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 8:20p Gregg Eldred The PGA Tour's Ben Crane, Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, and Hunter Mahan. [read] Keywords:
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Call for MWLUG 2011 Abstracts is Closing Soon - Get Your Presentation On!
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 8:20p Gregg Eldred August 24-26, MWLUG 2011 will be headed your way for the third year. This time, it will be in Milwaukee, WI, at the Sheraton Milwaukee Brookfield Hotel. It is a wonderful conference, where the opportunity exists for anyone with the desire or interest to present is given the chance. This philosophy gives MWLUG a true User Group feel.
So, if you have an idea for a presentation, be it XPages, DAOS, Traveler, mobilizing applications, unleashing your hard won knowledge of SmartUpgrade, or anything [read] Keywords: ibm
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In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 8:20p Gregg Eldred Sam Dance is an enlisted soldier in 1941
when news comes to him that his older brother, Keenan, was killed in the
attack on Pearl Harbor. Keenan was on the Arizona when it was hit;
the loss hits Sam pretty hard. While he is going through his training,
Sam shows an affinity for science and engineering, so the Army pulls him
out of the normal training routine and places him in classes on code breaking,
electronics, and physics. He isn't really sure about physics but it seems
to come him easily, w [read] Keywords: pearl
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Why deleting the DAOS catalog is a bad idea
Tue, Jun 28th 2011 8:20p Gregg Eldred I just had to post about a certain TechNote, it makes me laugh (emphasis in Overview, IBM).
Question
Is deleting daoscat.nsf and/or daos.cfg harmful?
Answer
Overview
The two DAOS control files are daoscat.nsf and daos.cfg. In general, it is a very bad idea to delete them. Doing so can lead to widespread attachment unavailability, unnecessary duplication of data, unnecessary traffic to daoscat.nsf, and difficulties in restoring .NLO files.
It's not just a bad idea to delete daoscat [read] Keywords: ibm
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Killer Move by Michael Marshall
Mon, Jun 27th 2011 7:20p Gregg Eldred Just prior to being released from prison,
a man agrees to his parole requirements. He is escorted from prison, catches
a cab to a nearby town. On the way, he remembers what got him through his
time behind bars - the knowledge that, unlike the others, he really was
innocent of murder. Now, as the cab drives away from the prison, he knows
that his first order of business is to get a gun. The second is to start
using it.
Bill Moore is a pretty successful real estate agent for a condominium compl [read] Keywords: agent
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TNW: The top 5 regrets people have on their deathbed
Sun, Jun 5th 2011 6:53p Gregg Eldred 2. I wish I didnât work so hard
This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their childrenâs youth and their partnerâs companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.
More >
Please, don't let this, or any of the other four, be your dying regret. [read] Keywords:
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BEER
Mon, May 30th 2011 8:10p Gregg Eldred Quite possibly the best license plate I have ever seen. Frankly, I can't believe it got past the people at the Ohio BMV. [read] Keywords:
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You've got a book inside you
Mon, May 30th 2011 8:30a Gregg Eldred For my friends that are authors, and for those that want to be an author, this explains the "writing" process. [read] Keywords:
Buried Secrets by Joseph Finder
Tue, May 17th 2011 9:10p Gregg Eldred Alexa Marcus and her best friend, Taylor
Armstrong, both under legal drinking age, have secured IDs that have gotten
them into the hottest nightclub in Boston. As they sit there enjoying their
refreshments, Alexa catches the eye of Lorenzo, dark hair, brown eyes,
days growth of beard, a "total babe" in Alexa's parlance. She
and Taylor head to the restroom to freshen up, where Taylor lets Alexa
know that she is going to leave her with Lorenzo, which is fine with Alexa.
She does leave with Lore [read] Keywords:
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House to House: An Epic Memoir of War by SSG David Bellavia
Sun, May 15th 2011 9:10p Gregg Eldred Former Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, with
John Bruning, has written a highly engaging, taunt account of the second
battle of Fallujah, Iraq, in House
to House: An Epic Memoir of War.
Much like other recent narratives about our warriors, this book is not
about politics or a global perspective of the United States military's
role in today's world. Rather, it is an extremely personal account of the
fear, doubt, leadership, and heroism experienced by a noncommissioned officer
and his platoon duri [read] Keywords:
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
Sat, May 14th 2011 2:30p Gregg Eldred It is easy to describe Erik Larson's In
the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's
Berlin as dark and foreboding.
It is that. Especially since most people know what happened in 1933 Germany
as the rest of the world made no move to alter history. The book weighs
upon you. However, Larson does an admirable job of balancing those disturbing
events of 1933 with moments of beauty, wonder, and righteousness using
pre-war Berlin as a backdrop and using the new American amb [read] Keywords: administration
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Digging a Hole to the Other Side of the Earth
Wed, May 4th 2011 9:24p Gregg Eldred I seem to remember an old cartoon, where a character digs a hole through the Earth, all the way to China. Which got me to thinking about such a feat - if you were able to dig a hole like that, where would you pop out? Thanks to the internet, this is called Antipodes.
The antipodes of any place on the Earth is the place that is diametrically opposite it, so a line drawn from the one to the other passes through the centre of the Earth and forms a true diameter. For example, the antipodes of New [read] Keywords: wiki
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Domino Admin 101 - The Q&A
Wed, May 4th 2011 9:06p Gregg Eldred Earlier, I posted the link to the Domino Admin 101 slides. IBM has now posted the Q&A for the session.
Running through the questions and the answers, I came upon an answer that made me laugh. It reminded me of how I used to do things.
Q: Is there any way to see if a group is not being used?
A: There is no current tool or feature to check this for you, but there are a couple of tricks you can use. You can make a backup of the group and delete it or rename it. See if anyone mentions tha [read] Keywords: admin
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The Power of the Sea; Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters by Bruce Parker
Thu, Apr 28th 2011 5:20a Gregg Eldred Occasionally, people ask what drives
to me to an author or particular topic. In the case of Bruce Parker's excellent
book, The
Power of the Sea; Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to
Predict Disasters, the answer
is simple. A while ago, I read a book that had a little to do with rogue
waves and a lot to do with extreme surfers. After that disappointment,
I wanted to know more about the science of rogue waves, more anecdotes
concerning giant waves. Bruce Parker's book fit that [read] Keywords: notes
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Grandpa's New Car - From 1959
Mon, Apr 25th 2011 1:04p Gregg Eldred The bill of sale for a new 1959 Ford Galaxie 4 door:
And what did said car look like (except Grandpa's car was white, according to the above bill of sale)? [read] Keywords:
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Hamlet's BlackBerry by William Powers
Sun, Apr 24th 2011 11:42a Gregg Eldred Everywhere you turn, you hear someone ask
"How are you?" Usually, the response is some variation of "Busy,
very busy." It is so prevalent that an anecdote in Hamlet's
BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital
Age is a real eye opener. A recent
immigrant to the United States heard it so often, it was assumed to be
a proper reply to the question. Living in the Digital Age, you are connected
all the time; you have a screen in front of you nearly 24 hours a day, [read] Keywords: notes
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Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer
Sat, Apr 23rd 2011 11:10p Gregg Eldred Guadalcanal, the largest island in the
Solomons, was the scene of bitter fighting between the Japanese and Americans
during World War II. While most people know about the land battle, few
realize that there was just as bitter battles being fought on the water
around it. In fact, by the time the Americans took control of the island,
for every Marine or soldier killed on the island, three U.S. sailors lost
their lives. The land battle has been told, and retold, countless times,
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