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SnTT - Notes/Domino 8.5 TechNotes
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eWeek: Products to Watch in 2009
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Macworld Has Been Good For IBM/Lotus
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New Notebook: Dell Latitude D630
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Palm Nova Devices: Is This It?
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Domino and IE: Another Reason to Use Firefox
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Hotel Options for Lotusphere 2009
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The "Yellow Bubble" and A Lack of Participation
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The Future of Domino Administration
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Lotus Notes and HTML E-Mail
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Look What I Found When Cleaning
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You Have One Hotel Option for Lotusphere 2009
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LotusScript Error Codes Revealed
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Can You Top This Quote?
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Something You Won't See At Lotusphere
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The Tools Every IBM Lotus Domino Administrator Should Know - and How to Configure Them
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IdeaJam is . . . Jamming 
Thu, Jan 8th 2009 11:19p Gregg Eldred
Sorry about that title.
I can't be the only that has noticed, but it seems that since several of the ideas on IdeaJam have made it into the Notes/Domino 8.5 codestream, it looks like more people, different people, have been adding their ideas to the site. Amazing what a "Completed" Idea can do. :-) Two recent Ideas that have my vote. The first has to do with Lotus Foundations:
Then, with the newly announced Palm Pre, comes this Idea to have Traveler support it:
Will you [read] Keywords: domino
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SnTT - Notes/Domino 8.5 TechNotes
Thu, Jan 8th 2009 1:39p Gregg Eldred
IBM has published a few Notes/Domino 8.5 related TechNotes for our consumption.
Two highlights from the linked TechNotes include:
New file formats supported in the KeyView filters: ODT, DOCX and DOCM, ODS, PPTX, PPTM, POTX, POTM, PPSX, and PPSM
Domino Configuration Tuner (DCT) is available
Speaking of DCT, it is, as IBM has said many times, free.
Domino Configuration Tuner is available to any customer free of charge. It works with Lotus Domino server 7.0 and later, and runs on the Lotus [read] Keywords: domino
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eWeek: Products to Watch in 2009
Wed, Jan 7th 2009 11:12p Gregg Eldred
eWeek has a slideshow of the products that IT managers should watch in 2009. One of those products is Groupwise 8: With multiplatform support—including Mac, Windows, Linux and the Web—Novell’s GroupWise 8 boosts personal productivity capabilities; adds a customizable dashboard including e-mail, calendar, contacts and task lists; and offers Web 2.0 and team collaboration tools such as blogs, RSS feeds and wikis.
For all the talk, I thought that the major players in enterpri [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Macworld Has Been Good For IBM/Lotus
Wed, Jan 7th 2009 9:19a Gregg Eldred
While Paul Mooney is running a little contest to determine the date of Microsoft's Annual pre-Lotusphere Spoiler, you can't help but be impressed by IBM's initial salvo. Having a presence at Macworld while announcing and releasing Notes/Domino 8.5 has really brought out the coverage. "Brilliant" comes to mind.
My simple Google News search brought up more than 50 news articles in less than a day. Some excerpts:
From Clint Boulton at eWeek: IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 is now available for Mac OS X co [read] Keywords: collaboration
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New Notebook: Dell Latitude D630 
Tue, Jan 6th 2009 11:19p Gregg Eldred
After about 6 years, I finally broke down and bought a new notebook, the Dell Latitude D630: In addition to a lot of RAM (4GB) and a host of accessories, this particular notebook has a 60GB solid state drive. Very, very quiet. So much so, that it is a bit unnerving. So, what did the D630 replace? A Dell Latitude CPi A. It was time for something new. :-)
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Palm Nova Devices: Is This It? 
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 9:39p Gregg Eldred
Several Palm sites have mockups of their best guess as to what the new Palm Nova smartphones will look like:
TreoCentral opined: We heard yesterday that Palm's new smartphone will be a vertical slider with a flush, capacitive touchscreen like the iPhone and that it will feature some pretty snazzy transitions and animations and packs a lot of "wow factor". The release of these design mockups have created quite a stir on the Palm sites. I have linked to a few of them, below, if anyone is st [read] Keywords: iphone
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Domino and IE: Another Reason to Use Firefox
Mon, Jan 5th 2009 1:39p Gregg Eldred
If you are looking for some reasons to change your standard corporate web browser, a newly published TechNote may help:
Problem
Lotus Domino® 8 supports a key length of 2048-bits but when users request an Internet certificate for Microsoft® Internet Explorer™, it is only possible to choose 512-bit and 1024-bit.
Resolving the problem
Only 512-bit and 1024-bit certificates are allowed with Internet Explorer. This issue was reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# MNIR78XMPX and cur [read] Keywords: domino
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Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy by Martin Lindstrom
Sun, Jan 4th 2009 11:29p Gregg Eldred
Three years and millions of dollars
later, Martin Lindstrom presents you with a book on neuromarketing, a technique
using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and steady-state typography
(SST) which measures conscience and subconscious reactions to marketing,
advertising, products and brands. SST provides real-time information
from the brain, while fMRI maps the areas of the brain that are active
at the time of the stimulation. Together, these techniques provide insight
into the motiva [read] Keywords: notes
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Fri, Jan 2nd 2009 12:39a Gregg Eldred
A while ago, there was an interesting
conversation among the people I follow on Twitter. They were discussing
books, and several people commented that one of the best books they had
read was Ender's
Game, by Orson Scott Card. A book
in the science fiction genre, that had quite a following, I found. I put
it on my list of books to find at the library. About a month went by, as
I had other books that needed to be read and reviewed, and with a holiday
season coming up, I thought that it would be ni [read] Keywords: twitter
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One Year in 40 Seconds
Thu, Jan 1st 2009 9:49p Gregg Eldred
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Lawrence Walsh: Ode to Broken Windows (Vista)
Wed, Dec 31st 2008 1:39p Gregg Eldred
Let's end the year with a review of Microsoft's Vista Operating System, courtesy of Lawrence Walsh at eWeek Channel Insider: Two years on, Vista is nothing short of an incompressible failure. According to Net Applications, Microsoft’s iron grip on the desktop showed signs of weakness in 2008 as Windows market share slipped below 90 percent market share for the first time in more than a decade. More worrisome is Apple’s OS X—the preferred operating system for the Mac—incr [read] Keywords: apple
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David Vasta: What "i" Want in 2009
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 11:53p Gregg Eldred
If you thought that only IBM's Lotus brand has vocal users, the i5 has a few (but none are aggregated on a "Planeti5" site). In a wide ranging post, David Vasta points out some failings in the marketing of the venerable System i and points to Lotus Foundations and some initiatives from the Lotus brand, to get the word out.
Over the years the “i” people have wanted for many things. The want list is long and heavy every year with the same things, and every year like a fat person on a [read] Keywords: domino
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Motley Fool: How Palm Could Lose Everything
Tue, Dec 30th 2008 11:12p Gregg Eldred
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, How Palm Could Change Everything, Motley Fool looks at the flip side with "How Palm Could Lose Everything:" It simply can't be a coincidence that Palm's openness has followed its decline. Nova offers an opportunity to reverse the slide, to close the platform as Steve Jobs cut off Mac cloners shortly after returning to Apple in 1997. . . . Or as blogger Josh Catone of sitepoint.com predicted recently, "The Nova operating system will look like something that c [read] Keywords: apple
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Motley Fool: How Palm Could Change Everything
Mon, Dec 29th 2008 11:12p Gregg Eldred
The Motley Fool has weighed in on the upcoming Palm Nova announcement, January 8, at CES, with the first of two articles.
Nova could also resuscitate Foleo. This is what I mean when I say "extensible." Platforms always are. Here, a Nova-powered netbook would be set apart by Graffiti. So would a Palm tablet. Or a new Treo. And each device would be interoperable with the others, because they'd have been built using common interfaces to the Nova OS.
There's a market for this. Palm's new Softwar [read] Keywords: applications
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SnTT - Enabling Client Single Signon Using a MST
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 11:29a Gregg Eldred
If you are considering the use of InstallShield Tuner for Lotus Notes to roll out your Notes Clients, then you owe it to yourself to head over to Andy's blog to get the best information on this tool. This SnTT tip adds a specific function to his excellent information. Sometime, in the middle of a client rollout, we were asked to add Client Single Signon to the MST. After several attempts to get this functionality added to the MST, without success, Lotus Tech Support provided me with a TechNote t [read] Keywords: document
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SnTT - Running nlnotes.exe While Domino Server is Up
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 11:10a Gregg Eldred
This SnTT post is the result of a conversation I had with Lotus Tech Support. When sitting at the Domino Server (Windows) working on an issue, the Tech asked how I was accessing a database. I told him that I launched nlnotes.exe. Shortly after mentioning this, he sent me this TechNote: Running the nlnotes.exe is not supported. If you need to access databases locally at the physical server, it is recommended to install the Notes Client or Administrative Client in a separate directory from the Do [read] Keywords: domino
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SnTT - Running Concurrent Agents in One Database
Wed, Dec 24th 2008 10:59a Gregg Eldred
Tomorrow is the last Thursday of 2008, and I have several Show-n-Tell Thursday posts that I started but never really finished. These posts are ones where I created as placeholders for things that balied me out of a few jams, but I didn't really have much more to add. But you may find value, as I did, in these. Here is the first one.
Domino does not provide you with the ability to run concurrent agents in a database. However, there are two methods that will allow you this feature, even though t [read] Keywords: agent
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Niel Nickolaisen: CIOs make social networking their business
Tue, Dec 23rd 2008 1:30p Gregg Eldred
From SearchCIO-midmarket.com:
As IT leaders, what are we to make of social networking for our businesses? Is social networking just a new name for the collaboration we have spent the last 20 years enabling? Or is it the next silver bullet that is going to validate IT's value to the business? Or is it simply another set of applications we will have to design, implement and support -- one more brick on the pile?
Before I could make my own conclusions, I had to do some research into what othe [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Aerial View of Cleveland and Environs
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 11:49p Gregg Eldred
Video of Cleveland and the surrounding area (otherwise known as "where I live"). Not only will you see Cleveland, but also Cedar Point and Perry's Victory and International Peace Monument, among other things.
Thanks, @PostivelyCleve
Technorati tag: Cleveland [read] Keywords: application
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Want to be Productive?
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 11:39p Gregg Eldred
Thanks, vowe.
Maybe Erik Mack and David Allen can address this at Lotusphere during one of their sessions. :-) [read] Keywords: ibm
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BNest Resignation Letter - Ever
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 9:59p Gregg Eldred
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More Reasons Why Twitter is Worthwhile
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 2:49p Gregg Eldred
I've posted some thoughts on Twitter and why I find it useful. This past weekend provided me two more good reasons why I find Twitter worthwhile.
The first is comedy:
And the other is tragedy:
Mike Wilson, "2drinksbehind," was on Continental Flight 1404, with service from Denver to Houston, when it skidded off the runway and caught fire. I don't think that the first thing I would do would be to tweet, but he did. And it is just as nerve racking as having someone tweet while being pou [read] Keywords: google
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Release of Sametime Unified Telephony at Lotusphere 2009?
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 9:29a Gregg Eldred
PCWorld says that Sametime Unified Telephony may be released at Lotusphere 2009.
The week of January 18, IBM is expected to -- finally -- release Lotus Sametime Unified Telephony at the annual Lotusphere conference. SUT, middleware that links Sametime and third party PBXs, had been promised to be out months ago.
...For now, IBM believes Sametime has enough features to please most users, said David Marshak, the company's senior product manager for unified communications. That includes a clien [read] Keywords: ibm
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Hiring Your First Employee by Fred S. Steingold
Sun, Dec 21st 2008 11:39p Gregg Eldred
I was given the opportunity to review
this book, and since I run a small business, thought that this would be
an excellent chance to learn more about hiring people. However, after the
first chapter, I determined that this wasn't quite the book I was expecting.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Deciding Whether to Hire
an Employee
Chapter 2: Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
Chapter 3: Setting the Pay Rate
Chapter 4: Considering Benefits to Offer
Chapter 5: Getting Ready to Hire
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A Simple Thing in the IBM Certification Program Impresses Me
Fri, Dec 19th 2008 2:39p Gregg Eldred
A few weeks ago, a friend asked me about Lotus Certifications. While he does have Lotus certifications, he specifically asked about the R7 and R8 Update Exams. I sent him a link to the extension announcement for the R7 Update Exams. That got me thinking about my own certifications.
After logging in to the Certification Member web site, I was embarrassed to discover that I did not have the R7 certification that I thought I did. This led to a reservation with a testing facility and a purchase a [read] Keywords: administration
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CIO Insight: Ray Ozzie: A 2008 Tech Winner
Fri, Dec 19th 2008 10:09a Gregg Eldred
Number 6 on CIO Insight's "Tech's Ten 10 Winners of 2008" is Ray Ozzie:
Wired has an excellent article on Ray, which adds weight to his selection to this list.
Link: CIO Insight: Tech's Top 10 Winners of 2008
Link: Wired: Ray Ozzie Wants to Push Microsoft Back Into Startup Mode [read] Keywords: ray ozzie
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BOF407: Getting Social in the Lotus Community
Wed, Dec 17th 2008 10:09p Gregg Eldred
At least this year, Duffbert and I won't be competing against free food and drink in the Product Showcase. We are, however, competing with sleepy 'Sphereians (7AM start time). But still, we would love to see you at BOF407: Getting Social in the Lotus Community and to join in the conversation. I'd say that I would bring the donuts, but logistically that may pose an problem.
Not sure about the new Social Media sites? Want to know how people are leveraging them specifically in the Lotus Notes and [read] Keywords: domino
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My Christmas Wish List for Lotusphere
Tue, Dec 16th 2008 10:39p Gregg Eldred
Just a few more weeks, and you will find me in Orlando for Lotusphere 2009. But Christmas is a time for wish lists, so here is mine for Lotusphere.
I wish that everyone that wants to go, can. I would love to meet and hang out with Ray Bilyk, [read] Keywords: ibm
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Will The Nova Operating System Change Palm's Fortunes?
Mon, Dec 15th 2008 11:09p Gregg Eldred
After much time and money, Palm will be pulling the covers off of its next operating system, Nova, on January 8, 2009, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas along with the first products that will run it. It would be an understatement to say that this OS (and the associated smartphones) has to be a home run. From a BusinessWeek article on Palm and Nova:
While Palm has protected its plans with Apple-like secrecy, Rubinstein (Palm's executive chairman in charge of product developm [read] Keywords: notes
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Science Café: MRI from the Inside Out
Mon, Dec 15th 2008 2:29p Gregg Eldred
For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you know my affinity for the Great Lakes Brewing. Other than the normal brewery tours, gift shop, and beers, Great Lakes also sponsors the local Science Café. Science Café's are an informal meeting that is organized around an interesting scientific topic. The meetings are usually held in coffee shops or pubs, and are based on café Scientifique, which are popular in the UK.
On February 9, 2009, Drs. Jeffrey Duerk and Jeffrey Sunshine will be pre [read] Keywords: applications
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Treo 755p versus Blackberry Storm
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 2:02p Gregg Eldred
After reading Andy's post, as well as vowe's, another review of the Blackberry Storm has popped onto my radar. This time, it is comparing the Storm to the Treo 755p (my current smartphone).
Recently, Palm’s Treo line has started to face more and more competition. With the addition of the BlackBerry Storm onto the marketplace, we can’t help but wonder how well Palm products fare when placed side-by-side with a competing product. So the question is, how does the Treo 755p compare wit [read] Keywords: blackberry
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Tech Exchange Webcast: IBM Lotus Domino Monitoring Essentials
Fri, Dec 12th 2008 1:32p Gregg Eldred
IBM has posted the slides and audio for the November 20, 2008, Tech Exchange Webcast: IBM Lotus Domino Monitoring Essentials. In case you missed it:
This session covered the basic essentials of monitoring your Domino environment (ND6, ND7, and ND8), and leveraging features such as Stats & Events and Domino Domain Monitoring (DDM)
The link includes not only the slides and audio, but also the questions from the audience.
Link: Replay of Tech Exchange webcast: IBM Lotus Domino Monitoring [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Foundations: When is a Viral Marketing Campaign Not Viral?
Wed, Dec 10th 2008 11:09p Gregg Eldred
According to AdvertisingAge, the current Lotus Foundations "viral" marketing campaign is not viral.
I got three e-mail pitches yesterday about new viral-marketing campaigns. One was from an agency that said it "provides complete viral services." Another was for a "brand-new IBM (Lotus Foundations) viral video campaign" that will launch on Monday. (Hint: a campaign that has not launched yet is not viral.) And the third was from a friend, who saw something she thought I'd love and forwarded me a [read] Keywords: foundations
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Mainframes in the Midmarket?
Wed, Dec 10th 2008 10:39p Gregg Eldred
This is something you don't see everyday; An argument for the mainframe in the midmarket.
SearchCIO-Midmarket.com has an article, written by Elisabeth Horwitt, that provides a scenario for midmarket companies that outgrow their Windows server farms.
For years, the mainframe has been associated with large enterprises, not only because it is powerful, but also because it is costly. But now, midmarket organizations are being pitched their own version of a mainframe that's powerful but not quite [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ode to Christmas Ale
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 10:20p Gregg Eldred
Something uniquely Cleveland: Great Lakes Brewing Company's Christmas Ale. [read] Keywords: application
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Taking Notes Podcast and IBM Business Partner Newsletter
Mon, Dec 8th 2008 5:19p Gregg Eldred
Found while reading the most recent IBM Business Partner Weekly Update:
Taking Notes Podcast: Lotusphere 2009 Business Development Day
Are you an IBM Lotus Business Partner who will be attending Lotusphere? If you are, you should really consider attending Business Development Day according to Tim Kounadis, Director, Worldwide Channel and SMB Marketing. In this podcast (22 minutes) learn about:
What exactly is Business Development Day?
What's the theme for this year?
What type of sessi [read] Keywords: ibm
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Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey
Sun, Dec 7th 2008 11:29p Gregg Eldred
If you take a look at Amazon.com's Travel
books for the State of Florida, you will mostly see books on Walt Disney
World, beaches, and Key West. But I submit to you that if you want a real
Florida travel book, you might want to consider any novel by Tim Dorsey.
His main character, a serial killer with an insatiable appetite for all
things Florida, will take to you sites that you won't find in those traditional
travel books. And you will have plenty of laughs, which are very hard to
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SnTT - A Strange Folder Icon
Fri, Dec 5th 2008 4:59p Gregg Eldred
Let's look at the standard Lotus Notes View and Folder icons, as provided to us in a TechNote.
However, this TechNote doesn't address Folder Icons that look like this ===> [read] Keywords: designer
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210,000 Christmas Lights
Thu, Dec 4th 2008 11:29p Gregg Eldred
210,000 lights,animated, and with music, in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Lotusphere 2009 - Business Development Day Speaker
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 11:49p Gregg Eldred
A quick thought as I review the books that I read this year:
Is it possible that the guest speaker for Business Development Day at Lotusphere 2009 could be better than last year's, Steven Johnson? I realize that there has been much discussion concerning the Opening and Closing General Session speakers from Lotusphere 2008, but, Steven was the best of the three and the one that had the biggest impact on me, long after the conference.
It will be tough to top him.
By the way, Duffbert has an e [read] Keywords: javascript
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Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 11:30p Gregg Eldred
One of the best reasons for visiting
your local library is that they have all of their new books in one area
(at least in my library). It makes it extremely easy to peruse all of the
recent additions to their collection without having to walk all around
looking at individual sections. Because of this, you can find books in
genres that you may not normally read; in this case, the book was labeled
"science fiction." Also, having a title like "Go-Go Girls
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SnTT - Obsolete Notes.INI Parameters
Wed, Dec 3rd 2008 8:39p Gregg Eldred
Ulrich Krause's post "Look into your Notes.ini, please" and other, recent posts concerning the Notes.INI reminded me of another topic related to that file.
As you upgrade your Domino servers to the next release, it is a good an excellent idea to examine your server's Notes.INI for obsolete entries and remove them. How do you know what lines to delete? IBM has several TechNotes to assist you with this process. For example, these are the obsolete entries for Domino 8.0 and 8.0.1:
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Redefining the Christmas Card
Tue, Dec 2nd 2008 10:59p Gregg Eldred
Motivational speaker James Robbins has some suggestions for you, as a manager, to create a much better Holiday Card. Part "Thank You" for your work, part employee motivation, it is a good read. His thoughts may be lost on some of your employees, others may be appreciative, but at least it shows effort on your part to call attention to some good aspect of all of your employees.
In our virtual world of email and text messaging, the hand written card has been placed on the endangered species list [read] Keywords: email
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NEOLUG December Meeting
Tue, Dec 2nd 2008 10:29p Gregg Eldred
You might know a couple of our speakers
this month. :-)
Below is the agenda and directions for the December 11th NEOLUG meeting.
PLEASE NOTE: The location
has been changed to CDW in Brecksville.
Please RSVP by December 8th. If you can, please bring some canned food
items in support of the food bank for the holiday season.
DIRECTIONS:
CDW (Unit One)
6650 West Snowville Road
Brecksville, OH 44141
Directions:
From The North (I-77 South)
1. At
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Back on the Ice in Antarctica
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 10:59p Gregg Eldred
My friend, Dan, is working in Antarctica again this year. He is an air traffic controller, helping to land the aircraft (planes and helicopters) on, literally, an ice runway.
I think that he told me that internet connectivity isn't as good as it was last year (budget cuts?), so I don't think that he is blogging his adventures. But at least he found time to post some pictures. [read] Keywords: blogging
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Domino 8 Upgrade/Implementation on System i Webcast
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 10:29p Gregg Eldred
Run Domino on, arguably, the best platform;
iSeries? IBM has a webcast that will be of interest to you.
This Webcast is scheduled for December
11, 2008. The length is 1.5 hours with a Q&A session following
the presentation. Please be sure to use the RSVP link below before
the Webcast to register and receive the dial-in details. As always,
there is no charge for participating.
Title: Domino 8 upgrade requirements/implementation on System i
Date: December 11, 2008 (Tuesday)
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Tsar by Ted Bell
Mon, Dec 1st 2008 12:02a Gregg Eldred
I was provided an advanced reading copy
of Tsar
by Ted Bell. This is the fifth novel in the Alex Hawke series and it continues
the tradition Bell has developed of action and suspense using plausible
plots concerning world events.
In Tsar, Alex Hawke, a modern James
Bond character, is recuperating on Bermuda after his injuries suffered
in the novel Spy.
During his recovery, he meets a beautiful Russian artist, Anastasia Korsakov.
As the novel progresses, you discover that Anastasia, "Asia"
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What Does the Future Hold for Palm?
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 4:49p Gregg Eldred
I have long had an affinity for Palm devices, which has led me to my current smartphone, the Palm 755p. But, as everyone knows, the market hasn't been good to Palm lately. They are competing against the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android devices. And the results haven't been pretty-Palm currently holds about 8.5% of the smartphone market, a distant third behind Apple and RIM.
An article on Internetnews.com is less than rosy about Palm's long term viability, saying:
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Using a New Browser? You May Not Like On-line Shopping
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 3:49p Gregg Eldred
Something I didn't think about: the "new" browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari may limit your enjoyment of on-line shopping this holiday season. From an article on Marketwatch.com:
The 2008 web browser explosion could not have come at a worse time: the most important online holiday shopping season ever. As a result, some online shoppers will be faced with website pages that load slowly, are missing text or graphics, or even fail to complete the checkout function.
"This year more than e [read] Keywords: firefox
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Cold Fire by Dean Koontz
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 1:59p Gregg Eldred
In a quest to continue reading most
of Dean Koontz' early novels, this one was written in 1991, I picked up
Cold
Fire.
Jim Ironheart is a very unique person; A voice drives him to save people.
He doesn't know when the voice will move him, but when he hears it, he
is single minded in his desire to get to a specific place to rescue someone.
The introductory act of heroism is the saving of a child from being killed
by a drunk driver in Portland, Oregon. It is during this action that a
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e-Discovery And Apple
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 12:09a Gregg Eldred
The Industry Standard has a very interesting, and cautionary, story concerning Apple and their lack of an e-mail retention policy.
According to a recent legal filing . . . in the Psystar vs Apple antitrust case, Apple employees are responsible for maintaining their own documents such as emails, memos, and voicemails. In other words, there is no company-wide policy for archiving, saving, or deleting these documents.
In additon to specifically talking about Apple, the article links to several [read] Keywords: apple
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Watchers by Dean Koontz
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 11:49p Gregg Eldred
A man is hiking in a remote area of
California when he discovers a dog. As Travis attempts to continue along
the path, the dog blocks him. When he tries to "outsmart" the
dog, it seems to be a step ahead of him, refusing to allow him to continue.
And then the woods get really quiet. The dog growls. The hair on the back
of Travis' neck rises, so does yours. Something very unpleasant is out
there, watching, stalking. Thus begins an incredible journey for Travis
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What Else Can You Do With an iPhone?
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 11:39p Gregg Eldred
If you are grilling your Thanksgiving turkey (and I do), you can use your iPhone to check recipes, how to carve it, and more: [read] Keywords: iphone
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College Visits - Part II
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 11:10p Gregg Eldred
The "Six Colleges in Three Days" Tour ended Saturday evening.
The Flickr Set includes photos from this tour as well as the one we did in October.
This tour started at Miami University on Thursday morning (we drove down Wednesday night) with a classroom visit. It didn't go well, as the class they chose for us was only taught on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. However, we were able to fill the time with an admissions interview and time with the Marines in the NROTC program. While talking wi [read] Keywords: google
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How Well Do You Know Blackberry Admin?
Mon, Nov 24th 2008 10:19p Gregg Eldred
The latest Blackberry Newsletter included a little quiz (9 questions) to gauge how well you know Blackberry Admin and to promote Blackberry Training and Certifications.
Link: Blackberry Certification [read] Keywords: admin
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Instructor-Led Online Training for Lotus Software
Tue, Nov 18th 2008 11:29p Gregg Eldred
IBM Lotus® Training is now offering some of our most popular courses in an exciting new learning format, Instructor-Led Online (ILO). Students get the benefits of being in a classroom with the convenience and cost savings of online training.
The current list of courses include:
WPV61 - IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 Application Development (ILO)
WPV62 - IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1 Application Development (ILO)
QR700 - Administering IBM Lotus Quickr 8.1 Services for IBM Lotus Domino
QR800 - Adminis [read] Keywords: collaboration
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When Words Fail
Tue, Nov 18th 2008 10:49p Gregg Eldred
As has been reported in the blogosphere, the Lotusphere 2009 Content Team is asking all registered attendees to select the sessions you are likely to attend. As you look through the list, if you hover over a session, it will expand to show you the session speakers and the abstract. It works on all of the sessions except one:
Even with this session lacking a description, I selected it. I remember having peanuts thrown at me at a particular session a few years ago, shortly after the speaker a [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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Database Maintenance in the Middle of the Day?
Tue, Nov 18th 2008 12:39p Gregg Eldred
It seems to be fine for the people at Twitter! [read] Keywords: database
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Blackberry Storm vs. Apple iPhone
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 11:39a Gregg Eldred
On November 21, RIM will be releasing the Blackberry Storm through [read] Keywords: apple
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Sunday PostSecret
Sun, Nov 16th 2008 10:40p Gregg Eldred
Today's Sunday PostSecret is a good one:
While I haven't come across Post-It notes in any of the books I have borrowed from the library, I have come across bills, library cards, photos, and, most recently, a shipping order from Amazon.com (all of these items, I believe, were used as bookmarkers). The really strange thing about the Amazon receipt was that it was delivered to a person that lives in a house we once owned.
Technorati tag: PostSecret [read] Keywords: notes
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Hotel Options Continue to Change for Lotusphere2009
Sun, Nov 16th 2008 10:29p Gregg Eldred
It seems that everyday, the hotel choices change for Lotusphere. A few days ago, you only had one choice if you were staying from Saturday through Friday. Now, there are a few more options.
And you still have several choices if you are staying from Sunday through Thursday:
It looks like more rooms are being made available as registrations increase. Or people are cancelling. But I think it is the former.
Make your hotel reservations before you get closed out of Disney properties (n [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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You Have One Hotel Option for Lotusphere 2009
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 8:49a Gregg Eldred
Still thinking of attending Lotusphere 2009? If you want to stay at a Disney property, one that is served by the Lotusphere shuttle service, you now have only one option: Port Orleans, if you want to stay from Saturday through Friday.
Technorati tag: lotusphere2009 [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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The Register: IBM Lotus preps small biz software appliance
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 10:19p Gregg Eldred
As only The Register can do, Timothy Prickett Morgan has written an article for them on Lotus Foundations. The opening paragraph sets the tone:
It's pandemonium out there. Cats are living with dogs. There's chocolate in my peanut butter. Software units are selling servers and calling them appliances.
To add further weight to what Ed and Bilal have been saying, The Register, being The Register, is a bit more blunt:
The Lotus Foundations appliance, which is made in IBM's factories in China, i [read] Keywords: domino
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The Perfect Holiday Gift?
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 12:19p Gregg Eldred
Have you noticed that Duffbert and I read and review books? Based on the hits from Planet Lotus, you haven't. :-) But that isn't stopping me from a recommendation.
While I haven't read this book, I think that it will make a perfect holiday gift idea either for yourself or someone you know: Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert!
From Scott Adams himself:
It's heavy. It's handsome. It's 576 pages with nearly 4,000 of my best Dilbert comics. It's the book that took me 20 years to write, and it [read] Keywords: lotus
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One Reason Twitter Is Worthwhile
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 10:09p Gregg Eldred
Because you don't get thoughts like this any other way: [read] Keywords: twitter
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developerWorks: How large databases uniquely affect IBM Lotus Domino server performance
Tue, Nov 11th 2008 12:39p Gregg Eldred
Michael Lee has just posted the article, How large databases uniquely affect IBM Lotus Domino server performance, on developerWorks:Lotus. From the introduction:
Understanding the effect of large databases on IBM® Lotus® Domino® performance is becoming a prominent challenge for many administrators. This article explores the different ways in which large databases can degrade performance and examines potential solutions to realize maximum performance.
. . . One of the main problem areas is [read] Keywords: document
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The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 11:20p Gregg Eldred
After completing the current books in
Patterson's Maximum Ride series, I was told that I should read the latest
"teen" novel by James Patterson (and Michael Ledwidge), The
Dangerous Days of Daniel X. Like
Maximum Ride, Daniel X will be a series of at least three books. But Patterson
and Ledwidge will have to release the next two without me.
Daniel X is a fifteen year old orphan
with some supernatural powers. These powers; shape shifting, telekinesis,
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Darkfall by Dean Koontz
Mon, Nov 10th 2008 10:39p Gregg Eldred
There are times when I find that I need
to change my reading habits a little. Usually in those instances, I turn
to a genre that I haven't read in a while. This time, I was in need of
some horror. A recent
review of Darkfall,
by Dean Koontz, by Thomas Duff "Duffbert," was all I needed to
pick this book up.
Jack Dawson is a recent widower with two children, Penny and Davey and
a New York detective. He and his partner, Rebecca Chandler, are called
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New Notes.INI Parameters for Domino 6.5.5
Fri, Nov 7th 2008 1:19p Gregg Eldred
I know that this is probably information
that you really don't need, as you are using Domino 7 or 8. While looking
through the Fix
List for Domino 6.5.5, to
see if that release would correct an issue with a server running Domino
6.5.4, I noticed that there are quite a few new notes.ini parameters for
that release. Here is the list of new notes.ini settings for Domino 6.5.5: [read] Keywords: domino
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Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 11:10p Gregg Eldred
Books:
A Memoir, by Larry McMurtry,
is a book that may not appeal to a lot of people, maybe not even to hard-core
McMurtry fans. However, I found it highly entertaining and enjoyable.
McMurtry has penned a book detailing his life with books; as a buyer and
seller of used, rare, and antique books and as a book lover. His life with
books started when he was the recipient of a wonderful gift from his cousin.
On his way to enlist in World War II, Larry's cousin stopped by their house,
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SnTT - Hiding Person Documents in the Domino Directory
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 10:40p Gregg Eldred
Apparently, there are Domino Administrators
that sometimes have a need to "hide" Person Documents in the
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