Oh my goodness, I have been attacked..
Thu, May 17th 2012 5:54a Christian Tillmanns Ah, probably, don’t know really.
An hour ago I got a mail from Google that this blog could have something bad inside and that they put a warning up.
As an example they gave an url from a post from 2010.
Google gave me enough information to remove the warning and now it’s all up again. BUT! One wonders, if they don’t do this just to get me to use their website management tools.
OK, there were a few responses left from the time, when somebody posted just gibberish. Could that [read] Keywords: google
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Sogeti TeamPark – the first book
Thu, Apr 26th 2012 9:12a Christian Tillmanns Ok, I have done it. I read “From crowd to community” from Sogeti.
Even though Sogeti uses Connections, they don’t mention it once (neither Facebook BTW). That’s understandable, since the book is about the method of how social software works. In the end, I think this first book is helpful. I helps us to understand, how communities work and what we have to tell customers, what they can expect from using social software … and the traps.
Social software isn’t for [read] Keywords: connections
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Showing off at the TopSoft
Wed, Apr 25th 2012 1:33a Christian Tillmanns Collax and Shakehands will be at the TopSoft, the only real IT trade show left in Switzerland. Starts the 9th of May, ends the next day.
I will be there. If you want to see what Collax has to offer, drop in.
Free tickets are available here: http://www.collax.com/page/topsoft2012
We will have a working cluster on site and a lot more to talk about.
I hope to see some of you there. [read] Keywords:
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Sogetis TeamPark – a book review … not yet.
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 2:58a Christian Tillmanns I am working my way through Sogetis book “Teampark platform and method“. It’s all about Sogetis approach of introducing IBM Connections.
Sogeti is much more a Microsoft Shop, than IBM but they still use IBM Connections and have even developed bits an pieces for Connections, which from their point of view, are better than the of the standard tools.
And they wrote that book about it. After about two thirds, I am not sure, what they actually want to tell me. Normally 145 pages a [read] Keywords: connections
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From zero to hero in two days
Fri, Mar 16th 2012 6:40a Christian Tillmanns Yes, yes, I know, I always said I hate administration work, but I am a certified Collax V-Family Expert now anyway.
The last two days were packed with excitement. Together with jET Computer Schweiz we have organised the first virtualization course for the Collax V-Family in Switzerland and since I want to eat my own dog food, it was time to dive head first into the KVM virtualization.
First, instead of ESXi, KVM or Hyper-V, even the Collax basic virtualization product, the V-Cube, which is based [read] Keywords: admin
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Windows 8 Preview
Wed, Mar 7th 2012 8:30a Christian Tillmanns I just installed Windows 8 (the Preview). I used Virtual Box. That thing from Oracle isn’t bad at all for what I need. Looks like it is faster than Fusion.
Back to Windows. First impression? A bit of a toy. Second impression? Still a toy. But I am glad the Start button is gone. At least Microsoft thought about a new concept for once.
I tried to use mail, but it want’s an Exchange server. I just couldn’t find a possibility to connect to an IMAP server somewhere, which means, aft [read] Keywords: exchange
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Snow and project management
Tue, Mar 6th 2012 6:01a Christian Tillmanns One week of skiing. Weather was nice, but way too warm. Snow was too wet. I hate skiing in spring, really, I don’t mind – 15 °C but + 5 °C at 2500 m is silly. Days were packed but I still had time to read a book of Clarence (Kelly) Johnson. His work always interested me, because he is one of the most successful aircraft designers. Probably you don’t know his name, but Lockheed’s Skunk Works should be known to everybody. Also the planes he and his team designed:
P38 Lig [read] Keywords: email
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IBMSCfSB … in that case I would have kept LotusLive
Mon, Mar 5th 2012 3:08a Christian Tillmanns IBM SmartCloud for Social Business. One really wonders, what they are smoking and I don’t want some.
I don’t have to go into details, why this isn’t a good name, just one argument. I have troubles to remember it.
But it fit’s into a long line of strange product names coming from IBM.
Even more amazing; it looks like nobody cares. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Oh … now that … bugger …
Tue, Feb 14th 2012 5:12a Christian Tillmanns I am looking into going to the cloud and finding a solution for a small Notes customer. Smart Cloud (TSFKALL – The Service Formally Known As LotusLive) is an obvious choice for me. Now see what happens:
I went to the lotuslive page and found that there is allready a page for IBM Smart Cloud for Social Business … click …
Oh, I can get a 60 trial:
Click and … [read] Keywords: collaboration
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LotuSphere 2012 – My one and a half Cents
Wed, Jan 18th 2012 5:29a Christian Tillmanns Oh, bugger, I missed the OGS … at least the most important parts, the demos. I saw Michael J. Fox and the end, because I had to bring my wife to the doctor … she has a flu. Damn, but my wife’s health is more important … I told myself every 5 minutes … and the kids sports and music lesson, too. Now I am waiting for the recorded OGS … not there yet. Grrrr. Right now I have to live with second hand reports and I still don’t have all the information’s [read] Keywords: administration
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Notes 8.5.3 on Mac … let’s hope for the best.
Fri, Jan 6th 2012 8:43a Christian Tillmanns OK, yesterday I ranted about my Notes 8.5.3 on my Mac Book Pro.
It’s not the newest machine (2 years), but still new enough for Lion.
I tried what you guys suggested but it did not change anything for the better.
1. I tried to delete cache.ndk and bookmark.nsf. Did not help.
2. I tried to go for the basic client. Boy that’s ugly and not a solution anyway, because I want the eclipse client and I need XPages support.
3. I looked at my locale settings. Looks normal to me but I am not [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes 8.5.3 on Mac … oh my goodness
Thu, Jan 5th 2012 1:33a Christian Tillmanns I really hoped, that with 8.5.3 things would get better. What a disappointment.
First, you can’t just update. Deinstall – reinstall, otherwise Notes would stop after the progress bar.
After that, I had to restart the client and the mac at least 3 times until it started working more or less normally.
There are still issues. If I try to write special characters with alt & “some key” Notes crashes.
It still wants to install some plugins I don’t need anymore (to [read] Keywords: connections
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SNOUG-SR has it’s own community now.
Thu, Dec 8th 2011 1:04a Christian Tillmanns Our small but actually pretty active Notes User Group for the french speaking part of Switzerland, has it’s own community now in the IBM universe.
Nice gesture from IBM and even Ed Brill is following us … somehow … somewhere. Certainly because he does not want to miss another opportunity like last time, when he went to the SNOUG in Zürich and had to eat IBM catering food and we had an event at Givaudan, the company with arguably the best canteen in the world.
Took a while, b [read] Keywords: connections
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I completely forgot to tell you …
Mon, Nov 21st 2011 6:38a Christian Tillmanns … that I am not always devils advocate, as Ed called me.
Here is my article that was published in November in the publication of the Swiss Small Business Association.
… and a quick search on Google reveals, that I am probably the only one, who ever wrote in a Swiss printed publication about the XWork server.
Das geheimnisumwitterte Projekt: IBM XWork Server
X-FILES – SIE SIND UNTER UNS! Im Oktober stellte IBM den XWork Server vor. Meiner Meinung nach eine ideale Plattform f [read] Keywords: ibm
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Blog Spam – What the heck is the sense in this …
Mon, Nov 14th 2011 4:12p Christian Tillmanns I always had spam on the blog once in a while, but last week it started to get interesting. Suddenly there were a lot of similar posts that looked like that:
_____________________________________________________________________
bcxyqznhg
rzpqgtmcaaof.com/
wxzoph@cttfxb.com
79.125.119.84
Eingereicht am 13.11.2011 um 17:24
78xDYL , [url=http://lvzyesjptoct.com/]lvzyesjptoct[/url], [link=http://zcfoemxuzred.com/]zcfoemxuzred[/link], http://drbfgrdztzqa.com/
______________________________________ [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ha! Gotcha
Fri, Nov 11th 2011 4:48a Christian Tillmanns Once in a lifetime moment.
Un de Fasnacht geht a los…. [read] Keywords:
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iOS 5.0.1 – I am not the only one, who has problems understanding you guys form down under
Fri, Nov 11th 2011 12:33a Christian Tillmanns I love that. The last point on the iOS 5.0.1 update is:
Improves voice recognition for Australian users using dictation
Siri must have a hard time with the OZ slang.
Hey Siri, look here: Australian slang dictionary
With a bit of help from Siri, the rest of the world could actually understand what they are saying. [read] Keywords:
Fun with Vowes visitor localization tool …
Mon, Oct 31st 2011 10:27a Christian Tillmanns I admit, I don’t know, how it works.
Today I looked at Vowes visitor localization tool and zoomed in, to find myself.
First: Volker, it seems, you don’t have a lot of readers in Switzerland and I probably know all of them (yes I know, depends …)
Second: I am not on the map. But, since any other tool normally sees me in Lausanne (almost 100 km from where I live), I had a look a the single red dot down there.
What lies under this cow pasture? The secret servers [read] Keywords: google
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Do you know Lotus Live Notes …
Wed, Oct 26th 2011 11:54p Christian Tillmanns Let’s ask the experts.
Yesterday I got a phone call from an old customer I haven’t heard of in years. He is going to retire, sold his company and wants to take his contacts or probably the whole CRM with him AND he wants to use his iPhone for mail and calendar. Now he asks me, how to do it.
He is still using Notes/Domino 7 (the darn did run without me all those years).
His CRM is pure Notes (written by me)
He is no fan of the “cloud”.
My first thought was to give him [read] Keywords: domino
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One week with Time Capsule … and I thought life would get better!
Wed, Oct 19th 2011 1:29a Christian Tillmanns I don’t know what went wrong during the setup, but my new and shiny Time Capsule is a pretty lousy WLAN access point.
Let me give you the scenario. Until last week I used a 5 year old Netgear Rangemax wireless access point. It wasn’t in perfect shape anymore, because I could not configure anything on it. It was just a standard WLAN called netgear, open, unsecured, but it still worked. I just could not kick myself enough in the lower back, to buy something new. Last week I thought, th [read] Keywords: mac
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Heise Webcast: Hochverfügbarkeit für KMUs
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 8:12a Christian Tillmanns Für alle die das interessiert und des Deutschen mächtig sind, nächste Woche veranstaltet Heise einen Webcast zusammen mit Collax.
Hier gehts rein: Hochverfügbarkeit für KMUs
Wird sicher spannend. Beim letzten Partnertag wurden 4 Projekte vorgestellt. Alle für Firmen mit weniger als 40 Mitarbeitern. Es macht Sinn sich heute mit Hochverfügbarkeit zu beschäftigen, weil viele Unternehmen komplett von der IT abhängen. Wenn das Blech nichts mehr tut, können die Mitarbeiter nach Hause gehen. [read] Keywords:
XWork Server … a new era?
Mon, Oct 3rd 2011 1:38a Christian Tillmanns Ed announced the XWork Server one day early … probably just because he wanted to be the first! I me, the silly idiot, even asks before posting anything on the 4th, if it is OK, to write about it before they wake up, because of another time zone.
Anyway, let’s look at Ed’s new toy.
Now what about the the fuss? First, it’s an ISV offering. It’s up to you and me (again!) to push it in the market. That’s great news for all the XPages developers out there, who [read] Keywords: domino
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Learning XPages … D8L55 is done … Puh
Tue, Sep 27th 2011 7:22a Christian Tillmanns OK, I made it through the IBM XPages course D8L55. Not without a few hiccups, but they are minor.
First I had problems getting the db’s on the server. The darn thing – a Foundations Box with 8.5.1 FP4 – just refused to let me put copies or replicas of the databases in notesdata. The silly box always had the impression I had no right to do it. I used local replicas, which worked pretty well (I tried to create replicas today again and … sure, it worked – Argh).
The n [read] Keywords: foundations
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Learning XPages … Struggeling with ressources
Mon, Sep 26th 2011 12:51a Christian Tillmanns After a weekend of grape harvest, I should be in a better mood, but my father in law gave the grapes away to somebody … for free. We don’t even get to taste the wine. And it is especially annoying, because this year it took us ages. Wasps had damaged the grapes and we had to cut of everything dry. It was hell, but it gave me time to reflect, what I had achieved with XPages in two weeks.
First there was me whining about not knowing where to start. Then there was the avalanche of infor [read] Keywords: ibm
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iNotes on Safari … why can’t I use ultra lite?
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 1:41a Christian Tillmanns In Safari on the Mac and iPad 2 (only on the 2 it seems), I only get iNotes full or lite. On the iPad that’s bad. My fingers are not small enough and I can’t open mails. I have to use the full mode, because I need the preview. Any idea how to get that fixed? [read] Keywords: inotes
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Learning XPages … got “The book”…
Wed, Sep 21st 2011 1:37a Christian Tillmanns Ok, I got the book “Mastering XPages” and it is pretty good. I got it from Amazon as a Kindle book. What puzzled me first, was the size of the font. All my IT-books are rather big and fat, good for throwing after lions and kill them instantly. It looks like this one is a small size paperback in real life. Wouldn’t kill my cat.
The Amazon price is slightly lower then the IBM Press price, but if you buy through IBM, you get a watermarked version of the EBook with your name in it. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Learning XPages … and getting back from the dead
Tue, Sep 20th 2011 3:10a Christian Tillmanns One week passed since I started whining about the resources out there for learning XPages. Boy, that stirred something up. I got lots and lots of help and even IBM woke up.
Sonia Malik send me the whole course D8L55G. Everything! I could even set up the whole course room, servers, everything (except the software). And before you ask, I can not share it with you. For my eyes only. Every page has a water mark with my name. I feel bit flattered. How did that happen?
What is the plan?
I have watch [read] Keywords: ibm
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Trying to learn XPages … and fail … probably not?
Thu, Sep 15th 2011 12:51a Christian Tillmanns First of all. Thank you for your comments (apart the ones from that very annoying spammer. Need Nike or Lacoste?), they are very encouraging.
It helps a lot, when things get recommended and what it showed again, Google is not always your friend. Several things did not show up in my searches or I did not find them, because they where too far down in the list.
XPages TV: I am watching the first two hours of if right now. This does help a lot. There are several information’s I did not get an [read] Keywords: ibm
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Trying to learn X-Pages … and fail.
Wed, Sep 14th 2011 12:34a Christian Tillmanns I am frustrated. The last two weeks I try to get into X-Pages. I looked at the different free tutorials, I downloaded the Red Book Wiki and now I am stuck.
First I refreshed my knowledge about JS and HTML/XML. Then I tried the first tutorial:
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/Tutorial-Introduction-to-XPages-Exercise-1
Did anybody realise, that the first two screen shots are the same? Looking at the comments, some did, but the error got not rectified since 2009. Does it make sense to foll [read] Keywords: domino
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Everybody has one allready – Google+?
Thu, Sep 8th 2011 6:49a Christian Tillmanns Klick on it and tell me if you needed one, but I think, the yellow bubble is all set.
BTW. I have invited some, but I still have 150 left. [read] Keywords: google
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Networking, Name Dropping … how boring
Mon, Sep 5th 2011 11:30p Christian Tillmanns Last friday I attended for the first time the alumni networking day at my old university. I am no friend of networking. I went there, because I was invited by my old friend Jan Martel, who happened to sponsor the event through his company Martel Vines. We had some very interesting speeches and I have to change my opinion about the host, Stephanie Berger she is an ex miss Switzerland and actually very funny. The a speech from Peter Hogenkamp, apparently the swiss social web evangelist, which was [read] Keywords: connections
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Lion eats the Snow Leopard
Tue, Aug 30th 2011 1:58a Christian Tillmanns I can’t believe it, but Lion is definitely better then Snow Leopard. It is possible, that it solved a few problems I had, I wasn’t aware of.
For example:
Finder is fast. It was extremely slow in Snow Leopard. It took about 10 seconds to build the list for “Programs”. This is a lot better then before. It takes probably a second now.
Notes seems to be a bit faster. Not a lot, but at least I can click that stupid “Notes is starting” window away. Notes comes in [read] Keywords: lotus
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Who said Outlook is used by the majority of Email Users?
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 10:16a Christian Tillmanns Today I got this link in the mail: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/stats/email-clients/
There is another one from 2009: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2839/email-client-popularity-june-2009/
Even though I think this is fantastic news for Apple, it’s bad news for Micro$oft and IBM.
But lets look at it a bit closer. The disclaimer explains, how they count the clients; whenever a recipient opens a mail from Campaingmonitor and loads the images. Sounds logic, but I would almost never [read] Keywords: ibm
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I know a way how IBM could sell lots more licenses in Switzerland.
Fri, Aug 5th 2011 3:46a Christian Tillmanns How about getting a more realistic exchange rate? As fas as I know, IBM still uses 1.6 Swiss Francs to the Dollar. The Dollar down to 0.8. That’s a bit overdoing it, don’t you think?
IBM could lower the price at least by 30% and still have enough safety margin, should the Swiss Franc fall. That old exchange rate is not going to happen again.
Oh, and they should tell people about it. That would help. [read] Keywords: ibm
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I know, you get what you pay for …
Thu, Aug 4th 2011 12:08a Christian Tillmanns For our little outing to France, I got NAV4D for the iPad. They claim to support several languages. What they really should not do, is using Bubble Fish or something like that for the legal stuff. In German it reads like that:
Wichtig: Wenn eine Abnutzung Produkte der Navigation in ein Fahrzeug, Hardware oder Software, ist Ihre Verantwortung LAY und verwenden diese Produkte, damit es nicht die Ursache ein Unfall. Die Benutzung dieser Real Time Application Zielführung erfolgt auf Ihr eigenes R [read] Keywords: application
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The best and the worst in France
Tue, Aug 2nd 2011 2:58a Christian Tillmanns My parents in law invited the whole family for a weekend to Crest in the department of Drome. A town I wouldn’t put on the list of the 100 must see towns in the world, but everything holds surprises. As always, family outings are mostly about good food and good wine. The first evening we ate reasonably well. The next day we visited Crest with the highest dungeon of France. In the evening, we went to the Pizzaria Di Angelo … If you ever happen to be in Crest, avoid this “restaur [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Holiday Season – Time to reflect on Notes, IBM and other stuff….
Tue, Jul 26th 2011 3:46a Christian Tillmanns I have been away for a while. We went on holiday in Sigri on the isle of Lesvos, which is kind of the end of the world. 300 habitants. Not what you would call a vibrant holiday resort, but we had perfect conditions for windsurfing and a lot of fun, I mean really a lot.
My wife did beat me in a regatta and won a Lycra surf shirt. She will look to it, that I am not going to live that down.
The surf station is owned by a young austrian couple, Martina (the one with the bikini collection) and Marc [read] Keywords: domino
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Fun with customs
Fri, Jun 17th 2011 1:31a Christian Tillmanns Yesterday I got a call from a supplier. He told me, that some hardware we ordered in Germany will arrive later then expected.
Customs wants the hardware to stay 24 hours at the manufactures site. What? It was build there and that took longer than a day anyway!
Since the handling agent did not give any more information, rumors began to spread.
I think, it was because of a possible Trojan horse. Within 24 hours the Greeks will be hungry and will give themselves up.
My ex girlfriend (AKA my wif [read] Keywords: agent
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Happy Birthday IBM
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 11:26p Christian Tillmanns What can you say to a hundred year old company. Go for it.
… and I would like a piece of the birthday cake, too. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Email Fun
Wed, Jun 15th 2011 8:48a Christian Tillmanns This morning I received an email after I sent out an invitation for a webcast to all the addresses I painstakingly collected over the last years (really, we don’t buy addresses).
Him: “Where did you get my email address.”
Me: “From your website.”
Him: “Please remove the email address!”
… I was very close to answer: “Sure, send me the password for your web server.”
… or: “Sure, because now I have your personal email address [read] Keywords: email
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Apple Keynote – That’s the kind of things I like
Wed, Jun 8th 2011 1:54a Christian Tillmanns It looks like not many of you have watched the Apple key note. The news were great, from my point of view.
I believe, that Apple got the mobile stuff right. Everybody else is going towards the browser, Apple is pushing the mobile devices and connecting them.
It fits my way to work. I want the mobile device to be mobile, not dependant from any Internet connection. If there is one, just update (replicate!) the stuff, if not, I want still to be able to work.
(BTW: Roaming is still extremely expe [read] Keywords: domino
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The Starship Diaries
Wed, May 11th 2011 3:07a Christian Tillmanns Nope, that’s not about science fiction. I just read the book from Dallas Kachan about his voyage around the world. He was one of the lucky ones, who sold his internet company at the right time.
It took him two years flying around the globe in the coolest – IMHO – GA plane ever built, the Beech Starship I.
The book is not only a list of places he visited, but also about his reflections about the world in general. The people he met in places the common tourist never see, change [read] Keywords:
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The limits of social Websites…
Tue, Apr 19th 2011 1:39a Christian Tillmanns I just looked at my profile in LinkedIn and realised, that whatever search algorithm they are using, it is pretty much useless.
On the right side, you get that little window with groups I may like. That is rather hilarious.
I got: Car Wash Owners & Operators – Does my car have a LinkedIn account and gives me hints about feeling neglected?
Women Business Owner – Sorry, I lack a qualification which I will not achieve in the near future.
Coin Laundry Association – What?
Did yo [read] Keywords: domino
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I just don’t like the look of most Open Source products!
Mon, Apr 18th 2011 10:55a Christian Tillmanns I just finished to install the latest Ubuntu desktop beta and it is always the same. I don’t like the look. Fonts are too big and so on. The same goes for OO and Symphony and other products. I just don’t like the look of them. I don’t want to fiddle around with settings until it looks a bit better.
The darn things do not look a lot better then what run on Windows 3.
I WANT A REAL COOL DESKTOP!
Mac is the best but it could be even better. Windows is better then all the Linux de [read] Keywords: symphony
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Imagine, if we had a real nasty virus!
Fri, Apr 15th 2011 5:12a Christian Tillmanns I mean really bad. Something that kills the OS beyond repair and spreads everywhere without any chance to stop it. What would hurt us more, a Linux or a Windows virus?
I just finished an article for a SMB publication here in Switzerland about the importance of Linux and during the research I realised, that Linux is everywhere. Smart phones, switches, NAS, SAN and tons of other gadgets run on Linux. 90% of all Supercomputers use Linux and most virtualization platform’s, too. Android has the [read] Keywords: citrix
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Notes on Mac … still not something I should have done.
Wed, Apr 13th 2011 7:10a Christian Tillmanns Could somebody please explain that to me?
When I open a contact document in my CRM system by clicking on it, it takes about 10 seconds to open and another 2 to change it to edit mode.
If I open it with cmd-e, I get there within 2 seconds. Now that was on the mac. With windows 7 in Fusion, it takes about 5 seconds by clicking on it but it is not as fast as the mac, if I use the keyboard.
We are talking about the mac being faster with the key board then with the mouse and the mac is known as th [read] Keywords: lotus
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That’s what IBM should have done with Lotus Foundations …
Tue, Mar 29th 2011 7:41a Christian Tillmanns Starting tomorrow, Collax offers it’s SMB solution Collax Business Server and Collax Security Gateway free of charge for up to 5 users. Yep, not just testing. You can actually use it for your company.
OK, support is extra, but the server AND the documentation (!) got high marks in a test from Computerwoche and TecChannel.
It’s not rocket sience after all.
… and BTW. There are several Domino installations on Collax. That works, too.
I think it is about time to throw out LF and [read] Keywords: domino
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How to handle Facebook, Website and other social tools effectively – any idea?
Tue, Mar 15th 2011 3:19a Christian Tillmanns I need help (professional help for my brain … yeah, I know). I had a bit of a shock this weekend. About a year ago, Swiss companies where not looking at social media, now it completely turned around. Already half of them are using it. It looks like we have to jump on the band wagon. (An please forgive my ignorance, but I just can’t get the hang of Facebook I even deleted my personal account a few years ago – or better deactivated, since Facebook seems to keep your account for a [read] Keywords: facebook
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Going Collax – The next step and a surprise
Mon, Mar 14th 2011 1:38a Christian Tillmanns OK. The press releases are out and we are the new distributor for Collax in Switzerland.
What does it mean for us? We have to concentrate mostly on marketing. No more server installations (Good, very good). We have to recruit new resellers. We will find customers and connect them with resellers. There are allready installations in Switzerland, therefore we don’t have to start at the bottom like we did with Lotus Foundations.
And you know what? Collax is doing many things, what we (I mean [read] Keywords: domino
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Did it. I am certified in Structogram 1, 2 and 3
Thu, Mar 10th 2011 1:54a Christian Tillmanns The last few month we looked for new products. Accidentely, our strategic Partner PAVONE joined forces with Structogram to create the frist CRM that allows you to manage “soft factors” of your customers and individualize the marketing approach. Structogram is a scientific approach to the knowledge of the human nature. It is even certified in some countries as advanced training for medical personel. Structogram has been around for quite a long time and is available in many countries. [read] Keywords: domino
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One week without internet, phone and tv …
Mon, Mar 7th 2011 8:19a Christian Tillmanns Sounds hard, doesn’t it? Naa, I have just been on holiday. One week skiing in La Tzoumaz, which is part of Les Quatres Vallées. 2 days of snow fall in the beginning and then 6 days sun, snow and fun. Our two little monsters (5 & 7) went to ski school during the day and my ex girlfriend (my wife) and I took every black or black/yellow run we could find. Most of them several times. I really like Verbier for skiing. I have been skiing in most of the areas in Switzerland and in Italy, Can [read] Keywords: atlas
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People are different … Social Computing in Switzerland
Fri, Feb 18th 2011 8:17a Christian Tillmanns I just read some articles about social computing in Switzerland. One was an interview with the CEO of Xing Switzerland, Robert Beer. He thinks, networking through social websites works a bit different in Switzerland.
One thing got me. The Swiss don’t like hard selling. If you do telemarketing, they rather tell you to send documentation then just say “Leave me alone”. I told IBM that, when we had that telemarketing campaign that failed miserably. We had quite a few people that [read] Keywords: ibm
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Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7 – 0:1 … oh bugger
Thu, Feb 17th 2011 6:09a Christian Tillmanns I don’t know, but something must be wrong with my karma. This morning I tried to copy 7 GB first to another Mac (same Model, same OS). We couldn’t connect. I gave up on that and tried to copy it with Finder to a Linux Server (Foundations, for those who still know what that was). Didn’t work. It stopped after a few minutes with some error message. Now I fired up Windows 7 on Fusion. Guess what. NO PROBLEM AT ALL. I hate that. I switched to Mac, because I was bored about Windows [read] Keywords: domino
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Is IBM the right vendor for SMB?
Tue, Feb 1st 2011 3:12a Christian Tillmanns It looks like I touched a nerve with Henning Heinz when I said that IBMs products are not suited for SMB anymore:
IBM does not care about 20 people shops. They never did and probably never will. You are just looking at the wrong vendor for this space.
Having said that if you still like the technology you could sell LotusLive. I am not so enthusiastic about IBM’s cloud offerings but others seem to like it and licensing starts at 1 seat (so should work well for 20 people).
And for IBM and mark [read] Keywords: domino
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The same procedure as every year …
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 12:25p Christian Tillmanns Every year the same old story. On LotuSphere we are the greatest bunch of girls and guys who are the cornerstone of IBM’s success.
But the Lotus Foundations Disaster speaks another language for us BP’s.
Going social, social here, social there, social everywhere.
I didn’t get it today. I wonder if IBM does. The products are cool, but do my customers want it? I don’t think though. Way too complicated. And what the heck do I need social analytics for, if I am a 20 people c [read] Keywords: foundations
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Impressed by LS 2011? Nope, not really
Mon, Jan 31st 2011 9:14a Christian Tillmanns I just watched the Opening Session of LS 11 and since I am a real fan of Notes I expected something incredible. Unfortunately, they talked more about social analytics and other stuff I don’t really get, that I was a bit bored after a while. Notes Next may be a nice new client, but I doubt it. The screen wasn’t very good, though.
I just hoped for more. For the SMB market this is too heavy to digest. It is neither easy to set up nor easy to maintain and not enough out of the box stuff [read] Keywords: notes
Fri, Jan 28th 2011 12:47a Christian Tillmanns This morning I found an announcement from Bob Jewell, Director of Business Development for Smart Business, about LF:
More Information from IBM on Lotus Foundations
I would like to make this community aware of announcements regarding Lotus Foundations made late last year. They were posted elsewhere but we apparently neglected to highlight them in this forum. Enzo Frati did add some information in this forum in November, so I refer you to his comments. I will try and clarify what we announced on [read] Keywords: domino
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What I want to see at LotusSphere 2011
Tue, Jan 18th 2011 6:30a Christian Tillmanns I will not be there, but believe me, I will follow as closely as possible, what is going on.
But I have a wish list.
I want the Notes 9 Client as soon as possible in a public beta. It worked with Notes 8, why not with Notes 9.
I want Quickr for Domino Express or even better, bundled with Notes 9.
I want better iCal support for the Notes Client.
I want a marketing campaign for Notes that is visible
I want one more thing … something revolutionary with a WOW-effect.
… what do you wan [read] Keywords: domino
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Notes on Mac … it‘s getting worse
Fri, Jan 14th 2011 12:07a Christian Tillmanns I have been using Notes on the Mac for more than 18 month … and I begin to hate it.
I started with 8.5, got 8.5.1 and now I have 8.5.2 FP1 which is the worst.
I upgraded the memory, that helped a bit but not a lot.
When it starts up I get this absolutely useless window „Lotus Notes is starting“ and it comes all the way to the front. But I don‘t need to see this window, as long as the Notes icon in the dock jumps up and down… which isn‘t needed either. Most other application [read] Keywords: lotus
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I admit it. I don’t have a smart phone
Wed, Jan 5th 2011 7:41a Christian Tillmanns I feel bad. Yes, I admit it. I don’t like mobile phones. I don’t send many SMS or MMS. Most of the little gadgets of the darn thing I never used. Unfortunately, I will soon have to get a new one, because after 5 years the battery is just tired. What now? Is it time to move to something smart? Do I want to read my emails on a screen not much bigger than a stamp? I think the iPhone is pretty cool, but too big. I does not fit in my hand. I wouldn’t know where to put it when I am a [read] Keywords: iphone
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Book Review … 22 Years later
Tue, Jan 4th 2011 11:27p Christian Tillmanns Recently I was in Munich for some training with Collax. In the evening we walked through the city center and I found an old book shop. Since I am a book junkie (“My name is Christian and I still don’t have an iPad”) I spend some time looking for second hand books and found the following: “Who’s afraid of BIG BLUE?” by Regis McKenna. The author is still known as an IT marketing expert. The book was printed in 1989. It talks about IBMs role in the computer marke [read] Keywords: foundations
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Lotus Foundations is …whatever you call it … but I go for Collax.
Thu, Dec 23rd 2010 4:16a Christian Tillmanns I am right now installing the Collax Platform Server. Those who know me, know that I hate server and network administration with a passion you can only dream of. That‘s why I liked LF. But the Collax products are as good if not better. I am almost as fast in installing the first Collax Box as I was with the x-ième LF Box. It probably does not do as many things automatically as LF, but it has much more possibilities to integrate it and security wise.
The web administration front end has a mode [read] Keywords: administration
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What‘s market share in IBM/Microsoft Terms?
Wed, Dec 1st 2010 6:14p Christian Tillmanns When Daimler announced the switch from Notes to Outlook, somebody mentioned a market share of Domino/Notes of 21% in Germany. I wondered where they got that number from.
I started to crunch a few numbers myself and first looked at my home market. There are about 400 more or less active Domino customers. Switzerland has about 300‘000 companies with roughly 40‘000 of a size needing a mail server. That‘s a market share of 1%. And that is being nice, since almost everyone of those companies h [read] Keywords: domino
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Hey life, why are you doing that to me?
Mon, Nov 22nd 2010 11:15a Christian Tillmanns This weekend, we had the party of my daughters sports club. It was pretty big and it had, kind of tradition in Switzerland, a tombola. As it is for a good cause, everybody is buying those little paper rolls with sometimes a number, but most of the time „Danke/Merci“. Me too. I shouldn’t. Why? My wife’s family was there, too. I don’t know why this always happens, but they win all the time. My mother in law got half a pig once, wheels of cheese and vacuum cleaners and other s [read] Keywords:
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Dead or not dead, that’s the question…
Mon, Nov 15th 2010 4:14a Christian Tillmanns Doctor: I am sorry, but your friend will not survive the next few days.
Friends: Oh my god, why? What happened? He always looked healthy. Two years ago he got a new job and was really happy. What went wrong? Can’t you do anything? We are his friends and we really need him. It is hard to believe, that everything is over.
Doctor: Oh, have faith. He will not disappear completely. His internal organs are in perfect health and we have lot of people waiting for his heart, his lung, liver, kidney [read] Keywords: foundations
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R.I.P Lotus Foundations. Another story of a lost opportunity
Wed, Nov 10th 2010 6:17a Christian Tillmanns The writing was on the wall and now its official. Lotus Foundations is dead. I don’t think that there will be any migration path to anything else.
What annoys me most, is the fact, that IBM again bought a perfectly good product and killed it. Two years. Twice they changed directions in marketing and distribution. Every time we had to change our strategy, too. We did it, because we believed in the product and IBM.
Dear IBM, you made us loose money. It wasn’t the product, that was per [read] Keywords: foundations
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Now that was fun today … and sweet!
Thu, Nov 4th 2010 3:27p Christian Tillmanns Today was an event, I was looking forward to. SNOUG-SR (Swiss Notes User Group Swiss Romand) had it’s second reunion in 2010 today. Guess what, it was great. Why?
The location: We where all invited to Camille Bloch. One of the most famous chocolate makers in Switzerland. Ragusa, Torino are their its main brands. It is a small company with 100 to 200 employees – depending on the season.
In the begining, Michael Snijders, head of IT, introduced us to the history of Camille Bloch. Apar [read] Keywords: admin
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Not even a headline: EOL for Lotus Foundations Appliances
Wed, Nov 3rd 2010 9:27a Christian Tillmanns I am really sad about it. I liked these boxes.
October 26, 2010
Effective October 31, 2010, IBM will withdraw from marketing the following IBM System x products. After this date you can no longer obtain these products directly from IBM.
You can obtain these products on an as-available basis through IBM Business Partners, resellers, or distributors.
9234AC1
9234CNU
9234DNU
Replacement: none
There may be a lot of good reasons, why IBM will not bring a replacement. But I get the impression, that [read] Keywords: foundations
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That‘s what I like about Lotus Foundations
Mon, Oct 25th 2010 3:34a Christian Tillmanns Last week we (finally!) found a CMS system, that seem to fit our needs. Concrete5 is almost perfect for people like us, who hate to fiddle around with websites. Together with Lotus Foundations it is a perfect match.
Create a team
Copy the files for concrete5 in the WWW folder of the team
Add a virtual web server
That‘s it. 3 Minutes of work. Most of it sipping tea while copying.
Unfortunately IBM just does not get the grips, how to bring Lotus Foundations to the market. [read] Keywords: foundations
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I mean I like my Mac but…
Sat, Oct 23rd 2010 3:30a Christian Tillmanns …does it really have less problems then a Windows machine? I have had this MacBookPro 15” for a year now, but was it a step forward from my old trusty IBM (not Lenovo) ThinkPad with XP? Not really. I expected more. More speed, less problems.
Let’s start at the bottom. We use a Lotus Foundations Appliance and that works flawlessly with Windows. Finder on the other hand, has huge problems. Sometime it takes ages to connect to the file server. Especially on our Lotus Foundations [read] Keywords: foundations
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Other Mail Servers on Lotus Foundations … not that easy
Fri, Oct 15th 2010 2:29a Christian Tillmanns Yesterday I tried to install other mail servers on Lotus Foundations
Kerio:
error: Failed dependencies:
libuuid.so.1 is needed by kerio-connect-7.1.1-1951.linux.i386
I can‘t find that lib for 32bit.
Zimbra:
Checking for prerequisites…
FOUND: NPTL
MISSING: sudo
FOUND: libidn-0.6.0-14.2
MISSING: gmp
FOUND: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
Checking for suggested prerequisites…
FOUND: perl-5.8.8
MISSING: sysstat does not appear to be installed.
###WARNING###
The suggested version of [read] Keywords: foundations
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Better late than never…
Mon, Aug 16th 2010 5:45a Christian Tillmanns Here we are. The Informica Blog.
Who is behind this?
My Name is Christian Tillmanns and I am one of the founders of Informica of Switzerland. The other can present himself.
Another Blog, my god, was that necessary?
Duno. Is there already a blog about IBM Smart Business stuff? Nope. Don’t think so. We are the first.
Why the heck IBM Smart Business?
You will find out.
Only smart Business? How boring.
I can and will probably annoy you with other stuff. I am sure you always wanted to discuss [read] Keywords: foundations
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