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Mobile and not so mobile access to Domino apps  
Tue, Dec 23rd 2008 1:52p John Wylie
I was recently checking out the IdeaJam website and really liked the work that Bruce and Matt having been doing there. Matts use of xPages has resulted in a very functional yet modern looking web application that just happens to be built on Domino. Matt has recently been working with the Hursley team on the xPages workshop - so he knows a thing or two about the subject. I noticed that there was a url to access IdeaJam via the iPhone. Take the time to have a look as it's a lovely piece of work. [read] Keywords: domino
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How to determine the version of Portal or Quickr you are running
Wed, Dec 10th 2008 9:52a John Wylie
After installing Quickr I wanted to check for updates on the IBM Fix Central website. The check for the correct fix the site requested whether I was using version 8.0.0.0 or 8.0.0.2. To check this I looked for the file C:\IBM\Quickr\PortalServer\version\TS.product which is an xml file - Wordpad should be ok to read it. The installed version was listed as "8.0.0.0" Easy when you know how :-) [read] Keywords: ibm
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Portal 6.1 - difficulty adding an administrator
Wed, Nov 26th 2008 7:53a John Wylie
I installed WebSphere Portal express 6.1 on a Windows 2003 server in a demo environment and ran the config wizard to secure the server to an Active Directory running on a second server. Adding an Active Directory user as a member of the preexisting "wpsadmins" group proved difficult and resulted in the "EJPAL3030E" error - most likely relating to a misconfigured group attribute. As time was limited to complete the demo I simply logged into the Portal as the "wpsadmin" user, chose the AD user I [read] Keywords: administration
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Analysis of a Domino NSD report - howto
Tue, Nov 25th 2008 10:51a John Wylie
Looking through the LDD website can be a good use of time. There are plenty of tips to be found. Today I was looking through this section and found a presentation from Lotusphere 2008 on "Using NSD – A Practical Guide". This was written by Elliott Harden and Joe Wallace. The explanations seem pretty clear, while not suited for an absolute beginner, it is certainly a good starting point. Semaphore debugging has never been so much fun. [read] Keywords: domino
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Ubuntu 8.10 on my Thinkpad T60p - (Part 3 - External Monitors/Projectors) 
Mon, Nov 17th 2008 7:52a John Wylie
Since the upgrade to 8.10 of Ubuntu from 8.04 I found that the ATI Catalyst Control Centre (ccc) had been removed from the Applications menu. Looking at Synaptic I saw that there was a package called fglrx-amdcccle already installed. This is the control Centre - it had just been missing from the menu. After a little hunting I determined the Control Centre could be invoked by running the command "amdccle". To Simplify this a little I created a menu item for the "ccc" by right clicking on the "A [read] Keywords: applications
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Ubuntu 8.10 on my Thinkpad T60p - (Part 2 - Cool Effects )
Thu, Nov 13th 2008 11:52a John Wylie
Earlier this week there were a few updates for Ubuntu via Synaptic. As usual I let the system apply the updates in it's typical smooth manner, however this time there was a problem. When I restarted the system the usual Compiz graphics would not work at all. The cube you can keep - but I ned those wobbly windows. I restarted the system and chose to boot an older version of the Kernel and found the Compiz graphics were working to an extent, I had the wobbly windows but no Cube effect. I booted [read] Keywords: desktop
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Google predict the flu - what can they not do?
Wed, Nov 12th 2008 7:52a John Wylie
Google have done a little bit of work predicting your likelihood of catching the Flu if you live in the US. They have tracked search terms and found that queries on the Flu can allow them to predict outbreaks two weeks faster than existing systems. In itself this is quite interesting - but what else could they track? Political affiliation in an upcoming election? Predict share price fluctuation in specific markets? If I was a betting man I'd quite full access to their data - however I suppose [read] Keywords: google
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Ubuntu 8.10 on my Thinkpad T60p - BADSIG anyone?
Thu, Nov 6th 2008 12:53p John Wylie
As the latest release of Ubuntu has been out for a little while now – I decided to upgrade my laptop OS from 8.04 to 8.10. Ubuntu has the really nice facility of upgrading the OS in place – just by clicking the upgrade button. It was really nice to use when I upgraded from 7.10 on another PC. This time there was a problem. There were various errors including “BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5” and “Hash Sum mismatch” on the various Ubuntu repositories. I tried a number of fixes found via Goog [read] Keywords: desktop
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Websphere Portal 6.1 Tuning Guide
Tue, Nov 4th 2008 5:52a John Wylie
I have had a quick read through of the, just published, Portal 6.1 tuning guide. Generally I would describe it as a "mostly friendly" read. I was pleased to see a section on "Recommended database maintenance for DB2". This is something that has been on my mind for a while - especially for SMB installations where true DB skills would be a "nice to have" resource. There is also a section on DB2 database tuning showing how the teams test setup was altered. If you are interested in Portal 6.1 fro [read] Keywords: ldd
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The BBC and content distribution
Fri, Oct 31st 2008 6:52p John Wylie
The BBC are a great British institution. The UK would be a poorer place without them in my opinion. I do have the odd grievance here and there regarding how often they seem to promote Microsoft. Sometimes the news.bbc.co.uk frontpage can seem like an advertorial for that company. Today for instance the technology page contains the word "Microsoft" 5 times. Not much mention of any of their opposition there. I don't mind, it's nice that they think about things more important than Russel Brand (al [read] Keywords: desktop
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XPages workshop in the UK
Tue, Oct 28th 2008 10:37a John Wylie
The Hursley team are working on a XPages workshop in Hursley. If you work for an Lotus BP I would seriously suggest registering for this one. XPages There is one seriously good (external to IBM) consultant working on the content. [read] Keywords: ibm
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Sub Prime - starter kit
Fri, Oct 24th 2008 12:09p John Wylie
I found this presentation via Presentation Zen Quite good really. Subprime PrimerView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: subprime mortgages) [read] Keywords: application
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email - keep it short
Tue, Oct 21st 2008 3:58a John Wylie
On any given morning I receive quite a number of emails that, on the face of it, require some attention. I prefer to actually get on with doing my day job as opposed to attending to an email inbox as my boss appears to want me to actually achieve certain things for the business rather than simply work in a glorified mail room - the inbox. Luis Suarez is a good example in that he has actively stopped (that can not be good grammar) reading his email - I don't believe that course of action is like [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p (Part 6)
Thu, Oct 9th 2008 4:55p John Wylie
I have a Logitech Orb webcam which I use to demonstrate Lotus Sametime video for customers. Recently it has been sitting in the corner ever since I moved from Windows to linux and as there is a demonstration due next Wednesday I decided to see what effort was required to get it working on Ubuntu. After the usual investigation of the support forums I realised I needed to install a UVC (Universal Video Class) driver. Finding the right one could be tricky - however just like envyNG there is a util [read] Keywords: lotus
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Removing Grafitti 
Wed, Sep 17th 2008 8:29p John Wylie
I think this is superb - Banksy has created art that is some of the best around. From Flickr [read] Keywords: |
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Email becomes a dangerous distraction
Fri, Sep 12th 2008 7:34a John Wylie
The Sydney Morning Herald ran a story on the effects of email on a persons productivity and had this to say. "In a study last year, Dr Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University, England, found that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email (bit.ly/email2). So people who check their email every five minutes waste 81/2hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before." There is more to life than email - but I do wonder about all th [read] Keywords: email
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iNotes in Domino 8.5
Wed, Sep 3rd 2008 2:18p John Wylie
I really like the idea of being able to work without relying on email. To a large extent I rely on sametime and my mobile phone (a really dodgy old nokia - kudos points only for the antique value). However for those times when you do need to access email - I thought this looked kind of cool. Domino 8.5 beta 2 Interestingly I composed an email using Chrome and could see th received email in Lite and Ultralite mode - but not in Full mode. Then again it was in a win2003 vmware [read] Keywords: domino
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Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p (Part 6)
Tue, Sep 2nd 2008 1:51p John Wylie
I already had Notes 8.5 beta 1 installed on Ubuntu 8.04 and wanted to upgrade to beta 2. As this is at beta stage there is apparently no upgrade from beta 1 to beta 2 so the first thing I did was backup my Notes data directory which was in /home/myname/lotus/notes/data. Secondly I used Synaptic to remove “ibm-lotus-notes”. Once this was successfully completed I closed Synaptic, opened a terminal window, and ran the following commands in this particular order... sudo dpkg -i ibm_lotus_note [read] Keywords: ibm
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Ubuntu - White Screen at Login
Sun, Aug 17th 2008 2:11p John Wylie
This white Screen in Compiz happened again after a kernel update - I really should pay more attention to what the updates were for - but life's more interesting than that. As before the fix was simple and quick, it's just a pity it's needed at all. A non-techie Linux user would have difficulty. [read] Keywords: linux
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Olympic BSOD
Mon, Aug 11th 2008 4:21p John Wylie
Who would have thought that this would happen? Via Gizmodo I hope the server wasn't responsible for any high wire gymnastics. [read] Keywords: server
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Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p (Part 5)
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 2:57p John Wylie
Today there was a kernel update for Ubuntu. After the update installed I continued to work for a few hours before shutting the laptop down even though the update recommended a restart for the changes to take effect. Later I started the laptop to check something online - only to get the "White Screen" problem. The symptom is that I could login as normal however when the desktop loads you can only see a white cursor on a white background, luckily the cursor has a dark outline :). The Compiz "Cube [read] Keywords: blogger
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Demonstrating Lotus Sametime
Thu, Jul 24th 2008 5:21a John Wylie
When demonstrating Lotus Sametime I like to show dialogue between real people logged into the system. When a network connection is not available this can get a little tricky. Mikkel Heisterberg has published a tool via Intravision that allows you to simulate people logged into Sametime in various states such as Avalable, In a Meeting, etc. I've used similar tools in the past that people have hacked together - however this looks like a really nice solution. Now, if I just had a little Sametime [read] Keywords: lotus
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Lunar Transit
Fri, Jul 18th 2008 11:51a John Wylie
The Bad Astronomer has published a movie of a lunar transit in front of the earth. This is simply stunning. [read] Keywords: application
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iPhone
Mon, Jul 14th 2008 7:06p John Wylie
While the iPhone continues to struggle to become as fantastic as the Nokia 6021, - it is still a very good way of demonstrating iNotes. Thanks to macazin.de [read] Keywords: inotes
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After Windows Update - difficulty going online
Wed, Jul 9th 2008 5:27p John Wylie
There was a Windows update for XP over the last day or two - and it seems to create difficulty for some XP users who are connecting via ADSL to the interweb. The fix that works seems to be - go into add/remove programs and remove the last windows update - and after a restart you are back online. Three separate home users have all had the same issue today that was resolved in the same manner. update: from the BBC [read] Keywords: |
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F1 moves to Donnington
Fri, Jul 4th 2008 11:33a John Wylie
Formula One will move from the Silverstone circuit to the Donnington Park circuit from 2010 onwards. Silverstone could have kept the Grand Prix if the government had invested a little money. According to the BBC Bernie recons...."I believe that the government should have supported them, which would have cost probably less than .002% of the government's commitment for the Olympic Games." The Olympics are becoming quite expensive - and it looks like they are having great fun with the building p [read] Keywords: formula
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Installation of Lotus Foundations - Part 3
Tue, Jul 1st 2008 2:50p John Wylie
Foundations Start Now that Foundations Core has been installed and is up and running it's time to install Foundations Start. This is the part of Foundations that includes the Domino email server. From my Ubuntu client – I started Nautilus file browser, clicked on Network Servers and the system found the Foundations server. Windows Explorer should do the same (file - run - \\ipaddress). Opening the “Foundations” server required the “root” username and password. The shared folders in [read] Keywords: domino
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Installation of Lotus Foundations - Part 2
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 6:13p John Wylie
Once you have logged in to Foundations as the root user you should see the "System Status" screen where you can make alterations to your system. At this point the Foundations server is running entirely in memory as there are no Hard Disks available. Looking further through the “Services Status” in the screenshot above you will find the following detail. Click the "Configure disk #1 as a standalone disk" to format the hard disk and write the Foundations code to it. As this example was cre [read] Keywords: foundations
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Installation of Lotus Foundations - Part 1
Mon, Jun 30th 2008 2:11p John Wylie
Installation of Foundations into VMWare I created a new VMware machine as a Suse Linux machine with 20GB HD. In the VM settings for the machine I set the DVD to point to the Foundations ISO file, "10_00a1.iso", as the CD drive. When the Virtual Machine starts the ISO file is loaded and boots Lotus Foundations into memory and displays the following screen. From your host machine point firefox at https//9.180.19.179:8043. (your ipaddress will differ). You will likely have to add a security excep [read] Keywords: foundations
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Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p (Part 4)
Thu, Jun 19th 2008 12:32p John Wylie
I was just chatting with Dave Hay about VMWare Workstation on Ubuntu. After installing VMWare and running "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl" to configure it - sometimes VMWare will not start. Typically at this stage most people run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl again in the vain hope that it will "just start working" this time. It can be easier than that. Just rename the file "/etc/vmware/not_configured" to something else such as "/etc/vmware/not_configured_backup" (or just delete it). Try starting VMW [read] Keywords: vmware
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Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p (Part 3)
Thu, Jun 19th 2008 12:14p John Wylie
I was due to attend a web conference today and found that Firefox was not correctly supporting Java. Some of the fixes on the interweb for this issue are truly horrific and over engineered. After a little research I fixed the problem like this First I created the link to the java plugin in the firefox plugin directory... using the commands below... cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so Second I used the Synaptic Package M [read] Keywords: blogger
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Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p (Part 2)
Tue, Jun 17th 2008 11:43a John Wylie
Now my thinkpad T60p is running Ubuntu successfully with Lotus Notes 8.5, Symphony office suite, video and the VPN into work is a treat (Lotus Mobile Connect). A part of my job is giving customer briefings - so I need to be able to use projectors and external screens from my Laptop. This has previously been a real issue when running with Linux. Now it works. To get an external screen to work I used "Envy", an automated installer for Video drivers. First I used Synaptic to install "envyng-gtk". [read] Keywords: lotus
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Sametime Advanced and Active Directory
Wed, Jun 11th 2008 8:04p John Wylie
I was working with Mark Rattray with a customer in Mayfair, London, on a Sametime Advanced installation. We started off by installing sametime Standard 8.0.1 server. We used the customers active directory (2003) directly without directory assistance. At this stage we ran a few tests to ensure the system was wrking well. Next we installed the Sametime Advanceed server. Again we used the Active Directory for the user directory - Mark was superb in his understanding of active directory and soon m [read] Keywords: sametime
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Ubuntu 8.04 on my Thinkpad T60p
Thu, Jun 5th 2008 5:08p John Wylie
Now that my T60p has been repaired, after the LCD had developed multiple horizontal lines, I have upgraded the hard disk to 200GB at 7200rpm. Ubuntu 8.04 installed sweetly. To enable the desktop effects I had to enable the ATI drivers first. This was easily done by clicking the menu items System/Administration/Hardware Drivers - then click the box to enable the "ATI accelerated graphics driver". This is a non-free driver. The driver is downloadedand installed automatically and after a restart [read] Keywords: administration
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goosh !
Tue, Jun 3rd 2008 11:13a John Wylie
goosh is the unofficial Google shell... and it is lovely. Try it now - go on. [read] Keywords: google
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