Our IBM/Lotus Renewals and TCO
Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 6:14p Gavin Bollard span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "I've just finished the IBM/Lotus renewal cycle for the year and either IBM has made some changes for the better or I'm losing my grip on my sanity. Whatever the reason, ithis year the process actually made sense/i.br /br //spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "br /bThe Cost and the TCO/bbr /We're actua [read] Keywords: domino
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How to Install the OpenNTF Document Management Plugin for Lotus Notes 8.5.x
Tue, Aug 31st 2010 3:14a Gavin Bollard diviThere's now a great new OpenNTF document management plug-in for Notes. I'm interested in seeing if I can move away from MS Office and this little utility seems to me to be the best way to start. It allows you to work on documents in folders while still keeping things available for users who prefer to access folders directly. The only caveat that I've found so far is that it wants everything to be stored in OpenDocument format and will convert the imports accordingly./i/divdivbr //divSo... I' [read] Keywords: ibm
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The Notes UI and Sending a Link to a File - Part 2
Tue, Aug 24th 2010 8:44p Gavin Bollard Thanks to everyone who responded yesterday. I've considered and tested the responses to find the method which will be simplest for our users.divbr //divdivWhat follows is a set of instructions..../divbr /divWe start our instructions by identifying the file we want to link to. Often for me, this will be a MPEG, AVI or giant PDF (because why else would you link rather than attach?) but in this example, I'm just using a MS Word Document./divdivbr //diva onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGrace [read] Keywords: ibm
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Article: 5 Million Web Sites Served Malware for at Least 3 Months - And Nobody Noticed!
Wed, Aug 18th 2010 3:15a Gavin Bollard divI really want to direct your attention to the following article which appeared today;/divdivbr //divdivbMalicious widget hacked millions of Web sites/b/divdiviParked sites hosted by Network Solutions spread malware since at least May/i/divdiva href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/081610-malicious-widget-hacked-millions-of.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2010-08-17"http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/081610-malicious-widget-hacked-millions-of.html?source=NWWNLE_nlt_security_2010-08-17 [read] Keywords: ibm
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Our Lotus Domino Cluster Failover Problem
Sun, Aug 15th 2010 8:48p Gavin Bollard divIn certain computing circles, "clustering" is a dirty word. I've heard of situations where, far from providing business continuity peace of mind, it creates more work and greater risk than it would if it were not involved.divbr //divdivThis is not the case with Domino clustering. Done properly, it is extremely reliable/divdivbr //divdivbOur Problem/b/divdivRecently, our cluster seems to have "picked up a slight flutter". Actually, I think that perhaps the rules behind it may have changed some [read] Keywords: domino
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Quick Rant: Why does Blackberry Discriminate against Australians?
Wed, Aug 11th 2010 10:47p Gavin Bollard divI've noticed this on Blackberry a lot over the years and it always irritates me. Today, I thought I should post a quick rant to pass that irritation on.divbr //divdivSee the picture.../divdivbr //divdivbWhy the discrimination against Australians and South Koreans? /b/div/divdivbbr //b/divdivbspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "I'm sure I could bypass this with the right IP filter but that's not the point. Why do we get picked on. What have we ever done to Blackberry?/sp [read] Keywords: apple
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Temp Blog (Aspie)
Tue, Jul 6th 2010 6:17p Gavin Bollard The Neurotypical of the FamilypLong time readers of this blog would know that I#39;m married with two sons.brNo girls. I#39;ve suggested jokingly to my wife that we#39;re even now becausebrthe dog - and both of our guinea pigs are female. It doesn#39;t help.pIt#39;s a sad fact of our lives that my wife will have nobody to go quot;girlybrshoppingquot; with or pass her jewelery onto.pIt#39;s not too late. We could have more but much as the idea of having abrlittle girl appeals to me, the thought o [read] Keywords: blogger
Another Anti-virus Rant
Thu, May 20th 2010 3:16a Gavin Bollard divThis post is going to be an easy read because I don't have any time to update the blog at the moment - so just look at the pictures./divdivbr //divdivMost people who've spent any time with me on the computer know that I hate anti-virus products because I think that they spend too much time slowing down the system without any guarantee of actually fixing the problem./divdivbr //divdivHere's an example which just happened about five minutes ago./divdivbr //divdivI received an email containing a [read] Keywords: blogger
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Computer Malware - How well did the System hold up?
Sat, Apr 10th 2010 3:14a Gavin Bollard divI recently had the first virus infection on my home computer since the early nineties. It was a particularly nasty Java exploit called a href="http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Trojan:Win32/FakeRean"XP Internet Security 2010/a./divdivbr //divdivThis seems to be quite a widespread thing, easily catchable, you just have to visit a web site that has various advertisements on it and according to some reports it has even infected the advertising on the US [read] Keywords: apple
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