iNotes Can Be Saving You or Your Clients Money
Thu, Mar 18th 2010 8:41a Keith Brooks How can you save money with IBM's Lotus iNotes or if you prefer LotusLive iNotes?br /br /First a brief disclosure I will try to discuss both iNotes products but to keep some logic, LNi will be for Lotus Notes version of iNotes (webmail to you non techy people run under a Lotus Domino server) and LLi will be the LotusLive iNotes version which as one will gather has nothing to do with Domino.br /br /Off the start, you will save bundles of money for the 1st year, if for no other reason than licensi [read] Keywords: domino
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Moving Quickr sites/places? J2EE or Domino?
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 9:10p Keith Brooks Notes from Lotus Support just posted a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nflsblog.nsf/dx/MoveQuickrPlaces?opendocumentcomments#anc1"this/a on their blog.br /br /The article is titled a href="http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/lqwiki.nsf/dx/Moving_IBM_Lotus_Quickr_places_between_server_environments""The article, "Moving IBM Lotus Quickr places between server environments"/a. Very nice...but it's for Quickr J2EE! I know so many of you out there have been asking this and they wrote a nice article.br /br / [read] Keywords: domino
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Remember Young Admins...there are 2 files
Wed, Mar 17th 2010 3:00p Keith Brooks Us old timers don't remember everything after all.br /br /I set up a TLS environment using the a href="http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf/plinks/GELD-82ZM6Z"post/a from a href="http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf"Gregg Eldred/a.br /br /Additionally we self certified it from Domino (checked the vendor and the spam system accepts it) and all seemed well and good.br /br /Except I received numerous errors (and since we use DDM, um, 1,000's of emails about it)which said the same thing:br /bl [read] Keywords: domino
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When iNotes Access just doesn't work
Wed, Mar 10th 2010 10:40p Keith Brooks I am working on my Mail Redirector presentation, span style="font-style:italic;"Under the hood of mail redirection and its effects on iNotes and iPhone users/span, for a href="http://www.viewadmin2010.com/"The View Admin conference/a and ran into a problem which I will now add to my slides.br /br /Go to login to a clients server to check on mail or reply to something from within, which I do all the time, and got this message AFTER logging in and getting the redirecting temporary page, it then re [read] Keywords: admin
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Streaming Video from PC to TV via Wii
Sun, Mar 7th 2010 10:30p Keith Brooks I don't post much on these topics but this was kind of fun and cool.br /br /Wondering the best way to watch videos we have on our PCs on our new LCD without a whole PC connected to the TV...for now.br /br /Found some interesting ideas about using one's Wii or Xbox which is easier.br /br /But we have a Wii so I found that there was a port for VLC called mplayer_CE which you need instead of the program they use in a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/How_to_Stream_Video_to_your_Wii/"this web po [read] Keywords: blogger
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We went to R8, now we are going to...
Fri, Mar 5th 2010 4:00p Keith Brooks This was how a call I had today went. Let's just say they are not staying on Domino and went looking for a more web based offering.br /br /Details are not important, but what is interesting is a company went through the process to upgrade, etc.. and then wants to move away from the platform.br /br /Not what we are usually hearing.br /br /So is this something new? Is there something missing? And if so, what is it?br /br /While I discuss with them the ins/outs technically facing them, I wonder wha [read] Keywords: domino
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My Session at The View Admin Conference
Wed, Mar 3rd 2010 9:01p Keith Brooks I decided to go on tour this year and see more people, places and customers.br /br /First stop is the great conference for Administrators run by The View, a href="http://www.viewadmin2010.com/"Admin2010/a, May 12-14th.br /br /They have been kind enough to accept my abstract and for those making the trek, I will be expanding, we have 90 minute sessions, on the ideas I discussed at the MWLUG conference last August in Chicago.br /br /This year's MWLUG 2010 event will be in Cleveland August 19-20 an [read] Keywords: admin
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DAOS Saving Time and Space
Wed, Mar 3rd 2010 10:21a Keith Brooks Another client, again a small firm, just under 20 active users.br /DAOS cleans up so much and so easily. Use it today.br /br /Logical Size Physical Size DAOS Count DAOS Sizebr /13,810,688 9,699,328 17 4,111,360 (30%)br /20,466,129 9,961,472 27 10,504,657 (51%)br /30,035,168 9,699,328 45 20,335,840 (68%)br /74,118,808 30,932,992 101 43,185,816 (58%)br /75,443,129 24,903,680 113 50,539,449 (67%)br /108,258,760 25,690,112 80 82,568,648 (76%)br /138,161,997 42,205,184 165 95,956,813 (69%)br /199,254 [read] Keywords: blogger
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The Future of RIM
Tue, Mar 2nd 2010 9:20a Keith Brooks I like RIM. To be fair, I loved them for a long time. Even if I only carried a Blackberry for about a year. But recently I have begun to believe what I saw when I posted a href="http://lotustech.blogspot.com/2008/07/ibm-to-buy-rim.html"this/a about a year and a half ago may never come to be reality.br /br /I remember seeing the original Blackberry in discussions back in 1999. I called it a mushroom. It was a funny looking thing, but it had a reality which I knew and wanted and loved, but in a be [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Why Microsoft? Has it come to this?
Mon, Mar 1st 2010 3:40p Keith Brooks Has Redmond really hit the lowest point in their economy? They need to convince people to stay with Office? Perhaps the numbers we hear and see are more meaningful than Redmond lets on.br /br /You may have been pointed to this a href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/why-microsoft/pages/ibm.aspx#fbid=PHy_jHws3VH"site/a from a a href="http://blogs.technet.com/whymicrosoft/"blog post/a or a tweet or the link to it.br /br /It's the Microsoft marketing machines newest effort to p [read] Keywords: domino
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Winter Keeps Coming Back, Like Customers
Fri, Feb 26th 2010 2:43p Keith Brooks January was busy, February was like the snow storms, problems dumped on us and no matter what we did, more kept coming.br /br /Oddly enough they all also went away as fast as they came.br /br /When you think you have reached the end, there is no end in sight sometimes.br /br /Products need fixing, patching, servers need rebooting, routers need replacing and if companies are hiring again they need licenses, computers, telephones and office furniture.br /br /Who is doing this for your clients? If [read] Keywords: ibm
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Calendar Profile "Errors " for Forwarded Email
Sun, Feb 21st 2010 9:50p Keith Brooks Not sure why this is an error at all.br /br /Yes, I read technote #a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21260359"1260359/a entitled: br /Forwarding mail to another address prevents busytime from recording Calendar databr /br /In a mixed environment of Lotus and Non-Lotus users this is a common occurrence. Yes, there are some ways around it, but the simplest way is to just add the forwarding email and let all mail relay internally.br /br /Now, if you enable DDM(Domino Domain M [read] Keywords: domino
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What would Steve Jobs do?
Thu, Feb 18th 2010 9:30a Keith Brooks An interesting question/game played by few but discussed by many.br /br /If you had a problem how would you tackle it, so to speak?br /br /I hadn't seriously pondered this until reading a sales blog/newsletter which discussed what could be done in 90 days if one "wanted to get to the other side of possible".br /br /Maybe this is what you do regularly, maybe not, but it put a new spin on some things which have been nagging me lately as I have been offline more or less and posting sporadically.div [read] Keywords: blogger
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How long does it take you to make a User ID?
Wed, Feb 17th 2010 9:00p Keith Brooks This one is for those of you billing hourly.br /br /In truth I have seen it take seconds to a few minutes, average probably is about 1-2 minutes depending on machine, network, etc.br /br /BUT today I, and IBM Priority support, experienced THE definitive hands down winner for the longest time waiting for an ID and mailbox to be created. (I know some of you have similar stories, so just comment and join in).br /br /From the moment I clicked Register(7.0.2 client to an 8.5 server and they are in 2 [read] Keywords: ibm
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DAOS Rocks again, 2 clients details
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 8:40a Keith Brooks A sampling of data from one client. br /br /8 of the largest files were run today as a proof test and the results were the following:br /br /Space saved % saved of mail filebr /3,023,524,000 79br /773,532,000 17br /1,712,269,000 40br /15,903,000 16br /512,000 4br /72,386,000 7br /15,611,000 28br /2,412,858,000 51br /br /Low of 4% to a high of 79%br /br /Average for these was 891,843,889 per mail file saved or about 27 % per mail file.br /br /Almost a GB per person saved is a good start we think. [read] Keywords: blogger
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My Review of IBM LND 8.5.1 The Upgrader's guide
Sun, Feb 14th 2010 8:50p Keith Brooks I haven't read anyone's reviews on this as I wanted to have an open mind.br /br /My mind was open but this didn't fill it up at all.br /br /Not that I expected a step by step effort, but the truth is this book should be retitled and offered as "Getting to know Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 for those coming from R6 or R7".br /br /It reads more like a what's new pdf than a guide to upgrading. Very weak on the upgrade and heavily leveraged the exciting new features. Not that there is anything wrong [read] Keywords: admin
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Mail Redirector Series #3, Login Page Edits
Fri, Feb 12th 2010 8:40a Keith Brooks Funny how you follow your a href="http://lotustech.blogspot.com/2009/12/webmail-redirection-and-configuration.html"own guides/a only to realize something is missing.br /Well, not really missing but neglected in the previous posts.br /br /When I discussed putting links to other sites or services, I should have added this, but didn't as I was focused on the Domino login form.br /br /Domino login pages by default get grabbed from all over the place. Quickr and Sametime have their own, as well as Do [read] Keywords: domino
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Continuing on With an R5 to 851 Upgrade
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 8:50a Keith Brooks So we got the server squared away...sort of.br /br /It seems, unknown to us, that an individual we were asked to remove from the system was an old administrator. Admins are already shaking their head, they know what is coming next. br /br /Yes, the person had signed everything...that the current admin had not.br /Evidently even the names.nsf. So naturally everyone suddenly could not get to the server or open the NAB among other calls we received.br /br /Quick answer was to sign the names.nsf wit [read] Keywords: admin
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We got to play football on the Super Bowl field
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 9:30p Keith Brooks a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S3Noa3QY4aI/AAAAAAAAARc/pMNhGH8kLm8/s1600-h/IMG_1374.JPG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S3Noa3QY4aI/AAAAAAAAARc/pMNhGH8kLm8/s200/IMG_1374.JPG" border="0" alt="the emblem and trophy stand in background"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5436803985884897698" //abr / [read] Keywords: application
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Server Side Includes a bug since 6.5, Hotfix 851HF360
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 9:10p Keith Brooks At least per IBM tech support.br /br /When I last discussed a href="http://lotustech.blogspot.com/2010/02/ssi-and-its-not-about-ssl.html"SSI/a the other day I was waiting on IBM.br /br /It seems that they were able to validate that Firefox did not work with the SSI since 6.5 of Domino. Granted this may not affect many people and the info on the web is sketchy but here in better detail is what I was told, thanks to Jason Bean of IBM Support:br /br /blockquoteWe have found the problem and created [read] Keywords: domino
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Qantas Outsources their brains too?
Fri, Feb 5th 2010 8:40a Keith Brooks By now most people have a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Qantas-ditches-Lotus-Notes-for-Outlook/0,130061733,339300758,00.htm?omnRef=http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensafe=offclient=firefox-arls=org.mozilla:en-US:officialhs=8uDnum=20newwindow=1q=QANTAS%20LOTUSaq=faqi=g1oq="read/a or heard Qantas has decided to go to Outlook after being on Lotus Notes for 15 years or so....because their strategic partner, a href="http://www.itwire.com/component/content/article/147-server/24734-fuj [read] Keywords: domino
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Domino server slow? Have you checked...
Thu, Feb 4th 2010 8:51a Keith Brooks Domino gets a bum rap from many people as a bandwidth hog and a memory hog. The truth as has been proven many times over is far from these 2 erroneous conclusions.br /br /Based on the client I have been at this week and some other past customers, here is a list of what to look for before one blames Domino for any performance issues.br /br /Note: I will not describe notes.ini tweaks or any other server setting type things, the best practices from Lotusphere on Server Performance is a good place t [read] Keywords: admin
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SnTT - Reminders for those Upgrading from R5
Wed, Feb 3rd 2010 8:40a Keith Brooks Yes, I said R5, 5.0.9a to be exact.br /br /I have been quiet for a few days as I have been off site reminding myself why I hate Windows 2008 and why I loved R5.br /br /Windows 2008 seems to not be configured for SMBs out of the box. No surprise there.br /But when it is a stand alone server so to speak in an SMB(should have gone Foundations in this case, but that's a whole other post for some other time) well it just takes a little longer to make it useful, say compared to Win 2003 or even 2000. [read] Keywords: admin
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SSI and it's not about SSL
Tue, Feb 2nd 2010 10:03p Keith Brooks SSI stands for server side includes.br /br /I am not a developer but general website work I do perform. And recently we moved a domain to our web server and ran into some problems.br /br /The problem is Domino and how you format these.br /br /It took quite a bit of effort to sort out but the a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203context=SW000dc=DA410dc=DA450dc=DA430dc=DA440dc=D600dc=D700dc=DB510dc=DB520dc=D800dc=D900dc=DA900dc=DA800dc=DB540dc=DB400dc=DB560dc=DB530dc=DA600dc=DB5 [read] Keywords: domino
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Mail Journaling and Mail Rules Problem...help?
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:10p Keith Brooks Client which uses Exchange and Domino has mail come into Domino and if it's for the Exchange people forwards to them. No mail is stored in Domino.br /Wanted to use Mail Journaling to capture these mails as they think some mails are getting lost in the forwarding.br /No problem. I enabled journaling and a configuration document with various other parts and settings and set the mail rule for all documents to journal.br /Simple right?br /Wrong. br /Journal works, but now mail no longer forwards to [read] Keywords: domino
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LotusLive Notes now starts at 25 people
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks This is probably the best way to kill off Google attacks.br /br /A 5GB mail file, full calendar, Sametime functions, BES as an option and it's hosted Lotus Notes mail for $9 per user a month(pricing may vary based n size and region).br /br /So is a 500 person company looking to spend $4,500 a month or $54,000 per year to fix any infrastructure issues or upgrades and reduce their IT staff overhead, not to mention Data Center real estate, power consumption et al?br /br /Perhaps.br /br /But by lowe [read] Keywords: lotus
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Mobile Computing Interview
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks IBM provided me with an opportunity to interview David Isenhour Strategic Alliance Executive Mobile Computing.br /br /My immediate questions were around the RIM Quickr and Connections clients. Price is probably under $50 per client and to be available from the IBM sofwtare entitlement sites.br /br /The RIM Sametime client will still be free.br /br /Joined by a href="http://http://www.andypedisich.com/"Andy/a and a href="http://http://leadershipbynumbers.com/"Jack/a we had a great conversation ar [read] Keywords: connections
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Domino.Doc Informal Roundtable
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks I participated in a discussion with other Business Partners who are working on migrating all of you running Domino.doc to Quickr, Filenet, ECM, Alfresco or Domino or anything else.br /br /Jelan Heidelberg of IBM helped facilitate the meeting. I may have been the only BP at the table running the Lotus Quickr 8.5 latest beta, aside from Daniel Lieber and company. br /br /Meeting some of the others brought out how international Doc is in usage, although I believe there are more Doc installations ou [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Topika: Collaboration Through Email from the Innovation Lab
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks Another stop along the way in the Innovation lab was Topika. From Jalal Mahmud of IBM.br /br /Topika integrates email with social and collaborative tools.br /br /When you write an email this tool suggests a place or activity or site, in Quickr or Connections for example, to store it or place it. It searches your details and provides ideas of where to put the email. It has 2 lines added into the mail form that provides details about the site/place and location/folder.br /br /This does not however [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Blog Muse an idea from The Innovation Lab
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks On my travels at Lotusphere I try to get into the Innovation lab to see what is coming down the road. One program I saw was Blog Muse. Expertly presented by Casey Dugan of IBM.br /br /Blog Muse provides a way for someone to submit a request for a blog post on a topic, to no one in particular or to a specific person.br /br /There is also the ability to vote on an idea, in a way, for those who use it, it's like a href="http://ideajam.net"Ideajam/a but for Bloggers.br /br /And the results which wer [read] Keywords: ibm
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LotusLive Executive Interview
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks I was invited with some other bloggers to interview Susan Oblak, Program Director of GTM Strategy and Satwik Seshasai.br /br /One of my questions was around Quickr and LotusLive and Quickr is not part of it but if you can compare private communities to places and that works for you or your client then this might be the way to go for you.br /br /There are some new offerings coming:br /Labs - for testing, playing and other apps sort of like the sandbox br /Integration of a full notes client and ot [read] Keywords: admin
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Linux help from IBM
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks I brought my netbook to LS10 and did not realize that some updates killed my installation. EDITED: I was on ubuntu 9.04 but didn't disable the autoupdates and ended up at 9.10.br /br /Lucky for me there was an IBM lab, on the 6th floor of the Dolphin which was for IBMers looking to turn their laptops over to Linux. Lucky for me, they worked with me to resolve the issue I had as well.br /br /A a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899uid=swg21409777"technote/a was issued to resolve [read] Keywords: ibm
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I am Speedgeeking again this year
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks Rocky was kind enough to let me do it again and my topic this year is one which hopefully you all know and have done, but nonetheless gets little attention at times.br /br /Topic: Web Administrator to the Rescue!br /br /Watch and learn the basics of setting up Webadmin(you really can do it in 5 minutes) and why it is important to your daily life as an admin and how it will save your hide sometimes. br /br /Speedgeeking is done on the Dolphin where we usually have lunch.br /TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010; [read] Keywords: admin
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Lotusphere Sunday Update
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks Checked in, got my packet, bag et al. So far sessions have been packed, but I am in the BD day for business partners. Competitive sessions of course and they are full.br /Good news if you missed it, they will be available to BD attendees online soon, check the Quickr site.br /br /My interview schedule includes lotuslive, Lotus Notes and Symphony, Strategy, UCC, Mobile and Portals. Plus various IBM mini keynotes and the like.br /br /Only problem is some of these conflict with some sessions I real [read] Keywords: ibm
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1st Lotus Connections Discussion
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks Today is the 1st Lotus Connections discussion, of a serious nature, we have had all year since last Lotusphere. We walked through the Lotus Greenhouse version as it is well populated. Why not our own? Well, no one built one. I started to, but always got sidetracked. Nothing like a client to kick everyone into gear!br /br /I spent part of Thursday building a Lotus Connections box. It's up and running but a bit light on profiles for now. Still some tweaking to do but it's up, now to see what we ca [read] Keywords: connections
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S10e on Linux is Coming with Me to Lotusphere
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks After a year without Microsoft Office and only using Lotus Symphony I decided for Lotusphere to build my Ideapad on Linux.br /br /Ubuntu distribution. Only thing I might not be able to do is use the client VPNs. Otherwise it's a Linux Lotusphere for me.br /br /Notes, Sametime and a handful of other pieces all to go inside by Sunday.br /br /Go on, you know you want to do it also.br /br /Thanks again to a href="http://blog.darrenduke.net/Darren/DDBZ.nsf/"Darren Duke/a for pushing me to do it a a h [read] Keywords: lotus
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How cold does it have to get to freeze your laptop
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks Rarely comes to play in South Florida, but after the cold this week, and some people who had some problems with hard drives, just wondering...br /How cold is too cold to keep your laptop in your car?div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8994561579739999989-6047655531938178994?l=lotustech.blogspot.com' alt='' //div [read] Keywords: blogger
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Excellent Domino Customer Service via Twitter
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S0S9lc8FbqI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/934sBK4-dZY/s1600-h/unlv.PNG"img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 158px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fpWdlTIdn_M/S0S9lc8FbqI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/934sBK4-dZY/s320/unlv.PNG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423668302381936290" //abr /I just saw a a href="http://twitter.com/unlv_oit/ [read] Keywords: domino
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Quickr Customisation Samples
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks As I sit here, all alone in our soon to be ex-office on the last days of the year, I found this little gem that got posted to the Quickr wiki last week.br /br /As it turns out, when the developers are away I get to act like one.br /br /Don't worry, they earn their keep, and I really don't as a developer.br /br /But nonetheless in an effort to help others, and at our own company potential expense, if you want to customize Lotus Quickr on your own, (a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_Will [read] Keywords: ldd
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Roaming Users, Who Enabled them? Just Stop it
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks As some know, I posted on twitter today that I had the unique experience of having a client engage roaming for everyone, without our intervention on a new 8.5.1 Lotus Domino server we are building.br /br /Still doing forensics on it to sort out how it was turned on. Especially since no Policies have been in place yet on the new server.br /br /But what is important is the ability to turn it off was broken and prevented installation of users.br /br /Not funny.br /br /If you are having problems dis [read] Keywords: administration
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ST-SNTT - Sametime Build Information
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks Syntax gets me every time. So if I write it down, or blog it, it stays in my memory better.br /br /Hopefully for you too.br /br /Ever want to know what version of Sametime is running on your server?br /br /You can type sh ser without the brackets at a Domino console to get the Domino version but what about Sametime?br /br /Go to a browser, enter the server name with /sametime/buildinfo.txt at the end, example: http://sametime.lotuslive.com/sametime/buildinfo.txtbr /br /And this is what you will [read] Keywords: domino
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Sametime 8.5, Console Message
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks This came in from our internal server.br /br /12/22/2009 01:00:05 PM HTTP JVM: WARNING: '[ERR 0635] Some generated functionsbr / exceeded the JVM method size limit and were automatically split into smaller fubr /nctions. You may get better performance by manually splitting very large templabr /tes into smaller templates, by using the 'splitlibr /12/22/2009 01:00:05 PM HTTP JVM: it' option to the Process or Compile command,br /or by setting the 'http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/xltxe-j/split-limit' [read] Keywords: ibm
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Steppenwolf Fans look inside Sametime 8.5
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:11a Keith Brooks By now we are all used to seeing odd error messages and funny snippets of code, but this one was fun to find this morning, although I believe it existed previously.br /br /a href="http://www.steppenwolf.com/"John Kay and Steppenwolf/a had a song, a href="http://www.steppenwolf.com/lyr/magcca.html"Magic Carpet Ride/a and well evidently there is a magic carpet ride in Lotus Sametime 8.5. IF only there was an a href="http://www.eeggs.com/"Easter Egg/a to go with this, would love to see it.br /br /W [read] Keywords: collaboration
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A New Book about Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1.
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:49a Keith Brooks I was asked to review a a href="http://www.packtpub.com/ibm-lotus-notes-and-domino-8-5-1-upgraders-guide/book?utm_source=lotustech.blogspot.comutm_medium=bookrevutm_content=blogutm_campaign=mdb_002255"new book/a about 8.5.1. Which means I will be receiving a copy in return for a review of it.br /br /Looking forward to it, been a while since i read something that wasn't purely a tech manual or info center.br /br /The publisher was kind enough to share a chapter on What's new in 8.5 Development. T [read] Keywords: domino
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Webadmin Knows How to Make your Day
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 10:21a Keith Brooks Webadmin shows this for a Domino server at our client:br /br /"Elapsed up-time:146 days,13:25:30 You have a rock solid server here!Great uptime!"br /br /A preliminary to my post about my Speedgeeking session and why webadmin saves the day.br /br /Don't worry it is going down for servicing this weekend with fp1 out for 851.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8994561579739999989-4129156421552456724?l=lotustech.blogspot.com' alt [read] Keywords: domino
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Webmail Redirection and Configuration Documents
Mon, Dec 21st 2009 12:09p Keith Brooks Previously (April 09)I had posted a detailed "how to" setup the mail redirector. This morning I forgot an important step, but also realized I had neglected some people's setups. So with these ideas in mind let's provide everyone some updates. First, I neglected to include the simple ?open at the end of the redirector.nsf so my server only would go to the "home page" which is the black background with links to the help files or in one case went to the NAB. Change the document and it's fixed. [read] Keywords: document
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If kids were like a computer
Wed, Dec 16th 2009 8:49p Keith Brooks I was joking to my wife tonight that a good reboot would be nice on one of them. Somehow in the great development project called Parenting, some rogue error causes certain attitudes and personality issues which conflict with the primary program. Naturally it is the mistake of the developer which has been shaping and adjusting the daily builds, forever, with no end in sight. An expensive and long drown out program indeed that at times may lie dormant while other sub routines are running. Don't [read] Keywords: forms
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Know Thine Enemy
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 2:09p Keith Brooks If you could help the enemy? Would you? What would you tell them? Why would you do it? Would it hurt anyone? Would it help your business? Strange mergers over the years started because someone went to their enemy/competitor and asked the basic question, "What if we..." In these economically challenged times almost anything is possible. Banks suddenly thank you for short selling your house so they don't have to deal with it. Credit card companies offering up to 5 year fixed payment plans for t [read] Keywords: blogger
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Hubble vs. Mars Rover which is your client?
Tue, Dec 15th 2009 8:49a Keith Brooks Space....the final frontier, poppycock! Messaging is the final frontier and always will be. IM, email, voice, chat, video, but still messaging or in the words of Pink Floyd and Stephen Hawking... Keep Talking. Without communications we would not be very collaborative now would we? So why don't we take better care of it? Based on some posts and discussions, let's look at this from a completely different view....Space. Out in space, NASA sent some objects to learn about the galaxy and planets. [read] Keywords: blogger
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Sorry Ray, They Like Their Kingdoms
Mon, Dec 14th 2009 1:49p Keith Brooks In a Computerworld article today they posited that Ray Ozzie may be giving up, or forced out, at Microsoft. Don't cry for Ray just yet, he was after all blessed by Bill and is sure to get a nice pay check before leaving. Microsoft is not a sharing/caring organization. It is a silo/kingdom group of people/organizations. Always was and always will be. They like to hire sales people to feed that belief too. Intelligent people with no sales ability, not going to hire you, no sir, best to keep goi [read] Keywords: collaboration
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ST-SnTT - The dreaded STPOLICY.EXE Error
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 11:23a Keith Brooks Attention bleeding edge people, this is for you most likely. Sametime 8.0.2 as we all know is NOT certified to run on Domino 8.5 or 8.5.1. But as we also know, it does work. (these are Windows servers I had problems with and I am ONLY discussing Windows 2003 server) However some details must be known to get this to work correctly. First, Install Domino 8.0.2, then Sametime 8.0.2. Once all of that is okay, then upgrade Domino to 8.5 or 8.5.1. Sametime will NOT install over Domino 8.5/8.5.1 [read] Keywords: domino
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SnTT - Quickr Qpconfig.xml Errors
Thu, Dec 10th 2009 8:59a Keith Brooks All together now, repeat after me, I will NOT edit the qpconfig.xml while sleep deprived or during the night while attending Lotusphere. I will not... If you like the above graphic, go make one here. Here is why: 12/09/2009 07:25:48 PM JVM: Java Virtual Machine initialized. 12/09/2009 07:25:49 PM Agent error: [Fatal Error] :69:5: The element type "user" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". 12/09/2009 07:25:52 PM org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "user" must be terminate [read] Keywords: admin
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Black and White, the colors of a new millenium
Wed, Dec 9th 2009 2:19p Keith Brooks Adam posted about color and what role/emotions it provides in logos and brands. I questioned what does it say about iPhone users? they only get to choose between Black and White. Sure you can skin it, but by default why not Red apple color or Granny smith(never mind The Beatles would sue I guess). Coke zero is black and white(and marketed to men specifically). Why are (soccer)footballs black and white? Got to be better than, so one can see it in the grass. Why are roads black with white or y [read] Keywords: lotusphere
apple
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Always On Social Media and Winning the Lottery
Mon, Dec 7th 2009 9:49p Keith Brooks Do you ever feel like you live out of place or time? Technology which was to make our lives easier, has enslaved us more to a point that any device gets us connected to people or things 24x7x365 or in my case 24x6x300+/-. Do our clients, friends, children, spouses, pets now take second stage to someone or something else on a daily, if not hourly basis? When will companies start paying you for the true hours you work? Or better, when will they start letting you work on your preferred hours to [read] Keywords: blogger
blogging
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SAHD Understands Single Parents
Sun, Dec 6th 2009 7:49a Keith Brooks For the last few days I have been a SAHD. For those that don't know what that is, it's a Stay at Home Dad. To be fair I have been working too, but with my wife away I have been living a double life. Carpool in the morning and afternoons, making breakfast(which I do anyway every day), lunches, and dinner, laundry, iron a brownie patch(damn thing won't stick), dish washer, homework review and whatever else. The pinball machine flipper needing to be fixed is still waiting though. Then work from [read] Keywords: lotusphere
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In Place upgrade of Windows for Exchange? NOT
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 9:49a Keith Brooks Thanks to VoWe for finding this. For the most part it discusses Exchange support in Windows 2008. The simple detail is you can not run Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 R2 until 2nd half of 2010. Exchange 2003 however is good to go now. They must really have screwed up Exchange 2007. Later in the post comes this request, which most people have asked for from the start: Finally I do want to update all on one other piece of feedback we have received - allowing the in place upgrade of the operating [read] Keywords: ibm
archive
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Do you use this line in your contracts?
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 8:29a Keith Brooks Don't waste your time, I am going to make you read this to find the line. This is the point as well. Who reads contracts? Raise your hand! Now who writes their contracts? How many of you ask your client if you can steal money from them on every project? Yes you read that correctly. In subcontracting some work we received contracts which include a line that says something along the lines of: This project may run over our estimates, we will provide additional billing upon client approval. [read] Keywords: domino
applications
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Refunding a Contract? Huh?
Thu, Dec 3rd 2009 8:39p Keith Brooks I have been in business for 20+ years and can safely say this was a new one to me. Sure we have had accelerators before and pay per goal/deadline but never a full refund. We provided a proposal to an organization which was deemed to be too expensive. Upon further review it was in actuality equal or less than their other estimates when viewed item by item. That's not the point. One of the key individuals asked for a complete refund if within 6 months they don't like the solution or want to dro [read] Keywords: ibm
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3 Different Conversations from the Yellowverse
Wed, Dec 2nd 2009 11:59a Keith Brooks In the last 12 hours I had very different conversations about Lotus, IBM, Business Partners and Lotusphere. To protect the innocent will not state my friends names. One posited that the idea of development is very different today from years ago. I agree, but I, as an admin, did not know some of the ideas tossed about and how they could help a specific issue. Again reminding me why I don't code and why discussing with other professionals, is truly how one learns. Even someone doing this for 20 y [read] Keywords: admin
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It's About We, not Me
Wed, Nov 25th 2009 8:39p Keith Brooks A twitter post caught me today and I replied that until it's not about me, but about we, one can't "get" Lotus. This isn't the entire story of course, but it is critical. The greater good, of the individual, or the company, is from the sharing of information and data. It's NOT about: Communication Face to Face time Email Buddies Lists It's about everything as a whole and recognizing that what you know, someone else may not and by helping them you create a tsunami of savings in time, resourc [read] Keywords: lotus
blogger
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Truth or Myth? Password Resets are #1
Thu, Nov 19th 2009 10:10p Keith Brooks In a discussion at lunch today I suggested the #1 call to a help desk is about passwords. Notes ID, Windows logins, FTP sites, Web usage for Sametime as an example, VPN login, Mobile devices, Voice Mail etc.. If you manage an infrastructure or are an admin in an organization or a help desk member or a manager who has dashboards for Remedy or Paradigm or whatever help desk solution, can you please comment? So have an opinion? Is it #2? And if you have the metrics, how long does it take to make [read] Keywords: admin
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Microsoft not using the Transporter in 2010
Thu, Nov 19th 2009 10:19a Keith Brooks An article posted on the SearchExchange.com site says Microsoft will not be creating a tool to migrate users from POP/IMAP or Lotus. They claim 3rd party vendors have better tools and that the lack of a free tool may reduce the migrations due to the cost involved. Michael Crowley, an enterprise/ messaging administrator with Germantown, Md.-based Microsoft product integrator Planet Technologies, Inc., said Microsoft's decision to stop offering its free tools is "a bigger deal than people reali [read] Keywords: domino
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No Abstracts for me this year
Wed, Nov 18th 2009 11:59a Keith Brooks But it works out in your favor. Some were about how to enhance your support methods or build up your documentation for SOX or Disaster Planning or Business Continuity, I will most likely blog these at some point, with dbs to help get you started as well when applicable. Other sessions submitted were based on articles and presentations I did this year which are of interest to a core group of (Quickr mostly) people, but maybe not the vast audience. Back to the white board for next year. We had [read] Keywords: lotus
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My S10e goes Ubuntu, You can too..Really
Fri, Nov 13th 2009 2:19p Keith Brooks Been almost a year since I got my S10e and it's been great to have, while in London for the summer, Chicago for MWLUG, Lotusphere 2009, clients and flights. But I was kind of lazy about updating it's OS, drive and loading Linux on it. Now that I had a spare drive, and encouragement from Darren, who did it the other day, I figured it's time. The spare drive is bigger than the default drive and came from my HP and runs Vista on it. I wanted to see if it would work first under Vista and with not [read] Keywords: lotus
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Do you know your CXO?
Fri, Nov 13th 2009 12:29p Keith Brooks And better still, do they know you? Yesterday when I discussed how to tackle "the talk" when management wants to discuss moving away from Domino or anything for that matter and their issues I wanted to follow up on one section, namely the CXO and what to do about them. How do you get the CXO's attention? How do you keep them up to date? How do you make yourself heard, without upsetting politics and the common day actions of everyone? Easier said than done of course, but maybe these ideas will [read] Keywords: domino
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Why Google Frustrates me
Tue, Nov 10th 2009 1:49p Keith Brooks I like Google usually, aside from when they try to act like a corporate provider. In this case, as a consumer, they have some issues. While working on our AdWords campaign I was sent an email to share access to it. You would think it would be easy enough, just login using my Google ID. One problem...which ID is that? Keep in mind each of the ones listed below are absolutely 100% different logins and passwords. My google Wave ID? Gmail ID (I do not use gmail so don't bother emailing me there) [read] Keywords: blogger
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Installing the 8.5.1 clienst on a Windows 2003 Server
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 8:29a Keith Brooks While I still get nearly an hour of lunchtime from an install on Vista, the same can't be said about my recent install to a server. One has enough time to get a drink and that's it. Clocking in at just under 11 minutes to install all 3 clients(without Symphony) is pretty impressive. Would have created a video but honestly who wants to watch paint dry for 11 minutes? How are the times on Windows7? [read] Keywords: symphony
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Windows 7, Same As It Ever Was
Fri, Nov 6th 2009 2:19p Keith Brooks Many years ago in some discussions with Microsoft I was asked what they should do to get companies to upgrade from Windows 2000 or 2003 to Windows 2007, I don't recall exactly, but the answer was the same from me. Make it an in place solution and they will follow, like IBM does with Domino. Now it is true, you may be out of luck if trying to install Domino 8.5.1 on a Windows 2000 server(it works, but unsupported) as one client found. But this is a rare case. After all, that OS is now +/- 9 ye [read] Keywords: domino
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CIO Magazine Email survey
Wed, Nov 4th 2009 3:09p Keith Brooks I was just asked to provide my input for a survey which asked: What features of functions are lacking within your company's current messaging environment? What do you see as the potential benefits of cloud computing? Let us know your thoughts in our new 6 question quick poll below. Results will be posted in the Downloads section later this month. But it really is a survey about Cloud computing. As usual a flawed poll from the CIO group. Why is it so hard for them to accept that some systems re [read] Keywords: admin
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ROI in 30 Days
Tue, Nov 3rd 2009 4:39p Keith Brooks While discussing the benefits of training employees how to make proper usage of graphics and email with Chris, it seemed to me that this has been going on since day one of email systems. Wait till you see this picture, all 1.5MB of it. What if that 1.5MB picture was sent out to everyone in your contacts list because it was your latest PR release? And what if you send this type of information regularly, like once a week? If you have a list like mine, of over 5,000 people, one can start to see [read] Keywords: domino
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New IBM Commercial Ideas
Mon, Nov 2nd 2009 2:30p Keith Brooks With the future well known, and sadly someone has probably already stole this thunder, but imagine what a cool ad campaign it would have been if there was "there's a plugin for that" for websphere or Domino, Sametime etc.. Or in Notes parlance, there's a db for that, well there used to be, now there's a sidebar widget :-) Maybe we should be creating a set of ads making fun of the UI issue? Even use MBR as the spokes model, like the UPS commercials using the original designer? There's a UI for [read] Keywords: designer
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Are you a Silo or a Share?
Mon, Nov 2nd 2009 1:59p Keith Brooks The web has provided some great benefits to the world, but the greatest is the idea that together we can accomplish more than being alone. In a blog at Computer World which Ed Brill opined about, I posted a comment. Many of my clients enjoy sharing data because 1+1=3 and provides better information, faster details and endless possibilities in the future. Some clients have a mixed environment and the comparison between the Lotus side and the non-Lotus side(usually Microsoft) is at times in sha [read] Keywords: connections
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iPhone vs.HTC which to get?
Thu, Oct 29th 2009 11:10p Keith Brooks So I have decided to stick with an HTC device or get an iPhone. Sorry no Blackberry unless I work for them as we have no reason for a BES server and to be tied down like that with a limited browser. If I have to commit to a 2 year agreement, I want a phone that I will be happy with which includes the following: Worldwide usage/access 3G and high speed network of course Wi-Fi a MUST Touch Screen a MUST I am spoiled now after 3-4 years of my old HTC Keyboard I know the iPhone doesn't have one a [read] Keywords: connections
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SnTT - Running Compact on a Notes Client
Thu, Oct 29th 2009 4:33p Keith Brooks Those who know me realize I can't remember switches which is why I keep the long list of them accessible. What was interesting to me is I found my 851 Notes client never updated the ODS on my local files, like PNAB for instance and well, it should but given my laptop gets enough rebuilds anything is possible. Decided to run compact against the directory and my data directory and bring everyone up to ODS 51. One should have CREATE_R85_DATABASES=1 in their notes.ini by now as well to ensure all [read] Keywords: document
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"The Social Factor" includes my interview
Thu, Oct 29th 2009 1:02p Keith Brooks Laurisa Rodriguez had contacted me about the book back in December 2008 to discuss my use of social media. Never expected to be included, surely they had better examples I thought. But we received a full page in the book. Page 112 and also a note of thanks in the foreword right next to Ed, Luis, Luis and Andy among others. We discussed Linkedin which at the time when I could devote more effort was the leading Lotus group. This has slowed down in favor of other social media for us that have pr [read] Keywords: lotus
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Seeing is Believing? Google Apps Fail #2
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 4:59p Keith Brooks I wasn't kidding that Google Apps doesn't work! Here's the video I just did of trying to get some data stored in their spreadsheet online. Or the URL is here. Lotus Symphony, sure isn't office, but I've been using it since January with no issues. Free is good, imagine your budget gaining back all that licensing cash you been giving Microsoft every year. Go get it now. Happy to recant this if Google or anyone else explains how to do this at all. [read] Keywords: lotus
symphony
application
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Who needs Social Media? My Banks!
Wed, Oct 28th 2009 3:09p Keith Brooks I realized my outburst on Twitter today was incorrect. Meant to say that Banks need to really be more accessible to their account holders. My other bank still lives in the 18th century and refuses to do anything over the phone. This post is about my local bank. Banks shy away from zip files, large attachments, emailing of signatures/files/documents, loaning money these days... but I had no idea they won't even give out phone numbers. Wanted to talk to my local Citibank branch person and not h [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Knows Ad Spotted Online
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 9:19p Keith Brooks Was looking at online video sites and One True Media suddenly popped up with a Lotus knows banner/ad. The campaign that is everywhere...finally. [read] Keywords: lotus
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"We are going to use Google Apps"
Tue, Oct 27th 2009 3:49p Keith Brooks Heard this from a client and no matter my discussion they were sticking to their idea. I thought maybe it is better than Symphony and anything would be better than Office and the Ribbon. So needing some spreadsheet work done, thought I should try it again as the previous time it was in beta. Anyway, so I took my data, copied it and figured I would paste it into Google spreadsheets and start trying again. Opened quickly and smoothly, looked simple and nice. Selected a field to paste to, it h [read] Keywords: lotus
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PlanetLotus goes Ahead in Time?
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 10:09a Keith Brooks For just a brief moment, PlanetLotus leaped forward, or is it backward for Mitch's recent post. Just an interesting way to view time, usually the time since posted is listed where the negative number is. So minus 335 is in miliseconds perhaps? [read] Keywords: blogger
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The Boss has an iPhone...Get 8.5.1 NOW!
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 2:59p Keith Brooks The fun world we live in we know is not based on logic, reality or anything that makes sense. A few years ago Ed Brill did a session on "The Boss Loves Microsoft", maybe this needs to be revamped with the Lotus Knows campaign. So when I visited a few customers recently saying they are moving off Blackberries for iPhones I shrugged and figured I should probably replace my dying HTC with a 3GS. I like RIM, but business is business. Today met a customer, on R5, and the first thing I heard was th [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Notes Traveler Failures to prevent
Thu, Oct 22nd 2009 2:59p Keith Brooks I had posted on Twitter about it, but as it devolved into so many issues, wanted to post it for others who experience it. To be very clear, there is nothing wrong with Traveler at all if you have installed and configured it properly. Really, it is hard to mess this up. But I did. One of the internal servers was upgraded to 8.5.1, but someone forgot to upgrade Traveler. They backed it all up but after all went well, deleted the backup. Too soon for my taste, I like to wait 1-4 weeks depending o [read] Keywords: ibm
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Lotus Knows People Need Jobs
Wed, Oct 21st 2009 11:09a Keith Brooks And as last night's post showed me,a bunch of you at least are looking for new roles. Just maybe not in South Florida. On the plus side I have some resumes and if someone else was looking to hire a developer, let me know too. Not that I want to be a clearing house but if I can connect everybody, we all win. Domino.Doc projects are moving forward and Quickr discussions are getting some excellent cost savings into companies so the project costs are recouped within the 1st month! Companies may [read] Keywords: connections
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Lotus Developer Wanted, Full Time South Florida
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 8:39p Keith Brooks The best way to do this is the simplest so here it goes. There is a developer position open in South Florida(Miami mostly) not for us, we like remote developers, but for another organization. Presumably needs Web and Notes with Java knowledge but details will go out to the ones they have an interest in. Pay around 80K, permanent employee. Must be on site at clients so this is not a temp or fly in/fly out role. Any interest either post here, email me or send me a tweet for more details. If t [read] Keywords: lotus
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Google Wave 1st Impressions
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 12:49p Keith Brooks As some know I had some Google Wave invitations to give out, if they want to seed it, 8 is not enough. I gave them out within seconds on Twitter. So why is everyone going crazy for it? Initially it was hard to tell because it did nothing. Contacts didn't work properly so you could only talk to yourself. Sort of like when you joined Twitter then stopped using it. Now after a few days, they got Contacts working and my 4,000 names I dumped in finally are showing people. Some discussion with Luis [read] Keywords: blogger
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1 Spell Check Under Lotus in 8.5.1
Fri, Oct 16th 2009 4:09p Keith Brooks I was just reminded by an IBM technote in my inbox that there is no longer multiple dictionary files. Spell Check Improvements In the IBM® Lotus Notes® 8.5.1 standard client: Notes®, embedded Lotus® Symphony™, and embedded Lotus Sametime® will all use same spell checking engine and same set of language dictionaries. Also, Notes and embedded Symphony will share one user dictionary by default. (supported for all platforms). So if a user defines a word in the Notes user dictionary or the e [read] Keywords: ibm
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Pink Floyd Royal Mail Stamps 2010
Fri, Oct 16th 2009 4:09p Keith Brooks Anyone print Lotus Knows Stamps yet? Personally I am in favor of personalized stamps and this is very nice to hear and cool too. Thanks to the NPF Newsletter. The UKs Royal Mail are to issue ten new stamps on 7th January 2010. Pink Floyd, Blur, The Clash and Led Zeppelin are among those to be featured. Albums in the collection include 'The Division Bell' by Pink Floyd, 'Parklife', 'London Calling', 'Led Zeppelin IV', 'Power, Corruption & Lies' by New Order, Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' [read] Keywords: lotus
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More Sidebar Coolness and perhaps confusion in 8.5.1
Fri, Oct 16th 2009 3:39p Keith Brooks Something else which is really nice to have is the ability to drag an email over to your sidebar and drop it on the data/time necessary. Amazing time savings and effort. Of course now I have to retrain people to use the Sidebar. This is a good thing. The downside is they will ask why can't they drag and drop the email into the little calendar piece instead of the hourly line which is shown above in the picture below? And why can't they drag an opened email to it? It only works if the email i [read] Keywords: lotus
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