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Saw this come across the IBM support wire. Great information if you are considering using the Rich Client Platform for your HATS applications. For those of you not familiar with Java Web Start (or JWS), it is a Java feature that allows users to install an application dynamically with one click from within their browser. … Read more
Ed Brill did a pre-announcement of Lotus Sametime version 8 on his blog.http://www-306.ibm.com/software/lotus/sametime/getthebuzz/ While I have not seen the product yet, it should be available for partners and customers for download via Partnerworld and Passport Advantage on November 29. ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Fedora Linux 8 was released last week, and I’ve been playing with it since then. Fedora is an ever increasingly popular Linux distribution. It is not as popular as Ubuntu for the desktop, but has a growing audience. So, why Fedora? First its supported by Red Hat, and subsequently uses much of the same packages … Read more
A word of note. As I have found out by recent experience, upgrading users via SmartUpgrade has some issues. If you use the web kit (the attached kit), it does not accept any parameters. You can verify this by calling the executable from a command line and passing parameters (i.e. /s /v”SELECTINSTALLFEATURES=Activities,Sametime,Editors /qb+”). It will … Read more
This is a handy file for stopping and ending Trend’s real time scanning. @echo offecho Stopping Trend Micro Real Time Scanning….net stop tmlistennet stop OfcPfwSvcnet stop ntrtscanpause Copy the above into a text file, and rename the text file with a ‘.bat’ extension. Click away, and watch your PC begin to perform better. This is … Read more
I recently upgraded a customer from Domino 7 to Domino 8 on the iSeries (a.k.a i5, System i, AS/400… or whatever IBM’s marketing whim is this month). In the process Domino 7 uses the default Java 1.4 JDK (5722JV1, Option 6). IBM has built Domino 8 to support Java 5.0, and therefore requires the Java … Read more
I’m a little late in posting this, but IBM is beta testing a new version of Portal. Log in to download. You can run this version side by side with a 6.0 installation. https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/lotus/wps61beta/ ©2016 Strongback Consulting
The most popular Linux distribution released their latest version today. Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” is now gold and readily available from http://www.ubuntu.com/download. This release qualifies for Canonical’s Long Term Support (18 months). For those not in the know, Canonical is the company that produces Ubuntu Linux. Their release schedule is a religious 6 months, and … Read more
I have now ditched Microsoft Vista on my T61 laptop. Actually, I have simply put a fresh hard drive in, and installed Windows XP on it. I tried in earnest to give Vista a go. When I first turned on my laptop with Vista, I was pleased with the graphics and recognition of all my … Read more
IBM has now launched a triumverate of new products. Lotus Notes/Domino 8 (aka Hannover), Quickr, and Connections. Ed Brill posted the news on his site yesterday (www.edbrill.com). Notes 8 was made available to the partners yesterday, and when I went to the site to download another product, the site seemed inundated, and I could not … Read more