One of the items I posted about at Ed Brill's thread on this was that I have implemeted a text section below the mail file owner's name that will display the mail file storage utilization. This looks nearly the same as the OpenNTF implementation, but my implementation was far simpler after looking at their code.
The following modifications need to be made in the most current releases of the "Domino Web Access" and "Mail" templates (or other template(s) you may be implementing).
1) Open the "Switcher Form for Mail" Form.
2) After the first "Computed Value" section, hit Enter.
3) On the blank line create a Computed Text Field named dspMailFileSize with a default value of dspMailFileSize
4) In the PostOpen event of the same Form, use the following code:
Sub Postopen(Source As Notesuidocument)
Dim s As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim size As Variant
Set db = s.CurrentDatabase
size = (Cdbl(db.Size) / 1024) / 1024
Call source.FieldSetText("dspMailFileSize", "Usage: " + Cstr(size)+" MB")
End Sub
Please note that due to client caching of the mail template(s), this change may not be propagated for a few days. From my research, I could not find a way to force the client to update the cache. Deleting cache.ndk would force it to work after restarting Notes, though.
Friday, October 28, 2005
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Domino 6.5.4 Fixpack 2
IBM Technote 1219981 provides information on Fixpack 2 for Domino 6.5.4. I believe I will skip this an go to 7.0 (hopefully soon...) since IBM has decided not to correct a Semaphore issue in the 6.x codestream.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Thank you Senators!
South Carolina Senators Jim DeMint and Lindsey Graham are planning on sponsoring a bill in the US Senate to end the Income Tax. It appears to be a decent plan that would provide real reform to the sad state of our Income Tax system.
"There is a growing urgency and consensus that the tax code is killing our ability to compete in the global economy," Mr. DeMint said. "It's as if we have huge signs on our beaches saying, 'Take Your Business Somewhere Else!'"
"Tax reform," the senator added, "has never been more relevant."
Sadly, it doesn't resemble the bill in the US House of Representatives, H.R. 25 - The Fair Tax Bill. This is a beautiful plan that economists and politicians have been considering and honing for about 20 years. Find information at http://www.fairtax.org/
"There is a growing urgency and consensus that the tax code is killing our ability to compete in the global economy," Mr. DeMint said. "It's as if we have huge signs on our beaches saying, 'Take Your Business Somewhere Else!'"
"Tax reform," the senator added, "has never been more relevant."
Sadly, it doesn't resemble the bill in the US House of Representatives, H.R. 25 - The Fair Tax Bill. This is a beautiful plan that economists and politicians have been considering and honing for about 20 years. Find information at http://www.fairtax.org/
News Story of the Day
If there is one story you read, it should be "It Wasn't Just Miller's Story" by Robert Kagan. There is an abundance of information and news articles on Iraq from before George W. Bust took office. It's rather eye-opening. I particularly like the following:
The Times was not alone, of course. On Jan. 29, 2001, The Post editorialized that "of all the booby traps left behind by the Clinton administration, none is more dangerous -- or more urgent -- than the situation in Iraq. Over the last year, Mr. Clinton and his team quietly avoided dealing with, or calling attention to, the almost complete unraveling of a decade's efforts to isolate the regime of Saddam Hussein and prevent it from rebuilding its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves President Bush to confront a dismaying panorama in the Persian Gulf," including "intelligence photos that show the reconstruction of factories long suspected of producing chemical and biological weapons."
The Times was not alone, of course. On Jan. 29, 2001, The Post editorialized that "of all the booby traps left behind by the Clinton administration, none is more dangerous -- or more urgent -- than the situation in Iraq. Over the last year, Mr. Clinton and his team quietly avoided dealing with, or calling attention to, the almost complete unraveling of a decade's efforts to isolate the regime of Saddam Hussein and prevent it from rebuilding its weapons of mass destruction. That leaves President Bush to confront a dismaying panorama in the Persian Gulf," including "intelligence photos that show the reconstruction of factories long suspected of producing chemical and biological weapons."
NY Times Promotes Welfare
If you have had doubts as to whether the New York Times is set against the ideas of Conservatism, you should read this New York Times editorial from yesterday. I'll just quote a little bit from it - no explanation is really necessary.
The government must capitalize on the end of the era of perpetually cheap gas, and it must do so in a way that makes America less vulnerable to all manner of threats - terrorist, environmental and economic.
The best solution is to increase the federal gasoline tax, in order to keep the price of gas near its post-Katrina highs of $3-plus a gallon. That would put a dent in gas-guzzling behavior, as has already been seen in the dramatic drop in the sale of sport-utility vehicles. And it would help cure oil dependency in the long run, as automakers and other manufacturers responded to consumer demand for fuel-efficient products.
Still, raising the gas tax would be politically difficult - and for very good reasons. The gas tax, which has been at 18.4 cents a gallon since 1993, is painfully regressive. It hits hardest at poor people for whom fuel costs consume a proportionally larger share of their budgets; rural dwellers for whom truck-driving over long distances is an everyday activity; and the gasoline-dependent middle class, particularly suburban commuters, who, on top of living far from their workplaces, have been encouraged by decades of cheap gas to own large, poor-mileage vehicles.
Fortunately, those drawbacks can be overcome. A bolstered gas tax would raise huge amounts of revenue, roughly $1 billion for every penny of additional tax. Some of that money would have to be used to provide offsetting tax breaks to low-income households, such as an increase in the earned income tax credit.
[rant]
First of all, are you serious?? Secondly, why do you want to pay high gas prices? Finally, the gas tax is supposed to be for maintaining roads and not for redistribution of wealth.
[/rant]
The government must capitalize on the end of the era of perpetually cheap gas, and it must do so in a way that makes America less vulnerable to all manner of threats - terrorist, environmental and economic.
The best solution is to increase the federal gasoline tax, in order to keep the price of gas near its post-Katrina highs of $3-plus a gallon. That would put a dent in gas-guzzling behavior, as has already been seen in the dramatic drop in the sale of sport-utility vehicles. And it would help cure oil dependency in the long run, as automakers and other manufacturers responded to consumer demand for fuel-efficient products.
Still, raising the gas tax would be politically difficult - and for very good reasons. The gas tax, which has been at 18.4 cents a gallon since 1993, is painfully regressive. It hits hardest at poor people for whom fuel costs consume a proportionally larger share of their budgets; rural dwellers for whom truck-driving over long distances is an everyday activity; and the gasoline-dependent middle class, particularly suburban commuters, who, on top of living far from their workplaces, have been encouraged by decades of cheap gas to own large, poor-mileage vehicles.
Fortunately, those drawbacks can be overcome. A bolstered gas tax would raise huge amounts of revenue, roughly $1 billion for every penny of additional tax. Some of that money would have to be used to provide offsetting tax breaks to low-income households, such as an increase in the earned income tax credit.
[rant]
First of all, are you serious?? Secondly, why do you want to pay high gas prices? Finally, the gas tax is supposed to be for maintaining roads and not for redistribution of wealth.
[/rant]
Monday, October 24, 2005
Notes Compared to Home Construction
While playing Rock's Clues, Mike Schubert posted the following:
Lotus Geeks build a Habitat for Humanity house maybe? Let's see:
- It would be painted yellow/orange/whatever that color is.
- The mailbox wouldn't look like any of the other mailboxes, so people would complain.
- The house would be useful beyond anyone's wildest desires, but no one would be able to get past the fact the mailbox looked different.
- Maintenance costs would be lower
- The project will never be completed because we all have "architect" in our titles now and therefore would not actually want to pick up a hammer and look like an "engineer".
I love that analogy. This is precisely how the industry is, though. At Ed Brill's blog, someone was talking about the need for a better UI for Notes. UI is subjective for the most part. Honestly, I could care less about Outlook. I'm really only familiar with Outlook 2000, but have used 2003 before. It's nothing to write home about. Am I a bit biased? Possibly. But, Notes has really come a long way with it's UI and developers have a lot of control over the present database UI. We have some quick and dirty databases that I would hate for anyone to see. On the other hand, we have some fairly slick databases where we have focused more on the UI. I guess it's just my little rant on UI.
Just because the mailbox looks different doesn't mean it's bad!
Lotus Geeks build a Habitat for Humanity house maybe? Let's see:
- It would be painted yellow/orange/whatever that color is.
- The mailbox wouldn't look like any of the other mailboxes, so people would complain.
- The house would be useful beyond anyone's wildest desires, but no one would be able to get past the fact the mailbox looked different.
- Maintenance costs would be lower
- The project will never be completed because we all have "architect" in our titles now and therefore would not actually want to pick up a hammer and look like an "engineer".
I love that analogy. This is precisely how the industry is, though. At Ed Brill's blog, someone was talking about the need for a better UI for Notes. UI is subjective for the most part. Honestly, I could care less about Outlook. I'm really only familiar with Outlook 2000, but have used 2003 before. It's nothing to write home about. Am I a bit biased? Possibly. But, Notes has really come a long way with it's UI and developers have a lot of control over the present database UI. We have some quick and dirty databases that I would hate for anyone to see. On the other hand, we have some fairly slick databases where we have focused more on the UI. I guess it's just my little rant on UI.
Just because the mailbox looks different doesn't mean it's bad!
Friday, October 21, 2005
Thanks To The Electricians
They worked on A/C and power last night and killed the UPS circuit that our backup mail server is on. So, that server was down when I got to work and we had to start it and then power it back down to start it again normally! We had some PTFs that didn't apply because of the previous abnormal system end. Basically, our HTTP tasks wouldn't load because the JVM was a little messed up because of the PTFs not being loaded.
It seems to be OK now. Oh, and during the middle of that our production App server decided to restart itself. AMGR was the task that hosed it. I'll have to dig through that a little more too!
It seems to be OK now. Oh, and during the middle of that our production App server decided to restart itself. AMGR was the task that hosed it. I'll have to dig through that a little more too!
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Lotusphere 2006
I'll be staying at Swan this year - a departure from staying at Caribbean Beach or Port Orleans the past 3 years. Looking forward to being "on campus"!
Who else is going?
Also, I may be co-presenting an iSeries session. More on that when it's finalized...
As a side, I've been monitoring my 6.5.4 FP1 server's CPU performance since the beginning of the month. I have found that my average total CPU utilization has been 47.54% and average mail DPAR's CPU utilization has been 20.96%. That leaves the other 27% to my Application and IM servers and any system resources.
Who else is going?
Also, I may be co-presenting an iSeries session. More on that when it's finalized...
As a side, I've been monitoring my 6.5.4 FP1 server's CPU performance since the beginning of the month. I have found that my average total CPU utilization has been 47.54% and average mail DPAR's CPU utilization has been 20.96%. That leaves the other 27% to my Application and IM servers and any system resources.
Badly Thought Out Domain Names
This forward I received was too funny to pass up....
People spend a lot of time thinking up their children's names. It's just a
pity they don't always think as hard about their domain names.
Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and
famous: http://www.whorepresents.com
Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can
exchange advice and views: http://www.expertsexchange.com
Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island: http://www.penisland.net
Need a therapist? Try: http://www.therapistfinder.com
And there is an Italian Power company: http://www.powergenitalia.com
Finally we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
http://www.molestationnursery.com
People spend a lot of time thinking up their children's names. It's just a
pity they don't always think as hard about their domain names.
Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich and
famous: http://www.whorepresents.com
Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can
exchange advice and views: http://www.expertsexchange.com
Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island: http://www.penisland.net
Need a therapist? Try: http://www.therapistfinder.com
And there is an Italian Power company: http://www.powergenitalia.com
Finally we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales:
http://www.molestationnursery.com
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
NSFDB2 for iSeries?
I was going through some commands and saw that in the CHGDOMSVR command in the QDOMINO700 library that the following options are available:
Enable Server for DB2 . . . . .*YES, *NO
Default data store . . . . . . . . .*NSF, *DB2
DB2 access server . . . . . . . . .
We know that NSFDB2 hasn't been officially released and that IBM has said that it would not be available for iSeries until a later date.
It's fairly promising to see the options available in the CHGDOMSVR command. It almost makes me think that IBM is trying to get this going for iSeries fairly quickly too.
Enable Server for DB2 . . . . .*YES, *NO
Default data store . . . . . . . . .*NSF, *DB2
DB2 access server . . . . . . . . .
We know that NSFDB2 hasn't been officially released and that IBM has said that it would not be available for iSeries until a later date.
It's fairly promising to see the options available in the CHGDOMSVR command. It almost makes me think that IBM is trying to get this going for iSeries fairly quickly too.
Farewell to a legendary band
After a 30 year career spanning 4 decades, Petra is calling it quits.
To celebrate 33 years of music and ministry from the pioneering Christian rock band, PETRA, Inpop Records will release PETRA FAREWELL on November 22nd. PETRA FAREWELL, recorded on October 4th in front of an audience of family, friends and fans at W274 in Franklin, Tennessee, features PETRA classics, emerging worship favorites, and special guest appearances by former band members, including vocalist Greg X. Volz and keyboard player John Lawry.
“It was great to see Greg and John on the same stage together,” says PETRA lead vocalist since 1986, John Schlitt. “Everyone had fun and I’m sure the fans enjoyed the show. We’ve had a wonderful 33 years, and God has done amazing things through this band. We are thankful for all He has given us,” Schlitt says.
PETRA, currently comprised of Schlitt, band founder/guitarist/songwriter Bob Hartman, drummer Paul Simmons and bassist Greg Bailey, has impacted generations of musicians and fans alike over the years with over seven million CDs sold, four Grammy Awards, 10 Dove Awards and an induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The band initially formed in 1972 and paved the way for the rock genre perhaps more than any other in the Christian music industry.
To celebrate 33 years of music and ministry from the pioneering Christian rock band, PETRA, Inpop Records will release PETRA FAREWELL on November 22nd. PETRA FAREWELL, recorded on October 4th in front of an audience of family, friends and fans at W274 in Franklin, Tennessee, features PETRA classics, emerging worship favorites, and special guest appearances by former band members, including vocalist Greg X. Volz and keyboard player John Lawry.
“It was great to see Greg and John on the same stage together,” says PETRA lead vocalist since 1986, John Schlitt. “Everyone had fun and I’m sure the fans enjoyed the show. We’ve had a wonderful 33 years, and God has done amazing things through this band. We are thankful for all He has given us,” Schlitt says.
PETRA, currently comprised of Schlitt, band founder/guitarist/songwriter Bob Hartman, drummer Paul Simmons and bassist Greg Bailey, has impacted generations of musicians and fans alike over the years with over seven million CDs sold, four Grammy Awards, 10 Dove Awards and an induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. The band initially formed in 1972 and paved the way for the rock genre perhaps more than any other in the Christian music industry.
Made In Mexico
OK, so I'm all for NAFTA, CAFTA, whatever. Better jobs offered in our neighboring countries can mean less immigration problems here - but I digress.
So, a couple of months ago our company decided to start buying IBM workstations. As you know, IBM sold their PC business and name to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo. I was perusing one of the workstations we received and looked at the label. To my surprise, I see that the computer was "Made in Mexico".
That's hilarious - Big Blue, the epitomy of an American corporation, sells off a business unit to a Chinese company who builds the computers in Mexico!!
So, a couple of months ago our company decided to start buying IBM workstations. As you know, IBM sold their PC business and name to Chinese manufacturer Lenovo. I was perusing one of the workstations we received and looked at the label. To my surprise, I see that the computer was "Made in Mexico".
That's hilarious - Big Blue, the epitomy of an American corporation, sells off a business unit to a Chinese company who builds the computers in Mexico!!
Monday, October 17, 2005
Chris Moody
I just want to introduce you all to my coworker Chris Moody. Here is a picture I took of him in his cubicle "working".
"Where's my Ferguson Toilet? Bawoosh!!!"
"Where's my Ferguson Toilet? Bawoosh!!!"
Domino 6.5.4 Semaphore Issue
A month ago our mail server went down with the following error and basically, that issue won't be fixed in 6.x codestream but is fixed in 7.x:
WAITING FOR FRWSEM 0x0244 database semaphore
As a follow-up, I just read IBM Technote 1202068 - though we haven't had this hang again since applying PTFs and an IPL, this makes me a little more eager to get Domino 7.0 running:
Problem Your Domino 6.x server hangs with the following messages in the Notes.Log:
02:03:07 AM EST sq="0000A65F" THREAD [0B74:0002-0B70] WAITING FOR SEM 0x0256 NSF buffer pool container (@1210B3E8) (OWNER=0E44:0DB FOR 30000 ms
Why does this occur?
The issue occurs because the "NSF buffer pool container" semaphore is being locked while waiting on the call OSAutoFDGDestory.
This issue was reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# MALR6948NQ. There are currently no plans to address this issue in Notes/Domino 6.x; however, the issue was fixed in Domino 7.x.
WAITING FOR FRWSEM 0x0244 database semaphore
As a follow-up, I just read IBM Technote 1202068 - though we haven't had this hang again since applying PTFs and an IPL, this makes me a little more eager to get Domino 7.0 running:
Problem Your Domino 6.x server hangs with the following messages in the Notes.Log:
02:03:07 AM EST sq="0000A65F" THREAD [0B74:0002-0B70] WAITING FOR SEM 0x0256 NSF buffer pool container (@1210B3E8) (OWNER=0E44:0DB FOR 30000 ms
Why does this occur?
The issue occurs because the "NSF buffer pool container" semaphore is being locked while waiting on the call OSAutoFDGDestory.
This issue was reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# MALR6948NQ. There are currently no plans to address this issue in Notes/Domino 6.x; however, the issue was fixed in Domino 7.x.
An Iraq Blog
I found this US Army Combat Medic's blog via a story at Little Green Footballs. The link is regarding the "staged" event between President Bush and military personnel. This medic was one of the dozen military personnel who were part of the Q&A session. It's good to see the story from a participant's point of view.
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Happy 2nd Birthday!!
AT 3:05 PM on October 16, 2003, Emma Grace was born! Happy Birthday to my beautiful daughter!!
Friday, October 14, 2005
Staged Events
The media seems to be in an uproar about the "staged" event by President Bush with some military personnel in Iraq.
I would like you to take a look at this article:
NBC's Today Show had just run a story about Bush's staged event and then they were going to a live shot of a reporter in a canoe on a street in New Jersey demonstrating how deep the water was. Unfortunately, for the reporter staging the event, two people walked by in the water only up to their calves!! How ironic!
I would like you to take a look at this article:
NBC's Today Show had just run a story about Bush's staged event and then they were going to a live shot of a reporter in a canoe on a street in New Jersey demonstrating how deep the water was. Unfortunately, for the reporter staging the event, two people walked by in the water only up to their calves!! How ironic!
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Give me a break!!
Do we live in such a society that the following are really necessary?
The 100-Minute Bible
A new version of the Bible which its author says can be read in less than two hours has been launched.
The 100-Minute Bible, written as a page-turner for those who do not have the time to read the full version, was unveiled at Canterbury Cathedral.
The SMS Bible - It's gr8 news 4 believers - da Bible sent 2 u in txt - Good grief!
True believers can now encourage each other with lines such as "4 God so luvd da world" and "In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth".
Do we live in such a society that our attention span is relegated to reading the Bible in less than 2 hours or needing an SMS "translation" of the Bible? Our education system was founded on the premise of teaching children how to read by using the Bible! I'm in the middle of reading History of the Bible In English by F.F. Bruce. I'm just now 100 pages in and just now getting to the King James Version of 1611. The forerunners to translating the Latin Vulgate, and eventually the original Hebrew and Greek tongues, into English suffered tremendous hardship and even loss of life to bring us an English Bible. And now we're literally spitting in their faces by dumbing it down so much!
The 100-Minute Bible
A new version of the Bible which its author says can be read in less than two hours has been launched.
The 100-Minute Bible, written as a page-turner for those who do not have the time to read the full version, was unveiled at Canterbury Cathedral.
The SMS Bible - It's gr8 news 4 believers - da Bible sent 2 u in txt - Good grief!
True believers can now encourage each other with lines such as "4 God so luvd da world" and "In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth".
Do we live in such a society that our attention span is relegated to reading the Bible in less than 2 hours or needing an SMS "translation" of the Bible? Our education system was founded on the premise of teaching children how to read by using the Bible! I'm in the middle of reading History of the Bible In English by F.F. Bruce. I'm just now 100 pages in and just now getting to the King James Version of 1611. The forerunners to translating the Latin Vulgate, and eventually the original Hebrew and Greek tongues, into English suffered tremendous hardship and even loss of life to bring us an English Bible. And now we're literally spitting in their faces by dumbing it down so much!
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Template Change
I had to get away from the old standard. I would like to give credit to this site for the template. They have a few others available as well. I'm using the Luna Park template. While I generally like the links on the right side, I thought I would switch things up a bit here. Enjoy!
Eseries
No, this isn't a new server brand from IBM. Rather, I'm talking about the latest phone announcement from Nokia. Greg sent me a link to these phones earlier and there are a couple of features that I find very promising.
First, here is a brief run-down of the features:
Features of all three initial models include the Series 60 platform 3rd Edition, QVGA or better displays, push email including BlackBerry and attachment editing, Wi-Fi with VoIP, Bluetooth 1.2, 75 MB of memory plus hot-swap memory card slots, speakerphone, EDGE and 3G high-speed data, corporate phone system integration, Push-To-Talk, and remote device management via the OMA DM standard.
First, BlackBerry and attachment editing is a must! The Nokia 9300 should have BlackBerry Connect without attachment editing. So, it's good to see the attachment support here. Secondly, it has Wi-Fi with VoIP support. I would be curious if VoIP is only available with VoIP connectivity or if it's available with EDGE/3G as well. Regardless, I could have a small candy-bar phone with BlackBerry and use my corporate VoIP at my desk on a Wi-Fi link (or if I'm in a hotel, conference, etc...) and have my current landline telephone number active. One feature I missed earlier was corporate phone system integration. In Nokia's press release we read that "Companies deploying an Avaya or Cisco IP PBX can connect the new Nokia devices directly to their corporate phone networks, enabling functions employees have come to expect from a corporate network like four-digit dialing and assisted call answering."
It appears that Nokia is really stepping up to take control of the business market and I will be available to test these...
First, here is a brief run-down of the features:
Features of all three initial models include the Series 60 platform 3rd Edition, QVGA or better displays, push email including BlackBerry and attachment editing, Wi-Fi with VoIP, Bluetooth 1.2, 75 MB of memory plus hot-swap memory card slots, speakerphone, EDGE and 3G high-speed data, corporate phone system integration, Push-To-Talk, and remote device management via the OMA DM standard.
First, BlackBerry and attachment editing is a must! The Nokia 9300 should have BlackBerry Connect without attachment editing. So, it's good to see the attachment support here. Secondly, it has Wi-Fi with VoIP support. I would be curious if VoIP is only available with VoIP connectivity or if it's available with EDGE/3G as well. Regardless, I could have a small candy-bar phone with BlackBerry and use my corporate VoIP at my desk on a Wi-Fi link (or if I'm in a hotel, conference, etc...) and have my current landline telephone number active. One feature I missed earlier was corporate phone system integration. In Nokia's press release we read that "Companies deploying an Avaya or Cisco IP PBX can connect the new Nokia devices directly to their corporate phone networks, enabling functions employees have come to expect from a corporate network like four-digit dialing and assisted call answering."
It appears that Nokia is really stepping up to take control of the business market and I will be available to test these...
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Update
Since you probably won't hear too much about the Southern Baptists' assistance (the #3 top organization in giving assistance for the Hurricane Relief), here is an update in an email my wife received yesterday:
Activity Report (as of 10/10, 10 a.m. EDT)
State Conventions Activated: 41
Total Units Activated: 342
Volunteer Days: 81,743
Meals Prepared: 7,200,450
Jobs Completed: 9,466
Showers Provided: 45,897
Laundry Loads: 10,463
Children Cared For: 6,449
Messages Sent: 2,628
Also, check out this information on monetary donations:
2004-05 contributions exceeded the approved budget by $12,496,728.55 and because of budget actions taken in September, the extra amount will be redirected to meet extraordinary hurricane recovery needs of Southern Baptists
These figures are for the Cooperative Program overages and do not take into account monies donated specifically to the "Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Fund". According to this article, and additional $4 Million was given to the Disaster Relief Fund. Two Christian philanthropists challenged the North American Mission Board and Southern Baptists to raise/donate $2 Million and they would match it. The challenge was met and that means that near $17 Million has flowed through Southern Baptist organizations for Disaster Relief!!
Activity Report (as of 10/10, 10 a.m. EDT)
State Conventions Activated: 41
Total Units Activated: 342
Volunteer Days: 81,743
Meals Prepared: 7,200,450
Jobs Completed: 9,466
Showers Provided: 45,897
Laundry Loads: 10,463
Children Cared For: 6,449
Messages Sent: 2,628
Also, check out this information on monetary donations:
2004-05 contributions exceeded the approved budget by $12,496,728.55 and because of budget actions taken in September, the extra amount will be redirected to meet extraordinary hurricane recovery needs of Southern Baptists
These figures are for the Cooperative Program overages and do not take into account monies donated specifically to the "Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Fund". According to this article, and additional $4 Million was given to the Disaster Relief Fund. Two Christian philanthropists challenged the North American Mission Board and Southern Baptists to raise/donate $2 Million and they would match it. The challenge was met and that means that near $17 Million has flowed through Southern Baptist organizations for Disaster Relief!!
SPR For Notes 7.0 Multi-User Install
As a follow-up to my last entry about 7.0 Multi-User Installs, IBM has issued Technote 1219467:
Users are prompted to complete the Client Setup Wizard after upgrading a Notes Multi-user installation to 7.0
Problem
You are attempting to upgrade a Notes 6.x multi-user installation to Notes 7.0. When you launch Notes after completing the install, however, you are prompted to select a location and to complete the Client Setup Wizard. This is not the expected behavior. You should not be prompted to provide additional information when upgrading a multi-user installation of Notes.
Note: This issue does not result in data loss. Local databases and NOTES.INI files are not removed or adversely effected.
Solution
This issue has been reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# HXXE68T7Y5 and a fix is being researched. The issue has been reproduced when the multi-user upgrade is performed manually, through a silent install, or when deployed using a third-party installation program.
To work around the issue, each user that uses Notes on that workstation must complete the Client Setup Wizard. Doing so will require that the user provide information including their user name, home/mail server, User ID file location, and specify which additional services to enable.
Users are prompted to complete the Client Setup Wizard after upgrading a Notes Multi-user installation to 7.0
Problem
You are attempting to upgrade a Notes 6.x multi-user installation to Notes 7.0. When you launch Notes after completing the install, however, you are prompted to select a location and to complete the Client Setup Wizard. This is not the expected behavior. You should not be prompted to provide additional information when upgrading a multi-user installation of Notes.
Note: This issue does not result in data loss. Local databases and NOTES.INI files are not removed or adversely effected.
Solution
This issue has been reported to Quality Engineering as SPR# HXXE68T7Y5 and a fix is being researched. The issue has been reproduced when the multi-user upgrade is performed manually, through a silent install, or when deployed using a third-party installation program.
To work around the issue, each user that uses Notes on that workstation must complete the Client Setup Wizard. Doing so will require that the user provide information including their user name, home/mail server, User ID file location, and specify which additional services to enable.
Friday, October 7, 2005
Notes 7.0 Multi-User Install Upgrades
I just got off of the phone with Lotus Support. I have some good news and some bad news.
Good news - one of the new enhancements with Smart Upgrade in 7.0 is the ability to Upgrade Multi-User Installs. This is great to hear as we have a fair number of multi-user clients.
Bad news - with the 7.0 Client Installer, a Registry key is not being set prior to the actual installation. The install is successful, but upon starting the Client you are prompted with the new client setup wizard asking for User Name, Server Name, location of ID file, etc... This has, in my experience, only affected Multi-User installs and Single-User installs will upgrade and start successfully.
My PMR is being escalated to Development to get this corrected. I can hope that there may be an update to the installer or possibly a 7.0HF1 Client. While there wasn't a ton of focus on the UI of 7.0 being updated, it could possibly keep people from upgrading clients depending on the number of Multi-User installs. I will keep you posted!
Good news - one of the new enhancements with Smart Upgrade in 7.0 is the ability to Upgrade Multi-User Installs. This is great to hear as we have a fair number of multi-user clients.
Bad news - with the 7.0 Client Installer, a Registry key is not being set prior to the actual installation. The install is successful, but upon starting the Client you are prompted with the new client setup wizard asking for User Name, Server Name, location of ID file, etc... This has, in my experience, only affected Multi-User installs and Single-User installs will upgrade and start successfully.
My PMR is being escalated to Development to get this corrected. I can hope that there may be an update to the installer or possibly a 7.0HF1 Client. While there wasn't a ton of focus on the UI of 7.0 being updated, it could possibly keep people from upgrading clients depending on the number of Multi-User installs. I will keep you posted!
Thursday, October 6, 2005
Sametime 6.5.1 for iSeries Still Giving Me Problems
So, do you think I'm still having some IM server stability issues:
It went down a couple of times today (as you can see). I'm still actively working with Domino for iSeries support and the Development team on this one.
It went down a couple of times today (as you can see). I'm still actively working with Domino for iSeries support and the Development team on this one.
Changes to Public NAB in 7.0
- IM
Presence Awareness has been enabled in the views and documents within the NAB. It looks like almost every field with a Name has been enabled for Presence Awareness.
- Open Mail File
In the People view and on the Person form I have noticed an "Open Mail File" button. This should save some time...
- Mail Settings Document
This could probably be covered in a topic in and of itself. Policies and Settings - if you're not using them you should start. With 7.0, a new Mail Settings option is available. With this you can basically set most, if not all, of the options in the Tools > Preferences dialog within the user's mail file.
This could be useful if you want to specify a default Letterhead for all users (or a subset via multiple policies). But the new option in here is to specify a Message Disclaimer (either Prepended or Appended to the message) for outgoing messages. This is pretty slick. I believe you will also have to specify the disclaimer for DWA on top of this. I'm glad to see this feature native to Notes mail now.
- Person Document
- Administration Tab > Notes Client Release fields - It appears that this has been reformatted into a wider table with multi-value fields separated by line breaks. It is much cleaner to see all the machines a user has been at.
- Server Document
- Administration Tab > Public Key Requirements - Here you can specify Minimum and Maximum Key Strengh for added security.
Presence Awareness has been enabled in the views and documents within the NAB. It looks like almost every field with a Name has been enabled for Presence Awareness.
- Open Mail File
In the People view and on the Person form I have noticed an "Open Mail File" button. This should save some time...
- Mail Settings Document
This could probably be covered in a topic in and of itself. Policies and Settings - if you're not using them you should start. With 7.0, a new Mail Settings option is available. With this you can basically set most, if not all, of the options in the Tools > Preferences dialog within the user's mail file.
This could be useful if you want to specify a default Letterhead for all users (or a subset via multiple policies). But the new option in here is to specify a Message Disclaimer (either Prepended or Appended to the message) for outgoing messages. This is pretty slick. I believe you will also have to specify the disclaimer for DWA on top of this. I'm glad to see this feature native to Notes mail now.
- Person Document
- Administration Tab > Notes Client Release fields - It appears that this has been reformatted into a wider table with multi-value fields separated by line breaks. It is much cleaner to see all the machines a user has been at.
- Server Document
- Administration Tab > Public Key Requirements - Here you can specify Minimum and Maximum Key Strengh for added security.
Thoughts on Harriet Miers: Part 2
Yesterday, I linked to Al Mohler's site with some positives about Harriet Miers. Today, let's look at some negatives provided by none other than Ann Coulter.
Today, the main article is at her main page.
After today it may be in her archives.
I believe her first two sentences basically sum it up:
I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court. If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the country.
Basically, Ann's premise is that sitting on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is a great honor that she doesn't feel Harriet Miers is worthy of. Further, Ann states that there are some truly great Judges, lawyers, etc... that should have been offered the position because they have lived their lives in an attempt to promote the judiciary as set forth in the Constitution.
I have been a little leary about the Miers nomination. While on the one hand I would like to trust the President (and Vice President) on this decision, we really do not know how Harriet Miers will do on the bench.
I'll end with another quote from her:
Being a Supreme Court justice ought to be a mind-numbingly tedious job suitable only for super-nerds trained in legal reasoning like John Roberts.
Today, the main article is at her main page.
After today it may be in her archives.
I believe her first two sentences basically sum it up:
I eagerly await the announcement of President Bush's real nominee to the Supreme Court. If the president meant Harriet Miers seriously, I have to assume Bush wants to go back to Crawford and let Dick Cheney run the country.
Basically, Ann's premise is that sitting on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is a great honor that she doesn't feel Harriet Miers is worthy of. Further, Ann states that there are some truly great Judges, lawyers, etc... that should have been offered the position because they have lived their lives in an attempt to promote the judiciary as set forth in the Constitution.
I have been a little leary about the Miers nomination. While on the one hand I would like to trust the President (and Vice President) on this decision, we really do not know how Harriet Miers will do on the bench.
I'll end with another quote from her:
Being a Supreme Court justice ought to be a mind-numbingly tedious job suitable only for super-nerds trained in legal reasoning like John Roberts.
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Thoughts on Harriet Miers
Track back to Albert Mohler's blog:
Positive:
1. Some of what we are learning about Harriet Miers is genuinely encouraging. She has been identified as an evangelical Christian with deep Christian commitments. Ms. Miers is a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas where Dr. Barry McCarty is pastor. Southern Baptists will recognize Dr. McCarty through his service as parliamentarian at recent meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention. I know him well, and I know that this is a conservative church. Those who know her speak of her with great admiration and confidence.
2. Her background is unconventional. This is a positive factor as well as a potential negative in some eyes. In the positive sense, this means that Harriet Miers is not a product of the tight and relatively insulated world of legal scholarship and the judiciary. Her real-world experience in litigation, management, church, and life means that she is less likely to fall prey to the "inside the beltway" syndrome.
3. Her legal experience is stellar. Though she has never sat on the bench as a judge, she is one of the nation's most recognized lawyers. She served as the first woman president of the Dallas Bar Association and later served as president of the State Bar of Texas. She had been nominated to the second-highest office in the American Bar Association when she withdrew from the election to accept appointment to the White House staff. She served as chair of the ABA's Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice. The National Law Journal named her as one of the nation's 100 most powerful attorneys and of the top 50 women lawyers in America. She has now served for several years as a senior member of the White House staff.
4. She has been a major player in President Bush's judicial nominations. Harriet Miers has been responsible for advising the President on judicial nominations to all federal courts, including the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice. By all accounts, President Bush's nominees reflect her vision of the courts and the Constitution. This is most encouraging.
5. She was nominated by someone who knows her very well -- President George W. Bush. Conservatives who have long been troubled by the courts are always (justifiably) concerned that every new nominee is another David H. Souter. In other words, another nominee represented as a conservative who, once on the bench, turns out to be another judicial activist. There are two reasons why this is not likely to be a good analogy in this case. In the first place, President George H. W. Bush had no personal knowledge of David Souter when he nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1990. President George W. Bush has known Harriet Miers for over a decade and has worked with her closely. As the President made clear in his remarks yesterday, he knows Harriet Miers very well, and he trusts her heart. Given the fact that she worked so closely with the President on judicial appointments, this is a significant positive factor. Secondly, President Bush has established a track-record of outstanding judicial nominations at every level, even as he has articulated a vision of judicial philosophy and constitutional interpretation that should give us confidence. As I see it, the President deserves our support for this nomination unless clear evidence should indicate otherwise. I do not expect any such evidence to appear.
Some lament that potential nominees like Michael Luttig and Michael McConnell were not chosen. I understand, appreciate, and share their concern. We should all lament that we are living in a political context which makes the nomination of outstanding conservative jurists like these all but impossible. The only way to change this situation is to change the political context -- and that is no small challenge. There is much work to do and much ground to recover.
For now, we await the confirmation hearings for Harriet Miers and the 110th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Her nomination deserves our support and close attention.
Positive:
1. Some of what we are learning about Harriet Miers is genuinely encouraging. She has been identified as an evangelical Christian with deep Christian commitments. Ms. Miers is a member of Valley View Christian Church in Dallas where Dr. Barry McCarty is pastor. Southern Baptists will recognize Dr. McCarty through his service as parliamentarian at recent meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention. I know him well, and I know that this is a conservative church. Those who know her speak of her with great admiration and confidence.
2. Her background is unconventional. This is a positive factor as well as a potential negative in some eyes. In the positive sense, this means that Harriet Miers is not a product of the tight and relatively insulated world of legal scholarship and the judiciary. Her real-world experience in litigation, management, church, and life means that she is less likely to fall prey to the "inside the beltway" syndrome.
3. Her legal experience is stellar. Though she has never sat on the bench as a judge, she is one of the nation's most recognized lawyers. She served as the first woman president of the Dallas Bar Association and later served as president of the State Bar of Texas. She had been nominated to the second-highest office in the American Bar Association when she withdrew from the election to accept appointment to the White House staff. She served as chair of the ABA's Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice. The National Law Journal named her as one of the nation's 100 most powerful attorneys and of the top 50 women lawyers in America. She has now served for several years as a senior member of the White House staff.
4. She has been a major player in President Bush's judicial nominations. Harriet Miers has been responsible for advising the President on judicial nominations to all federal courts, including the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice. By all accounts, President Bush's nominees reflect her vision of the courts and the Constitution. This is most encouraging.
5. She was nominated by someone who knows her very well -- President George W. Bush. Conservatives who have long been troubled by the courts are always (justifiably) concerned that every new nominee is another David H. Souter. In other words, another nominee represented as a conservative who, once on the bench, turns out to be another judicial activist. There are two reasons why this is not likely to be a good analogy in this case. In the first place, President George H. W. Bush had no personal knowledge of David Souter when he nominated him to the Supreme Court in 1990. President George W. Bush has known Harriet Miers for over a decade and has worked with her closely. As the President made clear in his remarks yesterday, he knows Harriet Miers very well, and he trusts her heart. Given the fact that she worked so closely with the President on judicial appointments, this is a significant positive factor. Secondly, President Bush has established a track-record of outstanding judicial nominations at every level, even as he has articulated a vision of judicial philosophy and constitutional interpretation that should give us confidence. As I see it, the President deserves our support for this nomination unless clear evidence should indicate otherwise. I do not expect any such evidence to appear.
Some lament that potential nominees like Michael Luttig and Michael McConnell were not chosen. I understand, appreciate, and share their concern. We should all lament that we are living in a political context which makes the nomination of outstanding conservative jurists like these all but impossible. The only way to change this situation is to change the political context -- and that is no small challenge. There is much work to do and much ground to recover.
For now, we await the confirmation hearings for Harriet Miers and the 110th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Her nomination deserves our support and close attention.
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Domino Domain Monitoring
I've been setting this up since loading 7.0 on some servers. This looks like it will be a great utility. There are many DDM probes that are available through the events4.nsf database.
Basically, to set up DDM, you open the ddm.nsf database and click on "Open Configuration" (this opens up events4.nsf). In there you have to specify the "Server Collection Hierarchy." In my environment, I am going to have just one main DDM collection server that gathers all of the data from my other servers.
After setting up the Collection Hierarchy, you just have to set up and enable probes. There are many different probe types:
Application Code
Database
Directory
Messaging
Operating System
Replication
Security
Server
Web
The only problem I've had with DDM is that I'm still getting this freaky UI issue with Notes 7.0 only when I have ddm.nsf open.
Basically, to set up DDM, you open the ddm.nsf database and click on "Open Configuration" (this opens up events4.nsf). In there you have to specify the "Server Collection Hierarchy." In my environment, I am going to have just one main DDM collection server that gathers all of the data from my other servers.
After setting up the Collection Hierarchy, you just have to set up and enable probes. There are many different probe types:
Application Code
Database
Directory
Messaging
Operating System
Replication
Security
Server
Web
The only problem I've had with DDM is that I'm still getting this freaky UI issue with Notes 7.0 only when I have ddm.nsf open.
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Are you happy Mr. Glover?
Well Jerry, it's the 3rd quarter and the Gamecocks are down to Auburn 41-0. I'm calling it quits! We've got 88 TOTAL yards right now and we suck!
I guess 2005 is the year for all the SEC teams to get back at Steve Spurrier. As we true Gamecock fans are used to saying "maybe next year..."
I guess 2005 is the year for all the SEC teams to get back at Steve Spurrier. As we true Gamecock fans are used to saying "maybe next year..."
Friday, September 30, 2005
Search Engine Hits for September
sametime 651 fixpack 1 - This hasn't resolved my issue yet - my IM server was hung this morning!
domino web access was unable to process…. - I get a good many of these in various iterations
b6000901 - I sure hope you didn't have to SLIP the LIC!
dltdomsmem - You didn't hear this from me, but call IBM for this
song would you like fries with that - I still get these hits too - was the song that popular?
lotus notes nsd
lotus notes 6.5.2 smart upgrade - It's much improved in 6.5.3+ with a tracking database
do not save encrypted pages to disk' lotus blog - "lotus blog" - you should try the new Google Blog search. It's in beta - haha
stmux - This task has become the bane of my existence!
lost books of the bible - This is a myth!
im_show_status'
breakfasst at tiffany's
chris rock's comments at katrina relief - MUCH more sane than Kanye West!
waiting for frwsem 0x0244 - PTFs and IPL seemed to have corrected this for me
st67007 download
domino shared memory
cell processor - Pretty slick processor from IBM
debug_threadid
lotus notes 7 beta 4 - Don't look for beta - full release is out!
dyson hand attachment
stmux failed - Sorry about that - not my fault...
insufficient memory domino iseries 6.5.4 - Get more iSeries memory on used market - check out Canvas Systems
notes.ini 6.5
notes.ini instant messaging im_show_status - Toggles Presence Awareness on/off for client
the bible lost years - Another myth
domino iseries http task crashes server every 20 minutes after upgrade to 6.5.4 - Wow, that's no good
damo 6.5.5
how to fix the error b6000901 - SLIP the LIC
debug_tcp_all
os x skyfight
lnd is' linux on Altavista - Well LND is NOT actually Linux...
blackberry sms audit - Be more big-brotheris with BES 4.1
lotus notes 6.5.4
the lost books of the bible - Why does this myth persist?!?
blackberry bes 4.1 - I'm looking forward to it!
are clay bar good for car - For cleaning exterior, yes. For interior, no.
iseries b6000901
100 top hits - Hope yours were better than mine!
5580 i5 - I'm right below IBM with this search
your star wars name and title
waiting for frwsem
lotus notes 6.5.4 instant messaging .ini
ringtones 7100g
lotus notes 6.5' 'easter egg' - Pretty cool, huh?
lotus notes cross certify nsd 6.5.4
windows xp commercials - or, False Advertising!
sametime 7.0 sametime.ini
blackberry 7100g ringtones
the lost bible - Go pick up another one, I recommend the ESV!
stmux.txt - STMUX debug file
nsd lotus notes 6.5
lotus notes: nsd
ibm error b6000901
entry already in index message domino 6.5.4 with fp1
lotus notes smart upgrade
spr #jpas6aljqe - Ahh, the NIF pool memory fix
blackberry 7280
514 mln paid-for copies windows idc
debug_dbserver
domino 6.5.4 server won't restart after applying fixpack - That's no good either!
cache.ndk' db compact
lotus notes skins
sametime 6.5.1' 'domino 6.5.4' - Hope it works better for you!
genocide chris moody - That's not the Chris Moody I know
insufficient memory index pool
domino web access was unable to process…. - I get a good many of these in various iterations
b6000901 - I sure hope you didn't have to SLIP the LIC!
dltdomsmem - You didn't hear this from me, but call IBM for this
song would you like fries with that - I still get these hits too - was the song that popular?
lotus notes nsd
lotus notes 6.5.2 smart upgrade - It's much improved in 6.5.3+ with a tracking database
do not save encrypted pages to disk' lotus blog - "lotus blog" - you should try the new Google Blog search. It's in beta - haha
stmux - This task has become the bane of my existence!
lost books of the bible - This is a myth!
im_show_status'
breakfasst at tiffany's
chris rock's comments at katrina relief - MUCH more sane than Kanye West!
waiting for frwsem 0x0244 - PTFs and IPL seemed to have corrected this for me
st67007 download
domino shared memory
cell processor - Pretty slick processor from IBM
debug_threadid
lotus notes 7 beta 4 - Don't look for beta - full release is out!
dyson hand attachment
stmux failed - Sorry about that - not my fault...
insufficient memory domino iseries 6.5.4 - Get more iSeries memory on used market - check out Canvas Systems
notes.ini 6.5
notes.ini instant messaging im_show_status - Toggles Presence Awareness on/off for client
the bible lost years - Another myth
domino iseries http task crashes server every 20 minutes after upgrade to 6.5.4 - Wow, that's no good
damo 6.5.5
how to fix the error b6000901 - SLIP the LIC
debug_tcp_all
os x skyfight
lnd is' linux on Altavista - Well LND is NOT actually Linux...
blackberry sms audit - Be more big-brotheris with BES 4.1
lotus notes 6.5.4
the lost books of the bible - Why does this myth persist?!?
blackberry bes 4.1 - I'm looking forward to it!
are clay bar good for car - For cleaning exterior, yes. For interior, no.
iseries b6000901
100 top hits - Hope yours were better than mine!
5580 i5 - I'm right below IBM with this search
your star wars name and title
waiting for frwsem
lotus notes 6.5.4 instant messaging .ini
ringtones 7100g
lotus notes 6.5' 'easter egg' - Pretty cool, huh?
lotus notes cross certify nsd 6.5.4
windows xp commercials - or, False Advertising!
sametime 7.0 sametime.ini
blackberry 7100g ringtones
the lost bible - Go pick up another one, I recommend the ESV!
stmux.txt - STMUX debug file
nsd lotus notes 6.5
lotus notes: nsd
ibm error b6000901
entry already in index message domino 6.5.4 with fp1
lotus notes smart upgrade
spr #jpas6aljqe - Ahh, the NIF pool memory fix
blackberry 7280
514 mln paid-for copies windows idc
debug_dbserver
domino 6.5.4 server won't restart after applying fixpack - That's no good either!
cache.ndk' db compact
lotus notes skins
sametime 6.5.1' 'domino 6.5.4' - Hope it works better for you!
genocide chris moody - That's not the Chris Moody I know
insufficient memory index pool
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Alias Season 5 Premiere!
WOW! What a premiere. I'm missing Vaughn already though...
So, they bring in the Bennifer pregnancy to the show and now Sydney is going to have to vindicate the death of her child's father. This should be interesting. This was a really great episode. My wife and I have been a faithful viewer of Alias since the 2nd Episode of Season 1. We even watched an episode once in our room when we went on a cruise to the Bahamas - it's that good!
I loved Marshall's line - "I encrypted it with 4096 bit encryption and it will take him years to figure it out. But that's OK because he's a butt."
So, they bring in the Bennifer pregnancy to the show and now Sydney is going to have to vindicate the death of her child's father. This should be interesting. This was a really great episode. My wife and I have been a faithful viewer of Alias since the 2nd Episode of Season 1. We even watched an episode once in our room when we went on a cruise to the Bahamas - it's that good!
I loved Marshall's line - "I encrypted it with 4096 bit encryption and it will take him years to figure it out. But that's OK because he's a butt."
Domino 7.0 Server Upgrade
Check this out:
I just upgraded my mail cluster server. I need to upgrade my app cluster now. I'm going to dive more into DDM now! I'm really pumped about DDM for some reason.
The upgrade from 6.5.4 went well. The RSTLICPGM took about 20 minutes total and the UPDDOMSVR took 5 minutes. This is on a 2-way 270 Dedicated Server for Domino. On my 4-way 820 iSeries it should only take about 7 minutes total judging from past upgrades!
I'm planning on also taking some CPU snapshots for the next several weeks on my production box to see how the 7.0 upgrade fares in a production environment.
I just upgraded my mail cluster server. I need to upgrade my app cluster now. I'm going to dive more into DDM now! I'm really pumped about DDM for some reason.
The upgrade from 6.5.4 went well. The RSTLICPGM took about 20 minutes total and the UPDDOMSVR took 5 minutes. This is on a 2-way 270 Dedicated Server for Domino. On my 4-way 820 iSeries it should only take about 7 minutes total judging from past upgrades!
I'm planning on also taking some CPU snapshots for the next several weeks on my production box to see how the 7.0 upgrade fares in a production environment.
Roberts is in...
John Roberts was confirmed today as The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. All said, it was a fairly bipartisan confirmation - 78 for and 22 against.
All Republicans voted FOR the confirmation along with the single Independent.
Exactly 1/2 of the Democrates voted FOR with the other half voting NO.
Looking through the list of NOs, I was not surprised. It's comprised of the more left-leaning crowd that is always against anything that President Bush recommends!
All Republicans voted FOR the confirmation along with the single Independent.
Exactly 1/2 of the Democrates voted FOR with the other half voting NO.
Looking through the list of NOs, I was not surprised. It's comprised of the more left-leaning crowd that is always against anything that President Bush recommends!
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
ND7 Virtual Launch Event
I must say that the virtual launch event at LotusUserGroup.org was great. It was good to see a brief synopsis of the new features with Notes and Domino 7.
Some of the things I'm interested in here are:
- Domino Domain Monitoring
- Web Services and the possible integration with Blackberry and iSeries
- Greater flexibility/control with Policies
Some of the things I'm interested in here are:
- Domino Domain Monitoring
- Web Services and the possible integration with Blackberry and iSeries
- Greater flexibility/control with Policies
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Story Behind The Pictures
If you went to the following picture and read the caption, you would think that this was done in front of a good size crowd:
US Military on Yahoo! News
But you wouldn't know to check out Little Green Footballs. Check out the following picture taken from the opposite side of the protestor showing the crowd gathered. It's self-explanatory - the media crops out the image that shows no protestors!
Getty Images
US Military on Yahoo! News
But you wouldn't know to check out Little Green Footballs. Check out the following picture taken from the opposite side of the protestor showing the crowd gathered. It's self-explanatory - the media crops out the image that shows no protestors!
Getty Images
Fresh Face in the Blogosphere
Please welcome Jerry Glover to the Blogosphere. Jerry is a colleague of mine who did contract work on a massive Domino project for my company. He's an awesome developer and just as great a person. Basically, he's an all-around Domino guru and I'm looking forward to some good content over his way!
Midrange News E-mails
For the past month or so I have been dealing with weekly e-mails from Midrange News. These have been completely unsolicited and the first week I tried using their unsubsribe option online. That didn't work and I got the following error message:
Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005'
Los cambios solicitados en la tabla no se realizaron correctamente porque crearÃan valores duplicados en el Ãndice, clave principal o relación. Cambie los datos en el campo o los campos que contienen datos duplicados, quite el Ãndice o vuelva a definir el Ãndice para permitir entradas duplicadas e inténtelo de nuevo.
/deleteemail.asp, line 17
So, the next week I tried it again with the same error. Then I sent standard emails to the postmaster and abuse accounts. The next week I got the same error and clicked the "Contact" link at their site and asked to be unsubscribed that way. Today I got the e-mail again and I created a SpamCop account and reported their IP that way. I just saw that they have a new contact so I will also try that method again.
I hate spammers...they probably harvested my address from Midrange lists!
Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005'
Los cambios solicitados en la tabla no se realizaron correctamente porque crearÃan valores duplicados en el Ãndice, clave principal o relación. Cambie los datos en el campo o los campos que contienen datos duplicados, quite el Ãndice o vuelva a definir el Ãndice para permitir entradas duplicadas e inténtelo de nuevo.
/deleteemail.asp, line 17
So, the next week I tried it again with the same error. Then I sent standard emails to the postmaster and abuse accounts. The next week I got the same error and clicked the "Contact" link at their site and asked to be unsubscribed that way. Today I got the e-mail again and I created a SpamCop account and reported their IP that way. I just saw that they have a new contact so I will also try that method again.
I hate spammers...they probably harvested my address from Midrange lists!
Monday, September 26, 2005
Where to buy gas?
I was thinking about where I should purchase gas. I remembered that a couple of years back I got an email stating that you shouldn't buy Middle Eastern oil because it aids terrorism. This is, of course, absurd. However, we know that a lot of oil does come from that region. If you don't want to buy oil from a Middle Eastern (Persian Gulf) state (Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates), then you can look to the Department of Energy's website to see how much each oil company imports from the Persian Gulf.
Below are some of the stats that caught my eye from January-June 2005:
Exxon - 26%
Valero (there are a lot of these popping up in my town!) - 38%
Chevron - 38%
BP North America - 15%
BP West Coast - 53%
Phillips 66 - 8%
Conoco - 6%
Murphy (Wal-Mart) - 18%
Citgo - Venezualan; not much Gulf Oil, but their government isn't a good one to support...
The following import 0% Persian Gulf oil
Sunoco
Shell
Many other I haven't hear of.
Below are some of the stats that caught my eye from January-June 2005:
Exxon - 26%
Valero (there are a lot of these popping up in my town!) - 38%
Chevron - 38%
BP North America - 15%
BP West Coast - 53%
Phillips 66 - 8%
Conoco - 6%
Murphy (Wal-Mart) - 18%
Citgo - Venezualan; not much Gulf Oil, but their government isn't a good one to support...
The following import 0% Persian Gulf oil
Sunoco
Shell
Many other I haven't hear of.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Always The Bridesmaid - Never The Bride
One of my best friends, Chris Moody, was in a wedding this weekend. He has probably been a bridesmaid (sorry, groomsman) in 10 weddings since he graduated from college in 2001.
Sorry Moody, but maybe it's time to put an end to this and take the driver's seat... (you know what I mean!) =)
Sorry Moody, but maybe it's time to put an end to this and take the driver's seat... (you know what I mean!) =)
Friday, September 23, 2005
Sametime Fixed For Me?
It appears that my STMUX problems may have gone away. A few weeks ago I loaded a tracing hotfix for Sametime. The hotfix was simply intended to debug the STMUX task. Since loading the hotfix my Sametime server hasn't hung up again. My Lotus Support technician said that about 3 or 4 other customers have stated that after loading the debug hotfix that the problem has gone away.
While it may seem strange that additional debugging may have resolved a problem, consider this. A while back I was having to debug some Lotuscript that wasn't working right. So, I did the usual - throw in a MSGBOX statement to throw a status up to the server console. After adding this the code worked. I had even tried recompiling Lotuscript before that, so I don't believe it was just the fact that I saved and compiled the code. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm pretty hopeful about Sametime being OK. But, I will let you know if I have any other issues with it.
Now it's time to start considering an ND7 upgrade...
While it may seem strange that additional debugging may have resolved a problem, consider this. A while back I was having to debug some Lotuscript that wasn't working right. So, I did the usual - throw in a MSGBOX statement to throw a status up to the server console. After adding this the code worked. I had even tried recompiling Lotuscript before that, so I don't believe it was just the fact that I saved and compiled the code. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm pretty hopeful about Sametime being OK. But, I will let you know if I have any other issues with it.
Now it's time to start considering an ND7 upgrade...
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Notes Faster on Vista?
We have a beta of Vista from MS and one of our PC Techs loaded Notes 6.5.4 on it. He was saying that Notes seemed to run faster than before. My question was the obvious: "So, what changed?"
Did the Notes executables change or did the Microsoft code change? Hopefully there will be some performance improvements for Java-based applications in Vista.
Did the Notes executables change or did the Microsoft code change? Hopefully there will be some performance improvements for Java-based applications in Vista.
Poll Numbers
So, with all the talk about The President's job approval numbers being in the tank, we usually don't get to hear about the Rasmussen Report's numbers.
Look how close they were in predicting the 2004 Presidential Election results:
President George W. Bush won the popular vote on November 2 by a 50.7% to 48.2% margin over Senator John Kerry. The final Rasmussen Reports projection had shown the President winning 50.2% to 48.5%.
Now, we usually hear of the CNN/Gallup poll showing Bush having a 40% approval rating (his lowest ever). But, do you ever hear the media cite the Rasmussen Report (which was the most accurate for the election)?
Today, they have him at a 47% approval rating - far from the 40% we often hear.
Am I saying that Bush is doing a great job? Not necessarily, but at least he's trying to do some things like, oh, education reform, tax reform, social (in)security reform, etc.... During the election they criticized him saying that the Democrats didn't want to see "more of the same". Well, this weekend I saw Democrat and Republican strategists talking about what to do in the Gulf Coast area for relief and rebuilding. The Republican said that this gives us a chance to try changing the system and making things better for those dependent on the Government. The Democrat (and I've heard it echoed by other Democrats) decried that stating that now is not the time to try new things. They know their old way of dependence helps them keep voters.
Finally, you need to get a copy of The FairTax Book!! It should open your mind no matter what your political persuasion.
Look how close they were in predicting the 2004 Presidential Election results:
President George W. Bush won the popular vote on November 2 by a 50.7% to 48.2% margin over Senator John Kerry. The final Rasmussen Reports projection had shown the President winning 50.2% to 48.5%.
Now, we usually hear of the CNN/Gallup poll showing Bush having a 40% approval rating (his lowest ever). But, do you ever hear the media cite the Rasmussen Report (which was the most accurate for the election)?
Today, they have him at a 47% approval rating - far from the 40% we often hear.
Am I saying that Bush is doing a great job? Not necessarily, but at least he's trying to do some things like, oh, education reform, tax reform, social (in)security reform, etc.... During the election they criticized him saying that the Democrats didn't want to see "more of the same". Well, this weekend I saw Democrat and Republican strategists talking about what to do in the Gulf Coast area for relief and rebuilding. The Republican said that this gives us a chance to try changing the system and making things better for those dependent on the Government. The Democrat (and I've heard it echoed by other Democrats) decried that stating that now is not the time to try new things. They know their old way of dependence helps them keep voters.
Finally, you need to get a copy of The FairTax Book!! It should open your mind no matter what your political persuasion.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Lucas The Sellout
Nothing more is needed than the graphic from an email I just received from StarWars.com:
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Lotus Notes 6.5.4 Rollout Update
As of August 8, my progress was:
6.5.4 - 70.1%
6.5.3 - 17.6%
6.5.2 - 4.5%
6.5.1 - 6.2%
As of today, my progress is:
7.0 - 0.6% =)
6.5.4 - 76.5%
6.5.3 - 16.6%
6.5.2 - 2.4%
6.5.1 - 3.9%
Looks like I'm pretty much there - for some reason the Smart Upgrade isn't working with some of the ones remaining with the 6.5.2 and 6.5.1 clients. I have had Smart Upgrade set with deadlines to force upgrades, so it appears that these people just haven't seen the notices.
6.5.4 - 70.1%
6.5.3 - 17.6%
6.5.2 - 4.5%
6.5.1 - 6.2%
As of today, my progress is:
7.0 - 0.6% =)
6.5.4 - 76.5%
6.5.3 - 16.6%
6.5.2 - 2.4%
6.5.1 - 3.9%
Looks like I'm pretty much there - for some reason the Smart Upgrade isn't working with some of the ones remaining with the 6.5.2 and 6.5.1 clients. I have had Smart Upgrade set with deadlines to force upgrades, so it appears that these people just haven't seen the notices.
Monday, September 19, 2005
New Orleans Links
I saw the following links at Neal Boortz's site yesterday. I couldn't pass them up.
- Apparently Amtrak offered a train to carry about 900 people out of the city. But it left with equipment only.
- In 1997 Congress appropriated $500,000 to FEMA for an evacuation plan.
Frustrated by inaction two years later, Congress strengthened its directive. It ordered "an evacuation plan for a Category 3 or greater storm, a levee break, flood or other natural disaster for the New Orleans area."
The $500,000 that Congress appropriated for the evacuation plan went to a commission that studied future options for the 24-mile bridge over Lake Pontchartrain, FEMA spokesman Butch Kinerney said.
- In 1996, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent them from fortifying the levees.
This suit argued that the Corps had not considered “the impact on bottomland hardwood forest wetlands” and the effect on Louisiana black bears and bird breeding.
- Apparently Amtrak offered a train to carry about 900 people out of the city. But it left with equipment only.
- In 1997 Congress appropriated $500,000 to FEMA for an evacuation plan.
Frustrated by inaction two years later, Congress strengthened its directive. It ordered "an evacuation plan for a Category 3 or greater storm, a levee break, flood or other natural disaster for the New Orleans area."
The $500,000 that Congress appropriated for the evacuation plan went to a commission that studied future options for the 24-mile bridge over Lake Pontchartrain, FEMA spokesman Butch Kinerney said.
- In 1996, environmentalists sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prevent them from fortifying the levees.
This suit argued that the Corps had not considered “the impact on bottomland hardwood forest wetlands” and the effect on Louisiana black bears and bird breeding.
Memory Lapse or Hypocrisy?
I blogged last week about America's Iraq policy since 1998. In that I offered the following quote:
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
There was a news story yesterday regarding former President Clinton speaking out against the current President's Iraq policy. In that story we read the following quote by President Clinton:
Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq "virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction."
Sorry Mr. President, but I'm calling you out on that. You knew in 1998 that there were weapons and you did nothing to stop it. You knew in 1998 (and made it policy!) that Saddam Hussein would not let the inspectors do their job. I'll stop there for now without mentioning what else your administration knew before your term was up.
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
There was a news story yesterday regarding former President Clinton speaking out against the current President's Iraq policy. In that story we read the following quote by President Clinton:
Clinton said the Bush administration had decided to invade Iraq "virtually alone and before UN inspections were completed, with no real urgency, no evidence that there were weapons of mass destruction."
Sorry Mr. President, but I'm calling you out on that. You knew in 1998 that there were weapons and you did nothing to stop it. You knew in 1998 (and made it policy!) that Saddam Hussein would not let the inspectors do their job. I'll stop there for now without mentioning what else your administration knew before your term was up.
Friday, September 16, 2005
6.5.4 FP1 Hotfixes Anyone?
Well, yesterday my production mail server started having some semaphore issues. I was getting tons of the following errors on my console:
WAITING FOR FRWSEM 0x0244 database semaphore
No clients were responding (HTTP, Notes, etc...) so I had to end it after 56 days uptime since loading FP1. After clearing shared memory and semaphores I restarted it. I also enabled semaphore debugging dynamically at the console by issuing the following commands:
set config DEBUG_THREADID=1
set config DEBUG_SHOW_TIMEOUT=1
set config DEBUG_CAPTURE_TIMEOUT=10
Soon after that I started to panic b/c it only stayed up for about 5 minutes. So I got on the phone with Lotus Support and was able to send them the debug.txt file from my semaphore debugging. The server's been up now for about 24 hours. Lotus Support said that there are some hotfixes out for 6.5.4 FP1. Initially it appears that my debugging matches one of them, but we want to wait for another hang to make sure that the errors match up between my debugging and the hotfix code.
In the meantime I'm about 60 days behind on PTFs so I'll probably be IPLing tonight. I'm going to send in my request for downtime now.
WAITING FOR FRWSEM 0x0244 database semaphore
No clients were responding (HTTP, Notes, etc...) so I had to end it after 56 days uptime since loading FP1. After clearing shared memory and semaphores I restarted it. I also enabled semaphore debugging dynamically at the console by issuing the following commands:
set config DEBUG_THREADID=1
set config DEBUG_SHOW_TIMEOUT=1
set config DEBUG_CAPTURE_TIMEOUT=10
Soon after that I started to panic b/c it only stayed up for about 5 minutes. So I got on the phone with Lotus Support and was able to send them the debug.txt file from my semaphore debugging. The server's been up now for about 24 hours. Lotus Support said that there are some hotfixes out for 6.5.4 FP1. Initially it appears that my debugging matches one of them, but we want to wait for another hang to make sure that the errors match up between my debugging and the hotfix code.
In the meantime I'm about 60 days behind on PTFs so I'll probably be IPLing tonight. I'm going to send in my request for downtime now.
Rebuilding New Orleans
OK, so am I wrong to thing that we need to rebuild New Orleans in another location on higher ground? Last night the President said that "the Federal Government" will be footing the 200 BILLION dollars it will probably take.
First of all, "the Federal Government" has one means of income - taxation (Look here for a great tax plan before the Congress...). So, we, the American people, will be the ones ultimately footing the bill.
Secondly, regardless of who is footing that $200,000,000,000, I would hate to see another cat 5 hurricane come in and flood out the city and us have to pay billions again (not to mention the other devastation to human life).
First of all, "the Federal Government" has one means of income - taxation (Look here for a great tax plan before the Congress...). So, we, the American people, will be the ones ultimately footing the bill.
Secondly, regardless of who is footing that $200,000,000,000, I would hate to see another cat 5 hurricane come in and flood out the city and us have to pay billions again (not to mention the other devastation to human life).
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Acoustic Guitar For Sale
I'm parting ways with an awesome acoustic guitar I've had for over 10 years.
Images are here!
eBay listing ends Saturday morning at about 9:15 EST.
eBay listing here!
Images are here!
eBay listing ends Saturday morning at about 9:15 EST.
eBay listing here!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Enabling Transaction Logging to Secondary ASP (iSeries)
A couple of months ago on the Domino for iSeries list, someone asked about setting up transaction logging on an iSeries. I found a proof-of-concept that I thought I would give a try on a test box. The idea was to set up a secondary ASP for dedicated disk units and point the transaction logging to that pool of drives. Here is what I did to enable this.
System:
iSeries model 270 2248 Feature
i5/OS (V5R3)
512 MB Main Storage
System ASP - 210 GB
New User ASP - 115 GB
Domino 7.0
Since I had some eStorage drives lying around that were "taken out" of a production machine, I figured I would use them for the user ASP.
Add Disk Units To System In A User ASP:
- Ensure that you have available space for the new disk units
- Power down the system and do not restart
- Insert disk units into the system
- IPL system to B/Manual and Slow
- Go into the Dedicated Service Tools (DST) environment
- Work with Disk Units
- Work with Disk Unit Recovery
- Disk Unit Problem Recovery Procedures
- Initialize and Format Disk Unit
- Select the new disk units to format and proceed
- Return to the Work with Disk Units menu
- Work with Disk Unit Configuration
- Work with Device Parity Protection (or mirroring - depending on what type of protection you desire)
- Include Disk Units in Device Parity Protection
- Return to the Work with Disk Unit Configuration menu
- Work with ASP Configuration
- Add Units to ASPs
- You will see your new disk units; just type in the number of the next available ASP. I only had a System ASP, so I typed in "2" beside each disk unit to place them in ASP #2
- Confirm your new configuration
- Exit DST and continue with the IPL
Configure New Directory in User ASP:
- CRTDIR DIR('/translog')
- CRTUDFS UDFS('/dev/qasp02/translog.udfs') (This creates a User Defined File System (UDFS) that will be used in the next step as the mount point for your translog directory. The "qasp0"2 must reflect the number of the ASP you created for your drives. The "translog.udfs" can be anything.
- MOUNT TYPE(*UDFS) MFS('/dev/qasp02/translog.udfs') MNTOVRDIR('/translog') I
- WRKLNK OBJ('/translog')
- Option 8
- Note that the Auxiliary Storage Pool should reflect your pool.
Enable Transaction Logging for the Domino Server:
- Open the Domino Administrator client to the server on which you wish to enable transaction logging or to your home server where your main Directory is stored
- Go to the Configuration Tab
- Expand the Server section on the left
- Go to All Server Documents
- Choose Edit Server for the Server Document of the the server on which you wish to enable transaction logging
- Go to the Transaction Logging tab
- Transactional logging: Enabled
- Log path: /translog/ (or whatever you used for the CRTDIR command. It is relative to the root and not the Domino data directory)
- For the remainder of the settings, it is recommended that you become familiar with the various options and make sure they are suited to your environment.
- Logging style: Circular
- Use all available space on log device: No
- Maximum log space: 10000 MB
- Automatic fixup of corrupt databases: Enabled
- Runtime/Restart performance: Favor restart recovery time
System:
iSeries model 270 2248 Feature
i5/OS (V5R3)
512 MB Main Storage
System ASP - 210 GB
New User ASP - 115 GB
Domino 7.0
Since I had some eStorage drives lying around that were "taken out" of a production machine, I figured I would use them for the user ASP.
Add Disk Units To System In A User ASP:
- Ensure that you have available space for the new disk units
- Power down the system and do not restart
- Insert disk units into the system
- IPL system to B/Manual and Slow
- Go into the Dedicated Service Tools (DST) environment
- Work with Disk Units
- Work with Disk Unit Recovery
- Disk Unit Problem Recovery Procedures
- Initialize and Format Disk Unit
- Select the new disk units to format and proceed
- Return to the Work with Disk Units menu
- Work with Disk Unit Configuration
- Work with Device Parity Protection (or mirroring - depending on what type of protection you desire)
- Include Disk Units in Device Parity Protection
- Return to the Work with Disk Unit Configuration menu
- Work with ASP Configuration
- Add Units to ASPs
- You will see your new disk units; just type in the number of the next available ASP. I only had a System ASP, so I typed in "2" beside each disk unit to place them in ASP #2
- Confirm your new configuration
- Exit DST and continue with the IPL
Configure New Directory in User ASP:
- CRTDIR DIR('/translog')
- CRTUDFS UDFS('/dev/qasp02/translog.udfs') (This creates a User Defined File System (UDFS) that will be used in the next step as the mount point for your translog directory. The "qasp0"2 must reflect the number of the ASP you created for your drives. The "translog.udfs" can be anything.
- MOUNT TYPE(*UDFS) MFS('/dev/qasp02/translog.udfs') MNTOVRDIR('/translog') I
- WRKLNK OBJ('/translog')
- Option 8
- Note that the Auxiliary Storage Pool should reflect your pool.
Enable Transaction Logging for the Domino Server:
- Open the Domino Administrator client to the server on which you wish to enable transaction logging or to your home server where your main Directory is stored
- Go to the Configuration Tab
- Expand the Server section on the left
- Go to All Server Documents
- Choose Edit Server for the Server Document of the the server on which you wish to enable transaction logging
- Go to the Transaction Logging tab
- Transactional logging: Enabled
- Log path: /translog/ (or whatever you used for the CRTDIR command. It is relative to the root and not the Domino data directory)
- For the remainder of the settings, it is recommended that you become familiar with the various options and make sure they are suited to your environment.
- Logging style: Circular
- Use all available space on log device: No
- Maximum log space: 10000 MB
- Automatic fixup of corrupt databases: Enabled
- Runtime/Restart performance: Favor restart recovery time
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing Blog
I found this Washington Post blog that you can put in your RSS to keep up with what's happening with the hearings:
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/
XML: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/index.rdf.
http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/
XML: http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/campaignforthecourt/index.rdf.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Iraq Policy Since 1998
Bashing President George W. Bush for the war in Iraq is nothing new. Many of the detractors will accuse him of several things: greed for oil (where is the oil and why are prices high?!?), revenge for Saddam's issues with Bush 41, imperialism, etc... I will not just pass by the fact that Iraq was at the front of W's mind when he became President. However, there is another reason for this preoccupation with Iraq.
In 1998, President Clinton signed into law the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998". The main focus of this act is described in its title: "To establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq." I find it amazing the various issues this Act was supposed to address: Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Iran (1980-1988), killing up to 180,000 kurds and using chemical weapons against about 5,000 Kurds (1988), Kuwait occupation (1990), failed plot to assassinate George Bush (1993), possible desire to attack Kuwait again (1994), deception of UN inspectors regarding weapons (1996-2003), ceased cooperation with inspectors completely (1998).
Section 3 of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 simply states "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."
From Section 6 we read "the Congress urges the President to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law."
Further, I have found some interesting quotes at this forum:
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has .. chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
Also, regarding the failed attempt on Bush 41's life, we shouldn't villify a sitting President for wanting using that as a reason to oust a dictator (which George W. Bush hasn't used but Clinton did use as a reason!). Remember, from above, that part of Bill Clinton's Iraq policy was also meant to seek revenge for that! It was an assassination attempt against a sitting President - of course we should seek out those who tried.
I wanted to look up some more quotes, and I may do so in the future. I would like to see what Hillary and Kerry said about the act back in 1998. I believe that this passed 98-0 in the Senate, so everyone was on board with it (including Senator Kerry). To be sure, this act was really only intended to give support to Iraqi dissidents, but it did state that Saddam needed to be removed from power. George Bush was the one who carried out Bill Clinton's plan for this.
In 1998, President Clinton signed into law the "Iraq Liberation Act of 1998". The main focus of this act is described in its title: "To establish a program to support a transition to democracy in Iraq." I find it amazing the various issues this Act was supposed to address: Iraq's use of chemical weapons against Iran (1980-1988), killing up to 180,000 kurds and using chemical weapons against about 5,000 Kurds (1988), Kuwait occupation (1990), failed plot to assassinate George Bush (1993), possible desire to attack Kuwait again (1994), deception of UN inspectors regarding weapons (1996-2003), ceased cooperation with inspectors completely (1998).
Section 3 of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 simply states "It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime."
From Section 6 we read "the Congress urges the President to call upon the United Nations to establish an international criminal tribunal for the purpose of indicting, prosecuting, and imprisoning Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi officials who are responsible for crimes against humanity, genocide, and other criminal violations of international law."
Further, I have found some interesting quotes at this forum:
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
President Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has .. chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
Also, regarding the failed attempt on Bush 41's life, we shouldn't villify a sitting President for wanting using that as a reason to oust a dictator (which George W. Bush hasn't used but Clinton did use as a reason!). Remember, from above, that part of Bill Clinton's Iraq policy was also meant to seek revenge for that! It was an assassination attempt against a sitting President - of course we should seek out those who tried.
I wanted to look up some more quotes, and I may do so in the future. I would like to see what Hillary and Kerry said about the act back in 1998. I believe that this passed 98-0 in the Senate, so everyone was on board with it (including Senator Kerry). To be sure, this act was really only intended to give support to Iraqi dissidents, but it did state that Saddam needed to be removed from power. George Bush was the one who carried out Bill Clinton's plan for this.
Friday, September 9, 2005
Remembering 9/11
Sunday will mark the 4th Anniversary of 9/11. I'm certain we all remember where we were. I was sitting at work when my mom called to tell me that a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center. I thought she was crazy until I turned on Fox News in our server room and got my colleagues in there watching. Then hearing reports that the Pentagon was hit. Then the second plane hit the other tower and a plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Then the towers fell...
This year, Dream Theater released a song titled Sacrificed Sons. The lyrics by James LaBrie are below. The song starts with news samples from 9/11. At first I thought it was going to be a rant about how we have sacrificed sons and daughters in Iraq, but Dream Theater took a different path that I'm proud of...
Dream Theater
Sacrificed Sons
[left: This has all the appearances of an extraordinarily well coordinated and
devastating terrorist attack—
right: —terrorism against our nation will not stand; the government
will hunt down those resposible—
left: —terrorism means striking terror into the hearts of people, that has been
accomplished—
right: —looking in awe, amazement, shock and grief and anger at what they
were seeing in front of them—
middle: There has just been a huge explosion... you can see, uh, a billowing smoke rising, there was a cascade of sparks and fire and we see this extraordinarily big, frightening scene behind us—
left: —there is panic on the streets, there are people screaming and running—
right: Good lord, there are no words.
left: —3000 Palestinians [unintelligible] chanting "God is good"—
right: —This is just a horrific scene and a horrific moment, but just look
at that. That is about as frightening a scene as you will ever see.
left: But there are times in your life that are life changing, where your
life can never be the same and this appears certainly to be one of them.]
Walls are closing
Anxiously
Channel surfing
Frantically
Burning City
Smoke and fire
Planes we're certain
Faith inspired
No clues
A complete surprise
Who'll be
Coming home tonight
Heads all turning
Towards the sky
Towers crumble
Heroes die
Who would wish this
On our people
And proclaim
That His will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their Sacrificed sons
All praise their Sacrificed sons
[Instrumental Break]
Teach them
What to think and feel
Your ways
So enlightening
Words they preach
I can't relate
If God's true Love
Are acts of Hate
Who would wish this
On our people
And proclaim
That His will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their Sacrificed sons
All praise their Sacrificed sons
God on high
Our mistake
Will mankind be extinct
There's no time
Time to waste
Who serves the truth
For Heaven's sake
This year, Dream Theater released a song titled Sacrificed Sons. The lyrics by James LaBrie are below. The song starts with news samples from 9/11. At first I thought it was going to be a rant about how we have sacrificed sons and daughters in Iraq, but Dream Theater took a different path that I'm proud of...
Dream Theater
Sacrificed Sons
[left: This has all the appearances of an extraordinarily well coordinated and
devastating terrorist attack—
right: —terrorism against our nation will not stand; the government
will hunt down those resposible—
left: —terrorism means striking terror into the hearts of people, that has been
accomplished—
right: —looking in awe, amazement, shock and grief and anger at what they
were seeing in front of them—
middle: There has just been a huge explosion... you can see, uh, a billowing smoke rising, there was a cascade of sparks and fire and we see this extraordinarily big, frightening scene behind us—
left: —there is panic on the streets, there are people screaming and running—
right: Good lord, there are no words.
left: —3000 Palestinians [unintelligible] chanting "God is good"—
right: —This is just a horrific scene and a horrific moment, but just look
at that. That is about as frightening a scene as you will ever see.
left: But there are times in your life that are life changing, where your
life can never be the same and this appears certainly to be one of them.]
Walls are closing
Anxiously
Channel surfing
Frantically
Burning City
Smoke and fire
Planes we're certain
Faith inspired
No clues
A complete surprise
Who'll be
Coming home tonight
Heads all turning
Towards the sky
Towers crumble
Heroes die
Who would wish this
On our people
And proclaim
That His will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their Sacrificed sons
All praise their Sacrificed sons
[Instrumental Break]
Teach them
What to think and feel
Your ways
So enlightening
Words they preach
I can't relate
If God's true Love
Are acts of Hate
Who would wish this
On our people
And proclaim
That His will be done
Scriptures they heed have misled them
All praise their Sacrificed sons
All praise their Sacrificed sons
God on high
Our mistake
Will mankind be extinct
There's no time
Time to waste
Who serves the truth
For Heaven's sake
Sunday, September 4, 2005
New Orleans: "Safe from Hurricanes"
Over at Al Mohler's blog, he refers to the following quote from Tech Central Station:
[John] Law was contracted in 1716 by the French government (read: Philippe) to establish a new bank which would extend him endless credit for his company.
The charter also granted his company control of Louisiana. Law reappointed Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, to a second term as governor of Louisiana. Bienville had been eager to found a trading post at the foot of a Native American portage along the Mississippi which connected the river to a bayou, and hence to Lake Pontchartrain, in the north. He saw this as his chance. Law and the royal engineer both thought Bienville's choice was ridiculous -- the site was in the middle of a swamp. The small patch of dry ground lay at a curve in the river, Bienville argued, halfway between Fort Rosalie (Natchez) along the Mississippi and Fort Louis at Mobile. Also, he said, it would be safe from hurricanes. Being the highest-ranking official on-site, Bienville had his way, and Nouvelle Orleans -- named after Law's benefactor -- was born in 1718.
[John] Law was contracted in 1716 by the French government (read: Philippe) to establish a new bank which would extend him endless credit for his company.
The charter also granted his company control of Louisiana. Law reappointed Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville, to a second term as governor of Louisiana. Bienville had been eager to found a trading post at the foot of a Native American portage along the Mississippi which connected the river to a bayou, and hence to Lake Pontchartrain, in the north. He saw this as his chance. Law and the royal engineer both thought Bienville's choice was ridiculous -- the site was in the middle of a swamp. The small patch of dry ground lay at a curve in the river, Bienville argued, halfway between Fort Rosalie (Natchez) along the Mississippi and Fort Louis at Mobile. Also, he said, it would be safe from hurricanes. Being the highest-ranking official on-site, Bienville had his way, and Nouvelle Orleans -- named after Law's benefactor -- was born in 1718.
Blogspot Comment Spam
I finally noticed that Blogspot now offers word verification to prevent comment spam (which I have had here from time to time).
I have enabled that option. It will still allow you to post Anonymously, but you can use the "Other" option to put your name and website if you wish.
Also related to comments, I have enabled the option for comments to open in a new window. Let me know how if you don't like this.
Finally, I disabled my STLinks integration. It was killing the performance of Firefox for me to view the blog. Things are much faster now with Firefox. If you want to IM me, you can ping me at:
AIM - WhisonantC
GTalk - TopherSSGTP
Speaking of Firefox, it accounted for 27% of the unique visitors to my blog in August and 38% of all views. I would have thought it to be higher!
Explorer - 69%
Firefox - 27%
Safari - 2%
Mozilla - 1%
I have enabled that option. It will still allow you to post Anonymously, but you can use the "Other" option to put your name and website if you wish.
Also related to comments, I have enabled the option for comments to open in a new window. Let me know how if you don't like this.
Finally, I disabled my STLinks integration. It was killing the performance of Firefox for me to view the blog. Things are much faster now with Firefox. If you want to IM me, you can ping me at:
AIM - WhisonantC
GTalk - TopherSSGTP
Speaking of Firefox, it accounted for 27% of the unique visitors to my blog in August and 38% of all views. I would have thought it to be higher!
Explorer - 69%
Firefox - 27%
Safari - 2%
Mozilla - 1%
High School Football Week 2
Well, last week the Northwestern High School Trojans lost our starting quarterback. We lost to Spartanburg on Friday night 26-21. The 2nd string QB did step up and he played well.
We are 1-1 now...
We are 1-1 now...
Friday, September 2, 2005
Katrina's Half
As time goes on, I personally think this could also be expanded to include other disasters because it is a great idea. This was Rock's idea.
I urge you to simply forward the website to people and/or blog about it. Tell people about it as well. While I don't participate in the lotteries, I know people who do. Try to convince them to pledge at the website.
The website is:
http://www.katrinashalf.com
Here is information from the site:
I was driving to the airport today, and I passed a billboard for Mega Millions, a multistate lottery in which the state of Georgia participates. The Mega Millions lottery is currently at a plump $131 million. As I was driving along, listening to news about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I was milling around the idea of "what if I won that money", and was immediately hit with a sense of guilt if I did. How could I become a multimillionaire while so many suffered along the Gulf Coast?
Then I was struck with an idea.
What if I could create a site where people who play lotteries could publicly commit (obviously nonbinding, but sometimes social oaths can be the most compelling) to giving half of whatever they win (i.e. the "take home" check) to the Red Cross (or some other charity's) relief effort for Hurricane Katrina? Think about it - let's say you won the aforementioned Mega Millions. You'd probably bring home about $90 million on the cash option, after taxes etc. That means you'd still get $45 million, and you would be giving a much-needed $45 million to the Red Cross (or some other charity's) Katrina relief effort.
I urge you to simply forward the website to people and/or blog about it. Tell people about it as well. While I don't participate in the lotteries, I know people who do. Try to convince them to pledge at the website.
The website is:
http://www.katrinashalf.com
Here is information from the site:
I was driving to the airport today, and I passed a billboard for Mega Millions, a multistate lottery in which the state of Georgia participates. The Mega Millions lottery is currently at a plump $131 million. As I was driving along, listening to news about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I was milling around the idea of "what if I won that money", and was immediately hit with a sense of guilt if I did. How could I become a multimillionaire while so many suffered along the Gulf Coast?
Then I was struck with an idea.
What if I could create a site where people who play lotteries could publicly commit (obviously nonbinding, but sometimes social oaths can be the most compelling) to giving half of whatever they win (i.e. the "take home" check) to the Red Cross (or some other charity's) relief effort for Hurricane Katrina? Think about it - let's say you won the aforementioned Mega Millions. You'd probably bring home about $90 million on the cash option, after taxes etc. That means you'd still get $45 million, and you would be giving a much-needed $45 million to the Red Cross (or some other charity's) Katrina relief effort.
Domino 6.5.4 and Sametime 6.5.1 Fixpack 1 Update 2
I believe Domino 6.5.4 FP1 has corrected my issues. My mail server hasn't so much as hiccupped since loading FP1. I now have over 41 days of uptime on the mail server.
Regarding the Sametime 6.5.1 FP1 issues, I just received some debugging code from IBM. I will likely put it on after my personal downtime. This is from the technician about the debugging code:
Here is the test fix that requires 6.5.1 FP1 to be installed. Because it prereqs 6.5.1 FP1 (product 5733LST PTF ST67007), that PTF must be permanently applied (using APYPTF) before this one can be loaded.
You will need to edit sametime.ini and turn on logging for the channel operations of the StMux service by adding VPMX_CNL_DEBUG=1 to the [Debug] section.
This will log information to stmux.txt in the trace directory of the Sametime server. We are collecting information about the size of the peer channels table and the resizing of it that is causing the crash. When STMUX experiences another crash, please send in this trace file, as well as sametime.ini and sametime.log. Then delete the existing stmux.txt file and restart the sametime server. A new stmux,txt file will be created and logging will begin again.
Sounds like this will be doing some good data collection!
Regarding the Sametime 6.5.1 FP1 issues, I just received some debugging code from IBM. I will likely put it on after my personal downtime. This is from the technician about the debugging code:
Here is the test fix that requires 6.5.1 FP1 to be installed. Because it prereqs 6.5.1 FP1 (product 5733LST PTF ST67007), that PTF must be permanently applied (using APYPTF) before this one can be loaded.
You will need to edit sametime.ini and turn on logging for the channel operations of the StMux service by adding VPMX_CNL_DEBUG=1 to the [Debug] section.
This will log information to stmux.txt in the trace directory of the Sametime server. We are collecting information about the size of the peer channels table and the resizing of it that is causing the crash. When STMUX experiences another crash, please send in this trace file, as well as sametime.ini and sametime.log. Then delete the existing stmux.txt file and restart the sametime server. A new stmux,txt file will be created and logging will begin again.
Sounds like this will be doing some good data collection!
Feet Up (I hope!)
I'm taking a much-needed vacation next week. After Sunday, I will not be blogging for the week. I will still be accessible via e-mail on CrackBerry, but may not answer those...
Notes 7.0 Pulled From Passport
Volker was the first I saw to post this on his site. Check out this image to see if this could be why it was pulled...this is the craziest thing I've seen Notes ever do. I upgraded my Notes Client from 6.5.4 to 7.0 when it went Gold. Note that between steps 4 and 5 I tried opening a document in step 4 and the document invisibly opens in step 5. By that I mean that I couldn't see that it switched over to step 5 but that I switched tabs and noticed it.
Also, restarting Notes "fixes" it for a while but the problem returns after a bit.
Also, restarting Notes "fixes" it for a while but the problem returns after a bit.
Notes and Domino 7 Interoperability
My Lotus Domino RSS feed had some great technotes today with matrices for interoperability between Domino versions and companion products. If you are looking to upgrade to Notes or Domino Version 7, please check out these two technotes:
Supported Versions for Interoperability Among the Domino Extended Products
Supported Configurations of Notes and Domino 7.0
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Oil Shortage After Katrina
(T)he only reason that traders are willing to pay those prices for crude oil is because they believe that individuals are willing to purchase fuels refined from crude at prices that will enable those original purchases to be profitable. In fact, the price of crude oil cannot rise independently of the value of the final products into which it is refined. Even though we are seeing a pattern in which the price of crude oil increases, which is followed by increases in retail gasoline prices, one must be reminded of the economic processes that are occurring.
I've been doing a bit of thinking about this and I think I may have over-reacted, at least economically, at what appears to be blatant price gouging. At some stations here in Rock Hill, SC, gas prices went up about 70 cents in one day. I began to consider this a little more and I'm not so certain that now we should be asking our government to intervene in putting price caps on gas. The solution that we do need is for America's dependence on foreign oil to be reduced or nearly eliminated. If you are complaining right now about gas prices, you should also be in favor of America drilling at home and building more refineries. Independence is a first step to lower prices!
Remember the oil crisis of the 70s (I don't....lol). This was partly due to our government imposing restrictions! Secondly, why is there a sudden shortage of gasoline from Katrina? It's simple - two major pipelines have been taken offline due to the hurricane. After thinking some more, I had to drop my perspective as a consumer and had to put on my Economics thinking cap. I remembered back in college the principle of J.B. Say, that "supply creates demand." This can be true in a shortage in a paradoxical format. We are seeing that we have less oil coming in (about 20% of imported oil comes up through the gulf) and this is somehow making it more valuable for the short-term (hopefully). I then decided to go to Mises.org (an "Austrian" economics website) to see if their writers had said anything about the oil crisis. I found the following excellent article by William Anderson that deals with the shortage issue and related price increases (the quote at the beginning of this blog was from this article). Dr. Anderson was my economics professor in college. I will not quote the entire article, you can read it for yourself if you have about 5 minutes.
"How to Create A Shortage" by William Anderson.
People are not happy about this latest round of gas price increases; and, not surprisingly, they are demanding answers — and "solutions" — from the wrong people: the political classes. At the cutting edge is Hawaii, where gas prices will soon be controlled by law, not markets.
Hawaiians are about to find out in the near future that the "solutions" they have supported are going to have the opposite effect of what supposedly was intended.
People in the Aloha State pay more for gasoline than anyone else in the United States, and anyone with even a basic understanding of economics understands why this is so. Hawaii is a group of islands located thousands of miles from the continental US, and Hawaiians who purchase gasoline must be willing also to pay for the high transportation costs of bringing fuel to that state. (At more than 57 cents a gallon, Hawaiians also pay the highest gasoline taxes in the USA, a penny more than their California counterparts and about 13 cents more than the national average, according to the American Petroleum Institute.)
Hawaiians believe this to be a most unfair set of circumstances and have turned to their legislature for what they believe to be relief. Yes, even though the high prices that people in Hawaii pay for gasoline are due to that pesky thing called the Law of Scarcity, citizens of that state are convinced that the politicians there can do away with scarcity by fiat. They are about to discover just how wrong they really are.
I've been doing a bit of thinking about this and I think I may have over-reacted, at least economically, at what appears to be blatant price gouging. At some stations here in Rock Hill, SC, gas prices went up about 70 cents in one day. I began to consider this a little more and I'm not so certain that now we should be asking our government to intervene in putting price caps on gas. The solution that we do need is for America's dependence on foreign oil to be reduced or nearly eliminated. If you are complaining right now about gas prices, you should also be in favor of America drilling at home and building more refineries. Independence is a first step to lower prices!
Remember the oil crisis of the 70s (I don't....lol). This was partly due to our government imposing restrictions! Secondly, why is there a sudden shortage of gasoline from Katrina? It's simple - two major pipelines have been taken offline due to the hurricane. After thinking some more, I had to drop my perspective as a consumer and had to put on my Economics thinking cap. I remembered back in college the principle of J.B. Say, that "supply creates demand." This can be true in a shortage in a paradoxical format. We are seeing that we have less oil coming in (about 20% of imported oil comes up through the gulf) and this is somehow making it more valuable for the short-term (hopefully). I then decided to go to Mises.org (an "Austrian" economics website) to see if their writers had said anything about the oil crisis. I found the following excellent article by William Anderson that deals with the shortage issue and related price increases (the quote at the beginning of this blog was from this article). Dr. Anderson was my economics professor in college. I will not quote the entire article, you can read it for yourself if you have about 5 minutes.
"How to Create A Shortage" by William Anderson.
People are not happy about this latest round of gas price increases; and, not surprisingly, they are demanding answers — and "solutions" — from the wrong people: the political classes. At the cutting edge is Hawaii, where gas prices will soon be controlled by law, not markets.
Hawaiians are about to find out in the near future that the "solutions" they have supported are going to have the opposite effect of what supposedly was intended.
People in the Aloha State pay more for gasoline than anyone else in the United States, and anyone with even a basic understanding of economics understands why this is so. Hawaii is a group of islands located thousands of miles from the continental US, and Hawaiians who purchase gasoline must be willing also to pay for the high transportation costs of bringing fuel to that state. (At more than 57 cents a gallon, Hawaiians also pay the highest gasoline taxes in the USA, a penny more than their California counterparts and about 13 cents more than the national average, according to the American Petroleum Institute.)
Hawaiians believe this to be a most unfair set of circumstances and have turned to their legislature for what they believe to be relief. Yes, even though the high prices that people in Hawaii pay for gasoline are due to that pesky thing called the Law of Scarcity, citizens of that state are convinced that the politicians there can do away with scarcity by fiat. They are about to discover just how wrong they really are.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
"Cell" Processor Chip
Reading an interesting article by Dr. Frank Soltis in the September 2005 iSeries News magazine. He's talking about the new "Cell" processor chip developed by IBM, Sony Group, and Toshiba. IBM always does great stuff with their chips and this Cell chip looks very promising to the iSeries future. Quotes below are from the magazine on pages 55-58.
What is the Cell chip? "At a very high level, you can think of the Cell chip as having a main processor and eithg I/O processors (IOPs)"
What is Sony Group doing with it? The PlayStation 3 will use this chip.
What is Toshiba doing with it? They have an HDTV coming out early next year with the chip. "Toshiba has already demonstrated a single-cell chip simultaneously decoding 48 differend MPEG-2 video streams. The 48 streams were read, decoded, and projected onto a large display that was divided into 8 by 6 cells, with each cell showing a different video. Future TV viewing might never be the same!"
Will the Cell be in an iSeries? The actual chip will probably not "but the Cell chip design will certainly influence the design of future iSeries processors."
"Consider that Intel delivered the first teraflops (one thousand gigaflops) supercomputer to the U.S. Department of Energy in December 1996. That supercomputer had 9,216 Pentium Pro processors packaged in 85 cabinets. It occupied 1,600 square feet of floor space and required 800 kilowatts (kW) of power. Today, just four tiny Cell chips produce the same performance as the world's fastest supercomputer did less than 10 years ago. That's impressive for a chip in your TV set."
However, he also says that the Cell is not made to run OS/400. The major influence for iSeries will be in the chip's design. This looks very interesting and I'm pleased to see IBM continuing the consortium to develop new chipsets.
What is the Cell chip? "At a very high level, you can think of the Cell chip as having a main processor and eithg I/O processors (IOPs)"
What is Sony Group doing with it? The PlayStation 3 will use this chip.
What is Toshiba doing with it? They have an HDTV coming out early next year with the chip. "Toshiba has already demonstrated a single-cell chip simultaneously decoding 48 differend MPEG-2 video streams. The 48 streams were read, decoded, and projected onto a large display that was divided into 8 by 6 cells, with each cell showing a different video. Future TV viewing might never be the same!"
Will the Cell be in an iSeries? The actual chip will probably not "but the Cell chip design will certainly influence the design of future iSeries processors."
"Consider that Intel delivered the first teraflops (one thousand gigaflops) supercomputer to the U.S. Department of Energy in December 1996. That supercomputer had 9,216 Pentium Pro processors packaged in 85 cabinets. It occupied 1,600 square feet of floor space and required 800 kilowatts (kW) of power. Today, just four tiny Cell chips produce the same performance as the world's fastest supercomputer did less than 10 years ago. That's impressive for a chip in your TV set."
However, he also says that the Cell is not made to run OS/400. The major influence for iSeries will be in the chip's design. This looks very interesting and I'm pleased to see IBM continuing the consortium to develop new chipsets.
BlackBerry Version 4.1
Apparently this was info taken from the partner presentation today. See information at Tony Kelleran's Site:
http://dominodude.com/personal/tmk/blog.nsf/d6plinks/TKEN-6FSM7N
Some things to note (bold is directly from Tony's site):
Support for DB2 - Interesting, so I assume they will allow a DB2 backend as opposed to SQL
PIN to PIN/SMS Audit logs - Big brother, here I am!
Enterprise Device Authorization - limit types of devices attached to BES - I hope to have a Nokia 9300, so I will definitely allow this device!
Enterprise Instant Messaging - Nice! Wonder if it will work with the 9300?
BlackBerry v4.1 is an upgrade to existing BES installations and will cost money. Depending on the level of TSupport, you may get this for free. - Wish this were a "free" upgrade like IBM products...
ND7 Compatibility – v4.1 will be compatible with ND7 - I guess this means that 4.0 is not compatible. =)
Ability to read encrypted messages - Good addition!
Cluster-aware - hopefully they will eventually get this working!
http://dominodude.com/personal/tmk/blog.nsf/d6plinks/TKEN-6FSM7N
Some things to note (bold is directly from Tony's site):
Support for DB2 - Interesting, so I assume they will allow a DB2 backend as opposed to SQL
PIN to PIN/SMS Audit logs - Big brother, here I am!
Enterprise Device Authorization - limit types of devices attached to BES - I hope to have a Nokia 9300, so I will definitely allow this device!
Enterprise Instant Messaging - Nice! Wonder if it will work with the 9300?
BlackBerry v4.1 is an upgrade to existing BES installations and will cost money. Depending on the level of TSupport, you may get this for free. - Wish this were a "free" upgrade like IBM products...
ND7 Compatibility – v4.1 will be compatible with ND7 - I guess this means that 4.0 is not compatible. =)
Ability to read encrypted messages - Good addition!
Cluster-aware - hopefully they will eventually get this working!
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Monday, August 29, 2005
Why Choose GMail?
I decided to check my old Yahoo Mail account the other day and took a screenshot. While some may argue that GMail's use of context-sensitive ads may be somewhat intrusive, check this out from my Y! mail - it's an acual undoctored screenshot!
Come on! Who wants a truck, tent, boat, and hot air balloon advertisement going across the screen?!?
Come on! Who wants a truck, tent, boat, and hot air balloon advertisement going across the screen?!?
Saturday, August 27, 2005
High School Football
Well, it's on! Last night was the first full week here. My Alma Mater, the Northwestern High School Trojans in Rock Hill, SC got a win. They generally are a fairly dominant force along with our cross-town rival the Rock Hill High School Bearcats.
However, we have a new high school in town and this dropped us down from 4A to 3A. So in our season opener we played Charlotte Country Day school - the reigning 3A State Champs from NC. We beat them 20-9, so it appears that we will have a pretty good season in 3A! We also have a new head coach this year. We play Spartanburg High School next week (4A).
Go Trojans!!
However, we have a new high school in town and this dropped us down from 4A to 3A. So in our season opener we played Charlotte Country Day school - the reigning 3A State Champs from NC. We beat them 20-9, so it appears that we will have a pretty good season in 3A! We also have a new head coach this year. We play Spartanburg High School next week (4A).
Go Trojans!!
Thursday, August 25, 2005
Top 100 Hits The Year I Graduated
Per Libby, "the instructions are: Go to musicoutfitters.com, and do a search on the most popular 100 songs from the year you graduated high school. (You can do this by searching on the year you graduated). Bold the ones you actually like. (Understand that the word "like" in this case means, at the very least, "wouldn't immediately change the radio station from.") Pick a favorite. Underline that favorite. And Strikethru the ones you loathe. Italicizethe ones you consider to be guilty pleasures."
Well, I can't do strikethrough, so I'll bold my favorites and most of them really are horrible anyway!
Top 100 Hits of 1996 (Oh my goodness, I cannot believe how lame #1 was....just shoot me!!! Sorry...) Judging by the following list, 1996 is officially the year of R&B.
1. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
2. One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
3. Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion
4. Nobody Knows, Tony Rich Project
5. Always Be My Baby, Mariah Carey
6. Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman - was actually playing this in a band back then...
7. Tha Crossroads, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
8. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
9. You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
10. Twisted, Keith Sweat
11. C'mon N' Ride It (The Train), Quad City Dj's
12. Missing, Everything But The Girl - was doing this in a band too - lol!
13. Ironic, Alanis Morissette
14. Exhale (Shoop Shoop), Whitney Houston
15. Follow You Down / Til I Hear It From You, Gin Blossoms
16. Sittin' Up In My Room, Brandy
17. How Do U Want It / California Love, 2Pac
18. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion
19. Change The World, Eric Clapton - I really like this one. Two guys from a Christian band named "Dogs of Peace" helped Clapton write this.
20. Hey Lover, LL Cool J
21. Loungin, LL Cool J
22. Insensitive, Jann Arden
23. Be My Lover, La Bouche
24. Name, Goo Goo Dolls
25. Who Will Save Your Soul, Jewel
26. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
27. I Can't Sleep Baby (If I), R. Kelly
28. Counting Blue Cars, Dishwalla
29. You Learn / You Oughta Know, Alanis Morissette
30. One Of Us, Joan Osborne
31. Wonder, Natalie Merchant
32. Not Gon' Cry, Mary J. Blige
33. Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio
34. Only You, 112 Featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
35. Down Low (Nobody Has To Know), R. Kelly
36. You're The One, SWV
37. Sweet Dreams, La Bouche
38. Before You Walk Out Of My Life / Like This And Like That, Monica
39. Breakfast At Tiffany's, Deep Blue Something
40. 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New), Coolio
41. The World I Know, Collective Soul -I was a pretty big Collective Soul fan - good stuff!
42. No Diggity, BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
43. Anything, 3t
44. 1979, The Smashing Pumpkins
45. Diggin' On You, TLC
46. Why I Love You So Much / Ain't Nobody, Monica
47. Kissin' You, Total
48. Count On Me, Whitney Houston and Cece Winans
49. Fantasy, Mariah Carey
50. Time, Hootie and The Blowfish - I had to like Hootie because they're from South Carolina. They had some great music on their first album!
51. You'll See, Madonna
52. Last Night, Az Yet
53. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
54. The Earth, The Sun, The Rain, Color Me Badd
55. All The Things (Your Man Won't Do), Joe
56. Wonderwall, Oasis
57. Woo-hah!! Got You All In Check / Everything Remains Raw, Busta Rhymes
58. Tell Me, Groove Theory
59. Elevators (Me and You), Outkast - And we thought Outkast was a NEW band...
60. Hook, Blues Traveler
61. Doin It, LL Cool J
62. Fastlove, George Michael
63. Touch Me Tease Me, Case Featuring Foxxy Brown
64. Tonite's Tha Night, Kris Kross
65. Children, Robert Miles
66. Theme From Mission: Impossible, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen
67. Closer To Free, Bodeans
68. Just A Girl, No Doubt - Gwen Stefani...
69. If Your Girl Only Knew, Aaliyah
70. Lady, D'angelo
71. Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First), John Mellencamp
72. Pony, Ginuwine
73. Nobody, Keith Sweat
74. Old Man and Me (When I Get To Heaven), Hootie and The Blowfish - I didn't realize this was a radio release.
75. If It Makes You Happy, Sheryl Crow
76. As I Lay Me Down, Sophie B. Hawkins
77. Keep On, Keepin' On, Mc Lyte
78. Jealousy, Natalie Merchant
79. I Want To Come Over, Melissa Etheridge
80. Who Do U Love, Deborah Cox
81. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
82. This Is Your Night, Amber
83. You Remind Me Of Something, R. Kelly
84. Runaway, Janet Jackson
85. Set U Free, Planet Soul
86. Hit Me Off, New Edition
87. No One Else, Total
88. My Boo, Ghost Town Dj's
89. Get Money, Junior M.A.F.I.A.
90. That Girl, Maxi Priest Featuring Shaggy
91. Po Pimp, Do Or Die
92. Until It Sleeps, Metallica - The Black Album - you can't go wrong with that!
93. Hay, Crucial Conflict
94. Beautiful Life, Ace Of Base - OK, I'll admit it, I still have the Ace of Bace album...
95. Back For Good, Take That
96. I Got Id / Long Road, Pearl Jam
97. Soon As I Get Home, Faith Evans
98. Macarena, Los Del Rio
99. Only Wanna Be With You, Hootie and The Blowfish
100. Don't Cry, Seal
Well, I can't do strikethrough, so I'll bold my favorites and most of them really are horrible anyway!
Top 100 Hits of 1996 (Oh my goodness, I cannot believe how lame #1 was....just shoot me!!! Sorry...) Judging by the following list, 1996 is officially the year of R&B.
1. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
2. One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
3. Because You Loved Me, Celine Dion
4. Nobody Knows, Tony Rich Project
5. Always Be My Baby, Mariah Carey
6. Give Me One Reason, Tracy Chapman - was actually playing this in a band back then...
7. Tha Crossroads, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
8. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
9. You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
10. Twisted, Keith Sweat
11. C'mon N' Ride It (The Train), Quad City Dj's
12. Missing, Everything But The Girl - was doing this in a band too - lol!
13. Ironic, Alanis Morissette
14. Exhale (Shoop Shoop), Whitney Houston
15. Follow You Down / Til I Hear It From You, Gin Blossoms
16. Sittin' Up In My Room, Brandy
17. How Do U Want It / California Love, 2Pac
18. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion
19. Change The World, Eric Clapton - I really like this one. Two guys from a Christian band named "Dogs of Peace" helped Clapton write this.
20. Hey Lover, LL Cool J
21. Loungin, LL Cool J
22. Insensitive, Jann Arden
23. Be My Lover, La Bouche
24. Name, Goo Goo Dolls
25. Who Will Save Your Soul, Jewel
26. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
27. I Can't Sleep Baby (If I), R. Kelly
28. Counting Blue Cars, Dishwalla
29. You Learn / You Oughta Know, Alanis Morissette
30. One Of Us, Joan Osborne
31. Wonder, Natalie Merchant
32. Not Gon' Cry, Mary J. Blige
33. Gangsta's Paradise, Coolio
34. Only You, 112 Featuring The Notorious B.I.G.
35. Down Low (Nobody Has To Know), R. Kelly
36. You're The One, SWV
37. Sweet Dreams, La Bouche
38. Before You Walk Out Of My Life / Like This And Like That, Monica
39. Breakfast At Tiffany's, Deep Blue Something
40. 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New), Coolio
41. The World I Know, Collective Soul -I was a pretty big Collective Soul fan - good stuff!
42. No Diggity, BLACKstreet (Featuring Dr. Dre)
43. Anything, 3t
44. 1979, The Smashing Pumpkins
45. Diggin' On You, TLC
46. Why I Love You So Much / Ain't Nobody, Monica
47. Kissin' You, Total
48. Count On Me, Whitney Houston and Cece Winans
49. Fantasy, Mariah Carey
50. Time, Hootie and The Blowfish - I had to like Hootie because they're from South Carolina. They had some great music on their first album!
51. You'll See, Madonna
52. Last Night, Az Yet
53. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
54. The Earth, The Sun, The Rain, Color Me Badd
55. All The Things (Your Man Won't Do), Joe
56. Wonderwall, Oasis
57. Woo-hah!! Got You All In Check / Everything Remains Raw, Busta Rhymes
58. Tell Me, Groove Theory
59. Elevators (Me and You), Outkast - And we thought Outkast was a NEW band...
60. Hook, Blues Traveler
61. Doin It, LL Cool J
62. Fastlove, George Michael
63. Touch Me Tease Me, Case Featuring Foxxy Brown
64. Tonite's Tha Night, Kris Kross
65. Children, Robert Miles
66. Theme From Mission: Impossible, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen
67. Closer To Free, Bodeans
68. Just A Girl, No Doubt - Gwen Stefani...
69. If Your Girl Only Knew, Aaliyah
70. Lady, D'angelo
71. Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First), John Mellencamp
72. Pony, Ginuwine
73. Nobody, Keith Sweat
74. Old Man and Me (When I Get To Heaven), Hootie and The Blowfish - I didn't realize this was a radio release.
75. If It Makes You Happy, Sheryl Crow
76. As I Lay Me Down, Sophie B. Hawkins
77. Keep On, Keepin' On, Mc Lyte
78. Jealousy, Natalie Merchant
79. I Want To Come Over, Melissa Etheridge
80. Who Do U Love, Deborah Cox
81. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
82. This Is Your Night, Amber
83. You Remind Me Of Something, R. Kelly
84. Runaway, Janet Jackson
85. Set U Free, Planet Soul
86. Hit Me Off, New Edition
87. No One Else, Total
88. My Boo, Ghost Town Dj's
89. Get Money, Junior M.A.F.I.A.
90. That Girl, Maxi Priest Featuring Shaggy
91. Po Pimp, Do Or Die
92. Until It Sleeps, Metallica - The Black Album - you can't go wrong with that!
93. Hay, Crucial Conflict
94. Beautiful Life, Ace Of Base - OK, I'll admit it, I still have the Ace of Bace album...
95. Back For Good, Take That
96. I Got Id / Long Road, Pearl Jam
97. Soon As I Get Home, Faith Evans
98. Macarena, Los Del Rio
99. Only Wanna Be With You, Hootie and The Blowfish
100. Don't Cry, Seal
Wednesday, August 24, 2005
"Lost Books" of the Bible
On my website, I had begun a few years back working on gathering information on the Apocryphal literature (focusing more on the New Testament Apocrypha). That information may be found here.
Last night and tonight I worked on compiling information on the Gospel of Thomas. I have uploaded that information here.
Last night and tonight I worked on compiling information on the Gospel of Thomas. I have uploaded that information here.
Google Talk
OK everyone, go to http://www.google.com/talk/ and download it! FYI, though, the "Add Friend" feature doesn't just add them it also sends an invitation. You have to have a GMail account to sign in.
I'm online - topherssgtp
I'm online - topherssgtp
Friday, August 19, 2005
Search Engine Hits for August (So Far...)
6.5.2 'insufficient memory' 'index pool is full' on Google
6.5.4 domino web access warning sorry we were unable to process" on Google - get a lot of these, hopefully my little FAQ is helpful!
'6.5.4 fix pack 1'" on Google - Not here but IBM has it somewhere...
b6000901 on Google/MSN - Get several of these hits too - hope people aren't mad that they have to slip the LIC
blackberry '7100 g' ringtones on MSN - Love this smartphone - way to go RIM!
blackberry 7100g 7290 on Yahoo - 7100g is better
blackberry pros cons on MSN - pros - it's not running Windows! =)
can-spam act of 2003 (pub. l. 108-187, s877) on Google - what a joke...
'chris moody' mensa" on Google - see above - lol sorry Moody!
country song/'do you want fries with that' on MSN - get a lot of these hits too - prompted by Ed mentioning the phrase on his site
coworker on vacation office on MSN - I don't condone doing anything to coworkers offices! ;)
debug_tcp_all on Google - Sorry you're having to debug too...
debug_threadid on Google Again, see above
desktop6.ndk on MSN - Just delete it
dltdomsem on Google - A command that only shows up at my blog - not even on IBM's sites...
do you want fries with that on MSN - many iterations of this below too
do you want fries with that? on MSN
domino 6.5.3 - nsd dump set up on Google - I wish I could read NSD files better, but getting there
'domino 6.5.4' and 'lotus instant messaging' and 'iseries'" on Google - You've found the spot - I'll help where I can
domino 6.5.4 fixpack 1 on Google - Works well for me and fixed my Domino 6.5.4 issues so far!
domino stmux on Google - Lotus Support says they've been getting more calls about this - you better check with them.
domino web access warning sorry we were unable on MSN - Many more iterations of this
domino web access warning on MSN/Yahoo
'domino web access warning. sorry we were unable to process your request at this time.' on Yahoo
domino web access warning. Sorry, we were unable to process your request at this time. if you are unable to continue working in your mail file, please dismiss this warning and then select view, refresh from your browser's menu on Google - WOW, they searched the whole string...
download sametime 651 fp1 on Google - I believe it was finally ready for prime time!
im_show_status on Google - Nice hack here to change this globally with Desktop Settings documents.
'index pool is full' on Google - That's not good
inotes 'domino web access warning'" on Google
iseries b6000901 on Google
lotus domino 6.5.4 fixpack 1 (fp1) linux install on Google - Yeah, I installed this and it was OK. I'm running 7.0B4 on my Linux box now
lotus domino iseries delete semaphores on Google - I have you covered!
'lotus notes domino 6.5.4' system requirements on Google - Better check with IBM
nif global pool on Google - I think there were some issues with this and 6.5.4
'nif global pool'" on Google
originalmodtime on Google
passing the mensa test on MSN - Don't ask me! I haven't passed it (yet...) LOL
performance notes lotus 'cache.ndk' symantec on Google - Make sure your Symantec AV isn't scanning Notes b/c it makes everything SLOW...
prohibit running activex controls sametime on Google
'sametime 6.5.1 fp1' on Google - Still hasn't fixed my STMUX issues. IBM is making an STMUX trace fixpack for me
sametime 6.5.1 video .wmv on Google
server error: insufficient memory 6.5.4 iseries on Google - Better buy some more memory from IBM! Or just use the DLTDOMSMEM and DLTDOMSEM commands
song do you want fries with that? on Yahoo
stmux crash on Google - Still crashing
stmux debug on Google - Still de
the song-do you want fries with that on MSN
use60htmlcode on Google - This is a notes.ini entry apparently reverts the html fixes in 6.5.4 to the older code.
user inotes warning sorry we were unable to process your request on Google
zzyzx on MSN - Hope Zzyzx hasn't seen my post - I was a little livid that day...
song do you want fries with that? on Yahoo
6.5.4 domino web access warning sorry we were unable to process" on Google - get a lot of these, hopefully my little FAQ is helpful!
'6.5.4 fix pack 1'" on Google - Not here but IBM has it somewhere...
b6000901 on Google/MSN - Get several of these hits too - hope people aren't mad that they have to slip the LIC
blackberry '7100 g' ringtones on MSN - Love this smartphone - way to go RIM!
blackberry 7100g 7290 on Yahoo - 7100g is better
blackberry pros cons on MSN - pros - it's not running Windows! =)
can-spam act of 2003 (pub. l. 108-187, s877) on Google - what a joke...
'chris moody' mensa" on Google - see above - lol sorry Moody!
country song/'do you want fries with that' on MSN - get a lot of these hits too - prompted by Ed mentioning the phrase on his site
coworker on vacation office on MSN - I don't condone doing anything to coworkers offices! ;)
debug_tcp_all on Google - Sorry you're having to debug too...
debug_threadid on Google Again, see above
desktop6.ndk on MSN - Just delete it
dltdomsem on Google - A command that only shows up at my blog - not even on IBM's sites...
do you want fries with that on MSN - many iterations of this below too
do you want fries with that? on MSN
domino 6.5.3 - nsd dump set up on Google - I wish I could read NSD files better, but getting there
'domino 6.5.4' and 'lotus instant messaging' and 'iseries'" on Google - You've found the spot - I'll help where I can
domino 6.5.4 fixpack 1 on Google - Works well for me and fixed my Domino 6.5.4 issues so far!
domino stmux on Google - Lotus Support says they've been getting more calls about this - you better check with them.
domino web access warning sorry we were unable on MSN - Many more iterations of this
domino web access warning on MSN/Yahoo
'domino web access warning. sorry we were unable to process your request at this time.' on Yahoo
domino web access warning. Sorry, we were unable to process your request at this time. if you are unable to continue working in your mail file, please dismiss this warning and then select view, refresh from your browser's menu on Google - WOW, they searched the whole string...
download sametime 651 fp1 on Google - I believe it was finally ready for prime time!
im_show_status on Google - Nice hack here to change this globally with Desktop Settings documents.
'index pool is full' on Google - That's not good
inotes 'domino web access warning'" on Google
iseries b6000901 on Google
lotus domino 6.5.4 fixpack 1 (fp1) linux install on Google - Yeah, I installed this and it was OK. I'm running 7.0B4 on my Linux box now
lotus domino iseries delete semaphores on Google - I have you covered!
'lotus notes domino 6.5.4' system requirements on Google - Better check with IBM
nif global pool on Google - I think there were some issues with this and 6.5.4
'nif global pool'" on Google
originalmodtime on Google
passing the mensa test on MSN - Don't ask me! I haven't passed it (yet...) LOL
performance notes lotus 'cache.ndk' symantec on Google - Make sure your Symantec AV isn't scanning Notes b/c it makes everything SLOW...
prohibit running activex controls sametime on Google
'sametime 6.5.1 fp1' on Google - Still hasn't fixed my STMUX issues. IBM is making an STMUX trace fixpack for me
sametime 6.5.1 video .wmv on Google
server error: insufficient memory 6.5.4 iseries on Google - Better buy some more memory from IBM! Or just use the DLTDOMSMEM and DLTDOMSEM commands
song do you want fries with that? on Yahoo
stmux crash on Google - Still crashing
stmux debug on Google - Still de
the song-do you want fries with that on MSN
use60htmlcode on Google - This is a notes.ini entry apparently reverts the html fixes in 6.5.4 to the older code.
user inotes warning sorry we were unable to process your request on Google
zzyzx on MSN - Hope Zzyzx hasn't seen my post - I was a little livid that day...
song do you want fries with that? on Yahoo
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