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As you know by now, yesterday we lost a visionary. Though we all strive in our daily lives to change the world — and in small ways we do change it — there are some among us who do so in broad, sweeping strokes. Steve Jobs was one of those people. He touched all of us in some way. I cannot imagine there being more than a handful of people in the remotest of locations that have never touched an iPod or seen a Pixar movie.

My first encounter with an Apple product was in the late 1970’s. It was an Apple II owned by “that weird computer guy” who lived in an apartment upstairs from my aunt. It was the first time I had seen the internal’s of a computer (he always had it opened so that he could swap different peripheral cards) and I was amazed by it. I didn’t see another Apple until seventh grade computer programming class where we wrote games on one of four Apple IIe’s the school had just acquired. Over the years at school, work, and home I had the opportunity to use several of the Mac, Mac II, Quadra, 6×00’s, 7×00’s, iBooks, G3’s, G4’s (the Cube being one of the coolest looking computers ever made), Mini’s, MacBooks, iMacs, countless iPods, iPhones, and iPads. I write this today on my iMac using Pages.

But he was more than Apple. He also lent much of his time and energy to Pixar. Like Apple, Pixar is another company that truly amazes me. Their dedication to the art of film — and, yes, Pixar movies are art unlike many of the films Hollywood produces today — is inspiring. There was also NeXT, the seeds of which germinated into our modern day OS X. And then there was the board of director’s seat at Disney, another company that I admire for their vision, passion, and dedication. While most CEOs come and go with little fanfare (and deservedly so), Jobs had his hands firmly rooted into four amazing companies of which touch my life in many meaningful ways.

I cannot help but to recall how upset my father was when John Lennon was killed. He tragically lost an influential artist that had a deep impact on his life. And while he knew how deeply Lennon had impacted his life, I don’t think I realized how much Jobs has impacted my life until I heard the news yesterday (ironically as a push notification from CNN on the iPhone). But my feelings really should not surprise me. For my dad, Lennon was important and changed his way of listening to music. For me it is technology that is important, and it is undeniable that Job changed it in meaningful and long-lasting ways. Jobs was an artist. Technology was his medium. He will be missed, but his influence will live on.

IBM has published a new technote that all admins running Domino on Unix or i servers should read immediately:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21500850

Several weeks ago it was brought to my attention that a customer was seeing an increasingly large number of tickets for Notes crashes when attaching or detaching files from an e-mail. After quite bit of time, we kept finding references to lcppn30.dll in the crash data:

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Section: Notes Process Info (Time 13:42:48)
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INFO (0): Java core request succeeded

<@@ ------ Notes Process Info -> Load Modules for Process :: [ nlnotes:  07ac] (Time 13:42:51) ------ @@>

Base               End                      Size Module
0x04800000         0x049ba000            1810432 C:\PROGRA~1\Adobe\ACROBA~1.0\PDFMaker\Mail\LOTUSN~1\PDFMLO~1.DLL
0x049c0000         0x04bb1000            2035712 C:\PROGRA~1\Adobe\ACROBA~1.0\PDFMaker\Mail\LOTUSN~1\lcppn30.dll

“IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration” is the latest Domino related title adding to Packt Publishing’s growing library of amazing Domino related titles. Though the book is a great resource for any Quickr admin, admins running Quickr on WebSphere should be aware that this book is solely centered on running Quickr on IBM’s Lotus Domino platform.

The book begins with a very brief introduction on collaboration using Quickr. It then moves into a discussion on the different deployment architectures — Domino and WebSpehere — and helps the reader narrow down for which architecture their environment would be best suited.

Chapter Three is where the book splits off and begins to focus on Quickr for Domino leaving WebSphere as a potential topic for another book. The author’s begin to dive into the underlying architecture providing the reader with a good understanding of how Quickr is situated atop Domino. Different deployment methods — single server vs. clustered servers vs. expanded deployment — are covered. (more…)

We are pleased to annouce that we will be sponsoring the LTAP 2010 conference. Taking place October 27 & 28, LTAP, or Lotus Technical And Professional Users, is a free virtual conference for Lotus professionals. The aim of the conference is to bring together some of the best Lotus speakers and bring them to you for free. This virtual conference will take place via the web in order to provide an easy means for you to attend without incurring travel and lodging costs.

Don’t be fooled just because the conference is free. Ed Brill, Director, Product Management, IBM Lotus software is delivering the keynote. Also, some of the best speakers in the Lotus community will be participating including Kieth Brooks, Jan Keeney, Gary Devendorf, Rob Ingram, Pete Janzen, Eileen Fitzgerald, and many more!

Visit ltap2010.com for more information and please come by and visit us at Booth #203!

Are you a Lotus Sametime user? If so, then IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User’s Guide should be on your Must Read list! Written by collaboration experts Thomas Duff and Marie Scott, this book provides insight into using Lotus Sametime that is just as relevant for beginnings as it is for advanced users. With a writing style that uses plenty of real-world scenarios, an abundance of screenshots, and precise instructions this book leaves little room for improvement and will more than satisfy any Lotus Sametime user’s needs.

Chapter one starts at the beginning by providing an explanation of instant messaging and how Sametime can be used for instant messaging in the business environment. (more…)

Continuing their much appreciated streak of Lotus Notes and Domino related book titles, Pack Publishing has just released the “IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide”. As the title conveys, this book contains no information on Domino administration or application development; it is intended for the end-user audience. While Notes comes with a complete and well written help database that can be read like a book, author Karen Hooper takes it a step further detailing every nuance of the Lotus Notes client in a clear, concise, hand-holding manner that makes it a must-read for any Lotus Notes end-user. (more…)

In celebration of Yellow Day 2010 we are offering a 33% discount on all of our products! But we at Conxsys love Lotus Notes and Domino so much that we don’t believe a single day is enough, therefore we are offing this amazing discount on all of our products for a full week! Purchase any product between now and August 18th, enter the coupon code YellowDay2010, and you will receive 33% off the list price! It is that simple! Whether you have been needing an e-mail purge utility or a document monitoring and data backup tool you can get them now at a steep discount. But don’t wait too long because this offer disappears August 18th!

It has been two years since Flow, the advanced LotusScript logging engine, was released on OpenNTF.org. In those two years I have collected numerous feature requests and have implemented them (and some bug fixes) through-out five different beta releases of the engine. With no new bugs reported in almost a year I thought it was finally time to drop the Beta tag and go Gold, and what better day to do that than Yellow Day 2010? Please download it, use it, and let me know if you want any features added to it.

To find out more about Flow please see this previous post. To get your copy of Flow head on over to the Flow project page on OpenNTF.org. To see Flow in action you can download the free nsfRewind Server Document Edition which uses the Flow logging engine.