Gregg Eldred

I thought that this was going to be the Career Builder Super Bowl ad, but it wasn't. However, I believe that this one does appear on the television occasionally.




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Back in January, vowe posted about a TSA Logo contest being run by Bruce Schneier. Checking back today (thanks, Matt), there are a "few" more entries. Hilarious.



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On the Lotus Notes and Domino wiki is a Reference Card for Lotus Notes 8.5.1 that you can use to help your users navigate the Notes client and perform some of the more common tasks.



To download the reference card from the wiki, you will need to register. As one commenter pointed out:

...Otherwise you just get an obscure "Error 400" and will sit there like me scratching your head thinking it's a broken link. Heaven forbid that people just download public content anonymously.. sigh!

Update: It looks like the URL for the PDF was added by another commenter, which circumvents the need to register.

Link: Lotus Notes and Domino wiki: Reference Card: Using IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.1 Reference Card


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Started from January 25, 2010 IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud is opening a new Pilot Service for selected customers. Whoever with or without cloud experience should deem this as a great opportunity to be the first few people to taste IBM Cloud and it is FREE! Follow the instructions on front page you should be able to register and get the right to create your own application server(instance) on IBM cloud right away!

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After following William's steps, you will have a Domino 8.5.1 server running on a Linux distro (SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 SP2 or 11.0 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4) in IBM's cloud.



Note that this service is not available to all countries.

Link: Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud Blog: Pilot Service available

Link: IBM Smart Business: Development & Test


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While ZDNet announces the release of Lotus Symphony 3.0 beta, author Larry Dignan points out two issues with the alternatives of Microsoft Office:

The challenge for alternatives to Office is clear: Break customer inertia. We all know the potential ROI case. Alternatives are largely free vs. paying Microsoft for Office. However, customers generally like Office and have no tolerance for that PowerPoint document that may not be formatted correctly with an alternative.

Inertia and formatting/compatibility issues are the hurdles to wider acceptance of Office alternatives. While most of us do not suffer from the former, it is the latter that probably causes the most problems. Speaking from first hand experience, when sharing documents with Office users, I continually have issues with formatting; in Office documents sent to me and when I share documents with Office users. While finished documents are immediately saved as PDF's, during collaboration, formatting causes the majority of the issues with the alternative office productivity suites.

Link: ZDNet: IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up


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While I think I understand the short tenure of the General Manager position at IBM Lotus (it is, after all, a very large organization and this can be considered somewhat "normal"), FUDWatch has their own view of the "revolving door" at the top of IBM Lotus.

I'll never understand it. I could have a dozen top men from Big Blue explain it to me for hours on end, and I still won't completely get why IBM keeps shuffling people in and out of Lotus Software's general manager position. I know IBM stands for "I've Been Moved" and that executive shuffling is the norm for the company. But for crucial leadership positions, there needs to be some stability.

And yet, IBM continues its predictable pattern of rotating executives in and out of Lotus after a couple of years. Just this week at Lotusphere 2010, IBM annoited a new head of Lotus, the fifth general manager in less than 10 years, causing Lotus to become a rudderless subsidiary with no true identity or direction. It's gone on for the last decade, and it's gone on long enough.

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Excellent article accompanying the video

In the meantime, we now understand exactly why it was that US regulator The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found it so difficult to detect Bernie Madoff's fraud - several SEC staff were apparently spending their time trying to use the regulator's computers to access porn sites instead of helping to combat crime.

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Based on the numbers, I am guessing that you have seen the movie, Avatar. How about a look at the data center that processed the digital images you witnessed?

. . . Our center is about 10,000 square feet, and it's only half full. But we run a lot of machines - about 4,000 quad-core HP blades, 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage. It all has to be packed together for performance, and we use multiple 10 gigabyte links to connect the gear.

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Currently, dates have been announced for all areas except North America and Latin America.

Thanks, CollabChick.

Link: Lotusphere Comes To You 2010


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