Craig Wiseman

From The Inquirer:

Jobs reveals an IOS4 update
By Nick Farrell
Mon Aug 23 2010, 10:39
AND IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK of Jobs that the people of Steve were perplexed at IOS4 for it did not do what was written on the packet for the users of the less than holy Iphone 3G.

They did moan and vex that IOS4 was a pile of dog poo, "dog slow", and not worthy of the Apple label. And so Steve did go up the mountain to tell God what he must do next and lo he did come back down the mountain having transformed heaven and earth with a more perfect IOS4.

And Jobs did send forth a message unto his unworthy disciples via his holy Iphone and did spake and say, "Software update coming soon. Sent from my iPhone"

And the Apple fanbois rejoiced that he had heard their complaints and would soon render unto them a software update to bind up the Iphone 3G's imperfections under IOS 4.

But there were unbelievers in their midst who did say that Jobs was a little short on details and did care not for the Iphone 3G.

For did not Jobs give unto believers the broken Iphone 4 with the holy rubber band of workage? And did not the Iphone 4 run okayish with IOS4?

But the faithful did spake and said that the IOS 4.1 betas seemed to be improving performance on the Iphone 3G, so all was well in the Walled Garden of Delights and the people did feast on the latte's of joy and listen unto the Coldplay of doom even unto the ends of the earth.

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Craig Wiseman August 23rd, 2010 06:10:43 AM

I've been working on this list for some time (please suggest any additions!) . I posted a version of this a while ago.

You know you're from Louisiana when


1. You look both ways before crossing a one way street.


2. When a truck drives by spraying poisonous chemicals into the air, you don't call the EPA. You happily/maniacally think, "Die Mosquitos, DIE."


3. You take advantage of the fact your license plate lets you use the handicap spots when visiting other states.


4. This makes you cry. Even after watching it 20 times.


5. This makes you cry. This gives you hope.


6. You (in your heart - be honest) think the Saints really will do it this year. AGAIN*.


7. You use several cook books and "Wild Kingdom" reruns when planning your meals.


8. You can't give directions without referencing I-10 (or I-20 for those yankees in north Louisiana)...


9. You like to be able to plot your natural disasters on a map - and use friendly first names to refer to them.


10. You have "monthly generator maintenance" on your calendar.


11. You know that a blinking turn signal is more a reminder of things past than a predictor of future events.


12. Apparently, you like your seafood, uh, "pre-oiled", before frying it.


13. You're asked in school to name the Trinity and you reply, "The onion, the celery, and the bell pepper."


14. You wear shorts at Christmas.


15. Bloody Marys count as "vegetable".


16. You realize you've got more MRE brown spoons than real metal spoons in your cutlery drawer.


17. You can easily justify a jacked up SUV because of the brutal off-roadlike conditions you encounter every day - when you pull out of your driveway onto the road.


18. You don't have to hide your football schedule when planning your wedding date.


19. You know that Tigers do indeed eat Bull Dogs, wild hogs, wild cats, roosters, high-ranking Navy officers, elephants, even genetic nightmares like a combo War Eagle/tiger/plainsman, and especially Sooners and Trojans!


20. You know the proper way to spell "Y'all".


21. You don't eat lobster because you know it's really a crawfish on performance-enhancing drugs (like Barry Bonds).


22. You know that purple, green & gold look good together.


23. You see a store called "Christian Armory" and it doesn't faze you a bit.


24. You're sadly happy when disasters happen to someone else. For once.
 

25. The four seasons you're aware of are: Crawfish, Shrimp, Crab, and King Cake.


26. You've watched the movie "Deliverance" and thought it lacked vision.


27. You know how to say Lafayette, Bossier, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Pontchartrain, Ouachita, and New Orleans (w/o the long E)


28. You have a pair "Delcambre Reeboks"


29. You think a drive through Daiquiri Shop is a "duh" - obvious concept.


30. Sam Walton and Walt Disney are in your personal pantheon.


31. You have fond memories of body-temperature Rum/Whisky (ok, any flask-able alcohol that mixes with Coke).


32. When someone asks if you want a Coke, you can answer without thinking - "Yeah, a Diet Barqs, thanks!"


33. You understand the significance and relationship between WD-40 and Duct Tape.


34. Your (and your children's) favorite bedtime story starts: "First, you make a roux..."


35. A BMW isn't a status symbol. A Ford F-350 4WD Super Duty Lariat Extended Bed Crew Cab Dual Rear Wheels Power Stroke (6.8L 10cyl) is a status symbol.


36. You leave a parade with footprints on the top of your hands. From your grandmother. And you're fine with that.


37. It wasn't until you were in college that it occurred to you that folks in other parts of the country don't normally drink out of Mardi Gras cups at home.


38. Coffee is appropriate for all meals, and you start drinking it when you're 2.


39. In grammar school, you see "county" for the first time and think someone misspelled "country".


40. Jersey Shore seems like a lack-luster sampling of pretty plain Chalmation stories.


41. You look at family reunions as dating opportunities.


42. You've eaten way more sno-balls (by volume) than you've ever seen of actual snow.


43. You've always assumed the Mason-Dixon line is just north of Baton Rouge.


44. You learned bourre' the hard way - holding yourself upright in the crib.


45. You know exactly how many items you can plug in to your generator without killing it.


46. You're at a birthday party for 11 year olds, and they name the Pinata, "FEMA".


47. Your daily paper covers national and international news on one page but requires 6+ pages for sports.


48. You feel really sad for other parts of the country when you go to a 'parade' and they don't throw useful items like cups, beads, doubloons, footballs, moon pies, bras/underwear, etc.


49. If it starts raining, you cover your beer (not your head).


50. You tried (and failed) to give up Tabasco for Lent.


51. You know the two seasons of weather: Summer & Fall/Spring.


52. You tried (and failed) to give up Tony's for Lent.


53. You know what the proper menu for Monday dinner is.


54. You pull over to let ambulances get in front of you - you know the fastest way to get where you're going!


55. You're not sure which is the passing lane (left, right, or shoulder), but you're dang sure it's not the one you're in going 35mph!


56. You don't remember exactly, but it seem to you that the state bird is the Mosquito.

*For the record, the Saints will do it this year.... again.

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Craig Wiseman August 18th, 2010 11:09:45 AM

This evening, I'm upgrading a modern operating system, and it displays the progress bar below. What's important here? It gives you two (equally) important bits of information:
A) What the install's doing at the moment, and;
B) Where we are in the overall install process.

I know this goes against the "give the user flashy dialogs that distract them and don't tell them where they are in the install" meme, but you really really need to go (back) to this.

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Craig Wiseman August 17th, 2010 09:33:39 PM

I'm in a grumpy mood this week, I guess. For some reason, this post by Serdar Basegmez just resonated with me.

I have a bunch of ideas over there. Here's a link to my ideas over there. I used to try and come up with ones that would improve IBM's product and address real issues that I see day-to-day at client sites.

You may not be aware of this, but IBM is a for-profit company. That means that it owns Notes, Domino, Portal, Connections, etc. and makes money selling licenses and (more importantly) selling hardware to run it on and consultants to install/maintain/Migrate them to new versions. It has business partners that it tolerates, and they tend to make money in the niches that IBM doesn't feel like competing in. Like greenfield Notes/Domino sales, for instance.

OpenNTF is a great thing, and IBM is finally providing them with the support they have deserved since day one.

IBM has hordes of truly brillant folks. But one thing that strikes me is that IBM doesn't listen to it's customers. They prefer to take the line that they are leading their customers. Be that as it may. I just want to point out that, for example, taking one of your leading product sets and letting it out to dry for 5 years, then saying - "folks want things that Connections and Portal provide more, see - they're buying more of it". Isn't really leadership, it's throttling one product set because you want the other to succeed.

Back to my topic. As mentioned, I have quite a few  ideas over at IdeaJam. I made a cutoff at 16 votes and thought I'd review the status of them below:

Votes	Idea	Status/Response/Action
Promote 222 Demote	Please update the look & feel of the standard templates?   : Notes Client / templates document library journal : templates, document, library, journal Craig Wiseman - 04 Dec 2007 / (11) : Open When trying to sell Notes/Domino it'd be really helpful if the standard templates (Discussion/DocLibrary/Journal/Team Room, etc.) were updated to a modern Look & Feel and looked/worked work consistently between the Notes client and web. Maybe a little ajax-y?	Little/None For-profit IBM appears to be happy with not-for-profit OpenNTF making it's platform more palatable to potential customers.
Promote 93 Demote	When pasting Rich Text into a Text field, please PASTE it...   : Notes Client / paste : paste Craig Wiseman - 11 Feb 2008 / (5) : Open When pasting rich text into a text field, please either paste it as plain text or allow me to choose "paste special - as text". I really DO get that "only text can be pasted into this type of field." please help me do this.... Note: A Notes 8 client ...	Nope. A mind-boggler.
Promote 88 Demote	Domino / Quickr / Sametime on one server (for SMBs) : Quickr / domino sametime quickr integration smb : domino, sametime, quickr, integration, smb Craig Wiseman - 29 Jan 2008 / (4) : Open For smaller sites (50-200 users), it would be extremely useful to be able to install Domino (mail), sametime (chat), and Quickr on one server.   Even if the long term target use is going to require multiple servers, it lets them try it all out before committing to (for them) a ...	Nope.
Promote 86 Demote	IBM should give Mr. Ben Langhinrichs full programmatic READ access to the Lotusphere schedule   : Lotusphere / lotusphere schedule : lotusphere, schedule Craig Wiseman - 18 Dec 2007 / (9) : Open It makes NO sense that he has to work so hard for something that benefits IBM's customers. This would allow him to easily create and update the scheduling DB.   http://www.geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/LS2008_SessionsDB	Nope
Promote 74 Demote	Welcome Page should be completely policy control-able : Notes Client / policy welcome homepage : policy, welcome, homepage Craig Wiseman - 24 Jan 2008 / (5) : Open You should via policy be able to completely control what application is shown when logging into Notes. This was traditionally called the Welcome Page. Example 1: When  users in the '*/Bob Costas Who?' OU start notes, it should display the frameset "CMA Welcome" from the local database CMA.nsf, rep ID 1322134132:23414321. Example ...	Nope Yet another mind-boggler. (YAMB).
Promote 72 Demote	I'd like contacts to be merged into the mail file : Notes Client / contacts mail : contacts, mail Craig Wiseman - 21 Nov 2007 / (11) : Open It doesn't make a lot of sense to me to have contacts in a separate database that isn't replicated to the server automatically.  Sync'ing them just seems like a absolute kludge. There are ways to address the security issues with allowing delegation of contacts. Given the vast creativity of the community ...	Nope. We're actually in a far, far worse place. Now we have local names.nsf as the only place for locations, connections, accounts, etc. AND we've got a strange sync process that works OK, for the most part. (Just remember to delete all contacts from your mailfile BEFORE you upgrade from Notes 7, unless you like having duplicates. And journal? Used to be able to sync it to the mailfile as well. Not anymore, sorry.
Promote 72 Demote	Let Quickr and Sametime integrate using Domino directory : Quickr / ldap domino sametime quickr integration : ldap, domino, sametime, quickr, integration Craig Wiseman - 06 Dec 2007 / (2) : Open Instead of requiring LDAP. Lots and Lots of SMBs have sametime already installed using Domino, not LDAP.	Yes! This was added in a maintenance release and not really documented as far as I know.
Promote 55 Demote	Please enhance To Dos and finish existing To Do workflow : Notes Client / to do workflow : to, do, workflow Craig Wiseman - 31 Jan 2008 / (3) : Open Right now (notes 8) you can creat a To Do in your list and assign it to someone else. It will send to then and they can work on it. However, when they mark it complete, it should send back an update and update the To Do in your list ( ...	Nope.
Promote 46 Demote	Coffee... please coffee   : Lotusphere / coffee deprivation : coffee, deprivation Craig Wiseman - 06 Aug 2008 / (3) : Open Please have the coffee, tea, etc. available before/after each session. It's maddening playing the guessing game... This is not a new idea, but it might be a timely idea to revisit. Credits: Picture: Mr. Robichaux www.nsftools.com/blog Other coffee/etc ideas:  www.ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/0/69C544610ADB5B0F862573D8007E294F www.ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/0/C56B1C40AECC44EB862573D0004CDE5E	Nope.
Promote 45 Demote	I wish Notes 8 email image blocking allowed 'trusted' domains or users   : Notes Client / email images block : email, images, block Craig Wiseman - 25 Nov 2007 / (1) : Open The Notes 8 delayed image loading for HTML mail is nice, but it'd be REALLY nice if you could set (and have it remember) trusted senders or domains that would load automatically. Certain other email products have this functionality....	Nope. Because you like clicking "show images". Again. And again. And again. And Again.
Promote 45 Demote	Sametime Chat Logging to a Domino NSF : Sametime / sametime logging nsf : sametime, logging, nsf Craig Wiseman - 06 Dec 2007 / (4) : Open For many SMB shops, this would be spectacular option. A simple NSF with limited views and an archive and/or purge agent to keep it reasonably sized.   This does NOT eliminate an option to log to a relational DB. I understand that for large shops, this may not perform as ...	Nope. Because chats are apparently far to complex data to store in a slow-performing NSF.
Promote 43 Demote	Traveler should support the Pre when it ships   : Traveler / palm pre sync synergy : palm pre sync synergy Craig Wiseman - 08 Jan 2009 / (19) : Open Looks like Pre will use the "Palm� Synergy™ feature to bring your Outlook�, Google, and Facebook� calendars together for one logical view of your day." Could we have initial, out-of-the-box support for Domino? Looks pretty nifty: { Link }	Nope. The ActiveSync-enabled Pre didn't  take off. But ActiveSync-enabled Android has. More on that later.
Promote 42 Demote	Notes 8 Standard Client Crashes should be easy to troubleshoot   : Notes Client / crash troubleshooting notes 8 standard client : crash, troubleshooting, notes, 8, standard, client Craig Wiseman - 26 Feb 2008 / (4) : Open The 8.x Standard client should have a standard and easy way to troubleshoot crashes/problems. Now, when the Expeditor-part of the Standard client crashes it gives a pug-ugly and more importantly USELESS and huge error box (like the attached image). Troubleshooting the cause is very painful (like this)! When the ...	Nope. How many times have I heard IBM support and other folks just say to delete the almost 1GB "workspace" folder and just rebuild it. Because it's broken and we have no blanking clue how to fix it. Wha? You actually wanted to keep your sidebar widgets?
Promote 37 Demote	Provide a 'skin' for Symphony that mimics the Office 2003 menu structure   : Symphony / compatibility office menus : compatibility, office, menus Craig Wiseman - 18 Apr 2008 / (7) : Open For many users, It's easier to move from Office 2000/2003 to Symphony than to Office 2007, but it would be almost transparent if IBM made an optional menu (File, Edit, etc) that mimicked the Office 2000/2003 menu structure. Corel does this with WordPerfect Workspace Manager, and it's very useful. Link	Nope.
Promote 36 Demote	Please always have a "Properties" or "Document Properties" in the right click menu   : Notes Client / right-click properties : right-click properties Craig Wiseman - 12 Sep 2009 / (4) : Open The trend toward a contextual, useful right click menu is great!   When I right click on an object (document, database, er, application, etc), there are many times when I'd like to see the properties of that object (create date, ewe-enn-eye-dee, etc).   For consistency and usefulness, please leave ...	Nope.
Promote 35 Demote	I wish Domino had an ActiveSync-like function that supported more than Windows Mobile   : Traveler / activesync mobile handheld replication : activesync, mobile, handheld, replication Craig Wiseman - 26 Nov 2007 / (6) : Open undefined	When ActiveSync support was annouced, I was of two opinions: 1) Cool! II know it's for iPhone support at first, but They. Get. It. Given the sedate pace that IBM develops software, It's impossible to support the huge variety of phones out there with your own custom written software in reasonable time frames. They won't be as arrogant as Apple and think that they can best determine what phones my users should carry. 2) Cool! A great solution to the iPhone issue. Only 1.5 years late, but hey. It's good. Welp, they might ship the Android client they announced would work on the spanking new Moto Droid before the Droid hits EOL. Maybe.
Promote 35 Demote	Policy should control Notes 8 Integrated Sametime   : Notes Client / sametime integrated client policy : sametime, integrated, client, policy Craig Wiseman - 28 Feb 2008 / (0) : Open In Notes 6.5, 7, and Notes 8 Basic clients, you can set policies that determines users' IM settings like so (see screen shots).  This made set up and config easy for users.  AFAIK,, these policies don't apply to Notes 8 Standard users. ...	Nope.  But if you dig into the undocumented innards of various update sites, etc. You might be able to get it to be centrally controllable. If you hire the right herd of WAS/Java priests.
Promote 33 Demote	Whenever the Client displays an error referring to a 'log', it should indicate where that log is to be found.   : Notes Client / log errors : log errors Craig Wiseman - 20 Jul 2009 / (1) : Open Historically, most errors, etc. could be found int the log.nsf. However, as we fully embrace the brave new ecplise-based world, errors like the one shown should always have an "Open Log" button or the path to the referenced log file.	Nope. Seems like a good, basic, idea, huh?
Promote 32 Demote	When new mail arrives, please have a modern and useful taskbar pop-up option   : Notes Client / new mail notification sametime icon : new mail notification, sametime icon Craig Wiseman - 01 Jan 2010 / (4) : Open When using the full 8.x client, we already have a "lotus" icon always sitting in the taskbar. Please have that icon present the user with an intuitive and useful new mail popup. (see screenshot)	Like Outlook. Or Groupwise. Or.....
Promote 31 Demote	Since the Mail template is now open source (on OpenNTF), please include the OpenNTF mail experience enhancements in it. : Notes Client / openntf mail experience : openntf mail experience Craig Wiseman - 18 Dec 2009 / (3) : Open The OpenNTF Mail Experience additions are excellent and useful (view here)   Please add them to the base mail template, particularly:   + SitckyNotes  + Setting default reply options  + Notify and disable return receipts  + Hide mail outline items from your User Prefs dialog  + SitckyNotes  + Send/Receive in ...	Nope.
Promote 30 Demote	For HTML mail, I'd like to be able to print the whole email   : Notes Client / print email header : print, email, header Craig Wiseman - 21 Nov 2007 / (2) : Open The rendering improvements for HTML are great in Notes 8! But .... it'd be realllly nice to be able to print the whole email, including From/To/Subject/Date info.	Mostly. In 8.5.2, you can see most off all the info. Ugly as sin, but it's there. I'll fall back on the general theory that God never intended for Notes to be able to print.
Promote 30 Demote	Please make the popup font list usably large   : Notes Client / font list : font, list Craig Wiseman - 28 Mar 2008 / (3) : Open As you can see from the attached image, the popup font list in Notes4/5/6/7/8BASIC is quite a bit larger than in Notes 8/8.0.1 Standard. The Standard edition version is really too small. Please make it larger? The reference to a certain commercial product is strictly for humor purposes.	Mostly. It's much, much better. But the control is weird. For example: you should be able to hit the drop down, type "G" and easily be able to pick Georgia. But it doesn't work llke that. Yes, I'm probably looking the gift horse in the mouth.
Promote 29 Demote	Please add enough color to the Symphony icons to distinguish them   : Symphony / icons : icons Craig Wiseman - 17 Dec 2009 / (1) : Open Mr. Miller's blog entry yesterday made it dawn on me that, even after all the discussion about how confusing it is to have 6 virtually identical Lotus Notes/Symphony desktop icons, the main icons are not going to be changed.  IBM/Lotus - please add appropriate color to the desktop icons. Branding ...	Nope. Branding is more important usability.
Promote 29 Demote	I'm not admitting ANYTHING. But maybe we need some separation between "open in designer" and "delete database"   : Domino Administrator / right click menu : right click menu Craig Wiseman - 12 Jan 2010 / (6) : Open In Domino Admin, in the right click menu, "open in designer" and "delete database" are right next to each other.  Bad idea (IMHO).   Maybe put "Delete database" with the menu separators around it? (see picture)	Nope. But I've learned to be careful. Not that I needed to, btw.
Promote 28 Demote	I wish the Productivity Editors could read Office 2007 files : Notes Client / office compatibility : office, compatibility Craig Wiseman - 19 Nov 2007 / (10) : Open To allow us to really use them as replacments for Office, it seems to me like we'd need to be able to natively read/write: Office 97-2007 Word Perfect 9 - 12 OpenOffice (not just ODF) SmartSuite	Yes. That's very fun to type.
Promote 28 Demote	I wish Symphony could read Office 2007 files : Symphony / office compatibility : office, compatibility Craig Wiseman - 19 Nov 2007 / (3) : Open To allow us to really use them as replacments for Office, it seems to me like we'd need to be able to natively read/write: Office 97-2007 Word Perfect 9 - 12 OpenOffice (not just ODF) SmartSuite	Yes. That's very fun to type.
Promote 25 Demote	Notes Welcome Page needs to be cluster-aware   : Notes Client / welcome page : welcome page Craig Wiseman - 18 Dec 2009 / (4) : Open AFAIK, the standard welcome page is not cluster-aware for, example, if you add your Inbox & Calendar to it (see screenshot).	Nope. I guess Portal should be your welcome page, ya loser.
Promote 27 Demote	Make birthday/anniversary in contacts easy to add to calendar (recurring)   : Notes Client / birthday contacts anniversary : birthday, contacts, anniversary Craig Wiseman - 04 Dec 2007 / (1) : Open When adding a birthday/anniversay to a contact, there should be a button to add it to calendar as a recurring (75 years) reminder. Although, now that I look, these fields are only initially available in the popup... OK AND the birthday and anniversary fields should NOT be hidden by default....	Nope.
Promote 27 Demote	When searching email/inbox/All Documents, it should be easy/seamless to include your archive in the search   : Notes Client / search archive : search archive Craig Wiseman - 16 Dec 2009 / (2) : Open The user's archive should be treated as a seamless part of the email experience. Searches should be able to include it with a simple checkbox (see mockup).	Nope. Ms. Raven has shown a very cool way to do this, but I wouldn't call it easy for the end user, or easy for the admin to set up for all (or groups of users).
Promote 26 Demote	Return Receipt: Please give us a View/Folder indicator and ability to NOT send them.   : Notes Client / return receipts : return receipts Craig Wiseman - 12 Jan 2010 / (4) : Open This is pretty much a default option in almost all mail clients. It is trivially easy to add to the mail template, but then you have an 'unsupported custom template'.   Like to see it in the default mail template.	Nope. YAMB.
Promote 25 Demote	Let users set individual default custom font, color, size, background, etc. for their email AND replies. : Notes Client / email font custom color : email font custom color Craig Wiseman - 15 Jan 2010 / (3) : Open With 8.5x, Lotus added the ability to create, edit, and store your richt text signature in your mail preferences.   Next up: Allow us to set default font, size, color, and background for emails AND have different options for replies - some folks really really like to have the replies ...	Nope. YAMB to the YAMB YAMBYAMB I just superscipted that. Let's just see what Domino blog/the web does with that.
Promote 24 Demote	Please let me select multiple application bookmarks and remove them all at once.   : Domino Designer / bookmark overflow : bookmark overflow Craig Wiseman - 23 Dec 2009 / (2) : Open DDE 8.5.1 For a variety of reasons, I open a lot of databases, er, APPLICATIONS in DDE. I'd like te be able to shift/control click and remove a bunch at once, instead of having to remove them individually.	Nope.
Promote 23 Demote	Segment User Experience data and make it manageable & recoverable via policy : Notes Client / contacts to do calendar : contacts, to, do, calendar Craig Wiseman - 11 Feb 2008 / (8) : Open This idea is similar to  this idea It is the inverse of this idea and looks to accomplish the same thing: Take all the locally stored user config & data (notes.ini settings, contacts, journal, RSS feeds, To Dos, bookmarks, etc) store them in ...	Nope. The bootlicking crowd will tell you that Roaming in 8.5x fixes this. But not for citrix and in a number of other use cases. And for backing up and recovering data - if it ain't complete coverage, it ain't coverage.
Promote 23 Demote	Please make business card image manangement easy! : Sametime / business card images : business card images Craig Wiseman - 23 Dec 2009 / (3) : Open In Sametime 8.5, it looks like business card images are set up the same tortuous way if you're using Domino as your LDAP source. (See Here)   Please fix this and make adding & maintaining images as easy as it should be - as in not requiring things like: ...	Nope. Because your admin LIKES using esoteric LDAP tools to do trivial tasks.
Promote 23 Demote	If you drag a contact to the desktop, it should create a vCard file   : Notes Client / contact vcard : contact vcard Craig Wiseman - 25 Mar 2010 / (0) : Open  Right now (8.5.1), if you drag a contact to the desktop, you get some sort of weird link file.   It should convert that contact to a (properly extentioned) *.vcf file.   If you drag multiple to the desktop, it should create multiple, individual *.vcf files.    (You can create ...	Nope. Standards are for servers, bub, not end users.
Promote 22 Demote	Troubleshooting: When the Notes client starts, there should be a way/key to hold down that prompts you to disable or decide what sidebar widgets to load   : Notes Client / widgets sidebar standard client  : widgets sidebar standard client Craig Wiseman - 20 Oct 2009 / (0) : Open Probably the biggest single issue I've had with the 8.x code stream is troubleshooting bad/corrupt incompatible sidebar items/widgets.   A simple example is the Quickr connector. /soapbox Now you'd think since Notes shps with the Connections connector, it would also ship with the Quickr connector so that it would get ...	Nope.
Promote 22 Demote	Please allow me to select which folders are monitored for "New Mail"   : Notes Client / new mail notification : new mail notification Craig Wiseman - 04 Jan 2010 / (4) : Open  While I'm on a "New Mail" meme - please allow me to determine/select which folders in my mail file watched for new mail. (see screenshot)   Many folks have a number of rules that process incoming email. I think we should be able to select which folders cause a 'you ...	Nope.
Promote 21 Demote	Quickr Connectors should be able to go offline (ie, DOLS should be integrated into the connectors) : Quickr / quickr dols connectors : quickr dols connectors Craig Wiseman - 10 Feb 2009 / (0) : Open When one installs the Quickr Connector for Domino, it should provide both online & offline functions. You should not have to load a rather finicky addition (DOLS) to take Quickr Places offline.	Nope. If it just worked, folks might mistake it for consumer-level software. Ick.
Promote 21 Demote	Please add a simple, "Delete Calendar Profile" button/option to the Mail/Calendar Prefs? : Notes Client / calendar profile : calendar profile Craig Wiseman - 20 Oct 2009 / (0) : Open  There are so many issues related to corrupted/old/screwy calendar profiles that having a button to clear it from File -> Preferences -> Mail Prefs would seem to be very helpful.   That way you could walk an end user through it without even having to open their mail file.	Nope.
Promote 21 Demote	In a cluster, if your mailfile on the server you're working on has trouble or is slow/unavailable, it should always fail you over. : Notes Client / cluster notes failover : cluster notes failover Craig Wiseman - 09 Feb 2010 / (2) : Open If you don't have transaction logging enabled (and even sometimes if you do), there are pretty common situations where if a server crashes and comes back up, your mail may need to be consistency checked (or other things may be going on that keep it from responding.).   If your ...	Supposed to be fixed in 8.5.2. I haven't been able to validate this. And God only knows what the list of "well, it doesn't quite work in these use cases" contains. Again, bub, this ain't consumer-level software. Fix your expectations.
Promote 20 Demote	Email archive is part of the person's mail: it should be easy to access local & server replicas from the archive section of the mail file.   : Notes Client / email archive : email archive Craig Wiseman - 16 Dec 2009 / (1) : Open  If you have a server-based archive, you can make a local replica of it. However the links in the mail template do not check to see if your location is "server" or "local" when using them.   The archive links (see screenshot) should check if you're local or server based ...	Nope. But IBM has a really hard to install, maintine and MIGRATE product for archiving. You might go take a look at that.  Click here to cut to the chase.
Promote 20 Demote	You should be able to place a 'legal hold' on a mail file & archive : Notes Client / legal hold : legal hold Craig Wiseman - 16 Dec 2009 / (1) : Open You should be able to place a 'legal hold' on a mail file & archive that would hold deletes but still allow a user to continue working unchanged.   Other products in this space have this feature:   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd876939(EXCHG.140).aspx	Nope. Because the hardware groups and  Global Services just makes more money on Exchange (and Domino -> Exchange migrations!), we don't plan on giving Lotus all the resources it needs to keep up with Exchange 2010.
Promote 19 Demote	Quickr Connectors need to work Offline (ie with DOLS) : Quickr / quickr connectors offline dols : quickr connectors offline dols Craig Wiseman - 10 Feb 2009 / (0) : Open Using DOLS, you can take Quickr Places offline. While the process to do is far from fool-proof, it does work very nicely (after you beat your head against it a bit). However the Quickr Connector integration with MS Office, etc. does not access these "offline places".  They need to.	Nope.
Promote 19 Demote	Sametime IM and Gateway servers should be split off and simplified from the meeting server functions : Sametime / sametime gateway chat im : sametime gateway chat im Craig Wiseman - 06 Jan 2010 / (11) : Open Obviously the impressive growth in functionality of the meeting server part of sametime in 8.5 is very cool. However, there's a concomitant huge increase in configuration & hardware requirements.   I'd like to see the chat & IM gateway portions split off and simplified so they could be deployed ...	A "simplified" WAS-based product?  Whatever you're on, I want some.
Promote 19 Demote	Domino Blog template needs to have a number of new user-friendly features   : Domino Designer / blog template : blog template Craig Wiseman - 26 Mar 2010 / (4) : Open  The blog template is a nifty, feature rich application. However, it hasn't been enhanced much since introduction. Some basic things it needs are: + The ability (via wizard) to easily import, edit,  and apply blog templates from Blogger, WordPress, etc. + The ability (via wizard) to easily import, edit,  layout, and ...	Nope. But "if you want a real blog, we have this social media product that does blogging." I have heard an IBM sales rep say that. In all seriousness. On a positive note: Steve Castledine rocks. Just had to say that. Because it's true.
Promote 18 Demote	Archive policies should be enhanced with a "retention period" model. : Notes Client / archiving retention : archiving retention Craig Wiseman - 16 Dec 2009 / (1) : Open There are ways to conceptually do this now, but the Archive policy process should be enhanced to reflect a multistep process:   Arrive in mailbox Move to archive (by policy definitions) Delete/expire (by policy definitions)	Nope. Because the hardware groups and  Global Services just makes more money on Exchange (and Domino -> Exchange migrations!), we don't plan on giving Lotus all the resources it needs to keep up with Exchange 2010.
Promote 18 Demote	Domino should fully support Windows Server shadow copy & VSS for backup : Domino Server / backup vss : backup vss Craig Wiseman - 11 Jan 2010 / (2) : Open Domino server, when running on Windows platforms, should fully support VSS and shadow copy for backup. It's been around since Win2k3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy VSS operates at the	Nope. Legacy products don't need modern attributes.
Promote 18 Demote	Domino person record needs to contain the location (or replica ID) of the user's primary mail archive. IdeaSpace: Domino Server / Directory Tags: archive Idea Author: Craig Wiseman on 18 Dec 2009  Status: Open  Linkage: Permalink / Email We need to think of a user's mail file and archive as connected facets of the user mail experience. Right now in most domino shops, the person record contains their mail file location, roaming profile database location, public key, sync'd password for sametime/inotes, even businesscard picture. One thing that's missing from the information stored in the person record is the location of the user's primary archive.     I guess ideally, since the archive could be on the server and replicated locally it should have both a path & file name and/or the replica ID of the archive.   This would assist mail file	Nope.
Promote 16 Demote	Please let me Right-Click in the tabs area and get an "open an Application" dialog   : Notes Client / right click : right click Craig Wiseman - 23 Dec 2009 / (0) : Open  I'd like to be able to right click in the blue "tabs" area and get an "Open Lotus Notes App" option, instead of having to do File > Open.	Nope.
Promote 16 Demote	Lotus Domino Messaging & Collaboration Express licenses should allow a single, two-server cluster for DR purposes. Even if it req's an 'upgraded license' of some type. : Domino Server / express cluster licensing : express cluster licensing Craig Wiseman - 04 Feb 2010 / (2) : Open Domino Express licenses are a very nifty way to get & deploy N/D for smaller customers.   BUT if you want to do something very simple, like have a backup server at a DR site that's 'hot' and  ready, you enter a pretty complicated licensing situation.   Domino clustering is (honestly) ...	Nope. Because you LIKE mind boggling licensing models. Our sales reps tell us that. Did we mention that some of them started out as used car sales reps?

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Craig Wiseman August 13th, 2010 08:50:29 AM

So I go to update my profile @ VMWare's website.

I have no idea who Lois is, but she has a very nice state to live in.

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Craig Wiseman July 26th, 2010 03:46:43 PM

Mr. Osborne makes an excellent and reasonable suggestion - sell/market Lotus Notes/Domino for what it is: A Swiss Army knife-like "can do just about everything pretty well" platform.

One key problem that I see is that there is no clear agreement across IBM that this is the case. Or even within Lotus, for that matter.

In fact, I'll use pictures (like Mr. Osborne) to explain:

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Craig Wiseman July 26th, 2010 12:51:24 PM

I just ran across tech note #1313145 - Domino 8.5 for i: Checklist for upgrading. Yeah, I know, the title talks about upgrading, but it has some very good section links for general i use & admin.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg21313145

Task	Description
Learn how to get started and find information about this product release.	See the technical document:   Domino 8.5 for i: Getting started
Verify compatibility with the IBM i operating system release and other Lotus software products.	Refer to the Lotus Software for IBM i operating system Compatibility Guide
Determine if your IBM i system will support running Domino 8.5x.	See the technical document:     Domino 8.5 for i - Hardware Requirements
Review the Best Practices for System i	See the IBM Tech Exchange Webcast: Best Practices for Domino on System i
Determine if a compatible OS level is being used, including all of the required licensed programs, options, cumulative PTF packages and group PTFs.     This step includes installing Java 6 Option 11 on IBM i 5.4, i 6.1 or i 7.1:	Domino 8.5x is supported on i 5.4 and i 6.1. Domino 8.5.1 is minimum release supported on i 7.1. See these documents for required software and maintenance: Domino 8.5 for i - Software Requirements Domino for i (i5/OS): What system fixes are required? To obtain 5722JV1 Option 11 for i 5.4: 5722-JV1 Option 11 (JDK 6 32-bit) is available as orderable media in PTF SI30432.  Contact your IBM Service Provider to order PTF SI30432 on media.   Before you order and install JDK 6, you must have V5R4M0 5722-JV1 Option *BASE installed on your eServer i5 server. It is recommended that you also have the latest Java Group PTF SF99291 on hand to obtain the most recent updates. To obtain 5761JV1 Option 11 for i 6.1 or i 7.1: 5761JV1 Option 11 is available with the IBM i media.
Learn about the new release of Domino	Domino 8.5.1 is supported on i 5.4, i 6.1 and i 7.1. Read the technote: Domino 8.5.1 for i: What's new in this release
If you are running Sametime check the software and hardware requirements.	See the technical document:   Sametime for IBM i: System Requirements Java Option 8 is required if you are running Sametime Community or Sametime Classic servers.  Install both the *BASE option and option 8:   5722JV1 or 5761JV1 *BASE option 5722JV1 or 5761JV1 Option 8:  J2SE 5.0 32bit
Verify compatibility with any third-party add-on products.	If you are running third-party applications such as anti-virus, spam blockers, administration tools, etc., verify Domino version 8.5x compatibility with your vendor.
Plan additional time for PROGRAM CONVERSION required: when installing Domino 8.5x on i 5.4 or in select i 6.1 and i 7.1 upgrade scenarios	See the technical documents:   Domino 8.5 for i (i5/OS): Program Conversion i5/OS V6R1 upgrade roadmap for Lotus Domino and related products RECOMMENDED:  Upgrade to IBM i 6.1 (i5/OS V6R1) before installing Domino 8.5x to alleviate the additional time required to convert the Domino product during installation.
Remove any Domino 8.5x Beta or pre-Beta servers and software.  Upgrade from Beta or pre-Beta software is not supported.	End Beta or pre-Beta servers: ENDDOMSVR SERVER() or WRKDOMSVR option 6. Remove any Domino servers created using Beta or pre-Beta software.   CFGDOMSVR SERVER() OPTION(*REMOVE) Remove the Beta or pre-Beta software: DLTLICPGM LICPGM(5733L85)
Plan for the new Lotus Notes client.	There are two client configurations available: basic and standard.  For more information, refer to the Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 Information Center.
Set a default size for the console log.	When you upgrade to Domino 8 or later release, the console log maximum size is automatically set to 1 KB, if you have not already explicitly set a maximum size in your notes. ini file.  It is recommended that you set a maximum size prior to the upgrade so you do not lose valuable debugging information.  A value between 100 - 1000 KB is good for most customers.   You can set the maximum size using the console_log_max_kbytes= parameter.  A value of 0 means no maximum.   If you do not want console logging enabled, you can disable it with the setting console_log_enabled=0.
Plan for the new ODS level.	Domino version 8.5.0 introduces new ODS level 51.  Domino databases are not upgraded to the new ODS level by default, and no conversion is required as part of the upgrade.   For details on Create_R85_Databases=1 and how to upgrade your databases to the new ODS, refer to the Domino 8.5 Information Center   See the following technical document for changes to the RUNDOMCMD when running COMPACT on Domino 8.5x for i. Domino 8.5 for i: What's new in this release
Plan for using DAOS	Refer to the DAOS Quick Start Guide and DAOS Best Practices for more information about enabling this feature.   Use the DAOS Estimator to evaluate your server's attachment sizes and identify the optimum DAOS minimum size. Use care when choosing the DAOS minimum size; selecting an attachment size that is too small (for example, the 8.5 default value which is 4K) can result in a large number of .nlo objects which will have a negative impact on the time required for save operations.  In Domino release 8.5.1 the default value is changed to 64K.  Save operations can be optimized by balancing a smaller number of .nlo objects with a larger minimum attachment size; the default values of 4K and 64K may be too small for many installations.
Plan to upgrade the design of the Domino Directory (names.nsf) and allow time to rebuild views in names.nsf.	If you are upgrading the first server in the domain, you also need to upgrade the design of the Domino directory (names.nsf).   To do so, start the Domino server and answer "Yes" in the Domino console: WRKDOMCSL
Plan for any additional upgrade tasks if you are upgrading from a prior release of Domino.	For example, if you are upgrading from Domino 7.0.x to Domino 8.5, read the documentation and upgrade recommendations for Domino 8 as well as the Domino 8.5 information.
Become familiar with the new features in Lotus Notes and Domino version 8.5x	See the Domino 8.5 InfoCenter: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp New features in IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 New features in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 New features in IBM Lotus Domino Designer 8.5 New features in IBM Lotus Domino Web Access 8.5 See also the Domino Blog.
Obtain necessary hotfix(es)	Obtain any high impact Domino 8.5x hot fixes that are available at the time of general availability.   If you are currently running any hotfixes on earlier releases of Domino, contact Lotus Support to see if you will need a replacement hotfix or if that hotfix is part of the 8.5x product.   Note:  Hotfixes for the following issues are not required for Domino 8.5.0; they are already incorporated into the release: SPR CGMC7C9TGN (8.0 and 8.0.1) SPR BFOS7C7UMS (8.0.1 only)
Remove Domino software that is no longer used.	After the installation of a new release of Domino software and upgrading servers, remove any older versions of the Domino software that are no longer needed.  For example, if you have installed Domino 8.5 and upgraded all of your servers to the new release level, remove older versions of Domino (8.0x, 7.0x, 6.5x) that are no longer used. Use the DSPSFWRSC command to display the installed Domino versions and options.  Use the DLTLICPGM command to remove Domino software that is no longer required. Refer to the Technote i5/OS V6R1 upgrade roadmap for Lotus Domino and related products for helpful information on removing older versions of the Domino product.
Improve performance of existing Domino server(s) by removing DECS if it is not required.	Check existing servers for DECS; configure new servers with CNNSRV(*NONE) if DECS is not required. The default value for Connection Services on the CFGDOMSVR command is CNNSRV(*DECS).  If you are not using DECS, then remove this task from your existing servers using the CHGDOMSVR command:     CHGDOMSVR SERVER() CNNSRV(*NONE)

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Craig Wiseman July 24th, 2010 09:03:47 AM

So you've got your new Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit, 16GB RAM server all ready to go.

You install Lotus Domino 8.5.1 (64bit).

Being a good admin, you then try and install FP3 (and eventually hotfixes, etc).

The FixPack install has issues, though:

Because it can't rename the file on each file it wants to update. This is because in Windows 7+, you have an manually grant permission to rename these kinds of files.


The only solution I found was (as you can see from the screenshot above) to manually rename each file as it complains.

Is there a fix or workaround? Surely IBM discovered this issue during their testing?

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Craig Wiseman July 22nd, 2010 09:27:21 AM

Yeah, this is a week old. Yeah, there's one bad word in it.

Yeah, it's hilarious.

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Craig Wiseman June 21st, 2010 02:54:55 PM

Geauxjira is a brief homage to some famous scenes in Ishiro Honda's movie Gojira (1954), better known in English as Godzilla. Whereas Godzilla was created from nuclear explosions, Geauxjira is a giant crawfish spawned by leaking crude oil. On April 21st, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana. Eleven people perished in the explosion. As we made our movie, thousands of barrels of oil leaked every day on the Gulf of Mexico's floor, causing the biggest environmental disaster in our lifetime. Moreover, we're terrified about the ramifications the oil will have on our economy and lives. In making a parody there is a danger of giving the impression that we find this calamity to be funny. In fact, the opposite is true. We're angry and frightened about the uncertain impact of this disaster. If you're interested, we'd invite you to do two simple things: first donate to the Friends of the Laffitte Corridor (http://folc-nola.org/), a non-profit organization designed to convert a rail line in the heart of New Orleans into a bike path. Second, try to reduce your oil consumption. We hope you enjoy our movie.

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Craig Wiseman May 22nd, 2010 02:59:04 PM

At the same time that NPR and experts seem to think that huge, uncontrolled spill is probably much bigger than BP wants to admit, BP's CEO commented that the huge, uncontrolled oil spill is tiny compared to the very big ocean.

Yep that makes this oil-covered brown pelican ( the Louisiana State Bird ) feel SO much better.

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Craig Wiseman May 15th, 2010 12:13:06 PM

So... We have the warmest waters in recorded history, we're heading into La Nina,  And now we have ...

... Evidence linking solar variability with USA hurricanes, by Robert Hodges and Jim Elsner of Florida State University. They showed that the probability of three or more hurricanes hitting the U.S. during a hurricane season with warmer than average sea surface temperatures increases dramatically during minima in the 11-year sunspot cycle.
Full WunderBlog post

 and we're at the deepest solar minimum in more than a century. Sounds (un)fun.

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Craig Wiseman May 15th, 2010 12:09:32 PM

Move your mouse over it. Just thought it was cool.

Source: DisneyParks Blog

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Craig Wiseman May 6th, 2010 07:20:09 AM

This is an interesting finding, and may apply directly to IT folks. Be careful, use it too much and you may develop an insatiable appetite for "Twilight" books.

A nasal spray can make men more in tune with other people's feelings, say a team of German and UK researchers.

They found that inhaling the "cuddle hormone" oxytocin made men just as empathetic as women.

The study in 48 volunteers also showed that the spray boosted the ability to learn from positive feedback.

Writing in the Journal of Neuroscience, the researchers said the spray may be useful for boosting behaviour therapy in conditions such as schizophrenia.

Oxytocin is a naturally produced hormone, most well-known for triggering labour pains and promoting bonding between mother and baby.

"This study is the latest of several that suggest that intranasal oxytocin seems to 'sensitise' people to become more aware of social cues from other individuals "
Full story from the BBC

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Craig Wiseman May 2nd, 2010 10:18:53 PM

These are different, and worth the time to watch (music's good, too). Unlike most music video versions, where they just dub the same music track over different video, here they have the normal "rock" version, and a version .... orchestrated appropriately for the participants. Watch, you'll see what I mean.

UPDATE: Based on this interview, the marching band video was a live performance. If you look closely, you can see the microphones attached to their uniforms. That's pretty nifty.

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Craig Wiseman April 28th, 2010 10:28:36 AM

This is somewhat old, but since I haven't posted on it yet, here goes.

First, the world isn't going to end on 12/21/2012. Probably.

I AM having a hard time understanding the thought process here:

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, (UPI) -- Thousands of people in the Netherlands say they expect the world to end in 2012, and many say they are taking precautions to prepare for the apocalypse.
Full UPI article

So you think the world's going to end. And you're stocking up on supplies for it.
What part of "the world's going to end" requires stockpiling stuff " including life rafts and other equipment."?

Personally, I'm going with this quote:

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven..."

I think I have a clear idea of what "no one" means.

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Craig Wiseman April 23rd, 2010 10:33:29 AM

It's Friday. Time for some randomness.

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Craig Wiseman April 23rd, 2010 06:11:00 AM

Figure I'd cover all the ASW bases in one fell entry.

Notes 8.5.2
+ Found out that "multithreaded replication" means that when you send that 20MB email, it both sends it in the outgoing mail AND replicates it in your mail file concurrently. That's nifty.
+ Drag & drop to your desktop as EML only seems to apply to emails (not contacts,etc).
+ It just "feels" a lot faster.
+ In Windows 7, you can "Pin to taskbar" and it works properly.

Notes is Dead. That's why Yellow is the new Black.
Uh, no it isn't  No real point in going any further than that.


Hot chick with iPad (hey, mixing tech & hot chicks works for other blogs)

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Craig Wiseman April 22nd, 2010 02:24:51 PM