System i Addict

I just wanted to post something. I know there are a few of you out there who read this, and I know more of you are there but don’t ever post anything. I can see the hits. I have been @ the new position for 3 weeks now and am liking it very much. Everyone there is great. They are a normal IT shop with the same problems any IT shop this size would have. I am looking forward to the adventure.

I have been working out almost everyday @ lunch with a co-worker and I feel much better. I just want to fit into my kilts a bit better and those Navy Dive shorts I used to wear on the USS Beaufort (ATS-2) back from 93-96. I still miss the navy most days. I don’t miss the pay but I miss the hard work and good times. If you find me and were on the the ATS-2 drop me a line I would love to talk to you.

David Out!

So if you don’t know now you know….I love AA. I am a huge America’s Army Fan and play with a bunch of dudes called [IHS] (International Hit Squad) and man they are good. I am called DeVASTAte and if you don’t know how I got my name just look at the letters in CAPS.
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I have a decent PC that will play AA pretty good and as you also know I am a Mac user. So haveing a Wnidows PC is just odd for me but I love AA. It’s a Pentium 2.9 GHZ with 1 GB or RAM and if I am lucky the nVidia 6600 256MB AGP will keep working, but the new AA out today (2.7) is a huge release and I am reading that Frame Rates or fps are going way down and if they are to far down the that makes that game no fun. You need at least 30-60 for it to seem real.

Here are the release Notes

System Req Press Release for 2.7 












			

I need a quick and dirty on getting BRMS Running on the iSeries. I don’t need details or a bunch of BS that explains why the QBLLSHT job is running in QSYSCRP. I just want to know how to get it running some examples and leave it alone.

Any Help Would be GREAT!

As I get more dinfo I will post it here:

Link:

http://www.systeminetwork.com/resources/starterkit/chp16/chp16.htm

So I am back from the first day at the “New Job” and they use Exchange and Outlook for Mail. I know this is going to kick most of you in the soft spot between the legs but I still think Outlook has Notes beat all day long. It’s much easier to use and is so less clunky thank Notes, but with that said I still see the power of Notes and what I can create, but after you look a the integration with AD and then back at Domino with it’s lack of integration and the ID files and HTTP Passwords you start to know that most of what MS puts out is FUD, but there might be some truth to it at least at the user level.

I used to be an Exchange Admin and I hated it, but being an Outlook user is actually fun right now.

The guy I am working for has a 16GB mail box….yeap 16 GB on the server. Outlook handles it fine, and I knew in that breath that Exchange had Domino beat. I had a $700K iSeries running Domino and it you had a 1 GB mail box you could choke both Domino and Notes. I guess that one is easy to see.

I know there are going to be the people that think I have gone crazy but if a company just wants to run mail I can’t help them not at least consider Exchange & Outlook, but if a company needs an App Server that also does Mail then Lotus is your cup of tea.

I will keep my eyes on both sides of the fence but today alone has shown me the power of Outlook and how far Lotus has to come with Hannover to make it stick to the kitchen wall.

I listened to what Ed had to say, but unless Hannover had “IT” you might as well hang “IT” up and from what I have seen of Notes 8 it’s close but I don’t think it going to stand up to Outlook. Just my 2 cents as of today and if you know me I will be picking Outlook apart in no time.

BAD EXCHANGE : Ok so I said I would find things that Exchange did badly. It does not support Mac or Linux using OWA. If you need to use OWA from a Mac or Linux you are up the turd creak without a paddle. You can’t even use IE for Mac to get it to work and Entourage is just a joke and constantly has problems connecting via the Mac to Exchange. Go figure.

So when my wife whom is in school and the school gives her an OWA to get her mail there since she works there too sehe can’t from home since we are all using Macs. So there is one tick for you aginst the all mighty Exchange. No really support for anything other than Windows and IE6.

Update: After what I think is about 2 months of using Outlook it’s not bad. It does mail and calendars just fine. I think some of the hard parts are just getting to know the lay of the Address Book, but other than that it seems ok. We have an outage in the UK Mail server, and marketing person emailed a fairly large file and choked the system, they added some disk and everything was OK. I thin it’s on a blade/SAN in the UK as well as in the US.

There are some things I miss about Lotus Notes, but the majority of them I don’t.

I don’t miss User.id files. Who was the idiot at IBM who thought that was a good idea.

I don’t miss the ugly client.

I don’t miss the Dot releases every 3 months from Lotus

I do miss the ability to create applications and DB on the fly.

I do miss the easy way I could create and edit forms and such.

I do miss the idea that I am using an outdated client that is hard to find a job doing….oh right that would be on the other side of the coin.

Oh well for now. I am an email user and not an Admin and I have to say that is the one thing I don’t miss.
-David

So if you are in the know and I know you are, then you know I am leaving VISTAR this week for greener pastures. I am not sure how the new company is going to feel about the blogging but as long as I keep it techie and not internal to the company then I should be OK. I don’t make it a habbit to talk about work here unless it’s a generalization about a project or something I figured out. No trade secrets.

So I will be going to a company called Sunrise Medical and will be filling the shoes as the Senior iSeries System Administrator. They don.t use Lotus so I will have my work cut out there. So lots more iSeries Stuff coming and less Lotus.

I will sry to keep the same balance as before but who knows.

Stay tuned

I am going to make a first post again as I have been playing with Blogging tools.