David | 
03 29th, 2008| 
I love to cause trouble as long as I don’t get my mug taken and have to get a pat down. Go over to this site and vote for Lotus Notes. It would be funny for an “I hate Lotus Notes” site to have people on there telling them that they love Lotus Notes. Irony isn’t it grand!
Mar
29
You don’t have to talk me into not liking Mimcrosoft. From the IT road I have traveled they are not as smart as some people make them out to be. Microsoft makes a decent all around OS for the desktop and the same piece of crap OS for the Server. I know there are smart people out there everywhere who think Microsoft is better than say an IBM or an Apple, but these are the same people who want State Run Health Care and Love Obama, some day you will up and understand Microsoft, The VA Hospitals or State Run Hospitals and Obama were all bad for you. They are all really good looking turds!
For the moment the American people are starting to figure out at least one of them, that Microsoft ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. LINK
So one down and the rest to go. To cap this all off. You don’t want Free Health Care because we can’t afford it, and it will end up being much like the VA is now. Slow and Angry! Lastly Obama is an empty suit, I told you this a year ago. He has nothing to stand on becasue he has done nothing. He wrote a novel about a guy with his same name that has people wonder about his mental position and he promises everything only as the end of his speech to tell you he will promise you nothing but he will try hard. Plus is he more communist than you all think. I am going to go ahead and call him that because you really need to look at his issues and realize he and Stalin all over again.
<David climbs down off his soap box now>
Mar
28
I have two questions: Have you seen this problem (YES I HAVE)? and Have you tested the fix?
Your right Vitor Andy has been covering it and I should have posted that as well. Here are some links to Andy Blog. I respect his work and thank him for covering it:
Andy Reports the Problem
IBM Fix Post
From the SPR:
| Problem |
| After upgrading a Domino® server to release 8.0x, you may notice that some Desktop Policy settings are unexpectedly being pushed out to the Notes® clients, despite not being configured to do so. |
| Symptom |
Symptoms vary and may include:
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| Cause |
| This behavior has been reported in several Software Problem Reports (SPR’s), but investigation is currently centered around the following two:SPR #JRED7CFVYH: Desktop policy settings are applied even though they are not set in the desktop policySPR #RREN79SP2A: Replication schedule set incorrectly in release 7 client from release 8 policy |
Mar
19
I know I have made it a point to call Al Gore a moron and that I don’t think Global Warming is man made, but if it is then it’s not the US that is casueing it. It’s places like China and other countries right now who have little to no emission laws in place. Where 2 stroke motors are not regulated and the film of smog is all over everything. I think before we try to clean up the US and the supposed problems here we need to lean on China, Indonesia and other countries in that part of the world to help out as well.
Mar
18
A trip to the doctors revealed a bit of something in my head, and not my brain. I should feel better soon.
Mar
13
I don’t ussually post jokes on the site because I just keep that kind of thing to myself. I did however find this one to true not to share with my fellow sailors. Fair winds and following seas to all of you out there…..enjoy!
The Commanding Officer of a Navy ship was about to start the morning briefing by his department heads.
While waiting for the coffee machine to finish its brewing, he decided to pose a question to all assembled. He explained that he and his wife and been a bit frisky the night before and he failed to get his usual amount of sound sleep.
He posed the question of just how much of sex was ‘work’ and how much of it was ‘pleasure?’
The X.O. chimed in with 75-25% in favor of work.
A LCDR. said it was 50-50%.
The a LT. responded with 25-75% in favor of pleasure, depending on his state of inebriation at the time.
There being no consensus, the Captain turned to the seaman who was in charge of making the coffee. What was HIS opinion?
With no hesitation, the young seaman responded, “Sir, it has to be 100% pleasure.”
The Captain was surprised and, as you might guess, asked why?
“Well, Sir,” began the seaman, “if there was any work involved, the officers would have me doing it for them.”
The room fell silent.
God Bless the enlisted men. They got it figured out!
Mar
11
So I have been working at this new job with loads of really excellent people. I have been working with on person off and on as the need arises and just today realized that I read his blog and have been reading it for some time (maybe 5 years now). Nice to know he is on my side of the firewall.
Mar
11
I love a good desktop fight. PCMAG.com has posted an interesting read about Ubunut vs. WindowsXP vs. Windows Vista vs. Mac. Read and take note.
I am a Mac & Ubuntu fan. I have a distain for Windows that is more than just the normal “Hate the biggest company”.
This review is using 7.10 of Ubuntu and 8.04 is right around the corner. I think it would do much better in some areas if they were to place the full 8.04 vs. the others. Will have to wait for that one.
Summery:
Price: Ubuntu
Installation: MacOSX
Interface: MacOSX
Bundled Software: MacOSX
Third Party Softwar: WindowsXP
Drivers & Hardware: WindowsXP
Networking: WindowsXP (WTF - MacOSX Networking is seemless?)
Security: Ubuntu & MacOSX
Winner: MaxOSX
“In our First Looks review of Leopard, we gave it a great score (4.5), and despite some disagreement —you expected complete unanimity?—we again found it worthy (with a final score of 4). 
My opinion if anyone cares:
I know PCMAG.com is a Microsoft leaning MAG. I have read them for years and they always lean to Microsoft when they have the chance. The only reason you leave in WindowsXP is so that you don’t leave Windows out in the cold. Hell for that matter let’s include BeOS and MacOS9 as well. It’s just as old? I would take issue with the decision to leave in what is now n 8 year old and tired, flawed, and patched OS. Why not just deal with new OSes?
Next is the networking, I don’t agree at all with then completely leaving out the justification for why MacOSX 10.5.1 losses out to WindowsXP in the networking area. My MacOSX 10.5.1 is a networking beast. I don’t have to think about it, it just works. WindowsXP networking didn’t get decent until that SP2 came out some 5 years into it’s life. WiFi on Mac just works and so easy my wife can do it over the phone without much problem. WindowsXP would have driven and did drive her crazy. Shame on PCMAG for not being fair.
I do agree with the winner and would like to see this done again in 6 months with WindowsXP out of it, let Windows Vista stand on it own (LOL), and put Ubuntu 8.04.1 in the mix and we wont see Windows winning much at all.
MacOSX as I have said for years is my favorite OS by far. Ubunut is getting there.
Mar
10
We just moved to Charlotte and purchased a 15 year old house. The first owners were landscapers and put in what I would call a wonderful yard. The owners for the past five years were not that attentive to the yard or the 2400 gallon Koi Pond in the middle of the backyard.
I think Koi are neat fish, I have always enjoyed a nice Koi pond although I have never had the opportunity to own one or build one because I now am the proud new owner of this house I am also a proud new owner of 9 8 koi.
We moved in on Jan 3 and it’s now only 2 months later and I have seen the koi maybe 6 or 7 times since then. It has not been warm enough to see them all the time. When it’s cold the go to the bottom and conserve oxygen. I have noticed that the algae is getting pretty bad on the bottom and around the sides on the rocks and such so I will stop here with this story and tell you about the last owner Craig.
Craig was the previous owner and handman he was not. Jerry-rigger he was. I have fixed more crap in the past 2 months than ever before. The funny part is the neighbors all thought he was handy. I would say he was busy but not handy and this is coming from a guy who will tell you I am not handy but I am decent and know when to call a professional.
When I purchased the house Craig told me that once a spring he would take the koi out of the pond and place them in a trash can, then drain the pond and then take a wet dry vacuume and “clean up” the algea. Me not knowing anything about pond care thought that it sounded like a lot of work but if that was what needed to be done then I would have to do it.
Who am I to say he is wrong?
This is the point where Google.com and other professionals become your best friends. I started to google “Koi Ponds” and other things to read as much on the subject as possible. I want to have the nicest koi pond in the area. I lived in japan for a few years and saw some truly neat koi ponds.
Koi Pond - Water Change outs
Then I found a local fish store with a huge knowledge of koi ponds and how to take care of them. Fintastic has helped me out to no end and I would like to thank them, I have also helped them out by decreasing their inventory on certain items and increasing their bank account. Your Welcome!
So they tell me that Craigs idea is absolutely nuts and should not be done unless something in the pond has gone terribly wrong and in this case it had and it’s name was Craig. The introduction of “tap” water is really a shock to most fish and keeping koi in such a small space is hard on them too so the whole idea is nuts and the algae can be controlled with proper understanding of the ponds life cycle not a wet dry vac.
This leads me to the ending of the story, the reason why you are reading. We added some things to balance out the water and control the algae, I replaced the failing aeration pump to get plenty of oxygen to my little koi and then this weekend decided to clean up the areas of dead plants around the pond and while sticking my hand in one end of the pond I got the pain in my hand like it was cut and something in the water was stinging it. I ignored it as the foliage had cut my hands all up and figured it was nothing.
Next there was a dead frog in the pond, that made me wonder if the chems I had used to balance the water had killed him and then I opened the hatch to the pump to find the most awful site I could think of. One dead koi. I was sad and got him out with the rake and then stuck my hand into the drain/pump area only to get a nice electrocuting shock to my hand, but since this is not something I know or am familiar with and figured it was my cuts, stuck my other hand in since it was cut up less only to find the same issue. Then like any monkey would I stuck my hand in one good time and decided I was being electrocuted.
Running to the house breaker box I threw off the entire house so that I would not let this torture go on. The pump, of 15 years and looked like a old motor that had been hidden away in a lake had just gone bad. I have replaced it today and since the pump has started running I have seen one of my little koi. So I feel leads better and wish them the best. New koi are about $5 when they are small and I am looking forward to adding 3 more this summer.
Follow Up:
Now that I am being read by actual Koi Pond Owners I need to let you know what happen. I took out the old pump and I should take some pictures of it to post here to show you. I also picked up a little pond grounding device that has a titanium rod on it in case I have the same problem again. Chris at Fintastic said that it would keep the fish from being killed or me for that matter. I am going to get the name and model of the new pump and post it as well. I installed it and placed it back into the water return. All is well now and I know we are going to have a great koi pond year.
I have plans to add a UV filter to the pond and some type of filtering agent to help promote health. I want to have nice big happy koi that make those funny faces and eat out your hands.
Mar
7
In the past I have openly been very negative about Apple’s lack of Enterprise awareness. Apple does not seem to think they need to do anything at a corporate or enterprise level and that selling iPhone and iPods was going to make them a well rounded company. I have begged and pleaded with Apple to recognize that there is an entire market out there that needs addressing and they fail to deal with any of it. The failures of the xServe are apparent. The most reliable UNIX based server with the best set of tools and applications to manage it and they have not made a single significantly large sale into any large company with them. The xServe should be a no brainer for any company with server needs, but it’s not.
Then up pops the iPhone, and handy little device that seems to have won the hearth of the consumers but the IT people and business people can’t leverage the tool since it can’t be managed and you can’t build apps for it. Well that has all changed. On March 6th Apple released a program to do just that. You can now use your iPhone in some of the same ways you could a Blackberry.
One last request Apple, and you all out there know what this is going to be, call IBM and have them port Domino to MacOSX Server and then give Lotus Notes/Domino support via iPhone Enterprise Solutions.