Domino server time

After migrating to Domino 8 on our servers, we noticed the same issue that Vladimir Kocjancic reports in this article.

It's great to have this correction documented. Thanks Vladimir!

Moving to Notes 8.0.1

Jess Stratton posted a very useful overview of Notes 8.0.1 features and included a PDF file that can be used in a conference room presentation.

It's a good quick overview. Take a look.

More than just a free download

If you go to https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ - you can request a free Ubuntu CD. When it comes in the mail, it includes 4 stickers to promote Ubuntu. Not only does Canonical give us a free download of a free operating system, they also back it up with a free CD for installation, and promotion.

Here's what it looks like;

I've already used Ubuntu 9.04, and it does everything I need.

First day at home

I had a plan to wash my car today, and if we had last Friday's weather today - that's exactly what I'd be doing. But it's raining. I'm going to have to switch to come up with plan B.

Last day in the office

I've known that today would be the last day in the Novi office for quite a few weeks now. I'm still not certain that it feels real yet.

I do know that lunch was very tasty, and driving home a little earlier than normal was a great feeling.

The job search officially begins next week Tuesday (I've decided to just go ahead and take Monday off). I'll be recording my job search process here.

Are you "googleable"?

Yes, that's now a word. I looked it up, and found quite a few references;
Urban dictionary definition
A blog dedicated to it! - no recent updates though :-(
I'll let you see the rest at your leisure, there were 97,800 results.

What does it mean for my job search?

I want everything found on google when someone searches for "Rick VanGameren" to be something I'm happy for a potential employer or business partner to find. I have the good fortune, for this goal, to have a unique name. If it wasn't, I'd have to come up with a way to "uniquify" my name. Maybe something like; "Fred (I deliver overnight) Smith". Probably still need some more thought on that one.

Step one; what do you get when you google your name?

Use that as a starting point. Then decide what results you want to represent you, and - if you can, go back and brand them with the name you want people to use to find you.

Comment here if you have any questions.

RSS Feed Readers

I've been using Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. I did read a notice on LinkedIn about subscribing to network updates;

Important note about web-based feed readers

Some web-based feed readers publish your feed URLs on the web, making them available to search engines and everyone else. You should not subscribe to LinkedIn’s Personal feeds with a web-based feed reader unless it guarantees that your feeds are kept private.

So I decided to install a PC-based feed reader for these updates. I was fascinated by the difference in the steps required to install a simple application like this for Windows (XP) and Linux (Ubuntu).

Windows

I settled on FeedDemon for use with XP. Here are the installation steps;

1. Google RSS feed readers and find the desired application
2. Download the installer
3. Logout
4. Log in as a user with administrative rights, otherwise step 5. will result in the error; "You must be logged in an administrator when installing this program"
   
5. Open the installer (remembering where I stored the install file)
6. Answer the installer prompts
7. Logout
8. Log back in as a regular user
9. Launch the program

Linux
I settled on Liferea for Ubuntu. Again, here are the installation steps;

1. Google RSS feed readers and find the desired application
2. The recommendation included an apt statement for the install, so - Open a terminal session
3. Type in, or copy and paste from the web site recommending the program; sudo aptitude install liferea
4. Enter the administrative password, wait for the install to complete
   
5. Launch the program

Somehow, I had believed that Linux was harder to work with than Windows. Seems I was mistaken.