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Ramsha—An 8th-Grade Muslim Girl's Perspective
My Perspective Counts: Part I
In this series of My Perspective Counts, we will be exploring the unique and inspiring lives of Muslims from all backgrounds, faith practices, age ranges and all other variables. Through interviews, we will learn about their struggles, perspectives, passions and wisdom. The following questions were specifically tailored to this young Muslim woman.
Tell us a little about yourself: Your name, grade, personality/interests, a little background on where you grew up and your family.
My name is Ramsha. Even though I'll be 13 in about 3 months, I'm a rising 8th grader. I'm a "girly girl" who loves nail polish and clothes. My little sister is also my little model! I also have a younger brother and a loving mom and dad. I was born in the United States but I grew up in Vancouver, Canada. I lived there for about 12 years.
As a young person, you seem interested in Islam. How did that start and what role does Islam play in your life?
Islam is my way of life. But it wasn't always like that. About 3 years ago my parents went for Hajj. When they came back, I saw that they were more practicing. We started to put more deen (religion) into our lives. I started to wear the hijab (head covering) not too long ago. I got my first job delivering newspapers last year. My mom didn't tell me to wear the hijab or not. She just said, "It's your choice, but I'm telling you, it's better to start from day one rather than from the middle." I decided to start wearing it from that day. It was actually the day before my 12th birthday. As I started wearing the hijab, I felt myself getting stronger and stronger in my faith. It was just like lip balm. It contains an ingredient that makes it addictive, so the more you put on, the more you need. All it took was for my mom to give my wagon a little push.
What are some of the challenges you face as a young Muslim woman?
People at school come up to me with many questions. Some I didn't know how to answer at that time. For example, this girl once asked me, "If you have Jesus, Moses, and Noah in your religion, why aren't you Christian?" Of course I don't answer every question I get, because we are all still learning. Others can have really long answers. I once posted a picture saying, "Smile! It's sunnah!" The following day, everyone was asking me what sunnah was. Others are just plain silly. Along with the usual "Do you have hair/ears?", the weirdest question I have ever gotten was, "Do you have Voldemort hidden in the back of your head?"
Another thing I face is stereotypes. I have had people at school dare each other to tell me racist jokes and ask me racist questions like, "Your mom is so stupid she thought the twin towers were runways," and, "Have your parents ever belonged to a terrorist organization?" Of course they did get caught, but I felt sad that this is what they think of Muslims.
Please share a story of a time where you explained Islam to someone else. What did they ask, what did you say and how was your experience?
I was once going out on the field after lunch when a girl came and asked me, "What are you?" I decided that because she was my age I could joke around with her. So I said, "Oh, I'm a human," and our conversation continued:
Her: Yeah, I can see that but like what part of India are you from?
Me: It may seem surprising but I am not Indian. I am from Canada. I am just Muslim. It's a religion, not an ethnicity.
Her: So, why do you wear that on your head?
Me: I'm obeying God's orders. And it's not just in Islam. For example, even in your church, you never see a picture of Virgin Mary with her head uncovered.
Her: I understand. But aren't you hot?
Me: Honestly, yes. I can get a bit sweaty, but the human body's an amazing machine. It can get used to anything. And besides, it's just like a hat protecting me from the sun.
Her: I wish I was you. It gets really hot here in South Carolina.
I felt really excited and gave a smile.
Her: Hey, do you know that guy Osama bin Laden?
Me: I know what you're going to ask. And no, I don't look up to him. Even though he was Muslim, he was also misguided, got lost, went astray.
Her: Oh ok. Hey, my sister told me you guys pray 500 times a day. Is that true?
Me: [giggles] No, it's only five. One at the break of dawn, one after midday, one when the sun is at eye level, one when it sets, and one when the sky is completely dark.
Her: Oh, so do you pray at school?
Me: Before the time change, I used to go behind the curtain to pray at lunch. When the clocks moved forward, I could pray my noon prayer as soon as I got home, if my bus was on time.
Just then, a boy tapped me on the shoulder.
Me: Could you please not touch me?
Her: Oh, you don't like being touched?
I quoted directly from the seminar: In Islam, there is no touchy-feely, no try-it-before-you-buy-it, and such. I am the one in control of who touches me.
Her: So are you allowed to have, like, a boyfriend?
Me: No, but-
Her: Then how do you get married?
Me: If I like someone, then I tell my parents. It's their job to invite his family over and find out from who's in their family history, all the way to what do they post on instagram. So basically the parents do the dating for you.
Her: I thought that the parents choose for you?
Me: That is an option though.
[bell rings]
That girl and I ended up becoming good friends.
Anything else you'd like to share?
I would like to tell every Muslim girl: remind yourself that it's all temporary. Don't get attached. Look in the mirror and say, "I am a Muslimah; I am strong, and I am beautiful."
I would also like to share a few good books (other than the Qur'an, of course) that I have come across. There is "Reclaim Your Heart" by Yasmin Mogahed and "The Prophet's Methods of Correcting People's Mistakes" by Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid. I also follow @islamicquotes on Instagram and would like to give them a shoutout.
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Go Ramsha! Great to see such strong young Muslimahs – very inspiring!
Living amidst Non-Muslims is challenging but an opportunity to represent Islam.
So I ask Allah to make us steadfast and strengthen our faith, ameen
Mashallah what a articulate smart young woman. May allah increase you in imaan,and grant you the best in this life and the hereafter …I loved the fact that in the face of such questions asked by your peers you were able to answer well..I know I would have just got annoyed!
"the weirdest question I have ever gotten was, "Do you have Voldemort hidden in the back of your head?""
Lol. I get the reference.
Masha Allah we are so proud of you representing Islam well at your school. You were able to answer the questions in a way that sometimes not even adults could. May Allah bless you and your parents for educating you well. You are a good example for many of our Muslim girls to follow. Keep up the good work. God bless and protect you.
MaShaAllah, I loved your example of the lip balm, Alhumdolillah so proud of you for standing up strongly, confidently and patiently for Islam. Go Ramsha Go! May Allah protect you. Aameen!
I was very happy to read this and I hope that you'll always have this strong personality, inshallah.
mashallah, Ramsha you are a very strong girl, may allah help you face any difficulty that comes your way, and he helps you teach the kids of south Carolina the true meaning of Islam.
Wow Ramsha, Masha Allah you have such a strong personality. I look up to you as a Muslimah and you have great examples to help young women. I'd like to say that you have learned a lot from your parents which is outstanding MashaAllah. Keep your head up and surely you will learn more about our religion to answer the harder questions that you receive!
Amazing interview Ramsha! Very inspiring and confidently answered. You go girl!
MashaAllah ,I'm so proud of you Ramsha. You are fulfilling the dreams of your parents. May Allah help you and guide you to every success of your life towards Deen. Aameen
Mashallah. May Allah grant her more success.
Amazing! Alhamd-ul-illah … we have some bright ones in our way of faith. May Allah protect your intellect and prize you with more.
Wow! I must say, at such a young age, Ramsha demonstrates quite a solid understanding of religious believes and is able to lead an exploratory life in the midst of everyday profiling. I especially enjoyed the real-life candid examples she shared and how she has beautifully handled variety of situations. Wish you all the very best!
"The weirdest question I have ever gotten was, "Do you have Voldemort hidden in the back of your head?" "
That was indeed weird!
MashaAllah, you are an intelligent young woman. I would love to have a daughter, or a friend like you. Stay confident the way you are! Those people who ridicule, it just exposes what type of people they are. What one says, describes them.
May Allah grant you success in school, and may you become what you want to become when you're older. Love you for the sake of Allah. <3
Wow! I wish i knew these answers about my religion and could respond like you when I was your age. I was so annoyed with small questions and gave up on my Hijab. Your examples make me wish I was like you and want to learn more to be proud Muslimah like you. Help me? May you be rewarded and become what you want to become. Love you for the sake of Allah.
What a grown-up girl, intelligent way beyond your years. The more contact I have with Muslims, the more educated I become, and understanding grows for all of us.
Your parents are doing a superb job of bringing you up.
Great Job Ramsha. A GREAT ambassador for a great Religion. I love how you answered the girl with great confidence and patience. Think of it all the time, Allah has sent you there for a purpose and for every challenge you meet, your thawab is rewarded by Allah (swt) the most generous and the most merciful.
May Allah guide you through his righteous path and deepen your faith.
This was so great ma'sha'allah. Well spoken Ramsha! Bless you!
MashaAllah! Allahumma barik 'alayha
I was busy with some paper works and forgot about dhuha prayer. Somehow I just clicked on this article and I went straight to perform my dhuha after reading about this amazing girl.
May Allah swt guide you and bless your family. Amazing, Subhanallah
Hello Ramsha ! I am sooo impressed by the way you handled yourself , the clarity of your answers to the other girl's questions was remarkable ! I was raised in a small town (not as a visible minority or religious minority) and I remember feeling bad for the kids of ethnic minority as they were constantly being taunted and teased just because of their various cultural beliefs . You are well beyond your years by the way you are handling this pressure . Like I said , I am very impressed !!….and by the way Eid Mubarak to you and your family !!Keep up the good work !
Ramsha, It was awesome to see this on the web! I see you almost everyday and hear you get asked some of those ridiculous questions and see how you handle those awful "jokes". Its so awesome the way you love and accept your religion and plan to stick to it even though you are constantly surrounded by ignorant people who dont seem quite understand. Im not muslim but this absolutely inspired me and made my day. Thank you so much!
Ramsha,your parents must be very proud of you, marshallah. May Allah increase your wisdom and knowledge in school work and Islam. May you be a strong successful woman in this life and after. May Allah bless your mother specially. I hope you can be my daughter's friend as she is the same age of you. Alhumduallah.


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Inspiring podcast episode by David McRaney In this episode we discuss how terrible people are at predicting the future, how history really works, and how we can understand where we are going by changing how we view where we've been. Our guests are science historian and communications legend James Burke and Paleofuture creator Matt Novak.
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Some interesting Java facts (Infographic)
Tue, Mar 18th 2014 2:18a Cristian D'Aloisio
via Java Code Geeks
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Fluent 2014: Scott Hanselman, "Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler
Sat, Mar 15th 2014 5:23a Cristian D'Aloisio
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Amazon.com Widgets
Should I use a 32- or a 64-bit JVM? | Java Code Geeks
Mon, Dec 16th 2013 8:09a Cristian D'Aloisio
Interesting article. Should I use a 32- or a 64-bit JVM? | Java Code Geeks
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DBX 2013 Keynote + Datastore API (1st Dropbox event)
Mon, Sep 2nd 2013 11:09a Cristian D'Aloisio
Interesting, especially the Datastore API (more on https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore ) Keynote Datastore API
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Interesting web performance tips
Wed, Apr 3rd 2013 12:59p Cristian D'Aloisio
O'Reilly Webcast: Best of Fluent 2012 - High Performance Snippets - YouTube
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Domino webmail not loading in iframe? Try this xPages coding tip...
Tue, Feb 19th 2013 10:49a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some days ago a friend of mine urgently contacted me via FB (!) about a problem with his latest Domino upgrade, version 8.5.3 FP3. He had a simple xPages web app showing Domino webmail in one the pages, using the old, much-hated (but often used...), iframe technique. After the Domino upgrade, the webmail was not available anymore in IE 9, unless he hit the compatibility button in IE. Who would tell all users to do that?! :-) Before any further investigation, we had to find a quick solution:I wa
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Happy New Year 2013!
Mon, Dec 31st 2012 4:18a Cristian D'Aloisio
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Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
Tue, Dec 4th 2012 8:46a Cristian D'Aloisio
Interesting video.
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A funny list of new programming slang
Fri, Oct 19th 2012 5:36a Cristian D'Aloisio
My favourite slang is the Yoda Conditions, whilst the one I already knew was the Egyptian brackets that I learned when I started to program in Turbo C (or was it Java?). New programming slang via StumbleUpon.
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if you love Google services, you will like this add-on
Mon, Oct 15th 2012 9:04a Cristian D'Aloisio
It's a simple add-on for your your favourite web browser, Firefox or Chrome (IE not listed...), to simply reach many services provided by Google. google-shortcuts Display all Google services as buttons or as a space-saving dropdown menu next to your address bar.
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Austin, we have a problem :-)
Wed, Sep 19th 2012 9:47a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some time ago I opened a support ticket in IBM about a really tricky issue with DAOS: a few attachments referenced in the DAOS system could not be opened by the Domino server itself (error shown both in Domino console and to the Notes user). Not all, just a few hundreds attachments. The ticket escaleted weeks after weeks, but the support group could not help me, also I had the feeling they wanted to close the ticket asap... After a while I contacted Ed Brill who was so polite to also involve I
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Where in the world is Cris?
Wed, Sep 19th 2012 3:50a Cristian D'Aloisio
Wow, I'm back to my blog after more than three months! I was rather busy because I decided to... change my life! To cut it short: me and my family decided to leave my beloved Bologna (Italy) and move to Germay, Karlsruhe town (Baden-Wurttemberg region). My wife Elly (who is is expert in the ERP subjects) had the chance to work with ABAS Software AG, a Karlsruhe-based multinational software company. So we both decided to make a big change in our life (especially for me and Kevin) and move to
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This app is really useful, no doubts
Sun, Jun 17th 2012 3:42p Cristian D'Aloisio
An independent iOS developer from Bologna (Italy) wrote an app to help blind people to live a better life. Apple invited him to the Apple conference in the US.
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Do your customers and partners receive a blank return receipt memos?
Fri, Jun 15th 2012 3:34a Cristian D'Aloisio
Take a look to this IBM Technote # 1586180 : Blank return receipts sent to external sender We disabled the internal Domino disclaimer management (a setting in the configuration document inside the names.nsf) and reloaded the Domino router config (tell router update config). Now it works. BTW, we use the fabulous third-party product called Crossware Mail Signature to manage all signature needs: simple and effective.
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My colleague has a passion for Lotus Notes and...
Wed, Jun 6th 2012 10:11a Cristian D'Aloisio
... AC Milan! He customized his Lotus Notes workspace (at least he did not use images from AC Milan president Berlusconi, thanks god...)
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Any trolls in our Lotus community ? :-)
Mon, Jun 4th 2012 5:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
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Earthquake in Italy
Fri, Jun 1st 2012 2:21p Cristian D'Aloisio
By now everybody in the world should know about the earthquake in Northern Italy, in an area located among the cities of Bologna (Ducati bikes, oldest university in the world), Modena (Pavarotti singer, Ferrari) and Ferrara (Antonioni movie director, important arts city). Many churches and houses collapsed, business stopped and is difficult to restart, many people died. Some of my friends are experiencing the worst nightmare, fears, tears for what happened and what is still happening, tremors
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The forgotten PMR about DAOS
Wed, May 2nd 2012 2:34a Cristian D'Aloisio
On 21st March, on behalf of a customer, I opened a ticket with IBM about a DAOS issue: IBM PMR 01838,841,758 :DAOS error specified private key does not exist A technician call me back, I sent him some logs, made some tests. Later I started to ask info about the ticket, both via phone and e-mail , soliciting the ticket, but I had no answer. Just today I called the IBM toll-free number to solicit once again the ticket: besides soliciting the ticket, the help-desk could not escalate the ticke
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Technote: just a matter of (SSL) trust...
Mon, Apr 23rd 2012 6:06a Cristian D'Aloisio
Does your server-side scheduled Java program crashes trying to connect to an SSL-enables site? Is the error message something like: HTTP JVM: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: com.ibm.jsse2.util.g: No trusted certificate found Here's a useful IBM Techonote # 1588966 Importing an SSL Certificate into the JVM . Have fun :-)
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So you can't manage mailbox folders with Lotus Notes Traveler with Apple devices
Wed, Apr 18th 2012 5:58a Cristian D'Aloisio
No problem, just read this wiki document to find out how to enable mailbox folder management for iOS 5 devices (iPhone, iPad). From the document: Starting with Lotus Notes Traveler 188.8.131.52, mobile devices running Apple iOS 5 have the ability to create, rename, move, and delete mail folders from their devices. However, this feature is not enabled by default and must be enabled at the Lotus Notes Traveler server by the server administrator before these functions will succeed. To enable folde
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Some issues solved about Domino on Linux SUSE SLES 11
Thu, Apr 5th 2012 9:40a Cristian D'Aloisio
Just today I had to install Fix Pack 1 for a Domino server version 8.5.3 on a Linux box, SUSE SLES 11 64bit. Easy job, right? Actually not: when I ran installation script through a putty console I got an error soon after: something like "Couldn't find strings.res ..." Lucklily I found out the following IBM Technote #1198504 Upgrading the Domino AIX Server Fails So it was an issue related to the LANG environment setting, not set or wrongly set. In my case I followed the technote hints r
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Do you need some help to install IBM Connections 3.0.1 on Linux?
Thu, Mar 29th 2012 6:40a Cristian D'Aloisio
I recently installed a IBM Connections 3.0.1 pilot systemn over a Linux Suse SLES 64bit OS (one VM box for DB2+TDI, the other for WSA+Connections etc, 4 GB RAM each). After some googling I found out the Christoph Stoettner 's nice slides on the subject (written in German). I dare to contact him by email for the very first asking him the English version of his guide: since there's no English version of his guide, he pointed out to another guide, the Lotusphere 2012 Show300 "Become a Conn
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Cannot print mail messages from Notes hosted on Citrix?
Thu, Mar 29th 2012 4:45a Cristian D'Aloisio
Let's say you are using the Lotus Notes client hosted on Citrix. When trying to print a mail message (html/mime message) you get some kind of error message like the following: Line: 2053 Char: 1 Error: The system cannot find the file specified Url: res://ieframe.dll/preview.js and actually that stop you from printing the memo, then "then solution is to add a "Fonts" folder to C:Users+USERNAME+Windows I just added the folder to each current user and also put the folder in the Defau
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A DAOS mistery solved: which memo references that specific .NLO file?
Sat, Mar 24th 2012 9:08a Cristian D'Aloisio
Warning:use this info carefully, it's about DAOS debugging, it's not documented, it can change in thje future, maybe it can impact the performance of your Domino server. I'm working on a case about DAOS: some .NLO files cannot be read by the Domino server and I get some error message on the console: "Specified private keys does not exist" I'm working with IBM Support to find the cause of this problem that luckily does not involve all mailboxes and not all memos (NLO files encrypted wit
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Why Quickr fix pack installer fails?
Wed, Feb 29th 2012 8:14p Cristian D'Aloisio
Recently I had to install the latest Fix Pack on Quickr 8.5.1 for Domino, # 25, on a Windows box. Normally you can choose which installation method to use: manual: you copy/paste the Quickr FP files in the proper Domino server pathsautomatic: you just run a jar file that knows what to do, as long you have a proper Java JRE and other requisites listed in the fix pack release notes (the easy and quicker way I like) Every now and then, when I run the automatic fix pack installer I get the follow
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Mass mailing is killing your Domino server? Killing the sender is not an option
Mon, Jan 23rd 2012 3:24p Cristian D'Aloisio
Some weeks ago a customer called me complaining that Domino was not working anymore and, guess what, we find out that somebody was sending a big memo to hundreds of people, memo containing a big attachment! How to deal with that case? No way.... Unless you read the really useful AdminBlast 2012 slides from Paul Mooney (tip #21) and also the following IBM Technote: How to avoid performance issues related to mass email delivery in Lotus Domino You just need two notes.ini settings: RouterMaxE
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Wired: IBM's Suarez and his e-mail-less experience
Sat, Jan 21st 2012 6:11p Cristian D'Aloisio
For Suarez, it's not just more efficient. It's a nicer way to communicate. There's a "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" kind of passive-aggressiveness to the way many people use corporate e-mail, with the strategic bcc and the cover-your-ass e-mail message. "If you have been using e-mail in a corporate environment, you know that plenty of people use e-mail as a weapon against their own colleagues," he says. "This was also creating a new way of working where you wouldn't need to jus
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Updates to the "Sametime 8.5.2 From zero to hero" installation guide
Wed, Dec 21st 2011 2:35a Cristian D'Aloisio
In my previous post I wrote some remarks about installing Sametime 8.5.2, using a guide edited by Frank Altenburg from IBM Germany. Frank informed me that he has updated his useful guide to install Sametime 8.5.2 in a pilot deployment to minimize the number of servers involved. Once again, he did a great job, really step-by-step instructions.
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Some remarks about installing Sametime 8.5.2
Fri, Dec 2nd 2011 9:25a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some weeks ago I installed a pilot Sametime 8.5.2 Standard infrastructure following the REALLY GREAT guide written by Frank Altenburg from IBM Germany. Frank did a great job describing the step-by-step procedure on Windows OS. IBM Sametime 8.5.2 Installation - From Zero To Hero - Basics View more presentations from Frank Altenburg After the installation I wrote some remarks about Frank's guide, hoping that it will be useful to other people doing it for the first time (I already forworded m
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Sametime client for iPhone / iPad... but not from IBM.
Wed, Nov 23rd 2011 2:47a Cristian D'Aloisio
QuipIM for Sametime Standard from conundrumsoftware It's not a free app (3.99 EUR), but you do not need to install/manage a Sametime Proxy server to allow iPhone / iPad users to connect using the brand-new free app developed by IBM. Just connect to your Sametime Community server: it simply works.
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Monster Domino databases: finally I catched one!
Sun, Nov 13th 2011 1:34p Cristian D'Aloisio
P.S. click on the image to zoom.
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Installing Traveler 8.5.3 on Domino for Linux: installer hung.
Fri, Nov 11th 2011 4:17a Cristian D'Aloisio
Yesterday I tried to install Lotus Notes Traveler 8.5.3 on SUSE SLES 11 SP1 64bit, virtualized on VMWARE. I did it directly from the Linux box, running the GUI installer inside a terminal window. The Traveler installer started normally, in graphical mode: unfortunately, after a few screens asking some parameters, the installer hung (this installation will time some time...) for a long time, never completing the installation process. I also tried to run the text-mode installer script (silent mo
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Need to mobilize attachments saved in your precious Notes DBs?
Sat, Nov 5th 2011 9:21a Cristian D'Aloisio
then have a look to Lialis Lotus Webdav! Some months ago I personally met with Marten Vosmer and I could feel the his passion and commitment developing this useful product. Great job. Here's a useful demo:
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Happy Birthday Kevin, already 2 years old!
Thu, Nov 3rd 2011 5:23p Cristian D'Aloisio
So pround of you Kevin, we all love you so much, son.
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Permalink for IBM Technotes?
Tue, Oct 18th 2011 8:09a Cristian D'Aloisio
Every now and then, looking for an old IBM Technote , the link is missing, both in some blog posts and also from a Google search result... Just for example My blog post url: http://www.dominobaloney.com/2011/04/ibm-technote-of-day-imap-view-and.html title: IMAP view and folder synching url: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21447408 Even in the Google search, the main result url points to an IBM url: http://www.google.it/search?q=ibm+%22imap+view+and+folder+synching%22&
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Symantec and Backup Exec for Domino: happy (sweet and sour) ending
Sat, Jul 30th 2011 6:44a Cristian D'Aloisio
Somebody will remember my complains about a Symantec support a ticket I opened some months ago and was not still solved in the proper way. Also Keith had some problem with the Symantec support. Luckly Ron Ruggles, a Symantec Senior Product Manager, read our blog posts and personally apologize for the delays and for the bad perception we had about their technical support. Moreover he involved the best technicians to try to solve our tickets asap (in my case Russ Perry) . I was still so disappo
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Need to access/sync Quickr files from an iPad (or any webdav client) ?
Sat, Jul 16th 2011 11:21a Cristian D'Aloisio
During UKLUG2011 I had the chance to meet with Marten Vosmer from Lialis. We had a nice chat all the evening, both guests of the Crossware dinner in the oldest pub in Manchester. Marten's company is developing a webDav interface for files hosted on Lotus Quickr, both for download/sync documents and also for uploading! Think about iPad/iPhone webdav-compliant apps! More info here. I like when a business partner is filling in a market gap left from IBM. You can see a demo from the following yo
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Thoughts about Symantec and Backup Exec 2010 with DAOS-enabled Domino server
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 5:54p Cristian D'Aloisio
Somebody will remember my previous post about issues with BE 2010 agent for Domino on a DAOS-enabled Domino server... It seems I'm not alone complaining about Symantec technical support, opening tickets for a long time (mid Feb in my case), or trying to close them without a solution. In my specific case, after months collecting logs and receiving several phone calls from Symantec, I reached the last level of Symatec support: after some attempts, they found out a "solution" for the backing-up
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BES: KB04533-"IT Policy Rejected. Please wipe handheld and try again." error received during enterprise activation
Wed, Jul 6th 2011 6:15a Cristian D'Aloisio
KB04533-"IT Policy Rejected. Please wipe handheld and try again." error received during enterprise activation
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DDive 2001, the Italian Lotus User Group event!
Thu, Jun 30th 2011 5:20p Cristian D'Aloisio
Starting 1st July evening until Sunday 3rd July, DDive 2001, the Italian LUG event, will be held inside a castle, the Valbona castle! Not joking, it's a real castle, not a Disney-style one, built around year 1200. The location is really nice, in Veneto region, famous for Arts, food and wine. The event idea is great: not-only yellow bleeders (turning to blueish...), but also their family; half a day speeches, half a day funny activities. I previously planned to attend the event, bringing a
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Lotus Domino R5, long time no see...
Fri, Jun 24th 2011 6:41a Cristian D'Aloisio
Just recently I had the change to administer an R5 Domino server... Kind of a different era, strange feeling for the time running away... ;-) P.S. Upgrade planned!
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Welcome Quickr Connector for Windows 64 bit !
Tue, Jun 7th 2011 6:54a Cristian D'Aloisio
Steve Foley from IBM kindly informed me about the long-awaited full-working release of Quickr Connector for Windows 64-bit! Thanks Steve. See my previous post here . Quickr Connectors are now officially support Windows 7 64-bit as well as Office 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit support). This support includes Windows 7 64-bit Explorer. IBM FixCentral - Quickr Connectors 22.214.171.124_HF7 and may be deployed in production by any appropriately licensed customer. HTTP links... http://download4.boulder.ibm.c
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Backup for a Domino server? Disappointed with Symantec BE 2010....
Wed, May 18th 2011 4:20p Cristian D'Aloisio
Having some really nasty issues with Backup Exec 2010 remote agent for Domino 8.5.2 64 bit, DAOS enabled, Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit)... Officially supported. Not working when trying to backup DAOS-enabled mailboxes! After a while (it seems is collecting the test .nsf file first) I get the error 0xe000fe09 - The directory is invalid I suspect it is a matter of DAOS dir directory, but I'm not sure... Problem is I contacted the Symantec Support and I had several session with different people, fo
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Traveler Can't create Java VM ?
Fri, May 13th 2011 10:00p Cristian D'Aloisio
If you find out that your Lotus Notes Traveler task is not starting and you get an error message like Traveler::AddInMain: Can't create Java VM on the Domino consolle, you can start finding the cause from the following IBM Technote:"Traveler::AddInMain: Can't create Java VM" message during Lotus Traveler start-up Actually in my specific case the problem was about my server little memory, as suggested in a previous forum post by Corey Quinn. In the Domino server notes.ini I added the follo
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How Quickr round-trip editing works in Firefox?
Tue, Apr 26th 2011 5:04a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some days ago I had an issue with a Quickr feature called round-trip editing. With round-trip feature enabled (default), if the Quickr Connector is installed and running on the local machine, a user watching a Quickr web page can click on a button named "Edit document": clicking the button, the file is edited and managed by the local Quickr Connector (Windows only, of course), that is, for example, edit a file inside MS Word. If the Connector is NOT installed on the user pc, that button will
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IBM technote of the day: "IMAP view and folder synching"
Thu, Apr 21st 2011 8:11a Cristian D'Aloisio
Interesting technote for those who still use an IMAP client to access Domino mail messages. MAP view and folder synching
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Quickr Connector on Windows 7 64 bit? No release date...
Thu, Apr 14th 2011 2:13a Cristian D'Aloisio
Wondering why it is not yet available a Quickr Connector fully compatible with Windows 7 64 bit OS... Yes, you can still use the Office Connector, the Notes Connector, but from my experience, what many customers REALLY want is the Windows Explorer integration that allows them to copy/paste files, etc.(also read Luis post ). It seems that IBM will release an update the second half of this year (news from Lotusphere 2011), but I have no certain date from IBM. I know many users getting pc with Win
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FileSendr 1.1.0: working with Chrome and Firefox, not working with IE8...
Fri, Mar 4th 2011 2:20a Cristian D'Aloisio
I had some issues with FileSendr using big files on all major browsers, even correctly setting HTTP post and request size, XPages extlib, as described by the app author. Finally I got it to work with Firefox 3.6.x and Chrome browsers. At the beginning I change some Domino dojo 1.4.3 directory Uploader files, with bad results. Since the problem seems related with the dojo Uploader component, I made a brand-new Domino dojo 1.5.0 directory, as described by the app author in the docs: Af
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Your Notes HTTP password changed? iPhone Traveler users...
Sun, Feb 20th 2011 10:35a Cristian D'Aloisio
..., don't forget to change also your Traveler mail profile password inside your iPhone (or iPad) device: I forgot to do it and of couse I had troubles with mail sync... ;-) Luckily I remembred that I recently changed the HTTP password, so also I updated it on my Traveler mail profile too, and all is working now. For the records, I also had to reset my device (Traveler web page or Domino console command) because my Traveler state was "unknow". After I solved the problem I also found the
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Jim working on JDBC-based Relational Database XPages DataSource!
Wed, Feb 9th 2011 2:30p Cristian D'Aloisio
Glad to know that Jim Quill has a blog and is writing about XPages, he's one of the few XPages gurus around. I met him at ILUG 2010 and he's really a friendly guy, willing to help me with an XPages issue at the "Meet the Developers" area. His boss, Philippe, during a LP2011 session told everybody that Jim will develop the "JDBC-based Relational Database XPages DataSource" and also "make it available on OpenNTF.org pretty soon as an open source contribution to the community". Good new
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How move your DAOS repository to another directory?
Fri, Jan 14th 2011 5:14a Cristian D'Aloisio
From the Domino Administrator docs' "Managing the attachment storage repository" : To move or restore the DAOS repository From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab and then expand the Server section.Select the Server document to be edited and then click Edit Server.Click the DAOS tab.In the "DAOS base path" field, specify the new location for the directory. Save the Server document.Stop the Domino server.Do one of the following:To move the DAOS repository directory, crea
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fileSendr !
Tue, Jan 11th 2011 4:58p Cristian D'Aloisio
Interesting utility from Declan Lynch to share large files: fileSendr! http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=fileSendr From openNTF: Stop sending massive files by email, upload them to fileSendr and then send a link to the recipient instead Need to send a 500MB file to somebody but their email gateway is rejecting it because it's too big? Can't figure out how to use an FTP site to get the file to them? fileSendr is the solution for you. With fileSen
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ILUG 2010 memory snapshots
Tue, Nov 16th 2010 8:43p Cristian D'Aloisio
ILUG2010 was my second ILUG event for me, I also attended the 2007 edition with my colleague and friend nbsp;Vincenzo. This year another colleague, Fabrizio, was part of the "Italian dream team" in Northern Ireland ;-)br /br /I thank the company I work for, Gruppo Ciemme, for allowing three people to join the ILUG.br /br /I must admit I was a little bit worried that this year event would be disappointing because the 2007 edition was really amazing, brilliant and also a big surprise since it wa
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Java forever
Mon, Nov 1st 2010 1:58p Cristian D'Aloisio
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Best practices to kill your Domino performances?
Wed, Oct 13th 2010 4:59p Cristian D'Aloisio
Recently I had the chance to see some nbsp;Lotus Domino boxes (version 8.5.1) with really bad configurations or out of control situations:br /br /ulliDomino transaction log dir set to the SAME disk unit as Domino data directory/liliDAOS directory inside the Domino data dir/lilia Notes database with the size of almost 64 GB and with nasty access troubles/lilia Domino mail directory, defined as a link under the data dir but actually saved to an external USB disk formatted as FAT32/li/uldivIs there
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Is your Lotus Domino 8.5.2 crashing?
Sat, Oct 2nd 2010 6:10a Cristian D'Aloisio
I've installed a few Domino 8.5.2 server + interim fix 1 (HF16), but just yesterday one customer called me complaining that his server was crashing 3 times in one hour.br /divbr //divdivAfter my initial surprise I collected the text log files from the server and analyze them (also using the a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21272213"Lotus Notes Diagnostic tool/a). I nbsp;found the following a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21445756amp;myns=swglo
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German have good taste for wine
Sun, Sep 19th 2010 4:52p Cristian D'Aloisio
Glad to hear that bCantina Tollo/b winery won an award as the best Cooperative winery in Europe!br /br /I really love their ba href="http://www.cantinatollo.eu/Collesecco-Rubino-Montepulciano.html"Colle Secco Rubino/a/b Montepulciano d'Abruzzo wine and I never miss to buy some bottles when I go back to Abruzzo. Usually I give it as a gift to my friends and they never complain, for sure ;-)br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_
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When Borland was talking about OOP
Sat, Sep 18th 2010 8:26a Cristian D'Aloisio
Glad to find the following VHS video in my hometown bookshelf.br / br /I bought it from a newstand in the early nineties, that time the Web was still not available. br /br /I was so thrilled about OOP ;-) br /br /br /br /centera href='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/09/18/442.jpg'img src='http://blogpress.w18.net/photos/10/09/18/s_442.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'/a/centerbr /br /div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='http
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Lotus Domino server: when OLE Automation stop working...
Thu, Sep 2nd 2010 4:19a Cristian D'Aloisio
There was a Domino server happily nbsp;running on Windows 2008 64-bit and there was a bscheduled LS agent/b too.br /br /Usually that agent, using OLE Automation, created MS Excel worksheets there were temporary saved in the Windows temp folder: suddenly it stopped working! how come?!br /br /It was useless to trap any error message inside the code...No error messages, nothing, and only when running nbsp;server-side (client-side it was fine).br /br /Before almost getting crazy, the answer to the w
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My beloved Quickr 8.5 (beta 8) new features
Sat, Aug 28th 2010 6:27p Cristian D'Aloisio
As and old fan of Quickplace (Quickr old name) since version 2.x, I was thrilled to join the managed beta for Quickr 8.5 (thanks Karen).br /br /I had the chance to view the latest beta (code drop 8) and Inbsp; am happy to see important featuresnbsp; developed for Quickr by the IBM team: congrats guys, you are doing a great job.br /br /Also my colleagues liked the new features but the usual exclamation wasnbsp; "Finally!" (hard to hear some "Wow" nowadays...). Many Quickr users are waiting th
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Cavalli runnin free on green Google prairies?
Sat, Aug 21st 2010 5:38a Cristian D'Aloisio
So, Roberto Cavalli Italian fashion company moved to Google apps.br / br /i"So what is the value of all of this? We estimate that by adopting the tools which simplify our work and allow us to cut down on the time we spend on non-critical tasks, such as searching for old e-mails or organizing meetings, we can save up to 40,000 Euros per year in overhead costs and through increased productivity. However, there is another extremely important point we should not forget, even though more difficult t
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Running mail rules over previous mail messages?
Thu, Aug 19th 2010 6:27a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some new Notes users, when they approach the client for the first time, are surprised that it's not possible to run a mail rule over previous,old messages.br /br /You can write a new rule but it will be applied to new messages only...br /In my opinion that feature should be standard in Notes, it would be handy.br /br /Just yesterday I downloadednbsp;a href="http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/Mail%20Rule%20Utilities"Mail Rule Utilities/a, a plugin from Bob Balfe, that will i
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POP3 Collect: just upgraded to version 0.9
Mon, Aug 16th 2010 6:47a Cristian D'Aloisio
I've just upgraded to the latest version of POP3 Collect, the freeware add-in task for Lotus Domino to collect POP3 accounts mail messages.br /br /This tool is getting better and better, thanks to Andy Brunner commitment and, of course, also thanks to users who give feedback about the application.br /br /Some release notes for version 0.9:br /ulliUpdate: Set current date/time for POP3 messages without a valid date time. Thanks to Pumynt Chooboonraj for his help to debug this problem.br //lili U
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Do you want to Jailbreak my iPhone?
Fri, Aug 6th 2010 4:50p Cristian D'Aloisio
Anybody around me having an iPhone is simply jailbreak (eg. crack) it, somebody from day 1 others after some weeks.br /I am simply stopping myslef to do it, I don't think it is a good idea in the long run, even though my geek side would like to do it... ;-)br /br /I don't like some Apple decisions (eg about some interface matters not solved yet or solved too late), but I must admit Apple decisions are successful.br /br /So, at the end of day, what I like most about the iPhone?br /br /Some reas
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DDive! Have fun and keep up-to-date
Mon, Jul 26th 2010 8:53a Cristian D'Aloisio
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Old LS proposal on IdeaJam still willing promoting
Mon, Jun 28th 2010 5:05p Cristian D'Aloisio
Currently I'm consuming a Web Service from a Domino Agent written in Java, takin advantage from the cute WSDL import wizard.br /br /Before that I tried to use a LotusScript agent to consume that same web service, but soon I had to stop it because function/classes names inside the WSDL file were too long, over the allowed 40 chars....br /br /For me it seemed like an old LS problem with some kind of web services, and actually I found the following old IdeaJam post: don't get me wrong, I like jav
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IBM Technote: Is Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy supported for Domino backups?
Thu, Jun 24th 2010 3:41p Cristian D'Aloisio
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"A friendnbsp;/span/spantold me it was possible to use Shadow Copy for Domino backup when the server is runnning, but the answer is "no"...br /br /a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463amp;uid=swg21196479"Is Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy supported for Domino backups?/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https:
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IBM Technote: Steps for configuring IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.0.1.x and Lotus Sametime 8 or Lotus Quickr 8.1 on the same system
Thu, Jun 17th 2010 8:18a Cristian D'Aloisio
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"In case somebody wondered about coexistence of Lotus Sametime/Quickr and Traveler, I found the following technote:/spanbr /br /h1 class="smalltitle" style="clear: both; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 30px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px;"span class="Ap
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Unified e-mail on iPhone OS 4 with Lotus Traveler
Tue, Jun 8th 2010 9:37a Cristian D'Aloisio
div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"Since we have a developer account on Apple.com, we downloadednbsp;nbsp;OS 4nbsp;firmware for my iPhone 3GS:/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"I setup my private Gmail account and the Lotus Traveler account for my Lotus Notes mailbox./divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"Later I will test all new features (multi-tasking, folders, etc.)/divdiv class="separator" style="c
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Downloading Notes/Domino 8.5.2 beta code drop 5
Sat, Jun 5th 2010 7:50a Cristian D'Aloisio
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Troubles installing Lotus Traveler on iPad...
Mon, May 31st 2010 8:18a Cristian D'Aloisio
Although some friends succeed (a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8343724548180015840amp;postID=4437872729200909270"e.g. David Leedy post/a), I could not install Traveler on the company iPad :-(br /br /I tried some techniques:br /br /ollithe usual installation via Safari browser:br /automatic profile generation did not work, so I manually generated a a file for Apple, but unfortunately the browser could not manage the profile file....br //liliI also tried to add the mail account
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Not bad my blog on iPad
Fri, May 28th 2010 8:19a Cristian D'Aloisio
Today my company I work for received an iPad device: really a cool device, superb screen quality, cute interface, in small words just an iPhone on steroids ;-)br /br /All colleagues justnbsp; astonished about its beauty: "so gorgeous", "so cool!" . br /br /We loaded some cools apps too, like DropBox, Wired Magazine, but unfortunately I could not install Lotus Traveler: something is not working... (any tips?).br /br /I ran Safari web browser on the iPad and decided to load my blog homepage ;-
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From Zero to a Million Users - Dropbox and Xobni lessons learned
Mon, May 17th 2010 5:14p Cristian D'Aloisio
This week-end my friend Gianluca suggested me to read this Slideshare presentation from Dropbox and Xobni guys.br /Many people already know Dropbox, but Xobni was a nice surprise for me...br /div style="width:425px" id="__ss_3966965"strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"a href="http://www.slideshare.net/adamsmith1/from-zero-to-a-million-users-dropbox-and-xobni-lessons-learned" title="From Zero to a Million Users - Dropbox and Xobni lessons learned"From Zero to a Million Users -
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Notes Designer 7 super faaaaast... into the past!
Wed, May 12th 2010 5:20p Cristian D'Aloisio
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"I regularly used the Notes Designer R 8.5.2 managed beta client since the first beta, and I must admit I'm happy with it.nbsp;/span/spandivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"br //span/span/divdivspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-
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Traveler on Android?
Fri, May 7th 2010 11:03a Cristian D'Aloisio
Some days ago I met a guy who proudly showed me an HTC-branded Android phone.divbr /divWell, I like my iPhone, but... Android seems also interesting (and cheaper, I guess)./divdivbr //divdivThe guy nbsp;told me that he was using an Android app to nbsp;read mail, contacts, etc through a Lotus Domino server with Traveler task:nbsp;the application name is bTouchdown /bfrom a href="http://www.nitrodesk.com/"NitroDesk/anbsp;and is cheap, less than 20 Eur , and you can test the limited nbsp;free edi
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Kevin, six months old!
Tue, May 4th 2010 4:01p Cristian D'Aloisio
div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"Today my baby Kevin is six months old! Congrats my son./divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"br //divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"You are a really wonderful baby, always smiley and cute, loved by your parents, our friends and even strangers who are impressed by you.nbsp;/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"br //divdiv class="separator"
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Domino console hint: Do it by yourself, pal.
Thu, Apr 29th 2010 8:43a Cristian D'Aloisio
I really love the console log messages, it has become more chatty nowadays, giving some useful info about what's happening on the Domino server.br /br /br /28/04/2010 01:34:18 AM nbsp;Informational, database design compression is enabled in database mailevivarel.nsf.br /28/04/2010 01:34:18 AM nbsp;Informational, LZ1 is enabled in database mailevivarel.nsf.br /28/04/2010 01:34:18 AM nbsp;Compacting mailevivarel.nsf (John Doe), nbsp;-C mailbr /28/04/2010 01:48:19 AM nbsp;Compaction failed: Unable
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Nurses, physicians, program managers, and other health care providers attended the fifteenth annual Ministry Health Care SPIRIT Trauma Conference on August 12 and 13 in Stevens Point.
The conference hosted local and national experts presenting on a variety of topics related to emergency medical services (EMS) and trauma care for both children and adults.
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Bradbury Plans Restructuring at Continental
by John Henry on Monday, Jun. 12, 2006 12:00 am
Ralph Bradbury, right, president of Continental Express, and Pete Campbell, executive vice president, plan to restructure the Little Rock trucking company.
A year ago, in May 2005, he returned to the company he helped build.
"It feels really good," Bradbury said. "I was extremely happy and flattered when Mr. Harvey called me" to come back.
During his leave, Continental Express grew, but it was growth just for the sake of growth, and a long-term strategy was missing. The company had three different leaders during Bradbury's absence, the last being Kelly Wooldridge. (No one at the company would comment about Wooldridge's departure because of potential "legal proceedings.")
Now, Bradbury said, his first goal is "getting our feet back under us." That calls for looking at the entire operation and "streamlining things."
The truckload carrier posted $110 million in revenue last year, up from $105 million the year before.
But Bradbury — and Harvey — are trying to position the company for sustained growth, and the plan actually calls for it to be a bit smaller, at least temporarily, while the restructuring is under way.
When Bradbury returned, the company was running 600 trucks and 1,900 trailers. He wants to drop that down to about 500 trucks and 1,200 trailers while the streamlining is taking place. Continental's biggest customers are Best Buy, Circuit City, Menlo Industries, General Electric, Toys "R" Us and Wal-Mart.
"When I came back, the first thing I noticed was a picture on the wall in the office of a train hauling trucking trailers." During his absence, the company had moved into intermodal transport to increase profits. And it did.
Like all companies that have to keep an eye on the bottom line, Continental will continue some of the highway/rail mix it offers, but Bradbury is reducing Continental's dependence on it. When he returned, about 23 percent of the company's revenue came from doing business with the railroads. That figure is now down to 19 percent.
"We also have to consider driver satisfaction," Bradbury said. "We have to think about the drivers and increase the length of their haul. You have to get them miles so they can pay their bills and earn a decent living." Using rail too much can cost a company good drivers, which are always in short supply.
Bradbury also has begun efforts to better communicate with the drivers.
"We know they have needs with their families, paying their bills, taking care of pets, just like all of us do. We're trying to be more specific in understanding those needs. Most of the time, a driver leaves because we didn't understand he had a particular need," he said.
It's particularly difficult when a driver has an emergency at home, which may be halfway across the country, while his load is headed in the other direction. It can be costly for the company to get another driver to pick up the load and carry it on to its destination while the original driver returns home to handle a problem.
Bradbury said he had a plan in place to ease that problem when he left — a plan that was abandoned while he was gone — and he is working to reinstate it.
Bradbury, who says his motto is "firm, but fair," admits he demands a lot from his employees, but he also believes in giving them rewards. "They deserve to thrive," he said.
Coming Home
In July 1999, Bradbury said, he and Harvey reached a mutual agreement for him "to do something else."
News reports at the time of the abrupt departure said he resigned over philosophical differences with Harvey, although there were some who said Harvey fired him.
Bradbury told Arkansas Business at the time: "The reason for the split is simply a difference in business values and philosophies."
Last week, he said, his departure was mainly a case of burnout and a need "just to figure out what I wanted to do." He said he and Harvey had remained friends. When Harvey called last year to talk about coming back, Bradbury, now 51, was ready.
"We've both grown older and, although our philosophies are different, as we spent a long time talking about the company, we realized that we were on the same page as far as our goals and objectives are concerned.
"We came back together to make the company successful for everyone, including the employees."
When he left in 1999, Bradbury had been a minority partner. He declined last week to talk about any ownership position in the company.
During his leave from Continental, he said, he did some consulting and also worked for Whiting Systems Inc. of Little Rock.
He started out working with some potential investors, including his older brother, Curt Bradbury, chief operating officer of Stephens Inc., to launch his own fleet of trucks from somewhere in Little Rock, but trucking had taken a downturn.
"The timing wasn't right," he said, "but I always expected to get back into trucking. Fear of failure is the biggest motivator."
Bradbury's interest in trucking began at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he earned a degree in business administration with an emphasis in transportation. It was there he became friends with Grant Davis, who headed the transportation department at the school.
After graduating, he worked for the Arkansas Transportation Commission as a senior rate analyst. He then worked for a couple of trucking companies before linking up with Harvey.
Asked about his mentors in the industry, Bradbury points to J.B. Hunt, who founded the largest Arkansas-based trucking company, J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. at Lowell; the late Sheridan Garrison, who founded American Freightways at Harrison, which he later sold to FedEx Corp.; and Robert Powell of USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren.
But there's also a group — a club, of sorts — called the Amigos that is made up of Bradbury; Steve Williams, CEO of Maverick Transportation in North Little Rock; Robert Weaver, CEO of P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. of Tontitown; Lane Kidd, president of the Arkansas Trucking Association in Little Rock; and Mark Brockington of Little Rock, an insurance executive who specializes in the transportation business.
"Ralph is a unique person with a unique style of management that has evolved over the years — as has the industry," Kidd said.
Although he came from the old school where management was more authoritarian, Kidd said, Bradbury is a seasoned executive who can study balance sheets in the morning and joke around with the drivers in the afternoon.
"He understands how to move freight and how to make money while he's doing it," Kidd said.
Williams, who recently served as chairman of the American Trucking Associations, said the friendship of the Amigos originated through meetings at the Arkansas Trucking Association.
"All of us have an ability to communicate," Williams said. "We share ideas. We have a mutual respect for one another."
That respect has turned into a "real tight friendship," Kidd said.
The trucking executives have competitive personalities and are out to win, but there's probably not as much competition between them as one might expect — except over truck drivers, Williams said.
"If hard work and tenacity will get it done, then Ralph will do it," Williams said.
On the Road Again
Last month, Continental settled a lawsuit that arose from a tragic accident in Tennessee. In July 2004, a Continental driver hit and killed a Nashville police officer who was helping someone else on the side of a road. The driver pleaded guilty, but the family of the officer filed a civil lawsuit against the company for hiring a trucker who had a record of reckless driving.
Bradbury said he couldn't talk about the terms of the settlement other than to say that it wouldn't hurt the viability of the company.
Obviously happy to be back at Continental, Bradbury said, "Fortu-nately, the company was able to keep most of the old hands around." He said he's particularly grateful for Pete Campbell, the executive vice president who has been with the company for 16 years, and Randy Day, director of operations and part of the original group.
A football player at Central High School in Little Rock, a baseball player at the UA and now a top-notch golfer, Bradbury couldn't resist a sports analogy.
"Some might compare my management style to that of a good coach, but I've got damn good athletes playing for me."
On the other hand, when he first returned, he said, he "asked quite a few to leave."
On other issues:
• Labor: "The driver [shortage] issue is at a crucial point. We need to be more cognizant of driver needs."
• Biodiesel: "I don't know how it will affect the industry."
• Fuel prices: Despite what most think, "not all of the fuel price increases is passed along. If it continues, it will affect the mentality of everyone and the economy will slow down, so we'll all be affected in a negative way."
• Ultralow-sulfur diesel fuel: "It will increase our maintenance costs, but it's a positive for the environment, which is a good thing."
On issues such as on-board re-corders and weight-length limits, Bradbury said, "As long as everyone is on the same level playing field, we as an industry will get through it."
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How do you make a standout cab amongst the gazillion others in Napa? In a challenging year where the weather said we'd be crazy (or foolish) to try? If you're Uproot, you say yes to that challenge. And then you make the red wine your friends have been bugging you to make. This is classic cabernet, but with a chocolate-covered cherry on top.
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Our 2011 has the quintessential raspberry and blackberry notes of a classic cab, with the complexity of dark chocolate and tobacco. Or, in other words, a great main course, followed by rich dessert and a Cuban cigar. Doesn't get much better than that.
So you could go for it with a juicy steak dinner. Or with dessert and artisan chocolates. But, what the hell, this cab is awesome with the whole meal, start to finish.
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2011 started with a summer that didn't get quite as hot as cabernet fruit likes, followed by some good downpours during harvest, which can lead to rot.
So we went to Howell Mountain in St. Helena, where two ideal blocks on a rocky hillside gave us the warm weather conditions and drainage we needed for great fruit. We aged it in 65% new oak to give it just the right amount of smoky flavors. And got an excellent vintage in spite of—or maybe even thanks to—the weather.


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Last night I needed a C++ IDE right away; I had Eclipse for writing Python and knew that it had a C/C++ extension called CDT.
So I installed this CDT and I also had MingW and Cygwin installed but the only project I could compile was the sample Hello World project.
Whenever I made an empty project, Eclipse responded with "Launch Failed. Binary Not Found.".
I read a few articles online but no luck and I didn't want to spend a lot of time on it so I decided to try Netbeans.
After I installed Netbeans, BAM, it detected Cygwin and compiled everything right away!!!
That is what I wanted, I wanted an IDE that I can just make a CPP file and compile without any extra steps and Netbeans did that for me!
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Back in March,
President Obama signed the largest-ever expansion of offshore disclosure
requirements in U.S. history.
These provisions
were neatly tucked into the "HIRE Act," a bill designed
to provide incentives for businesses to hire new employees. I wrote
about it here
and here.
For instance,
once the offshore reporting provisions of the HIRE Act come into
effect on Jan. 1, 2011, a single investment in an offshore mutual
fund through a bank account held by an offshore LLC will require
that you file seven separate reporting forms. (I discussed this
and other provisions of the HIRE Act in my presentations last week
at The Sovereign Society's Offshore Advantage conference in
Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.)
However, the
longer-term impact of the HIRE Act is even greater. The law imposes
a 30% withholding tax on certain types of U.S-source income and
gross sales proceeds to foreign financial institutions (FFIs) and
many non-financial foreign entities (NFFE). (Broadly speaking, a
NFFE is any non-U.S. entity that is not a FFI.) The only way to
avoid the tax is for the FFI or a "withholding agent"
for the FNFE to enter into a broad-based information reporting agreement
with the IRS. These rules become effective in 2013.
If entering
into such an agreement violates foreign law…well, too bad.
For instance, the HIRE Act states that if a FFI refuses to enter
into an agreement with the IRS, it must close all accounts owned
by U.S. taxpayers. The definitions of a FFI and FNFE are so broad
that these provisions will affect more than 500,000 foreign companies.
By giving them this ultimatum, Congress and the IRS have, in effect,
told them to "get lost."
The real question,
though, is whether U.S. citizens and permanent residents will even
be able to obtain offshore financial services after 2012. I think
they will, but it will be in a sanitized form offered primarily
by subsidiaries of offshore banks and brokers. Those subsidiaries
will deal only with U.S. persons. They may elect to be taxed and
regulated as a U.S. bank or securities broker. That means a reduced
menu of investment options and zero privacy, since the subsidiary
will be subject to most if not all U.S. laws and regulations.
Most offshore
banks and brokers will take the easy way out, though. They'll
simply stop dealing with U.S. persons altogether, along with any
type of entity with a U.S. owner
I've wondered
if there might not be another way the offshore banks and brokers
might deal with these regulations. What would happen they withdrew
all their investments from the United States, closed their U.S.
dollar clearing accounts in New York, and simply stopped dealing
in dollars? In that event, it would be difficult for the IRS to
enforce the HIRE Act withholding provisions. The banks could then
deal with anyone they wanted to deal with, including U.S. persons,
but only outside the U.S. dollar.
When I broached
this idea in Cabo with some of my fellow speakers, they voiced skepticism.
However, the idea clearly intrigued them. The biggest criticism – to
which I don't have an answer – is that any bank that took
these steps would quickly find itself on a Treasury blacklist. The
Treasury would simply announce that any FFI or FNFE that sent or
received funds from the blacklisted institution would itself be
blacklisted, or subject to other sanctions.
Of course,
this assumes that by 2013, the U.S. Treasury will still have the
financial and political clout that it does now. In a world where
U.S. financial and political clout is rapidly declining, that's
hardly assured.
What do you
think of this idea? I'd
love to hear your comments!
15, 2010
Mark Nestmann is a journalist with more than 20
years of investigative experience and is a charter member of The
Sovereign Society's Council of Experts. He has authored over a dozen
books and many additional reports on wealth preservation, privacy
and offshore investing. Mark serves as president of his own international
consulting firm, The Nestmann Group, Ltd. The Nestmann Group provides
international wealth preservation services for high-net worth individuals.
Mark is an Associate Member of the American Bar Association (member
of subcommittee on Foreign Activities of U.S. Taxpayers, Committee
on Taxation) and member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
In 2005, he was awarded a Masters of Laws (LL.M) degree in international
tax law at the Vienna (Austria) University of Economics and Business


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Arthur and @dhicks seemed to be suggesting it was a very well priced backup service, my point is, it isn't a backup service! Unless of course you only want to backup JPG versions of your photos, 1080p copies of your movies in 1GB chunks and nothing else!
Dreamhost work too. They know that 80-90% of their customers use such a tiny amount of space they can get away with offering unlimited storage and bandwidth for $8.95 per month.
The new interface and new pricing should make Flickr a lot more competitive. On top of that, Yahoo has promised an advertising campaign to promote the site and win new users. Flickr is now getting the love it has long needed.
For free users this is clearly massive upgrade. In fact, it's an astonishing new pricing model. You have to hate ads an awful lot to pay $50 a year just to remove them. That's twice as much as Pro cost, but without any of the extra features that Pro offered (removal of limits, detailed stats). And if 1TB really isn't enough—it's hard to imagine that Flickr has many users for whom it isn't—the next storage option isn't cheap and unlimited, as it is in Pro.
All in all, it seems that the new Flickr is designed to do one thing in particular: discourage people from buying any of the upgrade options so that they keep viewing ads instead. Subscriptions are no longer the point. Yes, there's a token effort to continue subscriptions, but $500 a year for an extra terabyte is never going to be a big seller.
The new pricing will make it a lot more viable for snap-happy casual users, which must surely be the point, but Facebook has become a dominant monster in this space. Flickr has its advantages—for example, it lets you upload full-size images with no resizing or recompression, and it has a clearer position regarding photo licensing. While these are important to photography enthusiasts, Yahoo's real job will be to make them appeal to the Facebook generation. The new site and pricing are a start, but there's much more work to do if Yahoo wants to make Flickr the photo destination it once was. (Source)
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[BTW, I'm not being an arse, genuinely! Emoticons have gotten to the point of being almost sarcastic...]
unified offering from Google for photos, documents and e-mail. Once you have used up your 15GB you have to buy more (if your photos are more than 2048 pixels wide) and it's more expensive than Flickr.
See also: Can fancy photos and lavish linking help Google+ take off?Google is clearly leveraging its massive cloud capabilities to try to make Google+ the best home for photos online — and attract users to a social network that's struggled to carve out its own niche in a world of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Most of the changes are focused on making uploading and sharing photos — a very tedious task — less painful. The company has already introduced photo-friendly features like unlimited uploads for photos under 2048-pixels wide, a fullscreen picture viewer, and 15GB of free space for photos that break that limit, and with all of the additions today it looks like the company has put together a very compelling package. (Source)
The storage @dhicks was talking about is just for backing up/archiving files.
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Sara Paretsky
Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is a modern American author of detective fiction. Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa and raised in Kansas, graduating from the University of Kansas with a degree in political science. She did community service work on the south side of Chicago in 1966 and returned in 1968 to work there. She ultimately completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of Chicago; her dissertation was entitled "The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War." She also earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Married to a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, she has lived in Chicago since 1968. She is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation. She was to appear in an amateur light opera production in 2011. The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. Warshawski's eclectic personality defies easy categorization. She drinks Johnnie Walker Black Label, breaks into offices looking for clues, and can hold her own in a street fight. But she also pays attention to her clothes, sings opera along with the radio, and enjoys her sex life. Paretsky is credited with  ( Wikipedia article )
Personal facts
- Date of birth
- 1947-06-08
- Place of birth
- Ames
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Spouse(s)
- Courtenay Wright
- Profession
- Author, Novelist, Writer
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