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Back to the future – Ransomware returns

This entry was posted in Comment Software on May 8, 2012 by HAL

Viruses have been with us for so long that most people have forgotten some of the memorable ones. An alert I saw this morning related to a worrying trend of machines being locked by virus with money in terms of a credit card payment being the only means to get unlocked. Now this is worrying because […]

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UKLUG – here we come

This entry was posted in Development Software xpages and tagged Cardiff Domino Lotus UKLUG on May 7, 2012 by HAL

UK Lotus User Group The UKLUG (UK Lotus User Group) conference is one of the largest Lotus gatherings in the UK where Lotus professionals can network to share experiences and best practices and generally catch up with some of the movers and shakers in the Domino development scene. There are a wide range of technical sessions […]

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Need charts on your xpages ?

This entry was posted in Development xpages on May 4, 2012 by HAL

Researching charts and diagrams for an upcoming project – I came across this in the OpenNTF catalog. If you need a simple chart mechanism try this. I think this is the easiest approach I have seen to getting the fast results that developers crave when testing proof of concepts or demos. The author Julian Buss describes it […]

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Domino and Native IOS apps – Domino to Go

This entry was posted in Development IPAD Software Web xpages and tagged Development IOS 5.1 Lotus Domino on May 3, 2012 by HAL

A colleague mentioned to me a demo that he had seen with native Notes data surfaced in a native IOS (iphone) application. He forwarded me a link and asked what I thought. Not being an IOS developer I wasn’t thinking that this would be a particular straightforward approach but the demo persuaded me otherwise. You […]

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Still waiting for Pi ?

This entry was posted in Gadgets Hardware Interesting Internet and tagged MagPi Raspberry PI on May 2, 2012 by HAL

The Raspberry Pi success story runs and runs. Patiently hopeful recipients out there wait to get their hands on the tiny computer on a card which heralds a change in the potential for kids, students, hardware hackers and the general public to get their hands dirty with homebrew computing at its best. Well while you […]

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This entry was posted in Software Storage Virtualisation on May 1, 2012 by HAL | Open »

Got a very useful paper from a colleague which I needed as part of of an ongoing project implementing a Fusion IO based SQL server as part of an ERP implementation. It was great to get such a targeted paper at the time I needed it and it may be of use to others who are aimin to get the max performance out of specifc poweredge servers. The link is here and contains Dell’s recommendations for servers that have certain features and capabilites that impact on the latency of performance or otherwise.

Thanks again Steve for the timing

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Controlling user web access

This entry was posted in Review Software Web and tagged Web Browsing WebController on May 1, 2012 by HAL

A client already using Mailcontroller for mail filtering was looking for a similar solution for their user internet access control. Having used various solutions – both on premise and appliance – I decided in this case to look at a sister product to MailController called WebController. The products are similarly constructed in terms of interface […]

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When images get fat – put them on a diet

This entry was posted in Review Software and tagged FileMinimizer Image manipulation JPG on April 30, 2012 by HAL

A client who sells new and refurbished heavy machine came to me with a problem regarding images. Specifically the size of images that they were being supplied and that were too large to send via email. What they actually wanted was a simple – repeatable method to reduce the footprint of the large number of […]

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