Category Archives: Managed Hosting

IBM Power Systems Model and Serial

IBM makes it very easy to get the model number and the serial number of an AIX system or a VIOS on thier Power Series: $ uname -M # model number IBM,NNNN-NNN $ uname -m # serial number HHHHHHHHHHHH You … Continue reading

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Sync Contacts Between Lotus Notes, Traveler and iNotes

Lotus Notes has four main functions: email, calendar, address book, and to-do. Of these functions, the address book is the only piece that is stored locally on whatever computer you added the entries. Thus, if you need to have access … Continue reading

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Life after Firepublish

My friend Andrew (CTO of LiquidCompass) recommended Firepublish a few years ago for helping manging team work between web developers, and web designers. Unfortuantely, Firepublish has been offline for quite some time now, and here is what Andrew recommends to … Continue reading

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NewPush Listed as Top Notes and Domino Hosting Provider

If you are looking for a hosted Lotus Notes or Domino solution with flexible infrastructure at commodity cloud rates, you have found the right place. Yesterday NewPush made it to the top of the IBM list of Hosted Lotus Notes … Continue reading

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Installing a Secure Certificate on IBM Smart Business Server (VERDE)

At the time of this writing, the IBM Smart Business Server’s control panel doesn’t allow importing a secure certificate (SSL cert). Never-the-less it is possible to install a valid (CA signed) secure certificate from the command line. This article assumes … Continue reading

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cPanel quota fix

cPanel has an array of fairly impressive scripts located in /scripts . When having disk quota issues, running /scripts/fixquota allows to return the cPanel server to a state allowing to alter the hosting plans and disk space quotas.

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Sametime 8.5.1 Deployment

To deploy a Sametime environment with multiple levels of licensing, multiple Sametime servers with each respective license versions needed (Entry, Standard, etc.). The Sametime wiki has a number of useful resources to plan out a complex Sametime deployment: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/page.xsp?documentId=6F6353B28F5FB51185257775007AC431&action=openDocument http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/stwiki.nsf/dx/1.3_Lotus_Sametime_product_family … Continue reading

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Domino 8.5.2 Addling Email Aliases

Often times people need to receive email for multiple valid variation of their email addresses. On most email systems, these are called email aliases. IBM Domino has a slightly unusual way of allowing system administrators to define aliases: Open the … Continue reading

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Domino 8.5 SSL Key Import Into Keyring File

Domino Server SSL Key Import By default, the SSL key order process in the Domino Administrator assumes that only single domain certificates are used. Hence, when you have a multi domain UCC or a wildcard certificate, it has to be … Continue reading

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Linux Kernel Hangs During Boot

While rebooting a machine for example to apply a kernel update, it hangs. You try older kernels, and it hangs too. Not necessarily at the same spot. Here are some examples: … io scheduler cfq registered (default) … Real Time … Continue reading

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