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Skunk Works

Balazs — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:43:04 +0000

Skunk Works

– Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

The name since became widely used for elite research teams especially in the hi tech industry.

Quote from the Air and Space Museum

Cloud Computing in the Midmarket

Balazs — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 08:23:32 +0000

Midsize businesses are realizing the power of cloud computing–a flexible, cost-effective and proven platform for delivering IT services and products over the web. However, they are also facing tighter budgets, fewer resources and more competition. Now, more than ever, there’s a real need to achieve greater efficiency at lower cost–while also minimizing the risks.

Utilizing cloud-based solutions rooted in robust security and built on advanced protection mechanisms, usage monitoring and cutting-edge encryption, IBM^® and NewPush can help turn the huge potential of the cloud into reality.

The following IDC white paper help assess the options offered by cloud computing for the mid market:

IDC Cloud Assessment

Ten Rules for Success

Balazs — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:16:15 +0000

Hire are ten rules for success from Investors Business Daily by way of my friend Mike Linett, President of Zerowait:

How You Think is Everything. Always be positive. Think Success, not Failure. Beware of a negative environment.
Decide upon Your True Dreams and Goals: Write down your specific goals and develop a plan to reach them.
Take Action. Goals are nothing without action .
Never Stop Learning: Go back to school or read books. Get training & acquire skills.
Be Persistent and Work Hard: Success is a marathon, not a sprint. Never give up.
Learn to Analyze Details: Get all the facts, all the input. Learn from your mistakes.
Focus Your Time And Money: Don’t let other people or things distract you.
Don’t Be Afraid To Innovate: Be different. Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity.
Deal And Communicate With People Effectively: No person is an island. Learn to understand and motivate others.
Be Honest and Dependable: Take Responsibility, otherwise 1-9 don’t matter.

How to uninstall IBM Lotus Notes client from the Macintosh on OS X

Balazs — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:30:23 +0000

You can uninstall IBM® Lotus® Notes® by dragging Notes.app from /Applications to the trash. This preserves user data.

You can also uninstall Notes using the uninstaller application supplied with the Notes install media. This preserves user data as well.

You can also uninstall Notes by dragging the following items to the Apple® Mac OS X® trash bin:

Notes.app
~/Library/Application Support/Lotus Notes Data folder (“~” = user’s home directory)
~/Library/Preferences/Notes Preferences
/Library/Receipts/Lotus Notes Installer.pkg
/Library/Receipts/Lotus Notes Installer_English.pkg
/Library/Receipts/xpdcoreinstaller.pkg

via IBM How to uninstall Notes client from the Macintosh – United States.

Lotus Notes Traveler Setup on iPhone

Balazs — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:01:10 +0000

Setting Up Lotus Notes Traveler on your iPhone

This tutorial will walk you through how to set up Lotus Notes Travel on your iPhone, to allow you to have your Lotus Domino server account sync native eMail, iCal, and AddressBook apps on your iPhone.

Prerequisites for setting up Lotus Notes Traveler

In order to set up Traveler on your iPhone, you need to have an account on one of our IBM Domino servers. If you don’t have an account yet, you can sign up online, or call our sales department.

To be able to get the setup from the Traveler server, you will need your user name and password.

Steps to install a Lotus Notes Traveler profile on your iPhone

On the iPhone home page, select Safari
From within Safari browse to the traveler website
The traveler site will take a few moment to identify your device, and present the login dialog
Before you can access your device specific page, you need to provide your credentials (you should use your email address and the same password that you use to check your webmail on iNotes)
The traveler server will take a few seconds to retrieve the specific information related to your account
Once the Traveler server is done, it will display a greeting page with your name, organization, and the device specific options
Scroll down and tap the link “Configure your Apple iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad
Traveler will then display to page allowing to generate the Apple Profile for connecting to your Domino server
Scroll down, adjust the email address and display name as desired, and tap the generate button
Your iPhone will leave Safari and open Preferences automatically, you will need to tap the “Install” button to continue
A warning will appear, tap “Install Now” to continue
If your iPhone is password protected, it will ask you for your passcode at this point, enter your passcode and the next screen will appear automatically
Now your iPhone will need the password for your Domino account (this is needed, since the Traveler server from Safari cannot transmit the password to the Preferences app)
After entering your password, tap “Next”
Preferences will confirm on the next screen that the profile was installed
The Preferences app will return you to Safari, where you can close the Traveler page, tap on the window icon in the lower right corner
Tap the red “x” to close the Traveler page
The installation is complete, you are now receiving email, calendar notifications, and have access to your Lotus Notes address book

For more information about Lotus Notes Traveler, or other collaboration products, please don’t hesitate to contact us, or visit our collaboration page.

Intro to Statistics

Monarchi — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 18:26:49 +0000

Q: Could you recommend some books on statistics that would allow me to be more efficient at Business Analytics?

A: Below are some sites that you may find useful.

1) The online copy of StatSoft, the Statistica textbook, a good resource, and it’s organized as a book.
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/

2) UCLA has an online probability and statistics book, although it may be too elementary for you.
http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook

3) Planet Math has a lot of very useful links. If you scroll down the page for the URL below, you’ll see a link labeled 62-XX, Statistics. (There are plenty of other valuable links too.)
http://planetmath.org/browse/objects/

4) The Kahn has some excellent short videos on specific topics in statistics. More generally, the entire site is very well regarded.
http://www.khanacademy.org/#statistics

It you share the name(s) of the (text)book(s) that you’ve read I can identify which resources may be of the most use to you. As I’m sure you’ve discovered, statistics fractures into a myriad of sub topics just like mathematics. So narrowing this down will let me help you better.

PC LAW upgrade instructions

Balazs — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:47:10 +0000

Here are the latest links form Lexis Nexis on PC LAW upgrade:

How to query the Domino 8.5.3 LDAP database with ldapsearch

Balazs — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:13:02 +0000

By default the ldapsearch utility is installed on the Domino server in the “bin” directory where all the other utilities are. You need a local domain admin to bind a domino query on the local server, and you need its credentials. Here is an example:

su - dominouser cd /path/to/domino/data /opt/ibm/lotus/bin/ldapsearch -h domino.server.address.com -D "cn=adminuser,o=org" -w adminpassword uid="adminusershortname"

Creating an easy to deploy SSL certificate in PEM format

Balazs — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:03:02 +0000

When ordering a secure certificate, most often one has to deal with the following files:

certificate key file (aka private key): .key
certificate request file: .csr
primary certificate file (issued by the CA): .crt
certificate chain (aka intermediate certificate, or sf bundle): sf_bundle.crt

As a result, when deploying to a web server, it is necessary to configure 3 files: the key, the cert, and the trust chain. However, a little known fact is that these can be combined in a “pem” file that holds all three. One may even include the trusted root certificate optionally. Here is how:

download your certificates (your_domain_name.crt) from your NewPush Customer Portal.
paste the entire body of each certificate one by one into one text file in the following order:
- domain.key
- domain.crt
- sf_bundle.crt
Make sure to include the beginning and end tags on each certificate. The result should look like this:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- ... -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE-----

The number of
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- ... -----END CERTIFICATE-----
sections will depend of the length of the certificate trust chain.

Domain Name Management / Domain Name Setup

Domonkos — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:16:31 +0000

How do I manage my domain?
To manage you domain registered with TheNewPush, go to the domain management console and enter your domain name, user name and password.
How do I point a new domain to an existing site with cPanel?
To create domain aliases with a cPanel control panel, you need to be the account admin, reseller admin, or overall admin of the cpanel machine. Once you’re logged in to the control panel, you can edit the properties of the site that you want ot point to, and add the new domain in the add-on domain section.
If you are not hosting with a cPanel control panel solution, simply send an email to support.
How do I check that my domain is protected aginst fraudulent transfers?
The feature that protects your domain against fraudulent or unautorized transfers is called “domain lock.” To check if your domain is protected by that feature, log on to our domain management tool with your domain name, user name and password, and verify the status of the lock. To make changes of the registrar lock status, please send and email to our support folks.
I get “ERROR:This name server is not authoritative for the given zone”
SYMPTOM
I’m trying to add domain.com to a cPanel server so I can experiment a little bit before transfering the DNS from the old server to the new cPanel server, and I get an error.

EXPLANATION
You get this, because you haven’t transfered control to the DNS servers of the cPanel server. The DNS server on a cPanel appliance detected that it doesn’t have authority on the domain. You can adjust that setting in the advanced WHM preferences is you are the appliance administrator.