The WOW Really Starts Now

Posted on February 28, 2007 by qtzar

You may have heard of the Microsoft Vista
marketing campaign by now with the slogan of ‘The WOW Starts Now’ and I
have to agree the WOW really does start now, I just bought my first Apple
MAC and all I’ve been saying so far is WOW WOW WOW.

Having used Windows nearly all my computing
career this is the first time I’ve had any exposure to the Mac operating
system and I have to say that so far I am impressed at how wonderfully
fast and easy Macs are. Installing software is simple, just drag it to
the apps folder and bingo it’s installed, uninstalling is just as simple,
just drag the app to the trashcan and the system works it’s wonders.

The included iLife software is outstanding
and I can’t wait to dig into them some more.  All the software that
I’d normally spend a day or so installing on my windows machine only took
about 2 hors to install on the mac and really the only thing I’m missing
is the Notes Designer client but that’s no problem with Parallels Desktop,
especially in coherence mode where it can mix your windows app windows
on top of the mac os desktop.  Notes Designer is the only thing i’m
going to run on the VM partition ( until IBM comes out with a Mac Notes
Designer client ) , everything else I’m going to use the native mac apps
for, including this blog entry which I’m writing in the Notes 7.0.2 Mac
client.

I’ve made the switch… Who’s next…

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How Do YOU Do It : Rooms And Resources

Posted on February 22, 2007 by qtzar

In the past I have always setup my Rooms
And Resources database on a single central database, regardless of the
number of offices and users that would be using the system. It always worked
well until my last place of employment where different offices started
having different requests for access to the database, and requests where
they wanted to make sure that staff from one office couldn’t go into the
database and see/edit bookings for another office.  In the end it
just got all messy and since then I’ve changed my outlook on Rooms And
Resources databases and now prefer to have seperate database at each location.

So I was wondering How Do YOU do it?
 How many locations and staff do you support and how do you setup
the rooms and resources database, as a single central database or as seperate
databases at each site and is there a specific reason for doing it the
way you do?

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The Story Of Calvin And Hobbes

Posted on February 20, 2007 by qtzar

I’d always wondered what had happened to
Calvin and Hobbes…

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Irish Lotus Users Group Conference

Posted on February 20, 2007 by qtzar

If you haven’t looked at your RSS feeds
or favorite domino related blogs for the past 24 hours then you might have
missed the news about the Irish Lotus Users Group conference that has been
organised by Paul, Bill, Warren, Kitty and Eileen. It’s a two day event
on the 24th and 25th of May and best of all it’s FREE, all you have to
do is look after your own travel, accomodation and food ( or guinness for
those who like their meals in a pint glass ).

A picture named M2

There’s a fantastic lineup of speakers
and IBM Ireland will be there with a lab so you can see and use some of
the new innovations like Quickr, Connections and of course the Notes 8
client which should be entering beta very very soon.

Make sure you sign up at the new ILUG2007
website if your going to attend
and make sure you do it fast, places are limited and will go very quickly.

Hopefully myself and Terri will see
you there.

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