Ocean Water a Therapy for Cystic Fibrosis

 Posted on January 19, 2006  |  1 min.  |  188 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

My son, Andrew, has cystic fibrosis and has been seeing a decrease in his lung function that his doctor’s don’t understand. He’s a very active kid, either playing outside with his friends, playing Little League, or school sports (flag football and now lacrosse?!). His activity level, and lack of bretahing problems don’t support the lung function test results he’s getting. My wife and I think he’s figured out how to make the “nice loop” for the PFT test and stopping, and his smirk a couple nights ago may confirm that. [Read More]
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Convert R5 Mail to Single Copy Template

 Posted on December 7, 2005  |  2 min.  |  242 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

Started the final piece of the 6.5 upgrade last night - upgrading DWA users to the 6.5 template - using a Single Copy template, of course. Just one small issue - the convert task kept the “Prohibit design refresh or replace to modify” checkbox on some items checked when they were added to the user’s mail file. And then after running the design task, those items were duplicated. That led to some ugly mail files in the morning. [Read More]
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Notes/Windows Single Logon Password Issues

 Posted on October 6, 2005  |  1 min.  |  108 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

We’ve been hit hard by this issue: Single Logon: In a multi-user installation, a user’s Notes.INI file is altered after changing the operating system password You are part of a multi-user Notes installation, but, after you change your operating system password using CTRL-ALT-DEL, you are presented with the Notes Client Configuration wizard. Why did this happen? Part of the issue has been user and helpdesk education. Part has been a recent change in security culture that has caused user problems. [Read More]
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News From the Last Decade

 Posted on October 5, 2005  |  1 min.  |  212 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

This was one of the “headlines” in this morning’s eWeek Healthcare update: News: PDAs Expected to Change Health Care in Future PDAs could change the way health care is delivered in the future by providing doctors with easy access to patient data and the latest information on treatment. I swear, we’ve heard this every year, and still medical offices haven’t caught up to technology. I remember about 4 years ago, my kid’s pediatrician was using an early version of the tablet PC to update the file and write prescriptions - you just picked up the print-out when you checked out of the office. [Read More]
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Domino Custom Password Policy

 Posted on July 14, 2005  |  1 min.  |  124 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

I hadn’t noticed this yet, probably since we just did the 6.5.4 Domino upgrade, but there is now the option to set custom password policies for Notes users. Thanks to some Italian legislation this has been added. So now you can set minimum and maximum lengths, whether or not usernames can be part of the password, force special characters, numeric characters, etc. You can also force a user to change his password the first time he logs in to Notes! [Read More]
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Upgrades, Upgrades, Upgrades

 Posted on February 8, 2005  |  1 min.  |  206 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

This week is upgrade week at work. In advance of a major eLearning initiative, we’re upgrading our LMS servers to new hardware. That’s new hardware for the database and the application servers. Add to that, upgrades of the LMS software and the DB2 version, I’m looking forward to a fun weekend. Happy Valentine’s Day!! On top of that, we’re having to push forward our LVC upgrade to this weekend as well. [Read More]
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Changing Passwords and Learning Management System Using Domino LDAP

 Posted on October 24, 2004  |  2 min.  |  403 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

Here’s a little trick that may come in handy for some shops using Lotus LMS and Domino LDAP. We’ve got quite a few users using LMS that don’t have email for one reason or another. This presents the issue of how to get them to change their password after their initial login. Of course we can’t force the change…yet…, but we can give them a link to the change password URL of a Domino server so they can be told to change it and actually be able to change it. [Read More]
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iNotes, GZip and Home Pcs

 Posted on October 21, 2004  |  2 min.  |  281 words  |  Ted Hardenburgh

One thing that running Domino Web Access, nee iNotes, has helped me realize is how great the “standardized” desktop is. When you have thousands of PCs and laptops out and you know what the software is and what patches are on it - and have methods for installing the patches - it makes the job of troubleshooting issues so much easier. On the other side is the remote user on their home PC. [Read More]
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