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December 16, 2005

Hitachi San

I spent 2 days at home, and then came back to spend the next 2 days re-engineering the Hitachi San. We're going from using LDEV's to LUSE Volumes.

The maintenance the other day included patching LDAP to the latest version, protecting us from a security vulnerability.

Probably 1 more re-boot on Cougar coming before the end of the Christmas break, and we should be ready to go for the next term.

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December 09, 2005

Communication communication

One of the biggest complaints UCS gets from the campus is the lack of communication, and the amount of changes. Some like blogs, some like email, some like phone, some expect in person?? So I'm trying to figure out the best way to communicate. Anyone with good ideas, please feel free to drop me a note.

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December 01, 2005

Email to Jonathan Schwartz

I'm as frustrated as anyone when it comes to Communications Express. I realize its buggy and there's not a whole lot I can do about it, except stay up to date with the latest patches, which I'm doing. I'm getting them before they're publicly released.

The other day I emailed Jonathan Schwartz ( President of Sun ) and asked him where's Sun's answer to Microsoft Outlook? They have StarOffice a very good cheap alternative to Microsoft Office ( minus outlook of course )

The bottom line is there email server is flawless, and works wonderfully, and is never down. The calendar server is the same way. They just don't seem to have a good client to use both of them. Email is easy. They support IMAP, and you can find many very good imap email clients. My favorite to date is Thunderbird. If you like it you can try it yourself. There are instructions here.

Well Jonathon replied to me within about 20 minutes, and then over the next couple of days I received phone calls from the Northwest regional manager as well as the project manager for the Java Enterprise System. They gave me the latest patch to Communications Express that was supposed to have fixed a similar issue. So far its too early to see if its fixed our problem.

So keep me posted if you find less blanks, or more, or the same.

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