by Russell | Feb 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
From the “Why didn’t we do this sooner?” Department… Same application, same network artifacts for security, same set of users. Large dedicated bare metal servers at IBM, smaller EC2 instances at AWS. Take a guess when we...
by Russell | Dec 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
Survived 2020 except for one non-COVID death in the family. Governments and politicians small and large have demonstrated their true colors and fully believe they have, and always had, unlimited power to control people’s lives and businesses. Elections in the...
by Russell | Jan 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
So..if you are sending files for download to a browser, remember to surround the file name with quotes. This response works correctly to download a file in Firefox:pageResponse.setHeader(“Content-Disposition”,”attachment; filename=” +...
by Russell | Oct 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
Seems to me like the first rule of software development runs something like “Don’t screw up things that have been working just fine for decades” but today we have this… Domino 10.01 FP 3 If we try to FT index any database and index attachments...
by Russell | Sep 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dear HCL: Business 101: Let customers pay you. Just tried to accept the quotes you sent and got this. I get that we’re not your target market and that we purchase an insignificant amount of licenses but that being said… If you want to have ANY hope at all...
by Russell | Aug 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
I read this article about someone suing Apple because Apple did not disclose that Apple might store iCloud data with Amazon or Google and they were somehow harmed because they paid Apple a premium for iCould storage under something akin to false pretenses. Well...
by Russell | Jul 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
I’ve bought a lot of Moleskine special edition notebooks over the years. I am not a writer, but I guess the idea of inking one’s thoughts in bound journals simply romances me. So I buy them. Typically multiple times a year. By now I’d guess I have 30...
by Russell | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
After a BC/DR test we decided to investigate expanding our usage of our backup email mechanism. During the investigation it became clear we could reduce our hard monthly costs for email by 90%, gain new functionality, improve security and productivity, and reduce the...
by Russell | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
Well, 2018, you were better than 2017 and 2016 combined. Good job you! Let’s see what happened and didn’t happen in 2018… Nobody I know died.Nobody I know had a stroke.Nobody I know had a heart procedure.Nobody I know suffered a traumatic brain...
by Russell | Nov 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Yup. That phone call happened November 4, 2017. My first-born daughter. 28. Regular half-marathon runner. Desert and forest camper, rock climber. Eats right. Stays fit. Helps others for a living. Stroke. Nothing can prepare you for hearing your kid call and say...
