July 28, 2008
…and IBM is about to show you The Future! A couple of things strike me about this set of presentation slides someone has found and scanned. The first is that they clearly predate presentation software such as Powerpoint, and as such are mercifully free of the horrible stylistic habits such software has produced. Note how [...]
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July 28, 2008
VIA releases specs and source for their graphics and crypto hardware.
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July 22, 2008
Social networking is useful to business, and transparency is important now that we have the web.
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July 18, 2008
How to find out the IBM part number (machine type) from the command line.
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July 17, 2008
Can’t connect to a Domino server with a self-signed SSL certificate, using a Java client? Here’s how to fix the problem.
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July 17, 2008
Beware! Domino’s web date and time formats (locale) are guessed based on the language preference set in the user’s web browser.
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July 17, 2008
IBM is one of the more forward-thinking companies when it comes to equality of opportunity and lack of discrimination.
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July 15, 2008
The practice of using standard SI prefixes (k, M, G) for quantities measured in non-standard binary amounts is confusing and needs to stop.
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July 12, 2008
Back in 2005, IBM posted a story to the intranet titled New guidelines encourage IBMers to blog. Since then, there have been a number of additional occasions when I’ve been encouraged to write about work. I’ve been writing about personal topics for years, and have mentioned work at various points. However, there have been topics [...]
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