my examined life

I reinstalled Lotus Notes 8.0.2 today to fix some issues with the Preferences pages not displaying and remembered one more caveat about running Lotus Notes under Linux. For the longest time, I was having issues about email attachments not opening, so I would have to save every attachment and open it with its respective application. Finally, out of frustration, I searched IBM’s website and came across an known issue in which the openwith application, found at: /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith, doesn’t correctly detect magic numbers. The work around is to rename the openwith application to something like openwith.original and create a soft link to gnome-open or the similar KDE application.

• mv /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith /opt/ibm/lotus/notes/openwith.origina
• ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-open /opt/ibm/louts/notes/openwith

Apparently, not only is President Obama supposed to bring hope and change to the citizens of the U.S., but to dogs as well.

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The NY Times is running a story about how the Obama camp is now backpedaling a bit on the unrealistic expectations of his supporters that developed over the course of his campaign. Seriously, are we surprised by this? Since his appointment as the Democratic nominee, everywhere you look everyone is raving about Obama like he is the messiah come down from on high to save the United States from evils of the Bush reign.

For the sake of all the hope and optimism in our country right now, I do hope that he is able to pull it all off because if not there are going to be a whole lot of disillusioned people. But then again, if it doesn’t all work out he can always blame it on what he inherited from Bush.

Well, it finally happened, and don’t kid yourself, we all knew it would happen. When you have a sitting president with an approval rating in the high 20s, party change is something you can be sure of.