Consider the formal "call for abstracts"
as now officially open for UKLUG2008.  I would suggest you get information
from Warren’s site on what he is looking for, but if you want to submit
an abstract, send an email for EACH abstract to info@uklug.info.  Include
in it.

Title

abstract

BIO

Photo

Also, there will be a lot of mail going
into these accounts, title the subject appropriately (e.g. SESSION ABSTRACT
FOR UKLUG2008).

Places are filling up quick for UKLUG2008.
Not just places for delegates, but also places for sponsors.  Now
is the day to register to attend what is going to be an excellent event,
in the heart of London.  Read Warren’s
post for details.

Taken from the online evaluations at
ILUG2008 of sessions, here are the top 10 speaker sessions:

And the top 10 sponsor sessions:

Update:  Any speakers
or sponsors that want all feedback for their session, please just drop
me an email directly.  The old speakers/sponsors email accounts for
ILUG are not being monitored anymore.

Some other pieces of feedback:

"’As far as human achievements
go, I think this comes in a close third, after the invention of the wheel
and then the Internet.  Another fantastic job by all concerned and
I hope there are many more to come.

I am struggling to think of anything
that was missing, cheerleaders?"

”Well, you have already heard about
the wifi not being open on port 1352.

Very well organized, and a good venue.

Thank you, again!"

"’Group hugs next year?"

"’can be described with three words

fun, fun fun.

At this day i was really wondering where
Paul gets his energy from. He must have some sort of hidden battery implanted
somewhere."

"One very small thing that was
not that good, was the lunch (only sandwiches all days). But the whole
conference was free so I have absolutely no problem with that."

There were many other comments, the
vast majority of which were positive and understanding.  Our thanks
to you all.  Some of the negatives that we knew about already:

Lunch could of been better (catering
is WAY expensive)

Port 1352 (we know we know)

Bar closed early

Venue was not as easy to navigate as
last  year (we were just too big for last years venue).

The ILUG2008 presentations are now available
for public download from here.
 I’m well aware that not all the presentations that were at the event
are represented here, but considering these excellent speakers did do this
all for free, I cannot really go with a gun to their back to force em to
give me the files now, can I…. ;).

Thanks Jon

Yup, our hosted server borked yesterday.
  Some people noticed by the general lack of availability of ilug,
uklug and many other sites.  Warren arranged fot it to be fixed and
one small pagan ritual later (had to kill a lamb) it came back up.  Should…
really… consider….. failover….

On another disk topic, I still see sites
that only allocate 30GB, 20GB or (dare I say it) 10GB to a c:\(OS booting)
partition.  They then allocate the rest of the partition to a d:\
drive to install applications.  When I ask… why?  I get one
of two answers typically:

1. Performance

2. Its the policy here

First of all.. Performance.  If
you have a RAID 1 array and it is say 2x76GB drives, then you have 76GB
to play with.  You will get no performance enhancement by splitting
the partitions out, as its all the same disk.  Ya see, it makes no
sense!

Policy… 2003 server will easily eat
up 20GB space before you know it… god knows what 2008 will take to run.
  If you only backup your virtual d:\ drive, you could easily backup
a full 76GB c:\ drive and skip folders you don’t want.  Aside from
that, some sites implement policies on partitioning that were created in
Win2k Server days, or even WINNT days.  Why implement an old method
and then have to use partition magic or equal product to fix a problem
you should not of had.

Policies are there to be followed, but
there is never harm in questioning or trying to improve/modernise them.

I have seen a few tweets on this recently,
and my lack of knowledge of the Mac could easily be to blame (although
I am pretty proficient now) but I must admit that my Mac seems to bleed
free disk space.  I had 120GB drive and 20GB free.  Now I have
a 200GB drive and 50GB free.  I know I have put on the new Notes client
and added photos etc, but I was just wondering if there is anywhere that
is used as a temp folder on a Mac, that can be emptied if needed.

(dons flameproof clothing and asbestos
underpants).

Its the little things that are "no
brainers" that are starting to come into the new releases of the Lotus
Notes client software.  Now when emailing someone in your address
book, you can choose their address from the memo. So if you have multiple
addresses listed for a person, you can pick which one is appropriate.