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| | 21 Things that will be obsolete by 2020 | | | | | Thursday, April 7, 2011 9:03 AM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| Social Networking and productivity |
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| Friday, October 8, 2010 2:32 PM -0400 | By: Michael Sutton | Aptiris |
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| As I spent a few minutes last week updating my status on LinkedIn and reading the contributions posted by my network, and earlier this week I reviewed pictures from wife's 25 year high school reunion, I found myself once again fighting the guilt of d |
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| Fitness, Team Building & Achy Feet |
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| Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:24 PM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| Had a great time at the Kaiser Permanente Run/Walk last week! This was our 3rd annual attempt at getting into a fitness program that goes beyond keyboard exercises and dead-lifting servers. [Image:92310_122742_0.jpg] |
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| What I did This Summer |
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| Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:07 PM -0400 | By: Joe Schumaker | Aptiris |
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| [Image:82310_50754_0.jpg]As we roll through August and approach September, many of you are, or already have, geared up for the new school year. And as my work load shifts from new services and on-site work to support, special projects, and trade sh |
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| Open Text Content Day |
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| Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:24 PM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| Open Text recently held their annual European conference in Stockholm. Kai Engen was there and posted the following observations - particularly relevant in light of the recent changes at FirstClass. I've reposted below. -Gary ----- Kai I. Engen, |
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| What's Next for FirstClass? |
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| Monday, April 5, 2010 5:42 PM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| As you may have heard, some significant changes happened at Open Text last week. On Wednesday, John Myers, Steve Asbury, Jon Asbury, Scott Welch and Barry Carter left Open Text. If these names aren't familiar to you, Steve, Jon & Scott are the |
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| Virtual Non-Reality |
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| Tuesday, December 1, 2009 4:26 PM -0500 | By: Joe Schumaker | Aptiris |
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| [Image:Avatar-Joe.jpg]So who of you are either... a) sci-fi movie fans or b) James Cameron fans or c) both? I guess I would put myself in the "c" category. Movies like Terminator, The Abyss, Apollo 13, Titanic, and Alien are iconic in the |
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| Why FirstClass Matters |
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| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:00 AM -0500 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| I recently returned from Open Text Content World, the annual conference put together by Open Text for its partners and customers. The acquisition of FirstClass by Open Text about 7 years ago has long seemed a bit strange to me. After Content World t |
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| How cool would it be...? |
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| Friday, October 9, 2009 7:46 AM -0400 | By: Joe Schumaker | Aptiris |
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| [Image:10909_74713_1.jpg]So after 12 years, my lawn mower finally died. It was a sad passing. Not because I would miss the mower, not because it had any particularly sentimental value, but mostly because I didn't want to have to spend the money on |
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| Preparing for the Storm |
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| Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:31 PM -0400 | By: Michael Sutton | Aptiris |
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| I would like to thank all of you for checking in with Aptiris to see how we survived the deluge of water last week, here in the Atlanta area. All of us here, and our friends and families, are safe. We appreciate your concern and warm wishes. Pleas |
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| Staying Current |
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| Monday, August 31, 2009 11:53 PM -0400 | By: Joe Schumaker | Aptiris |
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| [Image:9109_120529_0.jpg]Let's take a little trip through time...So Sherman, Mr. Peabody, let's set the Way-Back Machine to... (imagine big booming announcer voice here) Joe's Very Highly Abbreviated History of the Telephone..... [Image:83109_948 |
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| Data Management Perspectives |
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| Monday, August 31, 2009 4:00 PM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| [Image:62309_105404_1.png]Just a quick note today to call your attention to two good articles from NetApp on data management. When talking about storage, it is easy to develop tunnel-vision, looking only at backup/restore, or disaster recovery, or o |
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| To Be, or Not to Be (on time) |
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| Monday, August 17, 2009 1:27 PM -0400 | By: Joe Schumaker | Aptiris |
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| [Image:81409_52835_1.jpg]So FirstClass 10 is almost here… can you believe it!?!? Well, neither can we here at Aptiris! Which led to a discussion about the topic of the next Aptiris Blog... So lets talk software development… There is an intere |
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| Why Looks Do Matter |
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| Tuesday, August 4, 2009 7:19 AM -0400 | By: Joe Schumaker | Aptiris |
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| [Image:8309_15409_1.jpg] I try to live my life to a higher standard (“higher” being a completely relative term, of course), trying to believe in those little pearls of wisdom like “to forgive is divine,” “every cloud has a silver lining, |
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| What is Web 2.0 Anyhow? |
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| Monday, July 20, 2009 8:06 PM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| [Image:GF-72x96.jpg]At the NECC conference last week, I was approached by a teacher who sheepishly approached me, apologized for what she described as a dumb question, and asked me, "What is Web 2.0, and when it is being released?" I had t |
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| Better than Disks? |
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| Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:52 AM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| [Image:62309_105404_1.png]Dave Hitz, one of the co-founders of NetApp, maintains a [ http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/ ]blog that routinely impresses me with articles providing insight and vision. He wrote several months ago about a trend that in retros |
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| Important update - if you use RBLs |
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| Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:28 PM -0400 | By: Kirstie Carter | Aptiris |
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| As you may know, FirstClass and some spam filtering programs and appliances can use Realtime Blackhole Lookups (RBL) to determine if the server sending an email is a spammer or a message contains links to “spammy” sites. For detailed informatio |
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| Welcome! |
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| Thursday, June 4, 2009 9:08 AM -0400 | By: Gary Falcon | Aptiris |
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| [Image:GF-72x96.jpg]As we reach the mid-point of 2009, it seems this milestone year may be remembered for many things. From the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the US, to the bankruptcies of GM and Chrysler, upheaval in the fin |
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