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Doc Exchange reports on the proof. Men, you need to listen to the Chairman more:

Many reasons for the Blues this week. So here are some healing bits of Ronnie Earl, ranging from groove to soul to gut-bucket blues:

This is cool:

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All it took was a "fridge-sized" computer with tiny core memory allowing between 16 and 64 kilowords:

"The contents of the first email transmission have long since been forgotten; in a FAQ on his website, the sender, Ray Tomlinson (who sent the message between two computers located side-by-side) claims that the contents were 'entirely forgettable, and I have, therefore, forgotten them', and speculates that the message was most likely 'QWERTYUIOP' or something similar."

Read more on this first successful email transmission.

Another Friday, another Friday Blues Blogging. This week, sit back and groove to harp meister William Clarke and band (great swinging blues guitar solo in this tune as well), taken at Larry Blake's. Blakes was the place to go in the 80's for blues. I know, I used to live a block away. I went to Blues School there as often as I could.

Lemonade refers to an IETF working group formed to address the requirements of supporting standards-based email in a mobile or other resource-constrained environment. A "resource-constrained" environment is one where any or all of the following might be encountered:

• Low bandwidth, high latency networks
• Intermittent network connectivity
• Scarce power and compute cycles
• Minimizing data usage is a goal

The Lemonade Profile (RFC 5550, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5550) defines a set of IMAP and SMTP extensions that address these constraints. Sun Java System Messaging Server implements the extensions defined in RFC 5550.

For more information on how Messaging Server supports Lemonade, see Messaging Server Lemonade Profile 1 Support.

Why get bored with exporting/importing your calendar? From daBrain:

Export and Import is an easy way to get your Mac iCal up to date. But doing it manually is boring, therefor I thought it would be nice to have this scripted ...My result so far now is a small shell script which export your calendar from the Calendar Server, save it as export.ics and open iCal with the exported.ics file, you only have to click OK for the import.

Today's offering is from R&B pioneer, Rosco Gordon, leading his band through "Bop It." Notice the essential role of the chicken (or is that rooster?).

Sun Microsystems working on CalDAV support for Symbian OS.

Looks like this webinar could be of interest to the Comms Community.

Date/Time: Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Register here:

https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/694859432

To be sure, JLH is a well-known figure in American blues and rock, but I'm not sure how many folks are familiar with his solo stuff and how interesting and moving it is. From "The Best of the Blues:"

A big reason why Hooker remained a solo artist for so long was his unpredictable, improvisational attacks on conventional song structure and meter.

So here he is on "Serves Me Right to Suffer." Enjoy.

As the Calendar Server 7 docs state:

(you can)...set up Calendar Server 7 (CalDAV Server) in an existing Calendar Server 6 deployment, where calendar users exist on both the Calendar Server 7 and Calendar Server 6 environments. In such a deployment, you enable both freebusy lookup and iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol (iTIP) invitation between the two Calendar Server deployments. That is, users should have the capability to check freebusy information of users on any server, and the capability to invite any user. Invitations to users on a different server would be delivered by using iTIP.

Now, Andreas has some more info on this setup, here.

(Photo Credit: muhammad younas)

Reign over?

"Email has had a good run as king of communications. But its reign is over."

I hardly doubt it. I can see the move to a services approach, and an integration of those services. But much too early to claim outright demise.

Hat Tip Bill A.

Attachment View in Convergence

This is very cool. The new update to Sun Convergence, Convergence 1 Update 3 (shipping as part of Communications Suite 7), in conjunction with our new Indexing and Search Service 1 product, presents users with a grid of attachments in their email. (Click image at left for larger view.) In a nutshell, here's how all this functionality comes together:

- The ISS server "collects" all the attachments across all a user's email.
- The Convergence client displays a new virtual folder, “Attachments," in the folder tree for this collection.
- Convergence presents the attachments in three views. (This image shows the grid view.)
- Users can search the attachment list by filtering mechanisms (see below).
- Operations for viewing the message the attachment belongs to and creating a message with a selected attachment are available.
- Note: If ISS is not deployed, this feature is not presented.

Filter View of Attachments in Convergence

Here's a view of the Convergence Filter Attachments (click image at right for larger view). You can filter your search based on the sender of the attachment, a date range when you received the attachment, or the type of file that you are searching. This image is showing how to filter by sender.

In the filtered view, you still have the capability for viewing the message the attachment belongs to and creating a message with a selected attachment.

Film Strip View of Attachments in Convergence

As the image to the left shows (click for larger view), you can also view attachments in film strip mode. The film strip is displayed on right-hand side, you can arrow or mouse down, select one by one, and the selection is displayed in the middle of the Convergence UI.

Convergence also supplies a slideshow view, which takes over the entire browser. Controls are displayed at the bottom for navigating through attachments left and right, as well viewing them on a timed basis (that is, using a timer to view them).

Searching Attachments By Using ISS

When you do a search from the attachments grid, one choice is to search by body. By using ISS, you get to have a fast body search, which is more than just a body search, your attachments are searched as well. And if you're like me, I have tons of attachments in email that I'm constantly looking for. Attachments can be in a variety of formats such as PDF; Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio; StarOffice/Open Office; HTML; and more.

This week's edition of Friday Blues Blogging: Junior Wells and Buddy Guy performing "Hoodoo Man Blues." Here they are from 1985:

Probably one of my favorite blues albums of all time, Hoodoo Man Blues contains some of the best harp/guitar music on the planet. Especially noteworthy is the lack of chording that goes on by Buddy Guy, who focuses instead on playing bass lines and flurries of answering notes to Junior Well's harmonica.