Factotum: Documentation Handyman

How 'bout some funky soul for today's FBB, with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings:

We've updated the Single Host Deployment Example for Communications Suite 7. This example describes how to install the entire Sun Java Communications Suite 7 software "stack" on one computer for a functioning deployment. This document is intended for any evaluator, system administrator, or installation technician who wants to install and evaluate the services delivered by these components.

This example describes how to install and configure the following components:

• Sun Java System Messaging Server 7 Update 3
• Sun Java System Calendar Server 6.3
• Sun Java System Calendar Server 7
  
• Sun Java System Instant Messaging 8 Update 2
• Sun Java System Directory Server 6.3.1
• GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1 Patch 2 with HADB support
• Delegated Administrator 7
• Sun Convergence 1 Update 3
• Sun Java Indexing and Search Service 1

Give the example a whirl.

Good summary here for Convergence and setting mail quotas.

daBrain is up to it again, this time detailing his installation of the complete Communications Suite 7 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Have a read, it's an enlightening experience.

Big Joe Williams and his nine-string guitar doing "Baby Please Don't Go."

Just a heads up, in case you get the following messaging when trying to access a page on the Communications Suite wiki:

Controlled Access Area

You cannot view this page

Page level restrictions have been applied that limit access to this page.

Though this message sounds like we are control freaks, it's just to alert you the page is not publicly available. In general, we want our Wiki documentation to be as open and available as possible. But in some cases, where we are working on updating or improving documentation, we will restrict access until that work is done.

As always, if any readers are looking for information that you cannot find, or if you have any Comms documentation-related questions, feel free to drop us a line and we'll do our best to help you out.

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:

New on docs.sun.com: Recommended Offers

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.