Richard Moy announces the winner of the MWLUG 2010 giveaway from Adobe. He also notes that Adobe Systems will provide a free copy of Flash Builder 4 Standard to unemployed developers who want to learn Flash.

Mitch Cohen discovered an interesting bug when you combine Connections and Protector that can result in a login failure. He provides a link to the SPR and says there is a hotfix available.

Serdar Basegmez’s customer had some remote servers that crashed frequently. To avoid those late-night calls, Serdar set up Domino to restart the server and capture information about the crash that could be analyzed later.

Ed Brill is looking for your input on client and server-side virtualization. He says the survey takes about 10 minutes.

Mark Hughes ran into this spike shortly after upgrading. He says a hotfix is in the works.

Paul Withers has been working on a live-text enabled widget for the Notes 8.x client. He’s posted a link to a YouTube video on the widget and the sample database.

Niklas Heidloff has posted some information on a a new Eclipse-based plug-in to manage documents on a local drive. He’s provided links to the project page and the download.

At a time when Microsoft is making disturbing inroads into Lotus’ core business, IBM can counter Microsoft’s strategy by even more fully embracing Linux and other open source properties.

Read this DominoPower article.

Melissa Snell has a nice, neat LotusScript application that used COM to talk to Microsoft Office. Everything was great until Office 2007 started arriving on desktops. She’s posted some settings that helped solve the formatting problems.

Serdar Basegmez was having trouble with HTTP authentication and got some help from Tim Tripcony. Serdar has posted the work-around for what may be a bug in Session.getSessionToken.