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...You could put an aye out! 
Or worse: Get kilt! 
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Baltimore officials will pay consultant $176,800 to help police department maintain Lotus Notes system - Baltimore Sun
No comment made because none is needed and none could be sufficient to capture the grim reality. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Link no workey in UK
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Same in BE
Isn't GDPR fun ...
Tom
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pkfox wrote: Link no workey
It's because Lotus Notes is dead. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That bloke is being underpaid, I'm tellin' ya.
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Since there are only about 10 people left in all of North America who still know Lotus Notes, I would agree.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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It's a shame that it's not the fire department, then the phrase "Kill it with fire" would be... poignant.
Software Zen: delete this;
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From the article:
This latest agreement between the city and the consulting group will last two years, with the option of renewing for another one-year term.
While the article doesn't say anything about what needs to be done, you'd have to pay me, as a single individual, a whole lot more than $177K over 2 years to do any sort of Notes maintenance work. And lets not mention the fact that this is in Baltimore.
And if there's more than one guy from this "consulting group" working on this project for this sort of money - then they're really selling themselves short. Or perhaps low-balling is part of their strategy.
And while the point the article's author was trying to get across was that Notes is ancient by now and spending money on it at this point in time is questionable, he doesn't discuss any alternative. I have no doubt any sort of migration to some other system would run into the millions.
Long story short: Reality runs opposite his sensationalist headline, which was probably intended to generate outrage. Journalistic fail.
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dandy72 wrote: While the article doesn't say anything about what needs to be done, you'd have to pay me, as a single individual, a whole lot more than $177K over 2 years to do any sort of Notes maintenance work. And lets not mention the fact that this is in Baltimore.
Same here. I snarked elsewhere that the price suggests that they're only getting a handful of hours of support. It's obviously way too low for a full time job unless the number of bloatus goatse customers is plunging faster than the number of people whose brain has ossified to the point they can't get a job to work on anything else are retiring and you've got multiple no-hopers scrambling for a rapidly shrinking supply of work.
dandy72 wrote: And while the point the article's author was trying to get across was that Notes is ancient by now and spending money on it at this point in time is questionable, he doesn't discuss any alternative. I have no doubt any sort of migration to some other system would run into the millions.
The article does say the new IT plan is due by the end of the year, and whoever wins that contract will be getting a large fortune. OTOH eating a huge cluster![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) of a legacy system is a nightmare of hidden requirements and scope creep. If whoever gets the contract manages to do it on time and in budget (assuming the city doesn't agree to take an off the shelf package and accept all the non 1:1 capability mapping breakage that will inevitably result), they'll probably deserve a Best Contractor of the Decade award.
Quote: T.J. Smith, the police department's chief spokesman, said in a statement Thursday morning that the agency will be moving away from Lotus Notes in the future.
“However, until such time, we must manage and maintain the product that we currently use which is Lotus Notes,” he said.
The consultant is charged with system upkeep until the department finishes crafting “a 21st century holistic technology platform,” he said. The final technology plan will be delivered to the court on Dec.1.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: The article does say the new IT plan is due by the end of the year,
Yeah. A plan.
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Keep it working?!?!
How did they get it working!?!?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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here:
I just heard about this yesterday. Just curious, is it possible to write an Android app to manage/block these kinds of messages?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: is it possible to write an Android app to manage/block these kinds of messages?
Yes - I just left you a voice mail with instructions...
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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You might take a gander at BroadcastReceiver, and the TelephonyManager constants. I just took a cursory glance and noticed several that dealt with voice mails, but I did not verify anything.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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If people would be half as smart at doing life improvement things than inventing new nuisances, this planet would be a better place to live.
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Rage wrote: If people would be half as smart at doing life improvement things than inventing new nuisances, this planet would be a better place to live.
You don't need "smart" people, you need "willing" people.
As I said in other conversation, the problem is "benefits", very few people gives a crap about things where no $$$$ involved.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Rage wrote: inventing new nuisances
Feed the inventors to the various endangered species, and allow natural selection to take its course.
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If Kleptomania is a disease, can you take something for it?
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Where do you steal these from?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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if an item is buy-one-get-one-free are they compelled to take an even number of them?
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Hard to say, since kleptomaniacs tend to take things literally.
/ravi
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I hoard you are you steal posting these things?
If you "take it for what it's worth" are you an upscale kleptomaniac?
"Taking it with a grain of salt" is not for the hypertensive kleptomaniac.
And now, I'll take leave of this thread.
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I'm sure there's a Pilfer it!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I can't see your point. And I cannot see my watch, anymore.
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