FlowerPower

I have read a lot of posts on that toppic, everybody seems to be amazed by the improved start up time of the 8.0.1 client..
Hey!!!!!
It takes ages. OK it got faster comparing the 8.0.0 client. So i think there is still a lot of potential perfomancegaps to be filled.
I think it got todo withe the client architecture. It is pree loading the whole eclipse plattform. If you use the productivitytools (did thea change the name on that?) it takes even longer.
Did you ever compare the basic client against the rcp client??
that ist worlds apart.
So my conclusion.......
IBM is on the right way but miles to go ;-)

Oh wow.........
Iphone hype...... hmmmm ok... europe iphone???

I might need to start from the beginning.
We in germany  have sort of the same problem. An iphone is sold exclusivly with one company which is telcom. They charge  arround US$ 600 and an not to cheap contract with it.
If you want to have it without it ist a lot more.
So where is the point buying one?
Just to have it?
Ok if someone has a spare and wants to spend it exclusvly to me? send me a ping;-)
i wont say no:-)

So that brings me back to the credo of my blogentry.....
that hype that you (all you us geeks) have is not even a little hype over here......

People rather depend on blackberrys......
So no hype here....

Ok here is part two of the traveler story.....
I could not get rid of the http error, so i decided to start with a fresh server install, which first did look very good. I fired the server up and did not receive any error.
So far so good than i got this severe messges.

Google or the forum did not return any answer so iguess i will have to ask big BLUE again for some help.

Today i took a test drive doing the compression as described in help on a simple Testmachine (on my laptop, 2Ghz dual core, 2Gb, Ram, Thinkpad R60)

First it did not look to amazing, as i only have some test databases on that server, nothing realy productiv.
On the second look. if you........think on 17% savings on a 1000GB infrastructure that makes it 170GB saving.
Si id say that is quite a saving. Not talking about performance improvings.

Next step will be:
Running the compact in our QA environment. Which hold an almost exact copy on what we have live. The rate there should be a little more accurate and expressive than my little testing machine.

After installing traveler on my test server i get HTTP errors, saying that my nHTTP termintaed abnormaly.



Anyone having any idea what that might be?
The server is running in coexistence with qp on a 8.0.1 server.

I am getting a little frustrated. And i do not want to reinstall all the time.
I might continue tonight while at home using a vmware where i am able to go back to the previous snapshot :-)

Ok, aigain another question for all you pros out there (as obviously i am not ;-)

Unread marks.
Lets put up a theory....
Isnt it true, that unread marks should be the same no matter if you are on replica one on server A or replika two on server B?
Ok so much for the supposed to be.
Factum is, that no matter on which server i am the unreadmarks are always different.
Not to forget we are talking about a cluster.  :-)
It is always different. It gets worse once one clustermember drops.

Well i know we had several PMRs open for that one and no solution.
So has anyone any idea?

Thanks all!

Hello and goodmorning Notesworld....
It is a sunny and wonderfull sunday morning over here in germany.......

This ist what it looks like if you get up early. Aint that beautifull?
Ok now enohgh beeing nice ;-)

I went through the "what is new docs" and found some inbox maintenance article.
Has anyone of you out there being playing arround with it?
Any experiences?
Bad or good onces?

Hmmmm am i doing something wrong? The forum on notes.net  (i still refuse to call it ibm developer domain or whatsoever) said it will be back with 8.0.1

So i must be doing something wrong. It is not there. Not that i use outlook *evilgrin* but some people just cant let go.

So anyone any ideas? Sugestions?

After all the fuss i thought "lets look for something positive":-) I found something.

It is easy to set up easy to use and very fast to work with.

DominoWebAccess LIGHT DWA8.0.1.

If you simply open up your mailDB in a browser (preferebly firefox or safari, it works on IE as well) an choose the light option.

That goes realy kwick. It throws away all unnessesary heavy weight mail stuff......

Even my wife said " uhhhh that looks need and it is fast" ;-)

She thinks its a little playi the design, but she likes it.

It is fast over a 54Mbit WLAN connection. And as i only do some mailing at home mail is all i want.

So there i can say.. "a job well down" IBM!

 

What i like most.....

NO POP UPS!

So no problems with browser setting problems. No virus scan problems....

I LOVE IT ;-)

 

The more you look the more need features you can find.

 

Look at the sidebar on the "light client" and watch the Sidebar button :-)

Definitiv something id like to see in the rcp client.

 

OK i defenetly fell in love with dwa light.... uhhhhh  aaaaa honney a....i didnt mean toooo...... ouch.... argh..... aua.....

 Ok where do we start...
The good news is: no critical problem so far.
One thing bugs me so..... ever wanted to use the feature to synch your calendar with your sametime availability?
Welll i did to..... the only problem was...... it didnt work....... OK...
I reinstalled the client --> didnt work
i installed a fresh 8.0.1 client --> didnt work
upgraded mailDB to 8.0.1 design --> didnt work
I installed new XP and new client --> didnt work
OK one more
I installed Domino 8.0.1 and connected the client to it (was a 7.0.2 CCH1 before) --> didnt work

So i opened up a PMR priority 3 ... wel just a feature that seemed to not work in that particular environment.....
Got answer from BIG BLUE......
Problem HZHU7BG7ZB  report ist breits dokumentiert
The below issue can reproduce on both WCT801_20080201 and WCT801_20080202 build on Windows clients.

It'S a pitty.
How can i roll out a piece of software with known bug and a custommer testing it an hour after it was released gets a prepared problem report?

 

well well well......
Why not communicate.....
Hey there is a fine piece of client, but it has some known bugs.... you cant use the all new feature of bla bla..........
Would have saved myself some hours of new installation clients servers and osses.......
ok my hourerly rate is notexorbitant so the invested time was only some sent worth of money ;-)
and i do think i am not the only one ending up with errors like this.....
hmmm where is the accountability?

My boss would have had my fired for doing things like this.... in a photon torpedo outta space....
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH