Urs Meli

Yesterday I had to Install the quickr connector on an upgraded Notes 8.5 client.  At my pc everything went fine, ran qkrconn.exe rebooted, sidebar was visible.

At my customers pc I ran qkrconn.exe, rebooted, no sidebar in Notes. So I checked the ususal sources for a solution "google", notes.net, etc. No hint helped.

After some installing, repairing, uninstalling the connector and the notes client I started to compare the 2 installations. One difference between the client pc and my pc was, that I had the sametime plugin installed in the note client.

So I added the sametime client to the customers pc and surprise, surprise... the quickr sidebar plugin appeared....

As the customer doesn't use sametime, I uninstalled the sametime plugin and all of a sudden the quickr sidebar disappeared again. Reinstalling sametime let the quickr sidebar reappeared.

Domino Designer 8.5 looks great. Works great. One thing which has to be improved, besides LS custom class browser, is switching ID's.

It's still not as it used to be in the old days.....

My DDE will crash after some switching, between developer and testing ID's especially when I've got the debugger turned on.

Since yesterday my laptop is totally secure

Even I'm not able to login anymore.....

What happend: I caught the zlob trojan, which is a bad thing. First I thought I could remove it using tools like knoppicillin or some other external virus scanners and bootdisks. But suddenly I realized, my harddisk has been encrypted 3 months ago....gosh...

Next thing I tried, booting windows in safe-mode, removing the virus with some tools and several av-engines. When I tried to switch back to normal windows the sequence started: starting up windows..... shutting windows down..... Halt.....panic!

After a hard reboot the encryption program blocked my whole machine. My harddisk is still encrypted and unaccessible therefor now I have a very secure system...

Our helpdesk has to pull the harddisk out, access it from a different System and get the data of my drive....

What about a backup? Sure. Its 3 months old......

As a developer your sourcecode is in a svn repository or not? nope, svn repository crashed 6 months ago. just before lotusphere we got our hardware back. svn restoreing was planned for this week...... crap.....

Hi there.
Inspired by the great lotusphere session AD215 by Stephan Wissel, I want to know wether there is a list of known DXL bugs , missing fetures and workarounds?

Today I installed a Windows 7 on my VMWare Server.

Notes 8.5 installed and started without errors.

Yesterday I made NSFDB2 working on my test servers. I had this strange errormessage: "Error managing DB2 groups....DB2 Authorization violation" when I tried to compact a database to DB2.

I did the installation 3 or 4 times. DB2 enable ran successfull but compacting never succeeded.  After checking every parameter several times I found the mistake. I entered a path for the "DB2 datastore directory". When I removed the entry for this field, compacting ran without issues.

Today I was forced to recompile a database with Notes 8.0.2. I was very surprised.

Recompile time dropped from about an hour (in Notes 7.0.2) to 5 minutes.

Short tipp: If you plan to enable db2 on a remote server, don't start the local DB2 command center.

I did it to test the connection between my domino server and the db2 server. Afterwards I was not able to enable the db2 on the domino server.
I got a strange communication error. And some hint about the catalog.

So I started the command center, removed my db2 node from the list. Tada! Now I could enable  the db2 on my domino.

Seems that Installpump is back in business.

see:

Here the link to the Homepage Softquest

DB2 integration is quite tricky. Converting a notes database to DB2 is simple. But the impacts can be horrible
I tried it with a simple database, no problem.
A more advanced database with 350 views didn't work as expected. I was able to open the database but some views won't display.
I got a "index is corrupt...." message when I've tried to open it. Compact, fixup, updall nothing worked. I tried it with 3 different copies, all with the same result.

Either google nor the notes forum had a solution for that problem. Tomorrow I have to test it with some other databases...

Today I tested the NSFDB2. The installation was *cough* easy. The hardes part, was to find the Tutorial from last years course

After 4h I got eveything up and running on my VMWare server. Setup looks like:

1 Domain Controller Win2003

1 Domino 8.0.2 Server

1 DB2 Enterprise 9.5 Server

Impressions so far:

• My first database got corrupted, when I transfered it to the DB2.
• When I transfered the second database, my db2 server ran out of hd space
• After expanding the disksize, I encountered several errors 1042c, 1065n
  It turned out that my db2 server lost the connection to my domain controller, therefor the db2 service account was not able to start.
  Rebooting the whole VMWare server, and checking all the network configurations, everything is now ok.

I hope it works all fine now.

 Today I updated a lotus connections 1.0.2 pilot to lotus connections 2.0. There's a great guide on the connections wiki site which covered all the basic topics.

 

Everything went fine, but the activities wont start anymore. Activity Service not available is the only message I get.

The Websphere Console says that the activities ear is up and running....

Edit 29.8.08: 

Uninstalling the activities and re-installing solved the issue. It wors fine now.

 

Today I found a way to shoot yourself in the foot with vmware server.

It is very simple, if you store your vmware images on USB drives like I do.
I tried to be smart. To copy some big files in the vm I mounted a second USB drive into the vm.

Everything worked fine.
When I went home I stopped the vm's and removed the drives.

Next time I startet the vm windows xp accidentially changed my drive letters.
Now the when the vm tried to start, it took over the USB drive which hosted the vm.

BOOOM.

The vm crashed with a very strange error message (I forgot to take a screenshot).
The USB was not accessible in windows anymore too.

 

A month ago I encountered a strange problem with a LEI Server.

 

Today we didn't find the problem, but found the solution.

 

After removing LEI from the server (and all *.nsf *.ntf) and reinstalling it, LEI seems to work.

Can anybody remember every single username/password for every website?

I mean I'm registered in dozens of websites: ebay, facebook, xing, gmail, gmx, bleedyellow, jazz.net, openntf.

Some good sites like bleedyellow let me choose my mail address as a login name.

 

Other sites like jazz.net want me to find some fanzy login/screenname.

Grrrreat. My preferred name is always occupied by some other moron.

By now I have dozens of loginnames with different numbers etc.

When I visit a site after some time, I can't remember my loginname. I know my password, because I change it on a regular basis (once per year).

So I know, I created the account 2 years ago, so it must be that password, but what the hell is my loginname.

Sure I can click on recover password, or I forgot my loginname.. but that's annoying and it fills up my mailbox quite a lot....

 

 

Why can't I simply log in with my bloody emailaddress........ It would save me lots of frustration.

 

It's hard enough to remember the passwords!