Urs Meli

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!

 

Today I tested my agent, which updated some calendar entries, which were replicated via LEI from a MSSQL database.

Lei replicated the data in a notesdatabase in under a minute. After the replication, LEI started my agent, which took more then 1900 seconds to process around 1000 entries.

 

The problem was, that the LEI replication job started every 30 minutes. The agent stopped with the error "document has been deleted".

Change the replication schedule would solve the problem. But more than 30 minutes for my agent? I can do better.

 

The agent used a lot of Notesdatabase.search() calls to prevent duplicated entries in the users calendar.

 

Refactoring the Notesdatabase.search() to Notesview.getAlldocumentsbyKey() and some minor improvements made a nice performance boost.

The result: from around 1900 Seconds to 160  to 190 seconds for the same amount of documents.

 

The use of the search() method has been chosen to avoid changing the mailtemplate (multilingual environment R7 migrating to  R8). And in

the test environment I only used too less data....

 

Now the agent checks wether a special view is available and creates it if needed.

 

The first solution is not necessary the best.....