Monthly Archives: March 2008

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Its arrived – and its massive

This entry was posted in Gadgets Web on March 29, 2008 by HAL

I know I wanted something powerful and fit for purpose but holy cow this new Vista 64Bit machine is massive. Not just a bit bigger – its bigger that a number of servers I’ve installed recently. The Precision 7400 appears to be built – fit to survive a nuclear direct strike. I needed a hand […]

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ORDB.org and Mercury Mail Server blacklisting

This entry was posted in Monitoring Software Tips Web on March 27, 2008 by HAL

A client called with a a problem relating to a Mercury mail server that had started to display errors relating to mail being blocked – specifically “Host Blocked by ORDB Rejecting Message” on the mercury console screen. Initially I thought the client had been blacklisted but then remembered that Mercury had the ORDB server as […]

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Setting Numlock On At Startup

This entry was posted in Software Web on March 27, 2008 by HAL

What if you want the numlock indicator on when you start machine ? This is something that you occasionally require but its buried in the registry. See below for an explanation SUMMARY The status of the NUM LOCK key is specific for each user, and it is disabled by default. If you want the NUM […]

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Back in control

This entry was posted in Gadgets Web on March 26, 2008 by HAL

As mentioned previously the replacement of an Acer Aspire 500 media centre PC power supply is fairly straightforward – see the full article here – one word of note though – if you lose the ability to remote control through the infrared remote – heres what you should look for. Remove the case (after powering […]

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Fumblin’ with the Drumlin ?

This entry was posted in Software Tips Web on March 26, 2008 by HAL

A drumlin (Irish droimnín, a little hill ridge) is an elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial action. Its long axis is parallel with the movement of the ice, with the blunter end facing into the glacial movement. Well this Drumlin isn’t anything to do with a hill more to do with a requirement to protect […]

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Sending an email from lotuscript agent (not using Domino smtp server)

This entry was posted in Programming Software Tips Web on March 26, 2008 by HAL

Why would you want to ? Well if the server that hosts your notes domino services also happens to be running an SMTP server such as Mercury or Exchange instead of the Domino variant. You might want to generate an email as the result of an agent running – as in this example where I […]

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Number expected error in Lotuscript (Incorrect data type for operator or @Function: Number expected)

This entry was posted in Programming Web on March 26, 2008 by HAL

I came across this when attempting to add some simple percentages to a Lotus Notes 8 form with columns of numbers totalled at the base. The totals were then calculated into a grand total and the percentages were to show the breakdown of each of the subtotals. On opening the form (not on previous forms […]

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I did it and the sky didn’t fall !!

This entry was posted in Software Web on March 26, 2008 by HAL

Vista SP1 is what I did by the way. Twice. Two different machines – two different Vista versions (Business on a HP 6715s and Ultimate on a Shuttle Small Form Factor SFF machine). The world didn’t fall apart – it did seem like time was standing still for the best part of an hour but […]

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