Daily Archives: March 26, 2008

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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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Oops I did it again ….

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

Well – the last time I did it was about five years ago so no-one should accuse me of doing it all the time. What did I do ? Well after five years I thought it was time to replace my Dell 8100 running XP SP2 with something that could carry the torch for the […]

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