Monthly Archives: February 2011

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error “/sbin/mkfs.ext3 did not finish producing output after 300 seconds

This entry was posted in Storage Tips Virtualisation and tagged Conversion VMWARE REDHAT on February 23, 2011 by HAL

During the conversion of a Redhat ES 4 (Nahant) physical server to an esx3.5i host I was having repeated failures after around 15 minutes. From vmware-converter-agent.log I found this error “/sbin/mkfs.ext3 did not finish producing output after 300 seconds“. An researched this to find that there is a hard coded limit on the length of […]

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Invalid URL syntax messsage when pasting content into a Notes form from a web page

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Tips and tagged Lotus NOtes 8.5.2 on February 22, 2011 by HAL

  The problem  – When you attempt to copy content from certain Web sites to a new Notes memo or document form , an “Invalid URL syntax” appears       Workaround Copy the content from Firefox or another non IE browser and then paste to Notes. or First copy the content from Internet Explorer […]

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Checking out someone’s location from their external IP address ?

This entry was posted in Interesting Tips Web and tagged GeoLocation IP Address on February 21, 2011 by HAL

WordPress and lots of other applications allow you to see where your visitors are coming from but what if you wanted a quick and  simple way to check out an ip address from say a log file or other source. IPLocation offer such a service for occasional use and will allow up 20 ip lookups […]

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DHCP services during machine virtualisation process on Vmware ?

This entry was posted in Tips Virtualisation and tagged dhcp ESXI VMWare on February 18, 2011 by HAL

Over the last few days I helped migrate some physical infrastructure servers for a client to a brand new Vmware Esx enviroment.  Having down this particular task many times I wasn’t really expecting many new issues but in this case its worth pointing out that dhcp can be useful during the conversion of machines that […]

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Seriously – thats the power adapter

This entry was posted in Interesting on February 17, 2011 by HAL

I was working with a client recently and as part of a consolidation project using VMware we were transferring machines from one rack to another and removing redundant equipment. Whilst doing this we removed an ultra small form factor PC from Dell from one of the cabinets. It was a surprise however we we extricated […]

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Thats two things

This entry was posted in Development Must Have Tips and tagged TLCC XPAGES on February 16, 2011 by HAL

I was going to say that I had a good time with the IDOSphere sessions yesterday afternoon and into the night and finished work on a high note – watching David Leedy’s session and getting some good ideas and that it was one good thing  !! How surprised was I this morning when an email popped […]

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IDOsphere – an xpage and domino experience … for two days only

This entry was posted in Development and tagged IDONOTES Lotus Domino XPAGES on February 15, 2011 by HAL

For those who didn’t make it to Lotusphere 2011 – there is an alternative. You don’t even have to leave the office. The schedule is Feb 15-16 2011 from 8am-5:30pm CST (-6 GMT)  – NOTE that means after 2:00 in the afternoon if you are not awake when reading the details in the UK. A […]

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Getting started with the xpages extension library

This entry was posted in Development Tips Web and tagged extension library Lotus Notes 8.5 XPAGES on February 14, 2011 by HAL

If you have been working with IBM Lotus Notes development – you will know that the main development focus is with Xpages – the Java Server Faces technology which has been built into 8.5.2 releases. You will probably also know that a couple of resources have been made available to help you get started with […]

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