Monthly Archives: March 2015

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Help – I’ve got sticky tooltips (in Domino Designer 9) !

This entry was posted in Eclipse Programming xpages on March 18, 2015 by HAL

This annoyance has been particularly acute as I have been doing development remotely for a client. The remote access is through the excellent ScreenConnect application and I thought that it might have had something to do with that. The symptom is that when working in Designer you activate one of the beige tooltips which advises […]

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Growling notifications in Xpages (Dgrowl)

This entry was posted in Development and tagged dojo XPAGES on March 17, 2015 by HAL

As part of an application being developed with client – was looking for a more elegant messaging and notification scheme for the xpages. So I remembered having seen a Notes In 9 session by David Leedy and Brad Balassaitis – so dug it out from here and followed Brad’s instructions to get the libraries added […]

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Wot – no VSS writers ?

This entry was posted in Backup Software Tips and tagged VSS Windows Backup on March 17, 2015 by HAL

A clients backup failed and on inspection I noticed that the command “vssadmin list writers” which should report the status of the writers that support backups of various components came back blank. Yes Completely Blank !! So that could explain the backup failure and the subsequent issue where I was unable to view the backup […]

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Outlook 2010 starts but does not display navigation pane (open maximised!)

This entry was posted in Software Tips on March 2, 2015 by HAL

A user reported that they had started outlook 2010 – the splash screen had appeared and the icon was showing in the task bar but they could not see their folders or indeed any of the interface. First thought was perhaps a corrupt profile or an addon causing problems but the addons disabled and a […]

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Live Long And Prosper

This entry was posted in Comment and tagged Leonard Nimoy on March 2, 2015 by HAL

In popular culture and indeed in IT there are few icons that stand the test of time. Star Trek and Spock stand out as two of those things that have enjoyed popularity throughout the changes that have taken place since the first series aired. I would suggest that if you asked any gathering of people […]

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