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Adventures with updall and compact on Domino 8.x databases (This database must be compacted to support the use of @AllChildren or @AllDescendants error on Domino 8.x continued)

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Tips and tagged Domino 8.x on January 12, 2011 by HAL

During research on problems with views or view indexes – relating to the ” This database must be compacted to support the use of @AllChildren or @AllDescendants error on  Domino 8.x error” I was refreshing my recollection of the switches available for the updall and compact server commands for Domino 8 The following two items were […]

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This database must be compacted to support the use of @AllChildren or @AllDescendants error on Domino 8.x

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Domino 8.x on January 11, 2011 by HAL

This problem arose during migration of an application – that probably started life in version 5 of Notes and which has moved through to the latest 8.5.2 release with various stops on the way. My first thought was that it was some esoteric formula that I had used but on consideration I was fairly sure […]

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Windows Wireless Weirdness (try saying that three times as fast as you can)

This entry was posted in Interesting and tagged Windows 7 Wireless on December 15, 2010 by HAL

Windows 7 on a Dell Vostro 3500 laptop. Client advises that this had previously worked but now no connections were in place and no wireless networks were being detected. When finally got to look at this discovered that the wireless card was active but was showing one NEW wireless network – a SKY home broadband […]

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Intermittent network dropouts – duplicate ip addresses allocated ?

This entry was posted in Interesting on December 14, 2010 by HAL

A client called looking for urgent advice. One user – a fashion designer was having her network connection dropped every ten or fifteen minutes. Having the network cable ruled out this left the network card suspect but I noted that during an attempt to remotely access the machine – as had been done successfully before […]

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File system access in the Lotus Notes 8.5 client sidebar

This entry was posted in Interesting Software Tips and tagged Lotus Notes Sidebar on December 8, 2010 by HAL

As part of getting familiar with the capabilities of the Lotus Notes 8.5 client I was reviewing the available sidebar plug ins. This one jumped out as a simple idea done well. This addin called File Navigator allows access to the file system (remember Notes is multiplatform – Windows Mac and Linux) and facilitates dragging […]

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Wot snow?

This entry was posted in Interesting Tips Virtualisation and tagged Snow on December 6, 2010 by HAL

So finally Northern Ireland gets a smattering of snow. Belfast seems to have got off lightly but reports from other areas suggest a bit more chaos out there. On speaking to a colleague the other day about snow I got a growling silence and a “Don’t start me on snow” response (Don’t worry Geoff no-one […]

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Spreading like Wildfire

This entry was posted in Interesting Tips and tagged Lotus Notes 8.5 Wildfire on December 3, 2010 by HAL

WildFire is a Lotus Notes 8.5 Sidebar Application to Update Status’s across a wide range of Social Networks including Sametime, Connections, Socialtext, Facebook, GTalk, PingFm, Plurk, Tumblr, Twitter, WordPress and more! You can also have mulitple of each network type!! The app is brought to you by ISW who are an Australian IBM Premier Partner. Pick […]

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How do U get rid of onscreen keyboard in Windows 7 ?

This entry was posted in Interesting Tips and tagged On Screen keyboard Windows 7 on December 1, 2010 by HAL

I needed this to get access to a machine via remote support when ctrl alt del did not seem to be getting through to the remote. Press the Win and U keys together to launch the Ease of access center Then  click on “Use the Computer without a mouse or keyboard” Then on next page […]

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