Thursday, June 26, 2008

The 400th Anniversary of Quebec city

The 400th Anniversary of Quebec city is underway. Come in Quebec city

Look at all the activities-- Link

Especially the Image mill, look at the Slideshow

http://lacaserne.net/index2.php/other_projects/
the first test : Link

The Image Mill is a sort of animated mosaic that, moving from engravings to paintings and from photos to videos, creates an impressionistic portrait of the city over time. The work will consist of four movements corresponding to the city’s four centuries of history: waterways, the age of exploration and discovery; road building, clearing and developing the land; the railroad and industrial expansion; and finally, the age of air travel and the development of communications

The production will draw on all the technological expertise and experience that Ex Machina brings to the integration of images to the narrative.

These 81 silos measure 600 metres long by 30 metres high. Twenty-seven video projectors, 20,000 lumens each, will project millions of pixels onto Bunge’s south and west façades. With 238 spotlights, 203 of which are DEL, and 329 speakers in place, the audience will be able to see the show from several viewpoints: from the Château Frontenac to the Marie-Guyard building, from the ramparts to the Louise Basin piers, Espace 400e and the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Troubleshooting memory leaks with 'show memory allocated'

While using trapleaks you can use a console command to show the allocated memory. It will show the allocated per-process memory and the allocated shared memory allocated in IBM Lotus Domino.

This command is used to track potential memory leaks on demand without requiring the server to be shut down. Note that blocks reported by this command are not guaranteed to be leaks, but show what blocks of a given block type are allocated at any given time. To confirm possible leaks, the server will need to be shutdown to invoke trapleaks debug.

Link
Technote 1195148

Friday, June 20, 2008

Technotes related to Domino Tuning, Sizing, Clusters, Mobile, MAC

A few technotes related to Domino sizing, tuning, Unread marks for clustered servers,
Mobile devices and Sametime on a MAC

IBM Europe Sizewise - Sizing Support - Sizing Questionnaires

www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS2204
Abstract: A sizing is an approximation of the hardware resources required to support a specific software implementation. Sizing questionnaires are available to help you gather customer
requirements, which can then be submitted to Sizewise Europe for assistance from experienced specialists with sizing select IBM software applications.


Does the Notes Macintosh client support instant messaging?
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21115273

Behavior of Domino Web server when Internet Sites enabled but no Internet Site document
exists
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21110835

Unread marks are not exchanged during replication
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21093302

Unread marks appear correctly on primary mail server but incorrectly on clustered replica

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21288231

Utilizing Windows Mobile Applications with Lotus Mobile Connect over ActiveSync
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21300053

Domino Tuning Parameters in notes.ini
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/TIPS0421.html?Open

Monday, June 16, 2008

Information Overload Research Group

Information Overload Research Group Link

Never heard of this initiative regrouping Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Google. Have you?

The mission:
We work together to build awareness of the world's greatest challenge to productivity, conduct research, help define best practices, contribute to the creation of solutions, share information and resources, offer guidance and facilitation, and help make the business case for fighting information overload...


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De grandes entreprises technologiques, dont Intel, Google, Microsoft et IBM, se sont alliées pour tenter de réduire le temps que les gens passent à gérer le trop plein d'informations qui leur parvient de leur ordinateur ou leur téléphone. Via Cyberpresse

Friday, June 13, 2008

How to find mail in the Trash folder of an old mail database

In Lotus Notes®, when you open an old copy of a mail database that is supposed to have messages in the Trash folder, no messages appear.
Is there any way to recover these messages?

With this little hack, the answer maybe yes

Sorry, link missing

Link

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Email archiving -Should we use quotas too?

Hi,

I'm currently working on the deployment of Symantec Enterprise Vault. I've suggested to my client to use quotas on mail files. He told me, why we use archiving , so our mail files will be smaller.

My point is that the system will archive every pieces of crap (Personal MP3, Movies, things not related to work). With quotas, peoples would have to say: mmmmmm, do I have to keep this.

What do you think? Should be remove every quotas?

Thank you,

JYR

Monday, June 09, 2008

Gas Prices

It's now about 6$ a gallon (1,51\liter) here in Quebec city! Damn! Good images related to this issue





Wednesday, June 04, 2008

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler 8.0.1 - Limitations and restrictions

Interesting technote about the known restrictions and limitations for Lotus Notes® Traveler

Link

Are you afraid of heights?

El camino del Rey

Originally built in 1901, this walkway now serves as an aproach to makinodromo, the famous climbing sector of El Chorro.
http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562

How to Set Up a Notes Client without User Intervention Using a Scriptable Setup

Have you ever used this feature? Technote : 1112835

LINK

I think it's working well. I've used it for two of my clients and the ROI is very important
In my case, the user's DATA\ are located on a network drive so it's easy to configure those Notes clients.
I send NTF, Images, UserID, ini in the personal network . With the current user's info, i populate the Setup file
While in my script, the archive database is created
At the end , a welcome message is sent to the new users.
They can click a button to completely finich the setup
Total Elapse time, approx 1minute per user

When you start you Notes client, you only have the message Notes configuration finished

No more Next button!

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Support information for RIM's Blackberry Server (BES) for Notes/Domino 8

IBM and RIM have conducted joint product testing over the past few months with Lotus® Notes® and Domino® 8 and BlackBerry® Enterprise Server. ... The IBM and RIM teams have been working closely together to ensure that our customers receive a timely delivery of supported products.

Link

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about the 8.x Notes Mail "Inbox Maintenance" Feature

This document contains a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and details about the Lotus Notes®/Lotus Domino® 8.x Mail "Inbox Maintenance" feature, also sometimes referred to as the "Inbox Cleanup" feature.

Link

When removing user from Domino, there is no way to remove or reassign their reservations

If you delete a user from the Lotus® Domino® Directory, reservations the user has made in the Domino Resource Reservations database will remain the same (that is, they will stay reserved by that user). There is no way to automatically transfer the reservations to another user (chairperson) or delete the reservations.

Link

edit

From the first comment,the link to IdeaJam is here

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Notes.Net forums : Faq of Faq links - Should it be added back?

My answer is YES!

Is there a reason why the Faq of Faq links (From Doug Finner) is not there anymore?

Link

It should be added back to the web site.

Also, it would be great to add a link to the Crispy initiative from Andre Guirard (IBM)

Link

JYR

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Database Redirection tool

Have you ever used this new feature?

What's new in the Lotus Domino V8 server Link


A new Database Redirection function automatically fixes broken links to moved or deleted applications. Redirection markers are created by default, and a new tool (see figure 11) lets an administrator create or modify redirects manually. When a Lotus Notes client accesses a redirection marker, if the file has been moved the reference is replaced; if the file has been deleted, the reference is deleted. (Database redirects are used only by Lotus Notes V8 clients, not by servers.) The tool lets administrators assign references to particular users or groups, making redirection role-based.

JYR

Is it possible to recall messages in Domino Web Access 8?

In an Lotus Notes/Domino® 8 environment that is configured to allow Message Recall, the Lotus Notes® 8 client offers a few ways to recall a sent message including:
....
In Lotus® Domino® Web Access (iNotes™ Web Access) 8, however, the user interface (UI) does not display an action button or a right-click menu option for recalling a message. Is Message Recall supported in Domino Web Access (DWA) 8?

Answer Domino Web Access supports the message recall feature starting with Domino version 8.0.1. Note that there are some additional considerations:...

Link

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Free Proofpoint Report on Outbound Email Security and Data Loss Prevention

Not directly related to Lotus but an interesting report. Registration is required

How concerned are companies about the content of email leaving their organizations? And how do companies manage the legal and financial risks associated with outbound email? To find out, Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting (a division of leading analyst firm Forrester) conducted an
online survey of technology decision makers at 424 large companies - in the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia - during March 2008.

This report summarizes the findings of Proofpoint's fifth-annual email security and data loss prevention study, including surprising statistics about how large companies manage the risks associated with outbound email, blog postings, media sharing sites, social networking sites, mobile Internet-connected devices and other electronic communications streams.

http://www.proofpoint.com/id/outbound/index.php

Friday, May 23, 2008

Troubleshoot blackberry devices

Have you ever had problems troubleshooting Blackberry devices?

Here's a few links that will help you.

First, the Blackberry 101 for Domino
http://www.blackberry.com/news/pdfs/blackberry_101.pdf

Eight best practices for running BlackBerry Enterprise Server on Lotus Notes Domino
(Michael Kinder )
http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid4_gci1269929,00.html

BES For Lotus Notes Troubleshooting
http://www.telfort.nl/media/blackberry_files/bb_lotus_troubleshoot.pdf

And finally, if you want to have a return receipt that will confirm that the device
received you message, just use this trick

Add <$Confirm> in the SUbject of your mail message
http://domiknow.co.uk/2008/05/22/sntt-confirm-ota-message-delivery-to-blackberry-devices/

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Steps for migrating from Notes/Domino 7.x to Notes/Domino 8.x

Very good technotes
Link
This document contains the recommended procedure for migrating from Notes/Domino 7.x to 8.x.


IBM - Making modifications to Notes System Templates

IBM Lotus strongly recommends that careful consideration be given before any modifications are made to any template, especially the Domino Directory.

Link