FlowerPower

Sidebar Plug-In automated distribution with LN8.0.1 standard tools??

2008-04-08T06:06:31-04:00

It has been a while since my last post. Well some people know which comany i work for and we had a lot of topics that where in focus during the focus during the past weeks
Anyways back to normal.past
We (my dev dept.) was very active the past month and we where looking into plugins for rcp client.
So there we are. ready too distribute........

The rcp launcher seems not to be the best way to do so. We are looking into external tools like client geenie.... But that does also not seem to be a workable solution.....
Any experience anyone?
We might be willing to outsource it.
:D

Word is leaking code again.... If you do not use symphonie but the Evil Productivity software you are probably having problems with being the target of hackers.....

2008-03-23T13:48:31-04:00

Word is leaking code again.... If you do not use symphonie but the Evil Productivity software you are probably having problems with being the target of hackers.....
If you do own one of the programs below you might be subject of forgery ......
SO USE IBM SYMPHONY... ITS FREE and it comes with your Notes 8 client or as a seperate download

Word 2000 Service Pack 3
Word 2002 Service Pack 3
Word 2003 Service Pack 2 oder 3
Word 2007 mit oder ohne Service Pack 1

EVIL Empire is talking of very limited attacks.... yeah sure....

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of very limited, targeted attacks using a vulnerability in the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that can be exploited through Microsoft Word.

MS is investigating and take appropriate action (i wonder how much that would be)

Microsoft is investigating the public reports and customer impact. We are also investigating whether the vulnerability can be exploited through additional applications. Upon completion of this investigation, Microsoft will take the appropriate action to help protect our customers. This may include providing a security update through our monthly release process or providing an out-of-cycle security update, depending on customer needs.

And the scenario is sooooooo very seldom an limited... hmmmmm i guess it would be worth some studies on what the definition on limited is.....

In a Web-based attack scenario, an attacker would have to host a Web site that contains a specially crafted Word file that is used to attempt to exploit this vulnerability. In addition, compromised Web sites and Web sites that accept or host user-provided content could contain specially crafted content that could exploit this vulnerability. An attacker would have no way to force users to visit these Web sites. Instead, an attacker would have to persuade users to visit the Web site, typically by getting them to click a link in an e-mail message or Instant Messenger message that takes users to the attacker's site.

heise online - Word führt fremden Code aus
Microsoft Security Advisory (950627): Vulnerability in Microsoft Jet Database Engine (Jet) Could Allow Remote Code Execution

Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Evil Empire, Symphony

Software update politics from Apple... hence what could happen

2008-03-22T15:46:01-04:00

Read this article on softwareupdate politics......
I would go one step further.... What if IBM would send you additional software like Sametimeadvance ore any other part of ther bundle and than asking you paying for it
that ist hilarious........
The pricing politics of apple where always very strict and i did love itunes and recently bought me an IPOD. But this lets me think about moving at least with the player software to songbird or any other software that will do. Any good ideas?

ORIGINAL LINK TO Johns BLOG

Apple Software Update

What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong. It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that's bad --- not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web. What they did yesterday was to use their updater for iTunes to also install their Safari Web browser --what follows is some background and analysis.

Keeping software up to date is hard --- hard for consumers to understand what patches are for, how to make sure they're up to date.

It's also critically, crucially important for the security of end users and for the security of the Web at large that people stay current. If people don't update software regularly, it is impossible for them to remain safe; good software developers are creating improvements constantly. That's why Mozilla spends so much time making sure our own Automatic Update Service works, and why we spend so much time agonizing over the user interface for the updates. We look at the data every time we do an update; we obsess about what we call "uptake rates" --- the percentage of Firefox users who are on the most current version of the browser a day or a week or a month after release. As a result, Firefox users are incredibly up to date, and adopt very quickly.

There's an implicit trust relationship between software makers and customers in this regard: as a software maker we promise to do our very best to keep users safe and will provide the quickest updates possible, with absolutely no other agenda. And when the user trusts the software maker, they'll generally go ahead and install the patch, keeping themselves and everyone else safe.

Anyone who uses iTunes on Windows has Apple Software Update installed on their machines, which does just what I've described above: it checks for new patches available for Apple-produced software on your Windows machine, alerts the user to the availability, and allows updates to be installed. That's great --- wonderful, in fact. Makes everyone more likely to have current, patched versions of Apple's software, and makes everyone safer.

Here's screen that comes up on Windows XP if you've got iTunes installed:

(photo credit CNET)

The problem here is that it lists Safari for getting an update --- and has the "Install" box checked by default --- even if you haven't ever installed Safari on your PC.

That's a problem because of the dynamic I described above --- by and large, all software makers are trying to get users to trust us on updates, and so the likely behavior here is for users to just click "Install 2 items," which means that they've now installed a completely new piece of software, quite possibly completely unintentionally. Apple has made it incredibly easy --- the default, even --- for users to install ride along software that they didn't ask for, and maybe didn't want. This is wrong, and borders on malware distribution practices.

It's wrong because it undermines the trust that we're all trying to build with users. Because it means that an update isn't just an update, but is maybe something more. Because it ultimately undermines the safety of users on the web by eroding that relationship. It's a bad practice and should stop.

[I'll make 2 points that I want to make very clear: (1) this is not a criticism of Safari as a web browser in any way, and (2) I have no objections to the basic industry practice of using your installed software as a channel for other software. This is specifically a criticism of the way they're using the updating system. I'd much prefer to be writing about Firefox, but this practice hurts everyone and is important to note.]

Spread the Word Tibetian Life in danger (Tibet and the Big (red) brother)

2008-03-22T09:37:03-04:00

As there are riots going on in Tibeth which is occupied by China... The war is not only being fought on the street by classic beat them a
up tactics ;-(
The chinese drove it way further and tried to silence the pro Tibet movement by attacking internetservers and the users itself by sending emails containing trojan horses to the democratic movements by the Dalai Lama
Read more on this F-Secure article Targeted malware attacks against pro-Tibet groups - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab

Don't let Democracie be thrown down. Spread the Word on Tibet

Tibet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

WOW i visited 13% of the world

2008-03-21T14:38:18-04:00

It is astonishing...
It looks like i visited 13% of the world with being 37.....
That leyaves quite some targets for the rest of my life........
as you can see my focus is the european continent.... i hope once my company establishes in the us and canada that there will be more red spots there!!

create your own visited country map or check our Venice travel guide

IP Radio station Ripping

2008-03-21T10:37:30-04:00

while reading "PC Praxis" the other day i stumbled upon ClipInc a tool to record online radio..... That brings back some nostalgie from the early days while i spent hours in front of my radio recording all the chartbreakers on tape......

My question would be:
With all the suing going on with illegal downloads... is ripping radio stations still legal??
If not..... is getting tought in school still legal or will anyone like the predesessors of gallilei gallileo or oppenheimer or albert einstein sue you becaus you did not buy a licens to learn??

hmm i just dont get it...

check out ClipInc here

Bleed Yellow and MY yellow shirt

2008-03-16T17:01:46-04:00

Sundey evening entry..... ( argh i shoeld not have drunk that wine... it is sunday i guess......)

ok here is the story...
scott wasn't able to send me a bleed yellow shirt yet (ok i admit it is due to i did not send him my adress yet and i am not sure he will cover shipping to germany

so i had to get me something else...
ok it is yellow.... not more ti say and it reads "Farbe bekennen" ( confess collour)

Link Collection to important 8.0.1 support docs

2008-03-14T06:42:45-04:00

Link Collection to important 8.0.1 pages containing support docs.

IBM Search results - United States

IBM - No option to choose a mode for DWA on the redirect page
IBM - Is Ubuntu supported with Lotus Notes client?
IBM - What circumstances can cause "Send to - Mail" in Lotus Symphony to silently fail?
IBM - Are Roaming Users supported in Notes 8?
IBM - Notes on Linux: Print Preview shows only six rows of pages per screen display instead of 12 as expected
IBM - Lotus Notes 8.0.1 supports Activities server version 1.0.2.
IBM - Notes on Linux: Page breaks do not display correctly in Print Preview
IBM - Option to right-click document tab and select 'Open in new window' starting in Notes 8.0.1
IBM - Ability to drag messages to Calendar, To Do and Mail bookmarks in Notes
IBM - In Lotus Symphony Documents, field shading also shades bullets and numbers in lists

Struggeling with IBM support in Ireland

2008-03-13T09:59:24-04:00

Having a slight problem.

In my opinnion client installation/migration should be able to be performed no matter what client lays underneeth.
So we where, as we are in the migration phase of about 15 000 users using the 8.0.1 as it came out. After launch of the 8.0.1 german we installed the german over the english client. That caused problems. The client refuses to boot up anymore after upgrade. We had that on multiple machines. With different people performing the update. So no layer 9 problem
So we finaly ended up opening a pmr with ibm. Below is the anonymized answer we got. How helpfull is that??
Anyone knowing any workarround or how to?
Well i know most of you are english tonges so no need for localized installations....
I apreciate any help....

Hello Mr XXX,

My name is Rxxxx Mxxxxx and I am assigned to pmr 6xxxx,xxx,xxx ' notes client doesn't start after update'.

(1) In the pmr description it mentions that the 8.0.1 English was installed first and ten the German 8.01 build was installed over it.

Why was this done. Could the German 8.0.1 Client be installed on its own.

(2) Please use one of the Client machines involved and remove the Client ( all clients ) installation from it.

Use this technote as guidance ;

Lotus Software Knowledge Base Document

Title:        How to perform a clean reinstall of a Notes client
Doc #:        1245159
URL:        http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&uid=swg21245159

(3) Reinstall German Client and see if it launches.

Best regards

Rxxxx Mxxxxxx

This is where the technote goes to
IBM - How to perform a clean reinstall of a Notes client

Open Mic Invitation: Notes 8.0.1 Client Features

2008-03-13T09:48:04-04:00

I got an invitation from IBM
and i think it is some considerable openmic!
so if someone is interested hop on

You are invited to participate in an IBM Open Microphone call with IBM
Development & Support Engineers for the new Notes 8.0.1 Client Features.
There is no charge for participating. The topic and dial information for
this call is:

Title: Notes 8.0.1 Client Features

Date: March 19'th
Time: 10:00 am eastern US time (2 pm GMT)
US & International Dial-in Info =>
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21297701

Date: March 19'th in the Americas (March 20'th in Asia Pacific)
Time: 9:00 pm eastern US time (1 am GMT, 6 pm US West Coast)
US & International Dial-in Info =>
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21297701

The IBM Open Mic calls are intended to provide you the opportunity to
interact directly with the IBM Lab developing IBM software products, in
this case the Notes Client team, to have product questions answered. For
details about the Open Mic calls, please see the Lotus Support Open Mic
technical exchange page . If this link is not active, paste this URL into
your browser (http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg27011126).

You can submit your question in advance via the Notes 8 forum using the
Open Mic Invitation for this topic in the "Open Mic" category. We will also
take questions not submitted in advance. Questions should be of general
interest and by their nature help you install, configure, manage or
optimize your environment or processes. Troubleshooting of specific
problems should still be handled by Technical Support, not by Open Mic
calls. For reference, you may wish to review the What's new in release
8.0.1 of Notes Client, Domino Server, and DWA. (http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21292420). Note: the open mic will focus on new client features.

Link to Open Mic Invitation:
http://www.lotus.com/ldd/nd8forum.nsf/GeneralCategory/00f0347a199e09f2852574090074c4a6?OpenDocument
You will need to provide your name and company affiliation when dialing in.
You will need a touch tone phone to be able to ask questions. The calls
will be recorded and posted to our Support web site as podcasts.

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Meeting Professor Doktor Ludwig Nastansky

2008-03-07T13:45:46-05:00

Composite applications framework.

Meeting Professor Nastansky is alway a highlight no matter where. I actually met him at the DNUG booth. So we where chatting about how things are with his chair at the university of Paderborn and his Company (PAVONE). We where talking about composite applications and the potential within it.
He was telling me that GCC (Groupware Comepetence Center at his chair with the uni) is working on something revolutionary new helping to build and deply composite applications.
I will keep an eye on this

My chat with Jeffrey P. Schik Vice President IBM Social Computing on CEBIT

2008-03-07T13:44:45-05:00

This was definetly the highligt on CEBIT

IBM asked me if i was interested meeting Jeff Schick while being on CEBIT. I asked what he is and what he does. So i was told that he is the second highest within Social Computing Software within IBM.

My first thought was.....
#after all the problems we had migrating to 8.0.0 and 8.0.1 id rather talk to Rhodin and tell him what i think is optimizationable within the very stiff support structure.
On the second thought i was very enthusiastic talking to someone who might be a bright star and some mastermind standing behind social computing.

So we started by introducing ourselfes shakhands and busnesscardswapping
Than i asked some of my prepared questions about beyond 2010 and i was suprised how onpenly Jeff talked about stuff that was not officialy released nor anounced. So i forgott about all my prepared questions anf we went on into a very hypthetical highlevel diskussion.

Mainly on technology but also on salesstrategy..... Wher Iam not sure if Jeff is aware that many ideas he has are not going to sell in europe.
We ran out of our shedule asJeff obviously found some interest in our little talk. As a result he asked me to join him into a telephonconference next week to go indepht about our conversation.

I wih IBM had more bright stars like him.

SAP on Atlantic and Microsoft on Windows mobile and treveler on CEBIT

2008-03-07T13:43:22-05:00

SAP was a total disater not evan a flop it was totalaly blockheaded.....
There was no man alive on the big SAP booth knowing what Atlantic was??????

Atlantic here is what SAP's CTO said

Vishal Sikka, SAP's chief technology officer, said in a statement that the joint product "is a great example of how SAP enables our customers to empower their users by providing easy access to SAP business processes and data through productivity tools and user interfaces of their choice. Furthermore, it reaffirms the strong commitment we have to our partnership with IBM."

Well at least they had heared that name before.
So while the time with SAP was a total lost I went on to the Windows mobile booth which was right across and i thought i might get some good INFOS there.

OK all you naughty little beggars out there...... It was lost time.
I asked for possible synergie effects using travelar on mobile devices running Windows mobile! I shouldnt have done that.
All of a sudden i had two sales guys trying to sell me Windows mobile and mobile Outlook. Sigh i dont like microssoft and i hate outlook. So finaly i just told them of and rejected the give aways they where trying to persuade me to take!

RIM and Traveler on CEBIT

2008-03-07T13:41:32-05:00

RIM and Trevelar

Ok there I walked to my date a the RIM booth.
My first questeion:
How is RIM's position regarding the Trevelar anouncement?
The Answer:
What is trevelar. Ok one needs to now that mobile windows is no big deal in Germany. My company uses thousands of BlackBerrys and 0 Smartphones runnig Windows mobile. So it was more less a rethorical question. But anyways i was a little astonished on how lax RIM is taking Travelar.

Scribfire and Bleedyellow

2008-03-07T13:40:41-05:00

Scribfire and Bleedyellow

maybe I am just ignorant..stupid or german or both
i cant get scribefire (firebirdextension for blogging) to work...
are there any "howtos"?

Logging of sametime chats

2008-03-07T13:39:26-05:00

logging of sametime chats.....

Hey com on....
NSA CIA OSI BND Star Fleet......
they all log everything on earth so why do you evan start a big discussion like this.....
Don't you know that if somebody wants to hack information he/she will do it no matter how strong a security you implement.
Lets focus on what we are here for.
Having fun, collaborate...............

Stop hte discussion!!!

Please

CEBIT 2008 in Hannover, Part tooo

2008-03-05T16:30:32-05:00

Arival at the CEBIT 2008

After having a bad start at the "Bahnhof" in Würzburg the rest of the journey was ok.
So i started my fare by visiting an IBM BP BCC.

There i was getting tanked with clientgenie... or whatever they call it nowadays. But to be honest it did leave some good impressions. It looks like they are able to distribute eclipse plugins on an automated base using an agent. Well it sounds simple to start with, but if you think about it......If you want to distribute sidebarapps to your clients you do need to get the updatesite to the client and have to have user interaction..Normaly no problem but what do you do with your dau's (dümmster anzunehmender user= the most stupid user on earth which i am sure you find everywhere.The aim we have is distrubution without userinteraction.So we will see those peopel again next week on our site. >>If there is interest i will continue on this toppic once we are a bit further<
Gedys Intraware the next on the list.. As we are thinking of moving away from self developped apps and using standard software
I was peeking at the shedule and service module at the gedys booth. The sheduler application looks cool... ok it is no web2.0 thingy but i think it certanly got some need features. The service and ticketing module does look overweighted. They say though that it is higly configurable and you can downgrade all forms and views...>>we are looking for simplicity not overweighted application no on needs<<
Again if there is interest in how it turned out comment it or email me at bleedyellow >>at googlemail dot com<<
RIM was some sort of good coffe an not to much substancial information. I was looking for statements on traveler no comment on that. Quote "what is traveler"
more to come...... IBM on all new topics, SAP on Atlantic and Micros~~(uck)~~oft on mobile devices

CEBIT 2008 in Hnnover, The journey starts.......a.

2008-03-05T16:27:06-05:00

CEBIT travel(er)ing by Deutsche Bundesbahn (sucks)

We ar writing the year 2008 March the 5th. I am underway travveling on hyperspeed by deutsche bahn to the CEBIT 2008 universe....

CEBIT 2008 the world greatest computer fair as you can here it all over the aether....
Steve Balmer, our Chancellor Mrs. Merkel, Volker Weber (VOWE.net) and many other beeing there..

So am I.

I started my journey at 5:30 AM at home to take a 40 minutes drive to Würzburg train station
Everything arranged by the secretary so nothing could go wrong?
Nothing at all?
You might think that signs leading to a parking are realy ment that you park there??
Hmmmmm ok, i am german and i am bound and used to rules and regulations.....
traffic signs that leed you to certain locations are ment to be followed.....
So i obeyed the rules and i was a good german following the "signs".
I should not have done that......
Sigh... I went to some service personal at the "Bahnhof" and asked how that reserved parking works.....
well one would expect that everything is arraged they just tell you.... ok go hiere and there....
NO...
I was told i was parking in the wrong "Parkhaus". Ok i did follow the signs... but i was wrong. Hang on. Something is wrong here
Shouldnt i be following rules and signs cause i am a good german??
Well well.... i got told where i am parking i will have to pay! OK i already did so where is the point paying again. I started aruing, cause this is totaly missleding with the signs. There was no "reserved parking" sign here!
OK..... my temper went down a bit, just to be braught right back to the top
The reserved seats in the train where gone.. just because somebody decided to swap the train.. hm where is the point reserving seats if they are not reserved anymore? and why pay?
So i was sitting in some tight seat, no table no powerplug to get the thinkpad (ohhh yes i would love to hyve a mac boock pro, if you have a spare one i will give you my mailing adress).
Listening to Keith Urban on my IPOD....
At least the sun was comming up and lightneed up my badly started day a little bit
I will continue on my way back home tonight if and when i am able to load my thinkpad (anyone out there who has a macbook present for me
So bye for now.

IPOD CLASSIC, opening up another battlefront

2008-03-02T16:19:34-05:00

Did you ever had the evperience of being happy sorrow angry at the same time??

ok here is the story...........
APPLE IPOD CLASSIC 160G

this thing is arround 350€... ok i bought ist........
silver.... i loaded it...
the first thing itunes wants to do is.... update..... ok i go ahad and update it......
i upload all my music and podcasts and still have arround 100GB free space

than i play it... you expect that thing to rock..... but it is so quit comparing my cheap 1gb noname mp3....
so i am reading the forum... thea know it... it is because of the french heaving regulations....
sigh the french.......

so i spent the whole weekend to downgrade to 1.0.1 firmware... but i can not get the signature.zip file....
if anyone has it.....
PLEASE send it...
i am thinking about giviing it back.........

sigh..........

Lotus Notes 8.0.1 and startup time

2008-02-29T16:06:06-05:00

I have read a lot of posts on that toppic, everybody seems to be amazed by the improved start up time of the 8.0.1 client..
Hey!!!!!
It takes ages. OK it got faster comparing the 8.0.0 client. So i think there is still a lot of potential perfomancegaps to be filled.
I think it got todo withe the client architecture. It is pree loading the whole eclipse plattform. If you use the productivitytools (did thea change the name on that?) it takes even longer.
Did you ever compare the basic client against the rcp client??
that ist worlds apart.
So my conclusion.......
IBM is on the right way but miles to go

DWA 8.0.1 and the iphone hype

2008-02-28T18:37:13-05:00

Oh wow.........
Iphone hype...... hmmmm ok... europe iphone???

I might need to start from the beginning.
We in germany have sort of the same problem. An iphone is sold exclusivly with one company which is telcom. They charge arround US$ 600 and an not to cheap contract with it.
If you want to have it without it ist a lot more.
So where is the point buying one?
Just to have it?
Ok if someone has a spare and wants to spend it exclusvly to me? send me a ping
i wont say no

So that brings me back to the credo of my blogentry.....
that hype that you (all you us geeks) have is not even a little hype over here......

People rather depend on blackberrys......
So no hype here....

IBM Traveler the second

2008-02-27T15:39:26-05:00

Ok here is part two of the traveler story.....
I could not get rid of the http error, so i decided to start with a fresh server install, which first did look very good. I fired the server up and did not receive any error.
So far so good than i got this severe messges.

Google or the forum did not return any answer so iguess i will have to ask big BLUE again for some help.

domino8.0.1 Compression

2008-02-27T15:15:02-05:00

Today i took a test drive doing the compression as described in help on a simple Testmachine (on my laptop, 2Ghz dual core, 2Gb, Ram, Thinkpad R60)

First it did not look to amazing, as i only have some test databases on that server, nothing realy productiv.
On the second look. if you........think on 17% savings on a 1000GB infrastructure that makes it 170GB saving.
Si id say that is quite a saving. Not talking about performance improvings.

Next step will be:
Running the compact in our QA environment. Which hold an almost exact copy on what we have live. The rate there should be a little more accurate and expressive than my little testing machine.

Http error after Traveler update

2008-02-26T13:17:53-05:00

After installing traveler on my test server i get HTTP errors, saying that my nHTTP termintaed abnormaly.

Anyone having any idea what that might be?
The server is running in coexistence with qp on a 8.0.1 server.

I am getting a little frustrated. And i do not want to reinstall all the time.
I might continue tonight while at home using a vmware where i am able to go back to the previous snapshot

Lotus Domino 8 Cluster and the unreadmarks

2008-02-24T04:43:25-05:00

Ok, aigain another question for all you pros out there (as obviously i am not

Unread marks.
Lets put up a theory....
Isnt it true, that unread marks should be the same no matter if you are on replica one on server A or replika two on server B?
Ok so much for the supposed to be.
Factum is, that no matter on which server i am the unreadmarks are always different.
Not to forget we are talking about a cluster.
It is always different. It gets worse once one clustermember drops.

Well i know we had several PMRs open for that one and no solution.
So has anyone any idea?

Thanks all!

Lotus Notes 8 Inbox maintinance

2008-02-24T04:33:31-05:00

Hello and goodmorning Notesworld....
It is a sunny and wonderfull sunday morning over here in germany.......

This ist what it looks like if you get up early. Aint that beautifull?
Ok now enohgh beeing nice

I went through the "what is new docs" and found some inbox maintenance article.
Has anyone of you out there being playing arround with it?
Any experiences?
Bad or good onces?

DAO 8.0.1 where is it gone?

2008-02-21T15:22:05-05:00

Hmmmm am i doing something wrong? The forum on notes.net (i still refuse to call it ibm developer domain or whatsoever) said it will be back with 8.0.1

So i must be doing something wrong. It is not there. Not that i use outlook *evilgrin* but some people just cant let go.

So anyone any ideas? Sugestions?

DominoWebAccess LITE 8.0.1

2008-02-21T15:07:49-05:00

After all the fuss i thought "lets look for something positive" I found something.

It is easy to set up easy to use and very fast to work with.

DominoWebAccess LIGHT DWA8.0.1.

If you simply open up your mailDB in a browser (preferebly firefox or safari, it works on IE as well) an choose the light option.

That goes realy kwick. It throws away all unnessesary heavy weight mail stuff......

Even my wife said " uhhhh that looks need and it is fast"

She thinks its a little playi the design, but she likes it.

It is fast over a 54Mbit WLAN connection. And as i only do some mailing at home mail is all i want.

So there i can say.. "a job well down" IBM!

What i like most.....

NO POP UPS!

So no problems with browser setting problems. No virus scan problems....

I LOVE IT

The more you look the more need features you can find.

Look at the sidebar on the "light client" and watch the Sidebar button

Definitiv something id like to see in the rcp client.

OK i defenetly fell in love with dwa light.... uhhhhh aaaaa honney a....i didnt mean toooo...... ouch.... argh..... aua.....

intermediate results

2008-02-20T13:57:10-05:00

Ok where do we start...
The good news is: no critical problem so far.
One thing bugs me so..... ever wanted to use the feature to synch your calendar with your sametime availability?
Welll i did to..... the only problem was...... it didnt work....... OK...
I reinstalled the client --> didnt work
i installed a fresh 8.0.1 client --> didnt work
upgraded mailDB to 8.0.1 design --> didnt work
I installed new XP and new client --> didnt work
OK one more
I installed Domino 8.0.1 and connected the client to it (was a 7.0.2 CCH1 before) --> didnt work

So i opened up a PMR priority 3 ... wel just a feature that seemed to not work in that particular environment.....
Got answer from BIG BLUE......
Problem HZHU7BG7ZB report ist breits dokumentiert
The below issue can reproduce on both WCT801_20080201 and WCT801_20080202 build on Windows clients.

It'S a pitty.
How can i roll out a piece of software with known bug and a custommer testing it an hour after it was released gets a prepared problem report?

well well well......
Why not communicate.....
Hey there is a fine piece of client, but it has some known bugs.... you cant use the all new feature of bla bla..........
Would have saved myself some hours of new installation clients servers and osses.......
ok my hourerly rate is notexorbitant so the invested time was only some sent worth of money
and i do think i am not the only one ending up with errors like this.....
hmmm where is the accountability?

My boss would have had my fired for doing things like this.... in a photon torpedo outta space....
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

LN 8.0.1 30 minutes quick test

2008-02-20T13:42:23-05:00

30 Minutes into testing and we have 3 PMRs to raise.
It is unbelieveble, we have downloaded installed and fired up the 8.0.1 client and during installation we got the foirst error that nlswbe.dll could not be installed on one client. The installation ran trough anyway and the client seems to run so far witth no further errors.
On a second client, the preview of an email caused an nsd (repetedly) and the the client did quit its service during work with the message "an error has occured see log....."

I thougt we await a quality offensive by big blue..... or is it a layer 9 problem we have here

live long and without nsd'S