Technote of the Day: "POP3 user cannot download new messages from Domino POP3 server"
Fri, Mar 19th 2010 7:03p Cristian D'Aloisio In case some of your customers are struggling with Lotus Domino POP3 task implementation, especially when it is queried by a Blackberry device (BIS contract), take a look to the following technote to have some answers:br /br /a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21100308"POP3 user cannot download new messages from Domino POP3 server/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343724548180015840-12172263924671565 [read] Keywords: domino
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Lotus Sametime 8.5 over Domino 8.5.1 fp1 32 or 64 bit version ?
Wed, Mar 3rd 2010 1:19p Cristian D'Aloisio I wanted to install bLotus Sametime 8.5 Entry Community edition /bover Lotus Domino 8.5.1 fp 1...br /br /Ok, is not officially supported by IBM , but I read the a href="http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21418535"following document/a and I decided to give a try.br /br /I found out that Sametime setup will stop itselfnbsp; if you try to install it over a Domino 8.5.1 fp1 b64 bit/b :br /an error message states that Domino is not even installed...br /br /I tried to install Sametime ov [read] Keywords: domino
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When Outlook to Notes mail migration is loosing mail attachments
Mon, Feb 22nd 2010 4:53p Cristian D'Aloisio First off, I did not want to buy any third-party product to do a mail migration from Outlook (local .pst) into a shiny Lotus Notes 8.5.1 .br /br /When doing some test to migrate Outlook 2007 messages (local .pst), I luckly realize that all messages were migrated BUT they LOST their attachments... br /br /I opened a ticket with IBM Support and after some days a polite guy gave me the hint:br /add a special notes.ini setting inside the Notes I was migrating all message.br /br /The "abracadabra sen [read] Keywords: ibm
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How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal
Sat, Feb 20th 2010 2:27p Cristian D'Aloisio divSadly true... ;-)/divdivbr //diva href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell"How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343724548180015840-5602050160464680481?l=www.dominobaloney.com' alt='' //divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Dominobaloney/~4/DAcACM9zAn0" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: blogger
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Lotus Symphony LotusScript API : an interesting project from openNTF
Sun, Feb 14th 2010 2:35p Cristian D'Aloisio Having some fun after downloading project a href="http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/0/ED213071A8A2D18786257669002C6E18"Sample Purchasing Order/a from openNTF.org.br /br /span style="font-size: small;"I'm reading the LS code that exploit "/spanspan style="font-size: small;"bLotus Symphony LotusScript API/b" to find /spanand replace some Symphony Fields from a Symphony template document, and later save it to a .doc document (or other formats).br /br /I'm gonna use it to create customer recei [read] Keywords: ibm
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Eventhough NSFDB2 is virtually dead...
Sat, Feb 6th 2010 6:46a Cristian D'Aloisio ... someone still keep downloading my presentation from a href="http://www.dominobaloney.com/2008/10/successful-conference.html"DominoPoint Day 2/a . Amazing!br /br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0-83PfcSFis/S21UPYcAEZI/AAAAAAAAJq0/x3E9kHzCgBI/s1600-h/nsfdb2-download.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" height="164" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0-83PfcSFis/S21UPYcAEZI/AAAAAAAAJq0/x3E9kH [read] Keywords: nsfdb2
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Free music from IBM
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:04a Cristian D'Aloisio I answered a IBM questionnaire and I received a free song from iTunes for my iPhone.br /That's nice.br /br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0-83PfcSFis/S0XbroEDTAI/AAAAAAAAJnc/2TOGZkJSusc/s1600-h/ibm-bocelli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_0-83PfcSFis/S0XbroEDTAI/AAAAAAAAJnc/2TOGZkJSusc/s320/ibm-bocelli.jpg" //abr //divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img w [read] Keywords: ibm
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When a Lotus Administrator ID expires....
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:04a Cristian D'Aloisio span style="float: left;"...Gregg saves your day!br /a href="http://www.ns-tech.com/blog/geldred.nsf/plinks/geld-7gm6tp"SnTT - Administrator ID Has Expired/abr /br /Thanks Gregg.br /br /br /br /br //spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8343724548180015840-5640853168591575666?l=www.dominobaloney.com' alt='' //divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Dominobaloney/~4/v55vuxeNOwE" height="1" width="1"/ [read] Keywords: lotus
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Speeding up Firefox browser
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:04a Cristian D'Aloisio It was useful for me (so far), take a look to this add-on:br /a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13878"Vacuum Places Improved/abr /br /I also took a look to the add-on comment stating to enable "compact databases" option for Firefoxnbsp; inside the a href="http://www.ccleaner.com/"CCleaner/a utility.br /div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0-83PfcSFis/SzoprWfczzI/AAAAAAAAJmM/pT0SGDZFHOA/s1600-h/ff.jpg" imageanchor="1" [read] Keywords: blogger
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Updates on consuming Web Services over HTTPS
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:04a Cristian D'Aloisio Following the post I made a href="http://www.dominobaloney.com/2010/01/consuming-web-services-over-self.html"some time ago/a, Alessandro sent me an update about his own tests: Alessandro, thanks for sharing it with us .br /br /***** br /span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"Hi, after a lot of testing, a lot of reading IBM documentation and a lot of sleepless nights on the matter described in my post above, I come to do some tests nbsp;on the Portlet Factory (it retrieved the W [read] Keywords: domino
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Consuming Web Services over a self-certified HTTPS web server
Wed, Jan 27th 2010 11:04a Cristian D'Aloisio Every now and then I take a look to Web Service implementation in Domino Designer, especially sincenbsp; Designer allows us to develop Web Service Providers using LotusScript or Java.br /br /I don't know if Web Services are or will be successfully, but for sure I like the big picture surrounding them.br /br /Some times ago I tried to consume a Web Service from Jajah voip company: first I tried using LS, but later I had to use Java to overcome LS limitations about a href="http://www.dominobaloney [read] Keywords: admin
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Blogging between milk and baby cry
Tue, Dec 8th 2009 3:34p Cristian D'Aloisio Finally I found the time and the mood to blog... After November 4th, when Kevin my first son was born, our lives changed quickly and we are still in the process of adaptation. Some friends told me that the adaptation will last for months, even years. :-( First off, our sleeping time is not the same, it's a kind of never-ending process for every night, for me and especially my wife Elly: the baby criescomfort the babygive him some breast milkprepare some formula milkwaiting baby's burpcradle th [read] Keywords: formula
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Happy "Man Yue" Kevin
Fri, Dec 4th 2009 4:52a Cristian D'Aloisio Today, 4th December, Kevin is one month old. Congratulations! Baby being month old is very important, it's called "Man Yue": the family will prepare "red eggs" (basically eggs cooked in red dye so that the shell is red) and give out these eggs to friends and family. Family will also cook a big pot of "ginger vinegar" and give some them to friends and family. Then depending on the family traditions, some families will have a banquet when the baby's 1 month old (some have it on the 100th day). Th [read] Keywords: blogger
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awstats web reporting and Domino extended common log format
Mon, Nov 23rd 2009 8:34a Cristian D'Aloisio Recently I took a look to awstats tool for web access reporting because I needed it for Domino 8.5 on a Linux Suse box . I read the great post from Julian, but I also had to study the text log files generated from Domino because the log formats available in awstats seems not to match the format from Domino. I tried awstats LogFormat=1 , and 6 and also an old custom format, but no way... too many dropped records reported by awstats 1) First I read the Domino Administrator 8.5 Infocenter to deco [read] Keywords: agent
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sntt: saving some seconds during a Lotus Notes setup
Thu, Nov 19th 2009 11:16a Cristian D'Aloisio During the installation of a Lotus Notes client, when specifying the Domino server name to connect to, after a while, you will be prompted to choose the network protocol (tcp/ip) and the IP / hostname of the server (unless you edited the \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS file or the Domino common name is reachable by you network...). I always wondered if there was a way to specify, at the same time, both the server IP address AND the Domino server name, without waiting for the timeout of the [read] Keywords: domino
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Kaspersky anti-virus vs Firebug !
Thu, Nov 12th 2009 11:56a Cristian D'Aloisio Amazing! I decided to upgrade Fifefox browser to version 3.5.5 and also update all my add-ons. Unfortunately I found out that FireBug add-on could not be installed correctly, it was asking me to restart the browser, no matter that I did it for several times! I also uninstalled Firebug and also re-installed it, but no way... On the web I found out that it was my anti-virus (in my case Kaspersky...), that did not allowed Firebug to be installed properly. I suspended the antivirus for a few minu [read] Keywords: blogger
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Welcome Kevin!
Mon, Nov 9th 2009 3:50p Cristian D'Aloisio On November 4th, 2 A.M. Central European Time, in Bologna, our first son was born: Welcome Kevin D'Aloisio! [read] Keywords: blogger
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Columnvaluesindex : is that an undocumented NotesViewColumn property?
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 8:18p Cristian D'Aloisio I was doing some simple LotusScript developing with my shiny band-new 8.5.1 Lotus Designer: exporting data from a Notes view to an Excel document, using COM objects (sorry, no Symphony exporting yet...). All was fine on my pc, until I made a test on a different client Notes running version 8: that client did not exported any data because of just one error in a script line... But what was the error?! Turns out that I used a NotesViewColumn property that was not evailable on R8: Columnvaluesinde [read] Keywords: designer
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Lotus Traveler 8.5.1 and iPhone: meetings limitation...
Tue, Oct 20th 2009 4:36a Cristian D'Aloisio I'm currently testing my shiny new iPhone 3GS and Lotus Traveler 8.5.1 push mail: I'm really impressed by the Apple device, really great! Lotus Traveler was easy to setup and all was fine... so far. I just got disappointed by some Traveler current version limitations: I can't accepted any invitation sent by my colleagues, or arrange meetings inviting other people! I took a look to the Traveler 8.5.1 Infocenter, getting the confirmation to my fears: For this release, Lotus Notes Traveler does [read] Keywords: document
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Nice birth video
Tue, Oct 13th 2009 2:03a Cristian D'Aloisio Yesterday me and Elly attended a pre birth course: this time the subject was labor and all phases. Later, on YouTube I found the following nice video: [read] Keywords: application
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Searching... I found an upset Notes user
Mon, Sep 21st 2009 6:25p Cristian D'Aloisio We all agree that Notes is really a power collaboration platform, too powerful sometimes ;-) Just recently I was stopped by a guy shoutings who was complaining about Notes, while using his poweful laptop: "Notes sucks! It's so big and slow, it can't even make a simple search!". First off, that guy is not stupid, it's kind of a pc geek (Linux area) moving to the Notes mail client, so I was amazed about those rough words: "What's up? any problems? ;-) " He replied: "I was trying to find a messa [read] Keywords: collaboration
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Domino Designer on Eclise: something ELSE
Mon, Sep 21st 2009 5:40p Cristian D'Aloisio Luckily I decided to apply for 8.5.1 beta! Most of all, I like the new LotusScript editor, finally an up-to-date editor: code assistant (control-space): suggesting class methods, library inclusion, etc. comment / code templatesclasses supportsgo to definition (F3) feature: eg. you over db.title, presses F3 and you are moved db declaration (dim db as NotesDatabase) editing a LS library when editing a LS agent using that librarycode indentingerror reportinghelp tips when hovering on code more... [read] Keywords: agent
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Amarcord packing week-end
Sun, Sep 6th 2009 3:12p Cristian D'Aloisio I spend all my week-end just packing... and not yet finished... Why? The house were we live is really small, it was perfect for a single, but not anymore for my wife and also the incoming son (my son is due around 9th November). Me and Elly decided not to move to another house yet (handy location, right rent, nice neighborhood) , so we are finding some extra room for our growing family. We started to pack things that we will not use for some time: books (I saved some computer science ones...) [read] Keywords: blogger
Friday worst case ever!
Sun, Aug 16th 2009 1:03p Cristian D'Aloisio Friday afternoon I received a very worried phone call by a friend. Domino was working fine, the problem was about a 3rd party Domino task: this commercial product (competitor of IBM LEI) takes care about syncing data between Domino and a remote relational database server, mapping data tables to Notes documents. Suddenly the 3rd party task was not working anymore, neither pulling data nor writing a log document! I made several tests and later I asked help to the product tech support. After som [read] Keywords: document
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Reading private RSS feeds provided by Domino
Tue, Aug 4th 2009 12:37a Cristian D'Aloisio Some days ago I suggested a friend to provide an RSS feed for a Domino web application he wrote. Unfortunately the web application was only available to authenticated users and, guess what, the Domino web authentication was set to session-based one ("form authentication"), NOT Basic HTTP authentication (ie pop-up window asking for credentials). By the way, some RSS readers can deal with private RSS feeds, but AFAIK only Basic HTTP authentication is supported: Thunderbird mail client (desktop) [read] Keywords: document
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Notes 8.5 : bug about attachments from Internet?
Tue, Jul 28th 2009 7:51a Cristian D'Aloisio A friend of mine told me that she could not save and delete attachments inside memos received from Internet, right-clicking on attachments icons, as she usually did before I installed Notes 8.5 . Oh well, maybe because she uses Notes 8.5 for MAC? ;-) Or because there's some Notes policy applied to her Notes account? No, that's a problem for all Notes 8.5 clients, as stated by this technote... Unfortunately the recent Fix Pack 1 doesn't solve the problem. [read] Keywords: notes
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I like David's XPage screencasts
Tue, Jul 21st 2009 5:54p Cristian D'Aloisio David Leedy is doing a great job with his screencast series about XPages: simpleeffectivecoincise (less than 10 minutes) cute intro animation Is he using some Mac software? ;-) Take a look to his latest work: [read] Keywords: xpages application
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Blackberry Mail(a): nomen omen?
Wed, Jul 15th 2009 5:16p Cristian D'Aloisio Recent news. L'Aquila (Abruzzo region, Italy): many people still live in tents after the earthquake (remember the recent G8 Meeting?). A 14 years old little girl, living in a tent with her family, received the Catholic corfirmation ("cresima") : her family collected money for a special gift, a pink Blackberry. But someone stole her precious device, the only mean for her to connect to Internet! Many cries from the poor little girl. Luckily a retired man from another town in Abruzzo, Sulmona ( [read] Keywords: blackberry
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128 years since Pinocchio novel was first published...
Tue, Jul 7th 2009 4:13p Cristian D'Aloisio ... and Google pays homage to Pinocchio novel customizing its homepage, but for Italian googlers only. But what is more universal than Pinocchio novel?! For those people who think that the puppet is a Disney creation, Pinocchio novel was written by an Italian writer, Carlo Collodi. If you come to Italy on holiday, please visit Collodi, a small town in Tuscany where you enter a nice Pinocchio theme park (pictures taken in 2007): [read] Keywords: blogger
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Finally a good news: welcome baby!
Thu, Jun 25th 2009 7:15a Cristian D'Aloisio Our baby, our first son (20th week) is a baby boy! It's time to find a name for the baby, a name easy to pronounce both in Italian and Indonesian/English. Any suggestion? ;-) [read] Keywords: application
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IE8 Developer Tools: finally!
Sat, Jun 20th 2009 8:35a Cristian D'Aloisio Just watched an intro video about new Internet Explorer 8 Developer Tools: IE8: Dev Tools Plus an interesting article: Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Many thanks to Firebug add-on for setting the standard for web debugging tools. [read] Keywords: archive
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Firefox 3 or IE 8 or Chrome? Safari!
Tue, Jun 16th 2009 3:04p Cristian D'Aloisio I don't know if Safari browser is really "the world’s fastest web browser", but for sure I was really happily surprised to find out how fast it is. For Mac only? No, I installed it on my Windows XP! [read] Keywords: apple
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Quickr and iNotes 8.5 are now integrated
Sun, Jan 18th 2009 5:51p Cristian D'Aloisio That's a very good news. Take a look to developerWork's article titled New features in IBM Lotus iNotes 8.5: Full mode to know the details. BTW, iNotes 8.5 is really a nice software: congrats to the developers team! [read] Keywords: ibm
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Notes R8.5 setting for week number algorithm
Sun, Jan 11th 2009 5:53p Cristian D'Aloisio Recently I talked with some colleagues about how to calculate the week number for a given date: it turns out that there a ISO standard, a U.S.A. one, etc. See here for some explanation. In the brand-new Notes R8.5 client preferences I've found a setting to decide with standard you want to use: nice! [read] Keywords: notes
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New year, new good intentions
Sat, Jan 10th 2009 5:51p Cristian D'Aloisio Ok, new year! This year I will try to stick at some diet to lose some weight... :-( More outdoor activity, less food, more health. And also not taking pictures about food, like the following one (D'oh!): anyone else on diet?! [read] Keywords:
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Quickr Connector directory for temporary files
Wed, Dec 31st 2008 6:51p Cristian D'Aloisio The following workaround was also useful when I upgraded my Quickr Connector to version 8.1.1.179. I had troubles trying to update one specific Excel file using the Quickr Connector (version 8.1.0.103 shown on the About window, 8.1.0.117 in the Windows registry) in the Windows Explorer (no problems using a web browser...). That error was also found on other colleagues computers :-( When I double clicked on the file, Excel showed a pop-up window stating that it could not find the find the fil [read] Keywords: quickr
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Bruce Elgort owes me a t-shirt ;-)
Mon, Dec 22nd 2008 6:52p Cristian D'Aloisio DominoBaloney is a blog hosted by the Blogger platform. Some times ago I tried to embed some posts/ideas from Bruce Elgort's IdeaJam, but I was not successful due to html formatting problems... ;-) Today I tried again and I found out how to do that: 1) copy the code from IdeaJam's post "Blog or Embed this Idea": eg: src="http://ideajam.net/IdeaJam/P/ij.nsf/ideajamblogthis.js"> 2) paste the code into a text editor 3) remove remarks tags from the code inwidth = 500;inheight = 320 [read] Keywords: javascript
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Ireland and Aran sweaters
Thu, Dec 11th 2008 6:51p Cristian D'Aloisio In 2007 I had a really nice trip to southern/central Ireland with two friends, using a rented car and moving from one place to another, sleeping in b&b houses, visiting several places. The best part of the trip, in my opinion, was landing to Aran islands with a small plane: really a magic places, full of charm. When I was there I bought the classic Aran-style sweater: true smelling sheep wool... really nice souvenir from Ireland. Now, problem is that my Aran sweater is too warm for Ital [read] Keywords: blogger
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SnTT: mail, templates, template inheritance
Tue, Dec 9th 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio Some days ago I found out something new about using convert task to convert mailboxes from one template name to another one. The long story short: if, for any (weird) reason, your mailboxes do NOT have template inheritance set (db properties->Design tab-> "Inherit design from master template" is blank), issuing a classic "load convert ..." WILL NOT automatically set the new template name to all your mailboxes. Use the "-inherit" command line switch as in "load convert -inherit mail\ * my [read] Keywords: notes
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OZ: my favourite TV serial
Tue, Dec 2nd 2008 6:52p Cristian D'Aloisio I was watching some episodes of Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles, a nice TV serial about what the events that happened after Terminator 2 movie (when Schwarzenegger was a good cyborg and not a Governor yet...) I was happily surprised to see again Dean Winters, an actor starring another TV serial, OZ , my favourite TV serial ever, initially broadcasted by HBO. "Oz is the nickname for the Oswald State Correctional Facility, formerly Oswald State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison (lev [read] Keywords: security
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How does Quickr document versioning work?
Fri, Nov 28th 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio I seldom used versioning for documents saved in my old "beloved" Quickplace. With Quickr 8.1 I tried to use document versioning but I was a little bit worried because I could not find any menu action to do that (I was trying to version a Quickr Page). Not evenany Quickr server setting or Place setting :-( After some search I find out the following IBM technote that explains the whole subject in Quickr 8.x: Document Versioning in Lotus Quickr 8.1 services for Domino P.S. About Quickr connecto [read] Keywords: document
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What a mess at Babylon Ltd !
Fri, Nov 28th 2008 7:52p Cristian D'Aloisio Some years ago I bought Babylon, the translator utility for my Windows laptop. I WAS a happy user, until recently I just started to see pop-up messages telling me that I cannot use Babylon in more than one computer: I only use it on my Toshiba computer! Ok, s*t happens, but the problem is with the Babylon Help Desk: I took me a lot of time to temporarily fix the problem. Many mail messages back and forth between me and the Help Desk. Maybe I was unlucky, but it seemed that the Helpdesk guy was [read] Keywords: laptop
Testing Lotus Traveler inside a Windows Mobile emulator
Sat, Nov 22nd 2008 7:55p Cristian D'Aloisio Everybody is waiting to download Lotus Traveler compatible with Symbian phone. I read some docs about Lotus Traveler but never had the chance to test it: I use one Blackberry device but have no other device compatible with Windows Mobile :-( But I googled the web and found out that's available a Windows Mobile emulator/simulator used by programmers. So why not test the Lotus Traveler inside the Windows Mobile emulator? Here's what I did on my Windows XP Pro SP2 pc: I downloaded and installed [read] Keywords: document
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