Sat, Mar 17th 2012 9:42p Ray Davies I am still around. There is really nothing to report in Lotus land apart from shrinkage. Perhaps the ice caps have melted and the sea is rising but whatever has happened the estate is rapidly shrinking. Some will disagree and rightly so as pockets of resistance is still active. If you are a fan of Firefly then know is probably the time to look for an old junker to move freight around the planet. I think command central has disavowed the yellow bleeders. My opinion only. That said, the platform [read] Keywords: collaboration
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I have a new hero - Mat Newman - Admin and Designer in Linux Wine
Mon, Nov 29th 2010 3:40a Ray Davies Coming back to Linux has been great and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) is a pleasure to use. The next stage is to get Lotus Notes and Domino running but as always there is a fly in the ointment. I remember a conversation with Jalan H 4 years ago asking her about the Quickr client for Linux and she said there is no demand for it but it is on the road map. I guess the same is true about Designer and Admin for Lotus Notes under Wine. It is on the road map.br /br /Linux has a feature called WINE (W [read] Keywords: admin
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Moving back to Linux
Sat, Nov 27th 2010 11:02p Ray Davies div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"/divdiv class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"a href="http://www.hoerstemeier.com/images/badday.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"img border="0" src="http://www.hoerstemeier.com/images/badday.gif" //a/divA while ago I posted that Linux has become a distraction. As I moved back to services it became clear that several documents and spreadsh [read] Keywords: domino
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On-Site Rules for Outstanding Consultants - Alan Weiss
Sat, Nov 20th 2010 8:20p Ray Davies Sometimes we need reminding of the following to ensure customers arenbsp;satisfied. It is not always easy as we do not live in a perfect world. When you are on a technicalnbsp;engagement it is even more difficult to summarize at the end of the day especially when things did not go according to plan. You try and diagnose why STLinks do not work in a network with multiple proxies, firewalls and packet shapers on the internal network and thennbsp;summarizenbsp;for the client. However, if you do not [read] Keywords: apple
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Reinstalling Lotus Foundations 1.2 - Disk - Zot
Wed, Mar 31st 2010 8:08a Ray Davies There is only one thing left to do and that is format the disks and start again. There is a hidden program available for this called disk-zot. It does not format the drive but rewrites the MBR and other hidden parts of the disk. I rebooted and the system was still active! Arggghhhh, so do not reboot, type in setup and ZAP the config as well. :-( Some hidden commands that can be used: Weaver commands can be used to tell Nitix to always use a specific file system. For example, if yo [read] Keywords: foundations
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Reinstalling Lotus Foundations 1.2 - Frustration city
Wed, Mar 31st 2010 5:29a Ray Davies Many hours have been wasted. There has been changes to the core and unetbootin no longer worked properly. Yes the image was written and kinda booted but barfed. I did not have a spare blank CD with me so I had to wait till I got home. Anyway, I used K3b to write a DVD and boot the new system. One of the things that Ozzie always mentioned was that Foundations was like a virus and installed itself every where. How true. Even though I booted from a DVD it always booted the installed system no mat [read] Keywords: foundations
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Reinstalling Lotus Foundations 1.2 - Start failure
Wed, Mar 31st 2010 12:30a Ray Davies As feared the system ZAP did not make any difference. The system name has been redefined and the install restarted but still fails without any explanation. This is a pain as this demo Foundation server is my main backup server for all the Foundations related files. Here is the file system: The next step is to ZOT the disk but it is running on a T60 and not an Appliance therefore the OS is not embedded so I have to boot of CD/DVD or USB. Let's see what we can find in the drawer! [read] Keywords: foundations
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Not Funny :-(
Tue, Mar 30th 2010 8:24p Ray Davies I have tried over the last few days to reinstall my demo Foundations setup to 1.2 or 8.5.1. It failed continuously with no indication of why toys were chucked out of the pram! I know this product inside out and have done everything to bypass the error but obviously not enough. I am at the end of my tether so there is only one thing left to do and that is restart everything. No issues and good for all as I have decided to record and document all actions. In the next few blog pages I will descr [read] Keywords: foundations
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Project Vulcan
Tue, Jan 19th 2010 7:50p Ray Davies I have been aware of this for some time after a discussion in Frangipani in KL so I have had time to digest. Here is a journalists view of Project Vulcan's "conceptual representation" IBM is giving its researchers a new pipeline to show off early versions of net-based Lotus collaboration tools. As part of its annual Lotusphere conference on Monday, the company also provided a peek at what it sees as the future of the business collaboration suite, a thing called "Project Vulcan." Taking a [read] Keywords: collaboration
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DB2 for Lotus Foundations?
Wed, Jan 13th 2010 5:25p Ray Davies Adam has published some nuggets of information on his blog site I will try and find more information on this and publish the results. My colleagues over on the DB2 team have shared some information about their presence at Lotusphere next week. If you're interested in learning more about the free DB2 Express-C - and especially if you're a business partner - please do stop by the booth and session. [read] Keywords: foundations
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A new Linux magazine in Asia
Sun, Jan 3rd 2010 6:13p Ray Davies My link in my Linux blog Take note all! LINUX For You is Asia’s first publication on Linux and Open Source Software. Always accompanied by FREE CDs and DVDs−carrying source code, software tools, Linux distributions, and even games. Linux For You [read] Keywords: apple
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I have now moved my non Lotus blogs to seperate blog sites
Sun, Dec 27th 2009 7:33p Ray Davies Hi Followers! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. Due to the incredibility bad service from Streamyx in Malaysia I have had to close down all my blogs and web sites and move them into cyberspace. I like Google and all it stands for so I have decided to make that my primary web presence for now. I will now be publishing Lotus Notes and IBM nuggets on this web site. From the name of this site you can see that it is all about Lotus Notes. (SETONMBI) I have a few more web sites where I [read] Keywords: ibm
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rayd.co.uk is dead. long live ...
Tue, Dec 22nd 2009 12:49a Ray Davies What to do. So many things to communicate but I am in limbo land. First things first though. Rayd.co.uk must be silenced. It is attracting attention and has now become all that it is not suppose to be and that is my little view on life as I see it. I was not king of the castle after all. Will it come back? Who knows? Ray [read] Keywords: blogger
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KL Travelogue
Tue, Sep 8th 2009 11:15p Ray Davies My first day as a inhabitant of Kuala Lumpur has been interesting. Due to a miscommunication my work visa will only be stamped on the 16th. I was planning on sorting a bank account, getting a house etc but without a visa it is not an option. Most will think this is a real set back but being a rather positive person this is simply a weeks worth of extra holiday! My new priorities are now to do a PADI refresh tomorrow, go to the low yat centre and just chill for a while starting with a quick jet [read] Keywords: blogger
