CuriousMitch

Tags: blogging

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The time has come.  Over this weekend I will be migrating this blog from Domino to Wordpress.  If everything goes according to plan you should see little to no interruption in service, once the DNS changes are made you will simply redirect  to the new blog using the same URL.  All of the posts and comments will be migrated as well, though this blog will remain behind as well for reference.

There has been some interest in the process I am using to migrate, I will post more details on the tools, process, and those who helped make it happen, as well as why I made this decision after I am migrated.

If you are an RSS subscriber you should continue to receive updates, as the RSS feed is via Feedburner so the same URL will continue to work.

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 11/26/2010 @ 9:39 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Tags: lotusconnections

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Looking to get started downloading and Installing Lotus Connections 3.0, here are some useful links:

Lotus Connections 3.0 Download and Part Number information - AIX -- Windows -- Linux -- Linux zSeries
Lotus Connections 3.0 Detailed System Requirements
Lotus Connections 3.0 Support Statement - for more information see my original post IBM Lotus Connections 2.5 Support Statement - Some Good News
Lotus Connections 3.0 Documentation
What's New in Lotus Connections 3.0 also check out Stuart McIntyres presentation Lotus Connections 3.0 A Technical View on What's New

Looks like some other technotes are starting to make their way out now for Lotus Connection 3.0 you can subscribe to the support feed RSS, to keep track of all the latest.

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 11/24/2010 @ 4:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

Tags: Miscellaneous

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One of the classic Thanksgiving scenes from The West Wing,  President Bartlet calls the Butterball Hotline. This is from Season 3, Episode 7 The Indians in the Lobby

President Bartlet calls the Butterball Hotline from Mitch Cohen on Vimeo.

Happy Thanksgiving

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 11/24/2010 @ 7:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: lotusconnections

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I hope you weren't looking for an Infocenter  because as far as I know there is not going to be one.  Lotus Connections 3.0 Documentation is being published exclusively in the Lotus Connections Wiki.  Personally I think the product wikis are a nice complement to the Infocenter, but prefer the Infocenter format for product documentation.

This is the second product to go this way, Quickr 8.5 has also been moved to Wiki only documentation format.

Lotus Connections 3.0 Documentation

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 11/23/2010 @ 8:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

Tags: domino

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Domino Fast Server Restart was introduced in Domino 8, it was designed for 32 bit versions of AIX and Solaris.  The idea was in the event of a server crash the server could be restarted, while NSD was still running to collect diagnostics on the crashed server.  The only caveat was that you were required to have sufficient memory to run both the crashed instance, and the new instance.

The good news is Server Fast Restart is disabled by default, I don't know how many people implemented it (I remember testing it at one point, but don't believe I ever enabled it on a production server).  Server Fast Restart is not supported in 64 bit versions of Domino, and IBM is now recommending that Fast Restart not be used at all.  Other technotes related to Fast Server Restart seemed to have vanished.

Might be worth double checking the old notes.ini file and make sure you have it disabled.

Disabling FAST RESTART

Remove the following .ini parameters:

SERVER_FAST_RESTART=1
DEBUG_DISABLEOSFILELOCKS=1
SERVER_FAST_RESTART_INSTANCE=n

Technote 1450877 It is not recommended to use Domino FAST RESTART on any platform with any version of Domino
Notes and Domino Wiki: SERVER_FAST_RESTART

Posted by Mitch Cohen on 11/18/2010 @ 8:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)