I had the issue that the DB2 control center did no longer start. You just saw a command windows and the splash screen appearing and both disappeared after a few seconds. The solution was to cleanup some files.

On Windows go to “c:\documents and settings\allusers\application data\ibm\db2\db2copy1\db2″. Now delete the following files:

db2cache.prf
db2dbamr.prf
db2misc.prf
db2tools.prf

Go also to the “c:\documents and settings\allusers\application data\ibm\db2\db2copy1\db2\tmp” directory and delete the temporary files which are there. Afterwards you DB2 control center should start again.

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As I tried to install Fixpack 2 for Lotus Notes 8.5.1 today the installation failed with the message “Error encountered while installing Notes Core Hotfix component.”.

After some investigation I found that the JQS.EXE process (Java Quick Starter) seems to conflict with the installer (or has one of the Notes processes in use, although I cannot explain why).

As soon as I killed JQS.EXE with the Windows task manager the installation succeeded. Maybe this will help others with the same issue …

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This article provides administrators with the best practices for moving people, places, and things within Lotus Quickr for Domino

Link to the article

[Thanks to Lotus Evangelist]

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I have a Ubuntu-based server where I do host several Virtualbox images for test and demo purposes. This server was still running on Ubuntu 9.04 and EXT3 as file system.

Although I do not have too much experience with Linux I successfully upgraded the filesystem on both disks to EXT4 and the operating system to Ubuntu 9.10.

Just for my reference for the next time and for anyone else who wants to do that, here are the steps (and links to the more detailed description) to do this without access to a graphical environment, just from the command line:

Continue reading …

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I know, the stuff is already some time available. But I am often asked if there are any samples how to customize Quickr (Domino). Although I collect all kind of links about that subject on this wiki page, I want to highlight two very nice examples today:

The Quickr Domino Customisation Samples Template on www.OpenNTF.org

Lotusphere 2010 – SHOW202 – How to customize Lotus Quickr Using HTML, Javascript & CSS

If you know about other cool links about Quickr (Domino) customization which I haven’t already listed, let me know!

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The Microsoft Windows Sysinternals Tools can now directly be started from a file share in the Internet. You do no longer need to download and install the tools to your local hard drive before you can use them.

Just map a network drive to the following share : “\\live.sysinternals.com\tools”

 

Running Windows Sysinternals Tools Online
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If you create a placetype you can inherit the member list of the master place. Every new place created with this placetype will then have all the members of the master place included.

However there is no official way to change the member list later. Refreshing the placetype from its master place will NOT change the member list of the placetype even if you have changed it in the master place itself.

This is currently working as designed and should prevent unwanted access to new places.

Although there is no official way to modify the member list of a placetype later, I have described an unofficial and unsupported workaround in that article.

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As I was already asked several times:

If you drag and drop a file from the Quickr connector in Lotus Notes into a mail, just a link to this file is created. The same is true if you select “Copy” from the context menu in the connector.This is a nice thing if the recipients of your mail have access to the Quickr place.

Copying the attachment itself into your mail is not so obvious.

To do this, you select the attachment in the connector and then choose “Edit -> Copy as attachment” in the “Edit” menu of the Notes client. Then you can just paste the attachment from the clipboard into your mail.

Caution: If you select a large document it could take some time until the attachment is available in the clipboard. You cannot paste the document to your mail before it was fully copied!

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Our pictures of our South East Asia round trip with AIDAcara are now online. Ever after we sorted out most of the pictures there are still many of them remaining. So be prepared and have enough time if you want to see them :-)

009-aidacara 11.02.2010 15-09-19

Link to the Flickr slideshow

Link to the Flickr album

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Wasser stop …

On 01.03.2010 

Es ist noch nicht wirklich kritisch, aber so hoch stand das Wasser des Mains noch nicht, seit wir hier wohnen. Ich würde sagen, es reicht jetzt :-) Hochwasser März 2010 Hochwasser März 2010

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