If your iPad does not want to charge while connected to an USB port …

… then there could be a solution if your PC has a motherboard from Asus or Gigabyte. As the iPad does need more power than the 500 mA which a standard USB port provides, the iPad does only charge while in suspend mode if it is connected to a standard USB port and then only very slowly..

I found a software for my Asus motherboard and also for motherboards from Gigabyte which provides a solution for that. I just tried it with my PC and it really works. No experience yet if it does charge as fast as with the Apple charger but at least it charges while beeing used.

Quickr 8.2: Re-create Welcome Page

If  a user deletes the Welcome page in a Quickr 8.2 place the “What’s new” section is also lost. Although there is no possibility for a user to re-create it, an administrator can do so. Here are the steps:

  1. Create a new page and call it “Welcome” (or whatever you like).
  2. Open the MAIN.NSF of the place with a Notes client.
  3. Switch to the QDK view,  search the new document and open it for editing.
  4. Set the value of the field “h_SystemName” to “h_Welcome”  (case sensitive!)
  5. Save the document and close MAIN.NSF

Now your newly created document should contain the “What’s new” section again.

Upgrade to VirtualBox 4.0.4 (Ubuntu Host): Issues solved

As almost everytime after upgrading Virtualbox to a major version I had trouble to get it up and running on my Ubuntu host. This time I upgraded from 3.2 to 4.0.4 and had the following issues:

Vboxtool no longer working:

I am using Vboxtool to manage my virtual machines from the command line. This tool stopped working because a major redesign of the VBoxManage command. I found a hacked version here. This version works for me.

No access to the virtual machines via RDP:

I was able to start my virtual machines but I could no longer connect to them via the RDP protocol. There were two issues here:

First I neeeded to start the VirtualBox Manager and go to “File -> Preferences -> General”. Choose “Reset” in the field “RDP Authentication Library”. Afterwards it should read “VBoxAuth” instead of “VRDPAuth” which was here before.

In addition you need to install the Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack as this seems to provide the RDP functionality. You can download it from here. You need to be root to install it (or run Virtualbox Manager with sudo).

After completeing the steps above Virtualbox now seems to run again …

BTW: A step by step instruction to install Virtualbox 4.0.4 on an Ubuntu host can be found here.

Quickr 8.5.x Domino: Replacing the English version of online help with a different language version

Although Lotus Quickr 8.5 does support multiple languages by selecting the desired language in the browser, the online help is only available in English by default. If you need to replace the online help with a different language, please follow the instructions in this Wiki article.

This will replace the english help with the one you choose.

If you want to have the online help available in more than one language, you can save more than one MAIN.NSF in the help directory with different names. You then can place an additional link to that database in your custom theme.

RPR Wyatt – Essential Quickr Tools

Just learned about two small tools for Lotus Quickr (Domino):

Essential Place Catalog

Essential Place Catalog is a Notes database that reads the “Place Catalog” on your Quickr server and puts the information into an easy-to-understand, and easy-on-the-eyes format.

A breeze to install and use, Essential Place Catalog provides you with the information you need for:

  • Information about every Place on your server, such as size, owners, last accessed, etc.
  • Ability to see all the Places a particular person Manages
  • Ability to see all the Places a user is a member of
  • Ability to see all members of a particular Place
  • Ability to see the inactive Places
  • Ability to see the biggest places

and

Essential File Extractor

One of the many uses for a Quickr server is to organize files into Places.  But what if you need to get all the files off your Quickr server for some reason?  Essential File Extractor is the answer.

With Essential File Extractor, you can extract the files from selected places on a Quickr server onto the file system.   The output goes into the folder specified in the configuration document, and based on the place name.

If you need to get files out of Quickr, there is no quicker way to do it.

Both tools are currently free of charge until end of Lotusphere 2011 and can be downloaded from RPR Wyatt’s website.

New book “IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration”

A new book and eBook about “IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration” will be released in January:

Overview of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino Administration

  • Gain a thorough understanding of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5 Team Collaboration, Repository, and Connectors
  • Recommended best practices to upgrade to the latest version of IBM Lotus Quickr 8.5
  • Customize logos, colors, templates, and more to your designs without much effort
  • A combination of technical insights, step-by-step instructions, and guidelines to successfully enable team collaboration within your enterprise

Sametime 8.5.1: No user/password prompt in iPhone web client

If you are using the Sametime 8.5.1 web client for the iPhone and only the Sametime logo is visible and there is no prompt for user and password to login, then you might have disabled guest logins for web clients.

This issue is fixed in 8.5.1.1. If you need to get it working in 8.5.1 you need to enable guest login for Sametime web clients. To do this, edit the file “stproxyconfig.xml” which can be found in “<WAS server>\profiles\<profilename>\config\cells\<cellname>\nodes\<nodename>\servers\STProxyServer>”.

You need to add the parameter

<AccessEnabled>true</AccessEnabled>

to the <server> section.

If you have a clustered installation make sure to edit the file on the deployment manager and to synchronize your nodes afterwards. Then restart the proxy server.

Now the login prompt should appear correctly.

<AccessEnabled>true</AccessEnabled>