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atnotes.de – the no.1 forum for Lotus Notes in Germany

atnotes, founded in december 2001 by Arne Riemann, over the past 5 years became the no.1 forum for Lotus Notes users, administrators and developers.
7500 member from mostly Germany, Austria and Swiss and about 205.000 postings in 31.253 threads made this forum a valuable resource for the Notes Community.

atnotes.de

You’ re looking for a place to get a quick answer to your urgent Lotus Notes / Domino question? Well, atnotes is the place to be. Become a member, post your question. I’ m sure you’ll get an answer or a hint within minutes.


Happy 50th Birthday, HardDisk

Hardisk

IBM introduced the 305 RAMAC computer in 1956, which was the first computer to include a disk drive named the IBM 350 Disk File. Prior to this magnetic computer storage had consisted of core memory, tape, and drums. The magnetic disk was seen as a replacement for the magnetic drum for the same reason 78 RPM Records eventually replaced Edison cylinders- more storage with less space.

The 350 Disk File consisted of a stack of fifty 24″ discs that can be seen to the left of the operator in the above picture. The capacity of the entire disk file was 5 million 7-bit characters, which works out to about 4.4 MB in modern parlance. This is about the same capacity as the first personal computer hard drives that appeared in the early 1980’s, but was an enormous capacity for 1956. IBM leased the 350 Disk File for a $35,000 annual fee.

Today the magnetic disc is the platform of choice for the temporary storage of digital video, but it wasn’t until the late 1960’s that the magnetic disc was used for any sort of video storage. At that time the Instant Replay Deck was introduced, which permitted the storage and playback of brief segments of analog video.


Site: Domino & Web 2.0

Found an interesting site today. The site is run by Philippe GAUVIN from France and covers all about “Intégration de solutions Web 2.0 dans les applications Lotus Notes/Domino” or in english “How to integrate Web 2.0 solutions in Lotus Notes/Domino“.

Intégration de solutions Web 2.0 dans les applications Lotus Notes/Domino

The site is in french language and I have to commit that I do not understand much french. But Phillipe wrote me in an eMail that he is about to translate the content to english. But when you look at the published code, you can see that there is some valuable information on this site.


QuickTools for Lotus Domino

QuickTools for Lotus Domino offers Domino administrators the ability to create custom Java plug-ins to manipulate Domino databases. The custom plug-ins extend Dominoâ??s concept of agents such that the plug-ins can be run on any database or document selected from the applicationâ??s graphical interface. … { more }


Sametime server for Linux being announced today

… After years of being asked “where is it”, it’s coming! Later today at Linuxworld, IBM is announcing a Linux version of the Lotus Sametime server. Scheduled release: first half, 2007. Plans are to run on Red Hat and SUSE. Combine this with the already-announced plan for Lotus Sametime 7.5 client to run on Linux, and IBM becomes the first major vendor to offer a complete, extensible real-time collaboration solution (IM, chat, presence, and web conferencing) for Linux. …

[ via Ed Brill ]


The Road to Hannover

Found a new blog today. ( New to me 🙂 ) Jeff Eisen – The Road to Hannover . Jeff Eisen is the Chief Architect for Lotus Notes.

In this blog, I hope mostly to share technical information about the upcoming Hannover release as well as gather input from the blogosphere. I’m still figuring out details such as how often to post, what kind of content to cover, how much non-Hannover esoterica to include, whether to invite guest bloggers, etc. …

Jeff Eisen


Getting more characters into your SMS

smsZipper is a tool to compress SMS text messages, patented by Aalborg University (patents pending). The tool enables you to compress text messages by factors two to three depending on the content (higher compression ratios are possible, but not in the free version). Different languages are supported (English/German/Italian/Danish) and more will be added soon. By accepting the Aalborg University/smsZipper Personal License Agreement the tool can be downloaded free of charge for personal, non-commercial purposes only. The tool can be downloaded JAVA or Symbian version. Both ends, the sender and the recipient, need to install the client.


Is it possible to translate hexadecimal error codes in Notes/Domino?

Hexadecimal error codes can appear in Lotus® Notes/Domino® log files and debug output files. Is it possible to translate these codes to discover their meaning?

Yes. New to Domino 7 is the ability to translate hexadecimal error codes directly from the server console. To do this, type “show message ” from the server console. Note: Omit the leading 0x for the error code.

For example:
show message 1A5

translates as…
“The NOTES.INI file cannot be found on the search path “.


Tante Merkel erklärt die Politik

Jetzt hat auch die Bundesregierung begriffen, was der George W. B. aus dem fernen U.S.A Land da so Woche für Woche auf dem Fernsehschirm oder in den Rundfunkempfängern der Nation treibt.

Da ja bekanntlich viele Dinge aus Amiland über kurz oder lang Einzug in Deutschland halten ( Baseball, American Football, Filme zwischen den Werbeblöcken, Unmengen von Anglizismen bei den “Beratern” in der IT-Branche ), so will nun auch Angela Merkel sich dem Wagnis stellen und versuchen, ihre Politik in Video- Podcasts zu erläutern ( hoffentlich kommt genug Stoff dabei zusammen, daÃ? es für eine zweite Ausstrahlung reicht ).

Am Vorabend der FuÃ?ball-Weltmeisterschaft fällt der Startschuss für den Video-Podcast “Angela Merkel – die Kanzlerin direkt“.