Just a short note for people that are trying to make the Google Analyticator wordpress plug-in work with a site hosted for free on 000webhost.com.

 

When you authenticate through the Plug-in settings page, you will get an error like:

 

Failed to authenticate with Google. Read this support article on Analyticator's support forums for help.

 

It won’t work and there is no need to follow the troubleshooting steps mentioned in the linked support article.

The reason is that 000webhost, when using the free hosting service, does not support SSL connections. these are required by Google/the Plug-in to authenticate.

 

It seems that the only option you have is to upgrade to paid hosting… Could have guessed…

This How-To is part of the series of Lotus Notes Troubleshooting documents, Part 7 Notes.ini

 

 

In this post we learn to completely rebuild the whole Lotus Notes client. This is the last troubleshooting action you can perform before re-installing it. Therefore, make sure what you are doing and that all important configuration files, are saved somewhere. (test this first to see if this works well in your environment!)

  • Right click anywhere on the desktop and select new folder, name the folder backup.
  • Click on start search for files or folders and search for the following files:

NAMES.NSF, DESKTOP5.DSK or DESKTOP6.NDK and NOTES.INI

Then hold control and select all of the files and select edit and copy to folder, browse to the backup folder and click ok.

  • Then select these files, (except the notes.ini) in the original notes data folder and delete them, double click on Notes.ini file and delete all the text except for the first three lines: [notes], directory: c:\documents and settings\your name\ my documents\lotus\notes\data, and KIT TYPE = 1

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Then select file and save.

  • Now restart lotus notes. You will receive the following screen click on next.

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(Screenshot from a Lotus Notes V. 5 Client. This screen displays up till version 7)

 

  • The next screen will prompt you for your name and domino server you would like to connect to. Fill in the full name of the user, eg. k, and untick the box next to I want to connect to a domino server
  • Now you will be prompted for the Lotus Sametime credentials. Here fill in the details.
  • Click next and in the screen that appears you will be asked for any other services you can have notes connect to (Internet mail, Newsgroups, proxies, etc) Usually none of these are being used.
  • you now have Lotus notes ready for use, we can add back in the address book and the desktop icons by selecting them in the backup folder, names.nsf & desktop5.dsk and copy to folder lotus\notes\data overwriting the files that the client recreated.

DISCLAIMER: Be aware that these documents are made from information found online, and experience in a large corporation. This means that the situation you will have to apply this to might be quite different.

The idea behind this however, is to make you acquainted with the most common processes and inner workings of the software

Just before going on holiday leave, I installed Anno 1404 on my laptop. Because I try to stay far away from computers on my holidays, I installed, but did not have a look. This was a good thing because I could have cancelled my holidays if I knew how addictive it is!

Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery Review Anno 1404: Dawn of Discovery Review

At first the idea of the game did not really appeal to me. I played Age of Empires and a lot of other strategy games, and like it a lot. But this started out as a strategy game without … Violence…?  I had the idea I started playing “The Sims – Medieval Style”. 

 

When you start the game and launch campaign mode (which is recommended as it functions as a very complete and thorough tutorial) it takes a while for any military elements to appear. (about 15 hours of playing time). The time flies however as the complexity of your cities, its evolution and the trade with other islands increments fast. The thing I noticed first, and what most impressed me are the graphics. The quality on my (non-gaming) laptop is pretty good, and playing on high quality does not affect game-play too much (as it does with Red Alert 3 for example).

 

This one will not give you rushes of adrenaline though, the pace is not too fast (sometimes even a bit slow), but that is only annoying at start, when you are still setting up and learning. Once you’re a bit more advanced you are thankful for this as it give you time to react. (even though I wish those ships would sail a bit faster!).

 

I have now reached the part where some military action is required, but that is actually annoying me now, as I am just starting to understand and to be able to work with the whole trade business. It keeps up the pace of the game though as you are rushed to learning new things as soon as you start understanding.

 

The only downside I could find is that there is no online multiplayer mode. This is not really a problem for me, as I have the feeling it will take me quite some time to finish the campaign and the rest of the game and I am not really an online gamer anyways.

 

I started playing strategy games when Dune 2 Came out. Since, I have played Starcraft, and most of the Command and Conquer series, as well as Age of Empires, Rise of Nations, Warcraft, or Civilisation.

This shows I’m quite used to playing strategy, and even though I’m not an exceptionally good player, I enjoy them a lot and this one is definitively earning a spot on my list!

 

Anno 1404 Official Website

Annalee Newitz used to teach literature and American Studies at UC Berkeley and composed a list of the Sci-Fi books that she considers the Must-Read’s of Sci-Fi.

The nice thing about this list is that the books are sorted by major themes within the genre and that she linked most of them to free versions you can get online.

A syllabus and book list for novice students of science fiction literature 

Genre Foundations

Utopias and Dystopias

Robots

 

Aliens

 

Space Travel

Science Fiction as Political Philosophy

Now have a look at the full list, and head over to Amazon, as I’m sure that, like me, there are quite some books that you did not read yet!

(Source: io9.com)

This is the seventh part of a series of Lotus Notes Information and troubleshooting Tips

 

The Notes.ini file is located in the same folder Lotus Notes is installed in, and contains the information you provide when you set up Notes, including the options you select in User Preferences. Notes.ini may also contain information created by your administrator. This file gets deleted when you uninstall Notes.

 

Most of the variables in the notes.ini file are accessible from the Notes client, and should not be touched in the ini file. However in some cases, for troubleshooting reasons it might be needed to read or edit the ini file.

 

Here are a couple of important values:

 

Directory=

This is the folder where the Lotus Notes Data Directory is located. This is an important line, because a lot of clients use roaming profiles. This means that the Lotus Notes client is installed on the local users’ computer, and the Data folder (containing the cache file, templates and other data, like replicas of databases) somewhere on a server.

 

Cache=

Allows you to specify a new location for the notes cache. This means, that even though the Directory path is set to a specific location, the cache file can still be stored somewhere else.

(In some installations, the cache file is not located in the standard location, If you need to delete the cache file and cannot find it, check for this line in the notes.ini file)

 

! It is also possible to completely rebuild the notes client by cleaning up the notes.ini file.The next article will explain how to do that.

 

DISCLAIMER: Be aware that these documents are made from information found online, and experience in a large corporation. This means that the situation you will have to apply this to might be quite different.

The idea behind this however, is to make you acquainted with the most common processes and inner workings of the software

The wilderness Downtown. This is one of the latest examples in the Google Chrome HTML5 Experiments site.

 

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As they explain the “experience”:

“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering... this Chrome Experiment has them all. "The Wilderness Downtown" is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire's song "We Used To Wait" and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.”

 

And to be honest, it is looking very closely like what a browser-based music-video should look like. I think….

 

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire/

Vacant NL

The Dutch pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is making a statement about a problem that is never really seen in this way by the Dutch: Space.

Dutch people tend to think the country is too full, too populated, but never stop and think about all the empty buildings. And there are lots of them!

(Source: vacant NL - dutch pavilion at venice architecuture biennale 2010.)

Geekology comes with a life-hacks info-graphic (originally coming from theirtoys.com?). I guess you could rate your Life-hacker level by ticking the boxes.

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Full Image here

 

(Source: http://www.geekologie.com/image.php?path=/2010/08/27/life-hacks-full.jpg)

This is the Sixth part of a series of Lotus Notes Information and troubleshooting Tips

As mentioned in previous articles, the above mentioned files are a very important part of each Lotus Notes Client installation.

 

Bookmark.nsf

  • Icons, notes, and user customized design elements (framesets and views) are cached in the Bookmark.nsf file.
  • The bookmarks are stored as documents so that multiple operations on bookmarks across multiple clients can be resolved and not cause replication conflicts.
  • History bookmarks are automatically purged after 7 days. These bookmarks represent every database or document that the user has visited.
  • The bookmarks can be viewed as either lists or as grid/icons – If using the “grid” view bookmark.nsf works in conjunction with desktop6.nsf.
  • Each view type operates on the same set of bookmarks, so operations (such as adds or deletes) on one view of the bookmarks will automatically affect the other view.


Desktop6.ndk

  • Continues to contain cached items pertaining to databases previously accessed from bookmarks. Those cached items are primarily the list of design elements including their NoteIDs and UNIDs.
  • Contains the list of workspaces and databases on those workspaces.
  • The Desktop6.ndk is only used if a workspace is used – if a welcome page is being used and databases are accessed using the catalogue lookup function or via bookmarks then Desktop6.ndk is redundant.

 

Cache.ndk

  • Contains all design elements (the design note itself) cached from a server copy of a replica. For multiple replicas, only 1 copy of the design element is cached if they are the same.
  • Also contains the unread journal which is used to coordinate unread information across multiple replicas when accessed from the same client.

 

This is a very common Issue we receive calls for. The unread count on the database Icon on the users’ workspace shows an incorrect number of unread documents. Deleting the Cache file, will rescan the unread items and display these correctly.

If however, this does not work, ask the user if he could go to Edit -> Unread Marks -> Scan Unread.

This should also scan the mail file for unread items, and will try to display them correctly.

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  • The cache.ndk is created automatically whenever Notes starts, if the file does not already exist. Therefore, if this file is deleted, it will be recreated the next time the Notes Client is started.
  • The cache.ndk, by default, is located in the Notes data directory, unless a line in the notes.ini file redirects it somewhere else.
  • Design elements (forms, sub forms, navigators, scripts, etc.) for a database are cached locally in the cache.ndk. This speeds up access to commonly used design elements. When a database is opened, it is determined whether the design elements need to be re-cached from the database, based on an internal time stamp.

DISCLAIMER: Be aware that these documents are made from information found online, and experience in a large corporation. This means that the situation you will have to apply this to might be quite different.

The idea behind this however, is to make you acquainted with the most common processes and inner workings of the software

untitled This Monday, Spain returned to work. So did I.

Since in Spain this is a collective type of hangover, the burden of getting back to the routine is shared with the rest of the country. I actually noticed a lot of people in much worse conditions than me while walking to work. This is a good thing :)

After being away for a month, and going through a few thousand unread Google Reader Items, only a few things happened really in  the last month. Here some bites:

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