Blog running on 8.5 Gold, well done IBM

Well done IBM, Notes 85 has been released today. I down loaded the server install ( 600Mb ) in about ten minutes and had the server up and running in another 20 minutes plus a reboot. It will take more work to convert the ODS etc.. but I can do that later on this...

USB Windows Boot Disk

I find it useful to have a USB boot disk when I am messing about with hardware, particularly since many systems no longer have a floppy drive. It was also the only useful thing I could do with the freebie Lotus QuickR 256Mb USB pen given away by Mary Beth Raven at...

Thecus 4100+ NAS ( 2/10 )

This device is just terrible. It has a Gigabyte network interface but the CPU max’s out on just a standard network. It did seem like an attractive option being able to take 5 x 1Tb disks but I ( and others ) have found the performance terrible, particularly with...

How I got started with Lotus Notes

The Critical Machine Incidents Black Book Quite a few people have been blogging about how they got started with Notes so I thought that might be a good place to start this blog. I am a Manufacturing Engineer by background but in my Engineering roles I always struggled...