The public musings of a collaboration lifeguard
Archive for March, 2007
Toothache
01781 days
Just a grumble as my wisdom teeth are giving me a bit of hassle at the moment 
Hope it’ll pass soon.
Wierd problems with OpenDNS
11781 days
For some time now I have been using in preference to my ISPs DNS servers, or at least so I thought!
As it turns out, at what I suppose was the last time that I rebooted my router, it picked up the settings from my ISP again. I realised this a few days ago, and without further thought, set things back to OpenDNS.
Soon after I started to see problems with connection timeouts accessing my email, but also feeds in were not updating. ‘s software update wasn’t connecting either. It was strange, all I was able to do was browse the internet. I did a few network tests which were successful, and even ran an automated test available via my web-hosts which came up with nothing as I expected.
So tonight I went and checked my router configuration, and found a button to disconnect and reconnect. I gave it a go, and the OpenDNS settings were replaced with those of my ISP. Interesting I thought. So I went and tried my email, and you guessed it, down came the last few days unread emails. Liferea is filling up, and Ubuntu needs updating!
So what was the root of the problem? I have no idea! I tried googling, and a search on the OpenDNS forums, but didn’t come up with anything.
I have contacted OpenDNS support, with a link to this post to see whether they have any ideas. I’d prefer to be using OpenDNS!
A blog close to home
01787 days
paid my blog a visit, and I was flattered he dedicated a post on his blog to mentioning my blog, including a screenshot! Martin lives close to me here in Asturias, its a small world this!
He is running his blog on the Domino Blog template, and has come up with some lovely designs, making me feel ashamed of my default WordPress theme.
So, the least I could do is return the favour, gracias Martin!
A few other Lotus + Ubuntu bloggers
11787 days
by Simon Scullion
in Linux
Over the last few days, I have noticed a few other bloggers from the Lotus blogging community mentioning Ubuntu.
has published on his recent move to ubuntu on his new laptop.
has a .
I look forward to following them both, I hope they are having as much fun as I am!
Are there any others out there?
A bug squashed
01788 days
by Simon Scullion
in Linux
As it turns out, my Ubuntu bug turns out not to be, following with some instrustions.
It looks like the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629 was installed from a 3rd party source that is not compatible with the ubuntu version numbering schema.
You can try to remove the nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-1.0.9629 packages and install the ones from ubuntu instead. But be careful you may end up on a shell without X.
Unfortunately I wasn’t careful enough, and I ended up with no UI having broken my video driver install! Help!
Not being too experienced with all this, a late night ensued. Having googled various error messages, tonight I managed to recover, reinstall the correct nvidia-glx package, and also clean out a few unnecessary ones.
So, back to business, and to be honest, I’m happy it wasn’t really a bug, rules! 
Lotus Notes 8 Beta 2 on Ubuntu
101790 days
So, tonight I managed to have another go at getting the client running under .
Disclaimer: I do realise this is not supported, and I agree with and his , curiosity has just got the better of me!
Thanks to Nathan’s on the , I manually created a notes.ini file which was missing from the install, and managed to launch the client!
Unfortunately it didn’t take me long to encounter NSD running but I realise I’m on my own with this, though my guess is there’ll be a few others than just Stuart and I!
I’ve been taking a load of screenshots throughout the process, and will try to get full write-up of my adventures so far. Stay tuned!
Back in Windows-land, I have had a quick play with the client too, and to answer ‘s question, I like, a lot! On first impressions, I think I’d go as far as to say that having to go back to the Notes 7 client now is going to be as enjoyable as working in Notes 4.6 was, prior to Saturday! Again, more detail to come.
On another note, made a good point in a regarding a common tag for all this. I’m with him on using “” for technorati.
The long wait is over….
31792 days
The public beta of Lotus Notes and Domino 8 is now available!
Having seen the demo and followed all the news over the last year or so, I am really looking forward to this install.
Lets hope the wait has been worth it, I’m sure it will have been.
As can be expected, Ed has on the release.