Mmmmmmmmmmm, cookies, I LOVE cookies

Thanks to my pal, Brian, I now know how to identify cookies in Firefox *AND* Internet Explorer, using the "special" URL: -

javascript:alert(document.cookie)

which is rather useful.

I've also been using the View Cookies plugin for Firefox, which is available from Bitstorm.

All in all, mnom mnom

Packt Publishing - Discounts on IBM books in November

Apparently, Packt are having a discount month during November on all IBM books: -

During November Packt is celebrating the recent success of its IBM book range with an array of special offers, including:

•   20% off all Packt IBM print books
•   25% off if you purchase 3 or more books
•   30% off all Packt IBM ebooks

Their titles include: -

• WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications with IBM WebSphere 7.0
• IBM Lotus Sametime 8 Essentials: A User's Guide
• IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 User Guide

For further information, click across to the Packt site.

Hmmm, how did I manage that ? VLC opens instead of Gnome's File Manager ( Nautilus )

Somehow, I managed to conficker Ubuntu 10.10 to always attempt to open a folder in VLC rather than the more conventional Nautlius File Manager.

Not sure how, but I was definitely using VLC to watch Battlestar Galactica: Razor t'other night so it must be pilot error :-)

Anyhow, I fixed it as follows: -

1. Navigate to the Desktop ( or, to be fair, any other view of a folder hierarchy )
2. Select a folder with the left-hand mouse button
3. Right-click ( this is now a verb ! ) on the folder
4. Choose Open With Other Application
5. Navigate to File Browser
6. Expand the Use Custom Command twistie
7. Verify that the custom command now reads nautilus
8. Ensure that Remember this application for "folder" files is checked
9. Click Open

That's it, that's all it takes.

Easy when you know how :-)

To be fair, this  thread on UbuntuForums did help but I had to read and re-read it to be sure, to be sure.

Lotusphere 2011 - 30 January - 3 February

Interested in all that's new in Lotus ? Got some spare time at the end of January ? Fancy somewhere slightly warmer than Western Europe ? Like sunshine ?

If the answer to all of the above is "Oh my Gosh, YES YES YES", then consider a trip to sunny-but-sometimes-cold Orlando and join the Lotus folks at Lotusphere 2011.

This year ( well, next year if you know what I mean ), it's slightly later than before, edging into February, which adds to the excitement.

Want to know more ? If so, check out the new LS11 social aggregator site, or simply visit the official site or follow the trend on Twitter.

Perhaps, if I'm lucky, I'll see you there :-)

File does not exist [/LotusQuickr/LotusQuickr/CreateHaiku.nsf?OpenDatabase]

Hmmm, I was seeing: -

File does not exist

in my browser, when I tried to create a new Quickr place using Lotus Quickr Services for Lotus Domino 8.5 ( this freshly installed onto Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 ).

The Domino console gave me more detail: -

11/11/2010 05:15:43 PM  -File does not exist [/LotusQuickr/LotusQuickr/CreateHaiku.nsf?OpenDatabase]

When I checked: -

cd /local/notesdata
ls -al /LotusQuickr/LotusQuickr/CreateHaiku.nsf

there's no such directory called LotusQuickr/LotusQuickr *BUT* there is a directory called LotusQuickr/lotusquickr :-)

So, as a quick "hack", I created a symbolic link to fix the problem: -

cd /local/notesdata/LotusQuickr
ln -s  lotusquickr LotusQuickr

Having done this, I can happily create new Quickr places.

The strange thing is ... this worked earlier in the day :-(

Problems installing Lotus Quickr Services for Lotus Domino 8.5

During an installation of Quickr 8.5 onto Domino 8.5.1 FP3, I saw the following exception:

Processing directory /local/notesdata/domino/html/qphtml/../85010
An unexpected error occured during post-install processing:
The qrdpreview library is missing from the install.
Please contact IBM Technical Support.

Died at (eval 33) line 459.
/tmp/server/tools/lib/NIC.pm line 1031
The installation failed for the local host.

I'd previously seen this exception when I tried to install Quickr onto Domino 8.5.2, which I know is not a supported platform, as per: -

Lotus Quickr 8.5 for Domino System Requirements - Linux

which states: -

Domino Lotus Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 3 Interim Fix 2 or later
All Applicable OS Lotus Domino 8.5.1 (32-bit only)

So I have FP3, and am now trying to obtain IF2: -

Domino 8.5.1 Fix Pack 3 Interim Fix 2 (8.5.1 FP3 IF2) - Quickr 8.5 ECM Support

I've subsequently downloaded and installed IF2 which is now included in 851FP3HF434-linux.tar but to no avail.

Google Search Appliance - Not following the (re)directions

We were seeing a problem where we couldn't access the GSA on port 80 or 443, instead receiving: -

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

    *   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
          cookies.

It turned out to have been a misconfiguration; the GSA was effectively redirecting requests back to itself :-)

Under System Settings, the Default Search URL -> Redirect requests for '/' setting was set to '/'.

Initially, I replaced the '/' with the FQ URL of the default collection and default front-end: -

http://10.65.127.54/search?site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&proxycustom=%3CHOME/%3E

which worked OK.

I then simply blanked out the value, and again it seems to work.

In both cases, it redirects to the default front-end / collection: -

http://10.65.127.54/search?site=default_collection&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=default_frontend&proxycustom=%3CHOME/%3E

The thing that drew me to this was that the HTTPFox plugin threw up a (NS_ERROR_REDIRECT_LOOP) exception after a number of HTTP 302 redirections