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I’m watching over a Notes based Faxserver at a client. There is a lot of personel data imported daily from a SQL database. The process has been taking longer and longer and longer, not finishing and occasionally crashing the server. Babysitting the process, dropping in occasional log messages (something the original developers didn’t do) and doing some educated guesses shows me, that the refreshing of a view is taking in excess of 4 hours. ...

Here’s collection of a lot of useful bookmarklets / links for the webdeveloper. Allows you to change the way forms work, view headers, outline your pages, validate your html/css and much much more. Works with Mozilla and Firefox. Webdeveloper Plugin. Get it!

In Mozilla FireFox: type “about:config” in the adressbar and the hunt those settings and change them accordingly: user_pref("general.smoothScroll", true); user_pref("network.image.imageBehavior", 0); user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48); user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16); user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true); user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true); user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100); user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true); user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100); by Geek Styke via Simon and his blogmarks

I said: Don’t! Don’t go to CrazyMachines. Don’t download the demo. Don’t play it. Don’t rush out and buy the game… [1] [1] If you do and live in a country other than “Deutschland (Deutschland)” (like “Deutschland (Schweiz)” you will get errors when installing (An error about “Transform” and “Transformpfade”). Just switch to the “Deutschland (Deutschland) scheme and you’ll be fine for the install) Also if you do: prepare to spend a couple of hours in front of the computer, not working ...

This server was down a bit during the day when I installed the new 3Ware RAID IDE Controller and moved a couple of directories to a mirrored disk. The process was more or less painless but I learnt a couple of interesting tid-bits. Computers don’t turn themselves on, when they don’t have power. That means - if nothing happens on pressing the BRS, check that the connector from the power supply is firmly seated in the motherboard. (Turns out that I partially unplugged mine when fumbling with additional IDE cables. ...

invisible is not only the name of this blog, but also the name of my company “invisible Jens Christian Fischer”. I do consulting, Lotus Notes / Domino mainly, intranets, web development and so on. (If you need a consultant in this area, send me an email) My wife’s company is called “visible”. Both are what is called “Einzelfirmen” - they are companies that belong to individuals and as such, the company is me, and I’m the company. ...