VMware - boot from CD

When a WMware machine is starting you can choose to boot from CD, to do an install, rather than hard disk.


The important bit is when you start the VMware image, click on the machine to get focus and press escape to get the menu shown.

Not bad - but there is another problem - SCSI drivers. The installer complained "setup did not find any hard disk drives".



So i went to VMWare who had the appropriate SCSI drivers as a floppy image file (vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp) - In VMware settings I placed this file as the image for the floppy drive - and was then able to load the drivers by pressing F6 during setup.

In the VMware / vm /settings make sure that the floppy drive is connected :=)

Antarctic solar eclispse

wow

Super User access to Quickr (Domino)

Sometimes it can be useful to have a user who has complete access to information in a system.
These are the instructions on how to set this up for Quickr Services for Domino 8.1

Super User Access

LCTY

That was a busy few days.
Quite a few of my colleagues were involved in presenting and hosting the LCTY events in Wembley and Manchester.

I think the Manchester event was the better one. It was more suited to meeting up with people, rather than Wembley which was a little too large.

Personally - in Manchester I was able to dump the pre-prepared demo's and go with the live demos across the intermittent hotel wireless network. It was fun.

WeFi

WeFi appears to be a really cool way of finding other people on WiFi networks around the country.

I'm not sure if it's simply American focused - however - is it just an updated version of plazes?

Quickr and Sametime together

Here's a pdf from Developerworks explaining a few of the intricacies.

ST + Quickr Integration

Quickr and qptool

After installing Quickr 8.0.0.2 and the fixpack - I ran these commands.
You could too, just make sure you're happy with what they do!

Unlock all the places:
load qptool unlock –a

Upgrade all the databases on the server:
load qptool upgrade -f –server

Upgrade all the places and Placetypes:
load qptool upgrade -f –a

Unregister and re-register all the places with the Place Catalog:
load qptool unregister -a -placecatalog
load qptool register -a -placecatalog