Expanding the size of a VMWare disk

My friend Neil needed to expand the size of a VMWare disk from 10GB to 20GB.
Initially the idea was to rebuild the VM image, however there had to be a workaround.

We found it "here"

As the disk was the system disk we needed to follow the special instructions in the comments. "To do the system disk you will ned a second virtual machine. Mount the System disk on another virtual machine and a second disk, run diskpart on the disk and then shutdown the machine. No start up the original machine and voila you now have a larger system disk."

Bless those MCPs.

How to hide a factory

I watched a documentary a couple of years ago where they showed how the british army used a stage illusionist to hide artillery in plain sight in fields on the south coast of england during WWII.

The results were impressive.

This is better

How to hide an entire factory

Organisational Heirarchy in Portal server

I setup a portal server connected to Domino for ldap and did all the usual configuration.

I created a few test users in Domino and added their managers name into the Work section of their person doc. In the people finder portlet I searched for each user and viewed where the sat in the Organisational hierarchy. The portlet then drew the organisations tree structure as requested.

Later a colleague imported a lot of test users when he installed the ActiveInsight applcation. I could search for these users and view the results as before, however they did not appear in the organisation hierarchy. You could not see who managed which employee.

I tried reloading ldap and restarting the portal server to no effect.

I also a few person docs to clear out and reload the manager field details. This worked - the users appeared as direct reports of their manager.

However it turned out that after investigation and a lot of experimentation that i just needed to make an edit of each users person doc, not even to change anything - just to touch the doc. I found a quick way to do this was to slect all users and run the agent "Upgrade to More Secure Internet Password".

Now I can see the entire company hierarchy in people finder.

I could easily have wasted a lot of time on this.

Cool train stunt - engineering

It's amazing what kids can do these days
==> Trains

Facebook

I never saw the point in facebook.
However I signed up to check it out - just to keep someone quiet.

Pretty dull.

Then someone contacted me... and I contacted someone else...
and it really started.

it's fun

Lotus Quickr Templates

The Snapps team have completed and published the new templates for Lotus Quickr services for Domino.

You can register for, and download these superb open source apps from http://QuickrTemplates.com

Well done Rob, Viktor and team

3D Mailbox... joke ?

I really hope this is a joke
http://www.3dmailbox.com
The thought is disturbing - then there's the video.



Well, maybe it's better than outlook