the corner office

Tried again this morning, and didn't get that "Network Communications Error" solved, and no luck with notes.net either (moving up to scouring the Notes 6 forum. What a rush!). I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but I'll assume it was some vagiary of my set-up and see if subsequent tests at the office run into the problem as well. I decided to get VNC up and running on the RH7.3 box, which gave me the X session I needed, and I was able to set up the 6.5.1 Domino server locally.

I'm chuffed that I've got a Linux GUI working again, even if it is an old KDE 2.0 version. With VNC, I can have my normal Windows and a Linux desktop going from a single monitor, which is all I have space for on my desk right now.

Needless to say, I have a bone to pick with the Domino 6 on Linux Redbook. Telling people to get X running on a production server is just heresy, dammit! I suppose if you have the memory and aren't using X too often it's OK, but it feels wrong, wrong, wrong. Not in my server room.

Ronwen (who is eMD's support manager) expressed her dislike of the look of the ND6 client compared to the R5 client. Can't please everyone! The only other version change I've experienced was the switch from Notes 4.6 to R5. I recall back then that R5 felt clunky and slow in comparison to the older version, despite the many cool improvements. I'm sure that ND6 will be the same. It'll be a while before I'm using it regularly and daily, since we have a lot of parallel running and research to do before we try to let it loose at the office. I know there are a number of upgrade issues, and I hope that these are the reason for the sluggishness I'm feeling with a couple of databases I've copied across. Time and research will tell.

Busy working on a few deadline projects, although I must admit that my attention has been stolen by folklore.org, thanks to a recommendation from Ben Poole. Excellent reading.