Real World Computing

Why is this Domino Blog not hosted by Domino? Good question. The main reason is that I don't own our domino server, My employer does. I know that Domino is a very capable blog hosting system and there's plenty of blogs out there that use it... but, while I'm reasonably sure that my employer wouldn't be too concerned about hosting a small blog I'm not willing to take the risk. blogger.com is free, flexible and works rather well, so I'm happy enough here. What is this RSS stuff and what is it good for? Put simply, RSS is a way of downloading the headings and a small extract of text on blog sites. If you have an RSS Reader, then you can easily look through the recent postings without them cluttering up your mailbox. Where can I get an RSS Feed Reader? You can get these apps all over the net, but in my case I wanted a Lotus Notes based one. I looked a few Lotus Notes RSS Feed Readers and finally settled on one called News Miner from Digital Insites . This produc...

This morning I upgraded our 2 servers and my workstation to Release 7.0.1 of IBM Lotus Domino and IBM Lotus Notes respectively. All went well. The Reason for the Upgrade Normally, I don't like to stay too close to the current version of software, but these days it's starting to look essential. My only reason for upgrading was to comply with a number of security advisories. I've listed the security issues below. All are fixed by version 7.0.1. Domino iNotes Client Script Insertion Vulnerabilities Notes HTML Speed Reader Link Buffer Overflows Notes Multiple Archive Handling Directory Traversal Notes TAR Reader File Extraction Buffer Overflow Notes UUE File Handling Buffer Overflow Notes ZIP File Handling Buffer Overflow The Upgrade Process I received the Advisories by email yesterday and went looking for them on the IBM site. Strangely enough, this is the first time that I've ever managed to find the correct Domino downloads on the IBM site, either their delivery mech...