Real World Computing

I'm in danger of spending too much time praising google and no enough time on Notes/Domino, but here goes anyway. The Latest Google Toolbar I'm currently testing the latest google toolbar. There's a lot of new features in this one which are really quite useful. Bookmark Wonders This has to be my favourite part of the new toolbar. In fact, I think that this could well be my favourite computing enhancement in a long time - but.. since I've blogged about it before, I'll just shut up about it now. The Buttons Sure, the toolbar has had buttons on it for a long time - what's a toolbar without buttons anyway? These buttons are different. 1. Anyone can create them. 2. They can be hosted elsewhere and updated with a couple of clicks. 3. Google is building a library of them (they're not creating them, but they are testing them). 4. The buttons aren't simple one-click items, they work off the search field and can include RSS Feeds. I'll post a lot more about...

Last week, we needed to set up a secondary web site hosted from the same server. We did this by migrating from the standard Domino web setup to a configuration which used site documents. All worked well... Mail routed successfully, the old and the new web sites worked and everyone was happy. This morning, I applied the Microsoft Updates. Now these, being Microsoft products, required a server restart, so I dutifully complied. When the server came back up, no mail was routing. The Culprit After a bit of searching around (not very much searching really because I now tend suspect the Symantec MailSecurity services FIRST), I found a message saying that; "The Symantec Premium Anti-Spam service could not be started because you are using a site document". I rang Symantec and following a relatively quick game of telephone lotto, I got transferred to the right person. Yep, they confirmed it... Sorry - It's not supported. End of story. I disabled the service, but still mail did ...

Google Toolbar I'm sure that most people are well aware of the google toolbar by now. If not, you should certainly give it a go. You can access all of the google tools here (note that this is the Australian site, and that you may be better going to the google site for your country and clicking tools on the menu if you live elsewhere). You can download the the google toolbar by clicking the large button on the download page but did you notice that there's a smaller link underneath it which allows you to download the beta version of 4.0.629 . I've been running this for weeks now, and I've had no problems. The best bit though, is the new "bookmarks" feature. You can bookmark a page from the menu (as you would adding it to favourites). At the same time, or later if you wish, you can allocate categories to it. For example, my favourite online DVD shop is under DVDs and Shopping, while other things may just be under shopping. Effectively, this causes the bo...