Looks like somebody has accidently changed the ACL of the SandBox up on LDD. Clicking on the download link prompts for your LDD username and password.

I assume that this is an accident as I didn’t see any announcements about it…

Thanks to Chris Miller who spotted that IBM have changed all the Lotus certifications to ‘match in’ with the naming scheme for WebSphere, DB2 and Tivoli.

Personally I’m not too keen on the new names. IBM CA, IBM CP, IBM CAP… There is no mention of Lotus in the name and this dilutes, in my opinion, the value of the achievment. I’m a dual CLI for R5 ( which I must upgrade soon ). With my new certification name nobody will know what an IBM CI is…

The other change that they have made is the logo. No longer are there seperate logo’s for each certification. Now everybody will be using the same one pictured above…

I was recently at a clients to look into a weird memory problem as they showed me something really strange.

The R5.0.11 server seems to be leaking memory. the nserver, nupdate and nhttp tasks were slowly creaping up in terms of memory usage. The nupdate task alone was using up about 350 Mb of RAM. I suspected a corrupt view index or something and did a compact to drop the indexes but afterwards the update task crept back up to about 350 Mb.

So where is the weirdness of this??? Well the guys who look after the server noticed that if they minimise the domino console screen the memory usage for the tasks dropped back down to about 3 Mb Ram. Then it would slowly start climbing again and then they just do a restore of the screen and the figure drops back to 3 Mb Ram.

Weird…..

Sorry for the downtime today.

It appears that Windows XP decided to update it’s network drivers via Windows Update and because of that the ‘New Network Detected’ wizard kicked in and decided that it would be best to firewall EVERY port on my machine. Thank you very much Microsoft.