Last week I bought and installed an SSD drive in my 2 year old laptop, which I then put a fresh install of Windows on.
I've been using the SSD for a week now. Do I think it was worthwhile upgrading? Yes. And no.
There's no doubting it's faster now. To confirm this I just told the BIOS to boot from the old HDD (which is in a caddy where the DVD drive used to be) and it seemed to take an age to both boot and launch any programs. I'd forgotten what the spinning "wait" icon looked like.
What I didn't get at the beginning of the week was any kind of "wow factor". It's not so many times faster now that it's in any way amazing. The laptop wasn't ever slow enough for any single change to make this the case. So I'm not sure what I was expecting really.
Sorry this is so non-committal. If you were thinking of doing this and you're the kind of person who can't rest once an idea sets then I'd say do it. If you've not thought about it before then don't bother. Spend the money on more RAM or wait for SSD prices to come down.
Last week, in Lotusphere 2011 and beyond, I looked at how the existing product set contributes to the changes coming in Lotus. This week, I'll cover the more important announcements.
Simultaneous shared editing A year back, in the 'Sphere Innovation lab, we saw Project Concord showing a prototype capability of Web-based, simultaneous, shared editing of Symphony documents. Right now, that functionality is available as beta in LotusLive Labs and later in 2010 it will be a in LotusLive as a production feature.
It enables several people to share work on a Symphony document -- say a set of presentation slides -- and parcel out who is assigned to which slide, or which paragraph in a document. As each person makes edits, the others see those edits, should they have the same slide or page displayed. This, then, means the end of developing a slide deck via repeated email, saving colossal amounts of elapsed time, as well as huge amounts of disk and email space.
Cloudifying Domino apps In the LotusLive space, there's also going to be some capability to have Domino apps hosted on LotusLive via a Domino Utility server offering, with access both via Web devices or via the Notes client, depending on how the app has been developed.
Joyce
Davis announced yesterday a new
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preview that shows some of the
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not feature complete. As Joyce writes the ...
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have contributed a sample how to community between Java and JavaScript
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Part of developerWorks Lotus is IBM Lotus Domino-based. If you connect to it using an IBM Lotus Notes client, you can use Notes features such as replication. This article provides the steps to connect to the site databases and offers troubleshooting tips for making the connection.
If you are implementing DAOS on IBM i, changes are required to be sure you are saving all data and will not interrupt normal server operations. This document also provides a reference as to when new save/restore options became available with DAOS.
After upgrading to 8.5.2 when running an on-line save of the Domino server, various files in the ../domino/workspace subdirectory of the Domino server are reporting "file in use". This directory should be omitted from the save.