Another Reason To Hate Lotus Notes
So, I hate Lotus Notes. That's established.
I have managed to avoid using it for so long (~6 months), that I forgot my password.
Herein lies my account of the tribulations, and an interesting/disgusting insight, that followed:
1) Use Lotus Note's Password Recovery feature
conclusion: doesn't work.
2) Contact IT - upon hearing the result of step (1) "haha, that never works, here try this:"
advice: go to company website to download a special ID file and put it in a certain place. This will 'reset' my password to a default.
conclusion: still doesn't work. IT will have to send a message to HQ in Japan, and they'll get back to me in 3 days. THREE FUCKING DAYS. gg.
3) IT says "Try it now"
action: re-download file from the website, and follow step (2) again.
conclusion: it works, my password is reset and I'm in. I set a new password.
But wait.. clicking on the mail button gives an error. "Cant find server".
Apparently, when I wasn't using Notes they switched mail servers. So after 15 minutes of scratching his head the IT guy says.. um, lets just re-install it. But it's not that simple, so I'll get back to you in a while.
4) Uninstall it.
I feel the sweet joy of clicking the 'Remove' button on Lotus Notes, which is only partially tainted by the fact that I know I'll be reinstalling it later today.
In a few minutes, I am cleaning up my desktop and notice a curios file labeled "bookmark.nsf" -- apparently Notes KNEW that I was going to have to reinstall, for you cannot escape its tainted grasp for long. Actually this is a lie, apparently the IT guy put it there as a backup.
Anyhow, I opened it up with Visual Studio. The brunt of it is all garbled binary data, but its interspersed with readable ascii values, in the form of.. VISUAL BASIC CODE?? EEEEEEW!
Not only are they storing data AND code together. It's freaking VB Script. Ew.
5) Reinstall it.
action: IT guy comes back and shows me the files necessary to install, and the default paths they want to be used. I install one version, and then an upgrade patch, as directed. The patch is extremely laggy in the configuration stage for some reason.
conclusion: I open it up and.. NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
"Oooohh.. ", says IT guy. "We forgot to delete the Notes folder after you uninstalled it."
6) Delete that shit, then reinstall it AGAIN.
note: While configuring lotus notes they ask for the path to a Domino server. I'm guessing this is like the equivalent to a Microsoft Outlook Server or something? I just think its funny to name a server Domino -- 'Domino Effect' anyone?
I have managed to avoid using it for so long (~6 months), that I forgot my password.
Herein lies my account of the tribulations, and an interesting/disgusting insight, that followed:
1) Use Lotus Note's Password Recovery feature
conclusion: doesn't work.
2) Contact IT - upon hearing the result of step (1) "haha, that never works, here try this:"
advice: go to company website to download a special ID file and put it in a certain place. This will 'reset' my password to a default.
conclusion: still doesn't work. IT will have to send a message to HQ in Japan, and they'll get back to me in 3 days. THREE FUCKING DAYS. gg.
3) IT says "Try it now"
action: re-download file from the website, and follow step (2) again.
conclusion: it works, my password is reset and I'm in. I set a new password.
But wait.. clicking on the mail button gives an error. "Cant find server".
Apparently, when I wasn't using Notes they switched mail servers. So after 15 minutes of scratching his head the IT guy says.. um, lets just re-install it. But it's not that simple, so I'll get back to you in a while.
4) Uninstall it.
I feel the sweet joy of clicking the 'Remove' button on Lotus Notes, which is only partially tainted by the fact that I know I'll be reinstalling it later today.
In a few minutes, I am cleaning up my desktop and notice a curios file labeled "bookmark.nsf" -- apparently Notes KNEW that I was going to have to reinstall, for you cannot escape its tainted grasp for long. Actually this is a lie, apparently the IT guy put it there as a backup.
Anyhow, I opened it up with Visual Studio. The brunt of it is all garbled binary data, but its interspersed with readable ascii values, in the form of.. VISUAL BASIC CODE?? EEEEEEW!
Not only are they storing data AND code together. It's freaking VB Script. Ew.
5) Reinstall it.
action: IT guy comes back and shows me the files necessary to install, and the default paths they want to be used. I install one version, and then an upgrade patch, as directed. The patch is extremely laggy in the configuration stage for some reason.
conclusion: I open it up and.. NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
"Oooohh.. ", says IT guy. "We forgot to delete the Notes folder after you uninstalled it."
6) Delete that shit, then reinstall it AGAIN.
note: While configuring lotus notes they ask for the path to a Domino server. I'm guessing this is like the equivalent to a Microsoft Outlook Server or something? I just think its funny to name a server Domino -- 'Domino Effect' anyone?