If you’re running HCL Notes/Domino 14.5.1 (marketed as HCL Notes/Domino 2026), a new update just landed. HCL released Fix Pack 1 (FP1) on July 16, 2026. It’s a smaller update than a full version release, but it fixes real problems that admins have been hitting since March. I wrote about the 12.0.2 Fix Pack 8 […]
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Over the years of working hands-on as a database developer and DBA, I’ve run into more production surprises than any single course or certification ever prepared me for — queries that mysteriously slow down for no visible reason, audit requirements that show up after a schema’s already frozen, reports that quietly regress the week after […]
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The Problem: Drowning in My Own Automation As an IT Pro, I run a lot of automation. Scheduled agents, background jobs, sync processes — code I’ve written over the years that quietly does its job across various databases. Almost all of it has one habit in common: when something happens (good or bad), it […]
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If you’re a DBA or sysadmin managing more than one or two SQL Server instances, you already know the drill: log in, run the same handful of queries, eyeball the results, move to the next server. Do that every morning for a few years and it stops being “quick” — it’s just quiet, repetitive risk. […]
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If you’ve been running HCL Notes and Domino for any length of time, you already know the platform has a habit of quietly sitting on years — sometimes decades — of company knowledge. Support tickets, policy documents, contracts, project notes, client history. It’s all in there. The problem has always been finding the right piece […]
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If you’re running HCL Notes/Domino on the 12.0.2 stream, there’s a fix pack sitting in the HCLSoftware download portal right now that’s worth ten minutes of your attention. HCL released Fix Pack 8 (FP8) for 12.0.2 on May 7, 2026, with language kits following a day later, and it’s not a minor cleanup release. It […]
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If you have ever tried to open a document, run an agent, or replicate a database in HCL Notes (formerly IBM Lotus Notes) and Domino, you have probably run into this exact message: “Database has not opened yet.” It is one of the most common — and most misunderstood — error messages in the entire […]
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.NET 11 is on its way, and the internet is buzzing. As expected, most of the noise is about Runtime Async V2 and C# Union Types — the two headliners that developers have been demanding for years. But while everyone is gathered around those two features, a few genuinely impressive additions are sitting quietly in […]
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Introduction: The Cybersecurity Threat Most Organizations Never See Coming When people think about cybersecurity attacks, they usually picture hackers breaking into company servers, stealing passwords, deploying ransomware, or spreading malware across corporate networks. While these threats certainly exist, modern cybercriminals have discovered something far more effective: attacking organizations indirectly through their digital supply chains. […]
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For decades, cybersecurity revolved around a pretty darn simple idea: malicious files infect computers, antivirus software detects and fixes them, and users stay protected. That traditional model is now dangerously out of whack. Modern cybercriminals no longer rely solely on exploiting software vulnerabilities. Instead, they increasingly target the most unpredictable and emotionally driven component in […]
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