Tuesday, April 14, Lotusphere Comes to You will be held at the Embassy Suites – LAX South. Or, if you’re in Florida, Lotus911 will be sponsoring: Tallahassee April 14 and Jacksonville April 15.

Carl Tyler upgraded to Notes 8.5 and a new machine at the same time. After the move it looked like the fonts in Notes had all put on a few pixels. He found a simple fix for the problem.

Jerry Carter seems to have coded himself into a corner so he’s posted his LotusScript. He’d appreciate it if you could point out the problem.

Kevin S Pettitt wants you to tell Mary Beth Raven what you think about those old 16-color icons. If you’re tired of the old icons, please let the design team know.

Michael Smelser was working on a client’s Domino 7.x server when he realized it was taking over a half hour to reboot the Windows server. After searching through Technotes for ideas, they discovered why the server took so long to come on line.

Daniel Nashed reports on SPR #JCHS7NWPT6 for a namelookup issue in Domino 8.5. As the problem may cause a large Domino server to crash, he offers a work-around until the patch is released.

Steve McDonagh thinks he may have found a bug. He’s upgraded two workstation and run into the same problem with the Quickr Connectors during an upgrade on the Notes client.

A recent survey by Microsoft confirms what mail administrators everywhere know, more than 97% of all e-mail is unwanted spam, often laden with malware.

The fundamental thing to understand is that, unlike any other sort of Notes field, the data in Rich Text field can contain its own hide-whens, because that’s one of the functions of Rich Text. This behavior can reach out and bite you. In this helpful article, Senior Technical Editor Mick Moignard helps you avoid getting stung by the hide-when behavior of Rich Text.

Read this DominoPower article.

Meet your colleagues in St. Louis, Missouri August 3-4, 2009 for A Lotus User Group conference. Chris Miller has posted the details.