Guess no one asked me this before and I didn’t run into this question yet. However, today I got approached with the question how line breaks can be entered in a mailto: command.
The answer can be found in RFC 2368 whereas line breaks in the body of a message must be encoded using the %0D%0A sequence, which in case is nothing else then hexadecimal for 10 (line feed) and 13 (carriage return).
A full mailto: command using this feature could look like this:

mailto:name@domain.e_t?subject=Header&body=This is the first line%0D%0AThis is the second

Strictly speaking should the white spaces also be replaced with the appropriate ASCII code which is %20 and makes the complete command to look like this:

mailto:name@domain.e_t?subject=Header&body=This%20is...
%20the%20first%20line%0D%0AThis%20is%20the%20second

As of today IBM has made Lotus Notes and Domino 7.0.3 available in English for the download from the Passport Advantage site. Version 7.0.3 now officially supports Microsoft Windows Vista on the client. Further information can be found at the Notes from Lotus Support site.

Update 19/10/07: Important information for all organisations running Sametime 7.5.x on Domino 7 is that the regression that got introduced in Domino 7.0.2 where changes in the JVM are causing crashes of the nHTTP task are fixed in version 7.0.3 of Domino.

IBM has announced the end of support for Lotus Notes and Domino version 6.5.x for 30 April 2009. I guess we can be grateful that this has been released well in advance since it allows some time for every organisation, still running on 6.5, to do their planning and business case creation for the upgrade path to release 7 or even 8 while providing some strong arguments for the update itself.

While Microsoft is providing a patch for all currently supported operating systems to integrate the new rules for daylight savings in New Zealand this patch isn’t available for Windows 2000 customers since Windows 2000 is not supported any more by Microsoft.

Fortunately Microsoft is has a smart tool TZEdit.exe made available that allows the manual change of the relevant registry values with an easy user interface. This is probably not the right solution for business customers but large enterprises should already have migrated their information technology to a more recent operating system.

Get the tool by searching for Knowledge Base article 914387 on Microsoft’s website where the link to the TZEdit application is near the bottom of the document. After extracting the file you are presented with the dialog shown below when running the TZEdit.exe where you can amend the Start Day and Last Day settings as required.

If you are thinking Ubuntu sounds somehow African you are probably right. Ubuntu origins in Africa and is a free Linux distribution based on Debian. The word Ubuntu stands for ‘Humanity to others’ or ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. Take a look to the Ubuntu web project to find out more details. (more…)