Here is the situation: my favorite computer (MacBook Pro 2015-ish) is denied to install the latest greatest OS. I upgraded some unsupported OS but it’snot making it that great again.
Before the MacBook I had a Lenova thinkpad (from 2010?) which has, by that time, a respectable memory of 16gb. During time, performance became slower and I lost ability to upgrade Windows OS so I switched over to dual boot and run Linux Mint and thereafter Ubuntu instead.
To work with Domino I ran a Domino server with virtual box on Windows 7 untill… Domino 10 required installation on a 64 bit Windows OS. So I was faced to upgrade Windows and Domino on my virtual machine. That went fine but performance was nowhere near as it was before (I blame Micorsoft, not IBM ofcourse).
In the mean time I started working at a different company with high restrictions on software installation on the work laptop so my Domino server in my virtual box hardly got used anymore. The MacBook came in, I ran Domino in VB from there but after a while, the use-case for a local DEV environment became more and more less.
Sometimes I needed some code from previous projects and that was the only time I had the need to start up the machine. At a time I got the message that my certifications were expired for Domino (server and designer) on top of it.
But recently I am working on a side-project for which I do not want to use my Notes ID from work and I have no desire to setup a new environment on any old hardware that barely can run the software. So I thought if I could just could get that old Domino server running again on my Ubuntu… A chat with our Domino Admin lead to changing OS time in my virtual machine. That allowed the server to start but… browsers like chrome and firefox are not happy about cheating with time so they disallowed me to use them properly. Another chat with the admin lead me how to recertify the ID’s. First I had to change the time in the virtual machine (I went back to 2017 since that was the last time I ran an update on the Domino server), started the server, started the admin client, connected to the server and recertified my users, my admin id and the server id. I set the new expiry date as my retirement date so we will see how well that will go. Then I set the time on the OS in the virtual machine back to the current date and restarted the server. No complaining about expired certificates or what so ever!
So here we are, back on my 2010 Thinkpad on Ubuntu, running a Domino 9 FP5 server in a virtual machine. So I can prepare signing the design of my project with a Notes ID that is not related to work. How bizarre.
I notice though some difficulties opening the NSF due to a later ODS version that is not supported on Domino 9… suck.