#Java #Weblogic : The server is in an incompatible state

By | November 19, 2018

WebLogic application server has its share of mind boggling error messages the same as its competition like WebSphere or JBoss. For some weird reason my servers (WebLogic version of a JVM instance) all dies and entered the weird state of “INCOMPATIBLE STATE”. Of course the author of that state label forgot to mention “incompatible with… Read More »

Recenzie: Budism pentru oameni ocupați : găsirea fericirii într-o lume grăbită / David Michie. – București : Atman, 2018

By | November 19, 2018

De curând am luat contact cu ideile budismului și cu câteva dintre învățăturile acestei filozofii. Acum câteva zile am început să citesc cu mare plăcere cartea lui David Michie Budism pentru oameni ocupați : găsirea fericirii într-o lume grăbită. O recomand celora care și-au pus vreodată întrebarea despre sensul vieții sau altfel exprimată, despre sensul… Read More »

De ce iubesc România?

By | February 5, 2020

Titlul acestui prim articol este un titlu care mi-a trecut prin minte, cu gândul la o carte căreia doresc să îi scriu recenzie. Cugetând la acea carte am realizat că mintea mea a combinat două titluri, anume De ce iubim femeile de Mircea Cărtărescu și Cum să fii fericit în România, o antologie de povestiri… Read More »

Secure an #nginx or #apache website using #ssllabs.com

By | October 14, 2018

From time to time is good to perform a security audit to your Internet exposed services. Things change fast online so you have to keep up with the security reports to be able to maintain secure services online. My favorite tool for SSL related security audit is the great resource at www.ssllabs.com. The audit performed… Read More »

#Fintech joins the big boys in Singapore

By | September 19, 2018

In a very bold move Fintech firms to get access to Singapore’s real-time payment system. I like how this type of small countries like Estonia and Singapore become test labs for the financial technology. It is easy to do radical new things that use technology and change habits in a very technology oriented location like… Read More »

#SQL to find dependency between tables in #Oracle database

By | August 26, 2018

There are times when we need to find which are the tables that depend on a given table. This is useful when cleanup or archiving jobs have to pe performed and the interconnection of constraints is becoming a nuisance. Lucky for us in the case of Oracle database is quite simple to search through all… Read More »

Recover an #Oracle installation from a full disk backup in #Linux

By | August 26, 2018

Reinstalling things like Oracle is always a hassle and takes about one day to make it work. Lucky for me I made a full back-up of my old disk when I upgraded to a new laptop. On the new laptop I did a fresh install of Fedora 28. The idea is to migrate my old… Read More »

Technology fail: When #Lidl asks you to login to a #Linux terminal to find the price of an item :)

By | June 29, 2018

This was spotted in the wild by a coworker 🙂 After some research you can easily find that the device is a Scantech SG15c price scanner. See here the manual User’s Manual SG-15Plus . Interesting extract from the manual: “The login password is default blank.” Manual even gives instructions on how to modify prices 🙂… Read More »

Kaspersky Lab banned all across Europe #infosec

By | June 14, 2018

I am a long time evangelist of not using software that is linked to abusive governments. This applies sadly to a lot of software products and software environments linked to Russia and China. Regarding this, Kaspersky was one of my main “do not use” advice I was giving to people I know and to job… Read More »