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

By | November 19, 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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 »

@Technology @fail: Even big players like Google sometimes fail.

By | October 14, 2018
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I am filed with confidence when a name not easy to pronounce is “Helpling” to improve quality of my Android !!!

#SQL to find dependency between tables in #Oracle database

By | February 12, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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 »

Banking 2.0 or the online revolution #Transferwise

By | February 17, 2019
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Yes, now is the turn for Transferwise. My second online bank after #Revolut. As I already mentioned in a previous post , banking 2.0 is here. I just received my Transferwise card, waited for it for 2 weeks 🙁 , but oh boy it was worth it. The envelope containing the card (inside the post… Read More »