One of the most annoying issues you can have in your network setup is when a router dies. I am a fan of Ubiquity EdgeRouters but they suffer from one annoying issue. Sometimes due to power issues the USB stick that acts as a storage media gets corrupted or dies. In the following I will… Read More »
Dear Reader, Upon re-reading parts 1 and 2 about who I am, I feel gratitude for all those ideas that I came in contact with and managed to share with you. This year I will focus more on the physical part, our body that is very connected to our mind and with the environment we… Read More »
Now that the Evergreen ship is finally freed and the coffee and toilet paper crises is no longer at the horizon we can marvel at how the Internet turns every bad thing into a meme. Here is my the best of Evergreen meme collection.
I was trying to obtain the last executed query on an Oracle instance. Seems easy but I wanted also: to exclude the queries that are done by sys user as maintenance to focus on queries executed by a specific client type. The best way to do it is to use the V$SQLAREA system table. V$SQLAREA… Read More »
After some updates suddenly all the post I shared from Jetpack for WordPress had no valid Twitter card. After some mail exchanges with Jetpack support they assured me that all is good from their part. As instructed by them I was able to see that indeed Jetpack was correctly generating the Twitter Card. Still checking… Read More »
The new webp image standard is used a lot this days. Somehow Nautilius is not generating thumbnails for this format automatically. To add support for this just do the following: STEP 1: Add support for the new image format. Create a new file /usr/share/thumbnailers/webp.thumbnailer with the following content. Also make sure totem player is installed,… Read More »
Swift MT and ISO messages are the basic message formats used all across the financial world in most of the payment systems. Yes there are notable exceptions like NACHA or some country specific message formats but if you need to interface with or implement some payment system that at some point connects to SWIFT you… Read More »
There were so many times when I had to search for hours for a solution that looked trivial in the end when I found it explained by some stranger on a blog or forum. There are cases when after reading manuals, documents and forums there is still no clear solution and then I wish someone… Read More »
I all this BTC craze I wanted a nice way to get all the time the latest Bitcoin value and the value of my BTC stash.
This is my small contribution to the decentralized finance. Bitcoin is a future store of value. Bitcoin is not a traditional currency. Craig Wright It’s Not Satoshi. I am a Coinbase customer. I have a Mycelium wallet also. Stock market is a scam, do not buy shares. Banks are no longer a valid way to… Read More »