Category: General
September 11

What kept me busy this weekend; WordPress problems…

Ahhh, I had a Howard Rogers experience, aka website problems. Friday night, I couldn’t login on my WordPress site. What ever I did, on mySQL database level or else, I wasn’t allowed to login anymore and got a nice message telling me that I used an incorrect password.

First thing that can to my mind was, of course, that the site had been hacked. So I made a backup of all my files on disk and created database backups of my mySQL databases. I afterwards checked my providers support side, speedxs.nl if I had missed something. The only thing I could find was that a message in the maintenance section saying:

Maintenance webserver Damia

As you may have noticed, there has been discovered an instability in the webserver damia. Therefore maintenance will be scheduled sooner than planned.

The maintenance process will be done next Friday and this is expected to be done during a time period of 2 hours maximum.

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September 3

Oracle 11g: Peeking into Protocol Server functionality – orarep and DBMS_REPORT

It is undocumented. At least I couldn’t find references. In the XMLDB Protocol Server there is an extra service called orarep, and of course, everything which is undocumented interests me to pieces.

The xdbconfig.xml XMLDB Protocol Server configuration file has the following content ( “<>” has been replaced by “[ ]”):

[servlet-mapping]
  [servlet-pattern]/orarep/* [/servlet-pattern]
  [servlet-name] ReportFmwkServlet [/servlet-name]
[/servlet-mapping]

If you try something like http://localhost:8080/orarep/ something like the following will show up.

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August 30

Old Love Never Dies…

I started my IT career some years ago (1993/1994) with a company called “Cairo Information Systems”. This company made very smart software to optimize container haulage. Think about stuff like optimal trips (real time) for imports, exports and inland moves, covering containerized and closed-trailer equipment for cargo types. Optimizing, among others, inland container transportation (empty mileages).

Anyway, just the other day, I received an e-mail of an old colleague (Hans Rabouw). Contrary to our believe that the firm had been taken over and the software stopped to exist; It still exist. Currently a company called LINE is (still?) selling the system under the name “Paris” (once chosen after “Paris” from Greek mythology). Seeing the screens brings back a lot of good memories. The technology apparently has been upgraded. It looks like regular technical stuff nowadays, regarding the interfacing (web pages, application servers, multi-tier, etc.), although the look and feel still looks the same.

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