A+ Security for WordPress Blog – HTTP Strict Transport Security

By | February 9, 2017

Keeping the installation of your own WordPress blog highly secure is very important. In today’s fast pace discovery of security vulnerabilities you must keep an eye on all the new security threats and update as soon as possible the security to try to cover the new threat. An invaluable tool is the security test from… Read More »

DB2 + Websphere : Feature is not implemented: PreparedStatement.setBinaryStream

By | February 8, 2017

From a very strange reason after updating the hibernate4 from version 4.1.4 to 4.2.5 there was suddenly a weird behaviour of the EJB3.1 enterprise application I am working on. A piece of code that commits to the database an object (ProcessingStatus) containing a BLOB was throwing the following: [1/31/16 23:37:15:922 EET] 000000eb AbstractBatch Z org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.batch.internal.AbstractBatchImpl… Read More »

Dell XPS 8700 Memory upgrade

By | March 31, 2016

As I mentioned in a previous post I started looking into upgrading my Dell XPS 8700 see https://blog.voina.org/?p=325. One of the possibilities I mentioned there was a memory upgrade from the 16GB of the original configuration to the maximum of 32GB. By doubling the memory size I can run a 4th instance of my Fedora… Read More »

RedHat/Fedora Linux NIC bonding

By | February 9, 2017

Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows administrators to bind multiple network interfaces together into a single channel using the bonding kernel module and a special network interface called a channel bonding interface. Channel bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy. The behaviour of the bonded… Read More »

Oracle: Resolve blocking processes

By | February 8, 2017

Sometimes an oracle query goes nuts and blocks the DB. To find the blocked processes started by user MYUSER execute: SELECT s.inst_id, s.sid, s.serial#, p.spid, s.username, s.program FROM gv$session s JOIN gv$process p ON p.addr = s.paddr AND p.inst_id = s.inst_id where s.username like ‘MYUSER’; To kill the blocking process: ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION ‘sid,serial#’

DB2: Inline LOBS

By | February 8, 2017

LOBS is the DB2 way of dealing with big data. In db2 you can have a table that contains a column defined as LOB where one can dump large binary data (images, compressed text files, video or audio). The problem is the way this LOBS are stored by DB2. By default they are stored “offline”… Read More »