Saturday, 31 March 2007

Linux: How many songs do I have

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I have always wanted to know the exact number of music files that I own. Of course Amarok appears to have the correct answer, still I alway...
Wednesday, 28 March 2007

ABAP: Check if a day ix a holiday

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Here is some sample code that allows you to determine if a date passed as parameter is a holiday or a weekend day. FORM check_if_holiday ...

Update source for Mozilla Products on openSUSE

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I have always wondered why there were no updates for the SuSE provided Firefox. Looking a bit more carefully at the openSUSE site, I realize...
Wednesday, 21 March 2007

Linux: A simple backup script

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Here is the script I use for backing up my home directory onto the hard drive an other machine (mounted using samba ). The script can be con...

Linux: How to mount Windows Shares with Samba at startup

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This posting applies for SuSE systems only. If you are using Red Hat or any of its clones like CentOS or OEL for example, then information ...
Sunday, 18 March 2007

Linux: How to use iptables in order to deny access to speciffic IP's

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Eventually I had to deal with that as well. Somebody trying to start DOS attacks on my site. Asking the experts revealed th at the safest wa...
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Monday, 12 March 2007

Sending mail using Java Mail

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In addition to the previous article, I shall provide here a slightly changed version of Sudhir Ancha's code as presented in his Sending ...

Send email from PHP

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Here is some sample code I came across over the net. It demonstrates two things: One how to send email using PHP the second one is how to...
Thursday, 8 March 2007

Installation of SAP JCo on an Oracle IAS 10.1.3.x on Linux

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1) Unpack sapjco to /opt/SAP/SAPJCo. 2) Create the following symbolic links in $ORACLE_HOME/lib oracle@barbara:~> ln -sf /opt/SAP/SAPJCo...
Monday, 26 February 2007

Automatic configuration of SQL Plus on start-up

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This is something I picked up from Oracle PL/SQL Programming by Steven Fewerstein and Bill Prybil. When you start sqlplus the program reads...
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Selecting af:tableSelectOne by clicking anywhere in the table row

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Just picked it up from the Oracle Java Developer Newsletter. It's sure worth it. By the way I just added Veniamin Goldin's Blog to m...
Friday, 16 February 2007

ABAP Transalation of text elements created when implementing user-exits

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When you create text elements during implementation of a SAP user exit then — for reasons beyond my understanding — these texts are not dire...
Thursday, 15 February 2007

Linux: Format and examples of the crontab command

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Whatever there is to find out about crontab is right there in the man pages. Paul Vixie explains everything crystal clear. Here are the mai...

PHP Redirecting to a relative URL

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This comes directly from the PHP Manual, but I thought I might keep it here as a reference. Note: HTTP/1.1 requires an absolute URI as a...

PHP Destroying the current session completely

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Here is a code snipper I got out from Janet Valade's PHP & MySQL Visual Blueprint book and this is what I use it to implement logo...
Saturday, 10 February 2007

Linux: Changing file and dirctory permisions for an entire directory tree

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Suppose you have a directory named /mydir and you need to change the permissions on all the files for the entire directory tree. Using a c...
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Thursday, 8 February 2007

Oracle 10g SQL Script to list the connected users

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OK, I know that EM can give you the same result in much prettier form, but let's keep that just in case. SET LINESIZE 200 SET PAGESIZE...

Stop Screen Flickering in JDeveloper 10.1.3.0.4 (SU5)

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After I installed SU5 to my openSUSE Linux installation of JDeveloper 10.1.3.0.4, I run into extreme screen flickering, especially while up...
Wednesday, 7 February 2007

Linux System Info commands

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Here is a list of commands that display various system parameters. To display all memory parameters enter : thanassis@lxBakalidis:~> cat...
Tuesday, 6 February 2007

ABAP Calculating Date-Ranges

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Here is an example that given a date it returns the date of the same day one month later. It demonstrates the concepts of subfields and con...