Thanassis Bakalidis's Programming and DBA Scratch Pad

All things relative to everyday programming and DBA practices, This blog will not give you the ET staff, just little remindings about how things work. Subjects are relative to databases, programming, Linux, Windows and ... you name it. I used to have a notepad onto which I put down anything I thought I might need again. Hopefully this is going to be as good as the paper with the added value of being able to paste from.

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Using a raspberry-pi as a UPS server with nut

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In this post we will try to install the Network UPS tools on a Raspberry-Pi device, attach a USB connected UPS and use it as a UPS server t...
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Thursday, 28 February 2013

NVidia on Centos 6

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The post documents the steps I followed in order to install the NVidia drivers using kmod-nvidia and ELPrepo on a fresh CentOS installatio...
Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Fedura 18 update with fedup

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After updating two fc17 x86_64 KDE PCs over the network using FedUp , I thought that I would put down my experience and prepare anyone tryi...
Saturday, 15 December 2012

xmllint : Command line XML parser and formatter

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So you were given a XML file that came straight out of a windows system with no indentation and incorrect line endings. The simplest way ou...
Thursday, 13 December 2012

Gnome2 Default Keyring location

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Just a quick note for me -- and anyone else out there -- The location of the keyring in gnome2 is in ~/gnome2/keyrings . And if you forget ...
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Thursday, 6 December 2012

Using a raspberrypi as a file server

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The idea came to me from a friend. I wanted to install a small network storage system to use merely as a file exchange repository at the of...
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Thursday, 18 October 2012

PHP: Workaround for the mailbox is empty imap error

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If you are in the process of learning how to use the PHP imap* family of functions in order to manage a remote mailbox, here is a little hi...
Sunday, 15 April 2012

bash scrupt to copy all songs in an m3u list into a folder

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This is not the first time I thought about it and it took a lot of digging and googling in order to get the right command line to do it. So...
Friday, 17 February 2012

CakePHP: Loosing translated texts

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This one drove me crazy for the last couple of hours, so I thought I better share it right away. I have a bilingual CakePHP application t...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Command line to mount USB flash drives in Linux

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The subject is not new and nothing beats the device notifier icon in KDE asking you what to do with a newly inserted flash drive. This post...
Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Java enums: A complete example

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I started programming with Pascal, so I have deep feelings for enumerated types. To be honest I feel that they are a much more easy going a...
Tuesday, 15 November 2011

CentOS: Specifying DDNS hostname

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A quick reminder. When using a CentOS machine on network with a DDNS then in order for the host name to appear correctly on the DDNS manage...
Saturday, 5 November 2011

CakePHP: Storing multi-dimentional arrays in cookies

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II didn't know that cookies are basically plain text data. This makes it impossible to store complex data structures directly inside a ...
Tuesday, 1 November 2011

CakePHP: An edit form with a cancel button (1.3 and 2.x)

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When developing database CRUD applications with CakePHP, sooner or later you end up writing view code looking more or less like this <d...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

A new version of the CakePHP QBE component

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I have just developed and started testing of a new version of my QBE component. Major changes are that the component now accepts the mode...
Wednesday, 14 September 2011

ABAP: Check if a customer is blocked for sales support

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This is relatively simple, but it's best to keep it here for future use. FORM check_if_customer_is_blocked USING a_cust_id TYPE kunnr. ...
Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Android Development on Fedora 17 Howto

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Updated 2012-06-28 The original article was written for and tested on fedora 15. This is the revised version for Fedora 17. Here are th...
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Monday, 29 August 2011

JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 on CentOS 6 x86_64

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Last Thursday I formated my CentOS 5 workstation at work and reinstalled version 6 from scratch. Although we have stopped developing new a...
Monday, 22 August 2011

SELinux and CakePHP on Fedora and CentOS

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The first time I installed CakePHP, on a machine with SELinux enabled, I run into two big problems: Cake was unable to write to the...
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How to disable SELinux on Fedora, CentOS and the like

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This is only a quick note, on how to disable SELinux on a system using command line tools: Open file /etc/sysconfig/selinux which should m...
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Athanassios Bakalidis
Komotini, Rodopi, Greece
A programmer by hobby and profession, My interests include WEB programming using JSP's, JSF and PHP. Since my student days I have grown to like "Borland's" compilers and IDEs so desktop programming with Delphi and C++ Builder is among my interests. (Now, I look forward to the day I will start a project with lazarous) My work duties involved programming with SAP's built in ABAP language, so you may find some little things about SAP programming here. My favourite OS is Linux (I used openSUSE and SLES both at home and at work, but since 2008 I started working with two Red Hat clones, CentOS and Oracle Enterprise Linux while I changed my personal computers OS to fedora). I am α strong supporter of open source software. I am also interested in Databases and database programming. My main database is (was) Oracle, though I try to keep in touch with MySQL as well
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