Category: Useful

  • Oracle 12c RESTRICTED mode, disabled functionality

    Oracle 12c RESTRICTED mode, disabled functionality

    Today I learned a lot when our production database went in restricted mode. We had huge issues with our Oracle 12c database that was patched unsuccessfully. After the patch did not finish the database always restarted in RESTRICTED MODE, which means only admin / sys can connect to the database. All of our application could […]

  • Cntlm gateway mode setup for docker

    Cntlm gateway mode setup for docker

    In CNTLM we need to allow Gateway mode to allow other computers to connect trough our proxy. We used this in our corporate environment to allow docker images to be pulled from the web as docker does not have a nice way to hange proxies with NTLM authentication. We changed cntlm.ini around line 70. Uncommented Gateway flag […]

  • Fingerprint driver for HP Elitebook 8560p Windows 10 64 bit

    I managed to finally set up my fingerprint sensor on HP Elitebook 8560p with Windows 10 64-bit. As HP does not provide drivers for Windows 10 for this model (I dont know why that is because it is still a great notebook in 2016), I luckily searched in google and found out that Asus also […]

  • Oracle: Update all sequences for tables for current user

    Below is procedure that updates all table sequences to match the max ID currently in a table. Useful when there is a mismatch of values.

  • Visual studio project configuration file settings priority

    THE PROBLEM For multiple versions (Dev, Test, Prod) of a single ClickOnce application one has to name assemblies differently. In this way you can have all three versions on the same computer. This can be easily achieved by using configuration in Visual Studio. The problem I had was that no matter what the assembly name […]

  • Fastest way to create a file list

    The fastest way on Windows to create a file with a list of all files in a directory and its subdirectories  is pretty simple. This should work on most windows desktops. Open the Command Prompt ( Start button -> cmd ) and run the following command. The /S switch searches all subdirectories. The /B switch […]