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Wicket in action and confusion

For a recent project lead, we decided to create a mock-up of the application, so the prospective Customer would be able to see that we understand their needs.

As I’m not very good at interactive HTML mock-ups I decided to go with Wicket, which seemed to be useful and easy when a friend showed me. The mock-up progressed well, but upon deployment all Hell broke loose.

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Migrating from physical to virtual server with pain and tears

We host the server for a legacy application in our office. Since it’s more like a favor than a real assignment we don’t care much about the server. However we had a few network issues lately, so we decided to migrate it to a virtual server running on our hosted server. Also the machine produces lot’s of heat and noise, so we’d better had it switched off.

This seemed like such an easy task to do, what could be hard in creating a disk image with CloneZilla, copy it to a server, set up a virtual machine there with kvm, restore the image and redirect all traffic to this computer instead of the one in our office. We estimated it could be done in two to three hours tops, and we get home around 7PM.

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We’ve been hacked

What could make one’s Saturday morning better, than a slight hangover? Well idling through a few mail folders, reading a few log messages and discovering that your server has been hacked for over three days is not the thing, for sure.

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Worst way to apply for a job.

We are continously looking for Java developers for our company. We’ve recently received a job application which is even more ridiculous thant the others.

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Interesting Oracle sequence issue

Our rookie had a simple task on the SQL lab of the university he attends. Take a column in table A and copy it to table B, while adding a column id to B from a sequence C.
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