Category Archives: annoyance

Motorola vip1910-9 HDMI

I have a Motorola vip1910-9 set-top box provided by my ISP. It’s a simple Linux based STB and I’m quite satisfied with it’s capabilities. Unfortunately I could not hook it up to my TV with a standard HDMI cable only … Read more »

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 … Read more »

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 … Read more »

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 … Read more »

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.

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.