As you may know I started working on a little tool to anonymize databases. Nothing fancy, just a Java tool that uses jdbc to replace live data with fake generated data which still looks representative enough to do testing and make believable screenshots. Oh and did I mention that it is 100% free of charge? You can get …

When you use Spring and Ibatis and SQLTemplates, you could have code in your project which looks somewhat like this: Connection connection = DataSourceUtils.getConnection(getDataSource()); ...<do connection stuff here>... DataSourceUtils.releaseConnection(connection, getDataSource()); Sonar will report that you …

If you are using luntbuild for your continuous integration builds at work, you probably want to remove anonymous user access. In stead of adding that feature to the administrator "Properties" page where I'd expect it, you have to hack the Spring configuration in the webapps directory of luntbuild. Sigh. Here …

It is a long time since I read this stuff, but I stumbled upon a paper discussing the non-executable stack on OSX (a trick to prevent buffer/stack overflow exploits). Ah, the good old days. And with all this markup, it's good to see that Phrack magazine stuck to their format. It's still the same as over 20 years ago... …

Nice example of digital revolution and power to the people can be found at http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-05-02-n67.html. Let's hope manufacturers understand that people don't want to pay for crippled content. Digital copies where copyright is removed are actually better than their DRM protected originals, …

If your administration is as good as anybodies, you are bound to loose the not-so-frequently used password for the SYS and SYSTEM users of oracle. Here are a few ways I found to re-set those passwords: Method 1: SQLPLUS (Tested on AIX Oracle 9.2.0.1.0) Log into the database server as a user belonging to 'dba' [unix ] …

Even companies pretending to know about ICT, writing about companies doing it right or wrong, get it (very) wrong sometimes. People who have an account at De Automatiseringsgids know the login screen. But have they also noticed how their username and password are sent to the server in plain text? Another funny thing a …