Year: 2007

September 12

There has been a lot said and written about the Oracle ACE issue. Howards “Devalued” and “Revalued” posts, triggered a lot of emotions and commented visions and I think that this is the way it should be. Don’t say that there isn’t an active blogoshere. I saw one. I read a lot of stuff about what the community is doing and what we think it should be.

As I, indeed, said to Doug, getting / being passionate is part of the deal. I think this is the minimum an “ACE” should confirm to. You like it or you don’t (the Oracle stuff out there), or at least you are passionate about it.

September 11

Ahhh, I had a Howard Rogers experience, aka website problems. Friday night, I couldn’t login on my WordPress site. What ever I did, on mySQL database level or else, I wasn’t allowed to login anymore and got a nice message telling me that I used an incorrect password.

First thing that can to my mind was, of course, that the site had been hacked. So I made a backup of all my files on disk and created database backups of my mySQL databases. I afterwards checked my providers support side, speedxs.nl if I had missed something. The only thing I could find was that a message in the maintenance section saying:

Maintenance webserver Damia

As you may have noticed, there has been discovered an instability in the webserver damia. Therefore maintenance will be scheduled sooner than planned.

The maintenance process will be done next Friday and this is expected to be done during a time period of 2 hours maximum.

September 7