Kwatog's Notebook

Siebel EIM IF_ROW_STAT NOT_ALLOWED

Posted on September 20, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Siebel

I’ve been pulling my hair the other day because I keep on getting the NOT_ALLOWED output in IF_ROW_STAT. The purpose of the migration is to update two fields in the.. read more

Count Occurence of Character via SQL

Posted on August 28, 2012 · Posted in Blog, PL/SQL

Have you ever encountered a requirement where you need to count the number of occurence of a particular character in a string? When I did, I initially thought that it.. read more

Get IP Host Name in Unix and Windows

Posted on August 10, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Linux, Unix

Suppose you have the ip address but need to get the hostname (ip name), you can use the commands below. Windows Syntax nbtstat -a [ip address]

Moving Out of CloudFlare

Posted on August 6, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Tools

I’ve been using CloudFlare for several months now but I decided to disable it the other day on one of my money sites. Here are the few reasons why I.. read more

Equivalent of grep in DOS/Windows

Posted on July 31, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Linux, Unix

I hardly know scripting commands in DOS/Windows Console so I struggle everytime I encounter situations when I need to use them. Case in point is searching for text in files… read more

Count Occurrence of Character in String Unix Shell

Posted on May 29, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Linux, Unix

How do we exactly count the occurrence of a particular character in a string in bash scripting? Well, there’s quite a number of ways of doing this. Here’s the simplest.. read more

Recreate Show Desktop Icon in Windows XP

Posted on May 27, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Tools

I accidentally deleted the “Show Desktop” button on my work desktop and was surprised to realize that it’s not really straightforward to bring that icon back. I began to blame.. read more

Suppress Error Message of cp (copy)

Posted on May 4, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Linux, Unix

There are times when you don’t need to know if the command you fired threw an error or not. That’s exactly what I needed in one of the systems I.. read more

Force Restart HP TouchPad

Posted on April 28, 2012 · Posted in Blog

Whether you are running Android ICS CM9 on your HP TouchPad or the stock webOS, chances are the touch screen will not work sometimes after the device went to sleep… read more

Remove WordPress Maintenance Mode

Posted on March 4, 2012 · Posted in Blog, Linux, WordPress

Sometimes, upgrades fail at some point for some reason. That will leave your site in maintenance mode and unusable. That’s the “Briefly Unavailable for Scheduled Maintenance” that we see while.. read more

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