Download from Oracle directly with wget in a remote shell

1. Browse downloads in browser and select the one you need 2. Get the login screen 3. copy redirectUrl param from the address bar of your browser 4. get back to terminal window 5. type: wget \ --post-data='redirectUrl=<redirectUrl of your download from above> &username=<your oracle username>&password=<your oracle pass>' \ https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/reg/loginHandler.jsp hit Enter and...

How do you know the network is outdated?

Or should I say the business is outdated? Just spoke today with some salesman that was at Fastweb (one of the largest Italian MAN providers that also gives NATed access to Internet)  to offer some software solutions. Skipping over the jokes and technical staff, here is the sentence important in this context: And then I say: - Yes, of course, but you see, this is the newest technology on the market, bleeding edge,...

The problem with Getting Things Done.

The Joy of Tech comic… The problem with Getting Things Done.. Evrey now and then I am trying… and usually this is what I get as the result. I mean no actual result ...

Yes, I said that this will happen :)

Oracle has changed Solaris 10 license from “free to use” to “90 days trial” Expect trials for Java SE, MySQL and some “light” versions barely working you can get for free: Now, with its acquisition of Sun finalized, it seems that Oracle has appended this sentence to the license paragraph above: Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a...

Yet another encrypted backup way

Problem: you have a shared remote backup space and you want to backup sensitive data from your servers There is a plenty of options out there, in my situation I have a Linux server with shell access where to take files and a shell account on BSD with 75GB of space where to put these files. I need to keep a daily copy of everything for a week. After some thinking and experimenting here is what I’ve got with...