Learn #banking, #fintech and #payments jargon: Acceptance for Settlement

By | June 17, 2021

Acceptance for Settlement Definition: The moment at which a payment transaction becomes irrevocable as far as the sender is concerned. This is the point at which a transaction passes the tests to determine whether there is sufficient collateral for the transaction to proceed. Details: You have to see this as the last stage of a… Read More »

#balaji list of must read resources for #crypto, #bitcoin, #ethereum

By | June 15, 2021

This post is more like a personal note of the resources indicated by Balaji as a must read if you want to start the journey of understanding crypto currencies and the underlying technology. Mastering Bitcoin Mastering Bitcoin is a book for developers, although the first two chapters cover bitcoin at a level that is also… Read More »

My take on #Bitcoin, #ElSalvador and #CBDC

By | November 2, 2021

Starting from 9th of June 2021 #Bitcoin is legal tender in #ElSalvador. This has major world wide consequences and bellow are my takes on this. No country can tax profits from selling #Bitcoin as is no longer an “asset” but a currency. Remember #XRP issues with this topic. The Federal Reserve is investigating Ripple company,… Read More »

#Oracle ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [ktbdchk1: bad dscn]

By | November 2, 2021

Oracle 11g database with Data Guard active. A switch of the sites (from production to disaster recovery node) is done and all seems good. Suddenly one day after the switch (more than one month) the enterprise application using it cannot connect any-more (connection pool getting filled up). The underlying issue that causes this is reported… Read More »

Books – Food for Soul and Body #2 #health

By | April 14, 2021

Dear Reader, As promised, please find below some books I recently studied about our body and how we actual live in it. I am not a MD, nor do I wish to give any recommendation or advice. With the following books, I wish to raise awareness about the fact that we can take control of… Read More »

Recover a dead #Ubiquity #EdgeRouter

By | March 10, 2022

One of the most annoying issues you can have in your network setup is when a router dies. I am a fan of Ubiquity EdgeRouters but they suffer from one annoying issue. Sometimes due to power issues the USB stick that acts as a storage media gets corrupted or dies. In the following I will… Read More »

Who am I? – Part 3 – The Body, #health #Mindfulness

By | April 14, 2021

Dear Reader, Upon re-reading parts 1 and 2 about who I am, I feel gratitude for all those ideas that I came in contact with and managed to share with you. This year I will focus more on the physical part, our body that is very connected to our mind and with the environment we… Read More »

#Oracle: #SQL to get the latest executed queries in a schema

By | February 20, 2021

I was trying to obtain the last executed query on an Oracle instance. Seems easy but I wanted also: to exclude the queries that are done by sys user as maintenance to focus on queries executed by a specific client type. The best way to do it is to use the V$SQLAREA system table. V$SQLAREA… Read More »

#Twitter Card: ERROR: Fetching the page failed because other errors

By | February 16, 2021

After some updates suddenly all the post I shared from Jetpack for WordPress had no valid Twitter card. After some mail exchanges with Jetpack support they assured me that all is good from their part. As instructed by them I was able to see that indeed Jetpack was correctly generating the Twitter Card. Still checking… Read More »