Author Archives: DocDock

Punishment for laziness – root password recovery

Posted on July 14, 2016 by DocDock

I had a new idea for adding one more computer to my life.  The task was to actually provide some fun new functionality to my family and I attacked the task. At the beginning, I needed to log in as … Continue reading →

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command line fun – spaces and arguments

Posted on July 4, 2016 by DocDock

I normally get to control most aspects of the program.  The most important yet trivial is the parameters that are being passed to the program.  Because I know what I want it is usually possible to coerce the calling script … Continue reading →

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Big brother is watching (you buy underwear)

Posted on June 30, 2016 by DocDock

Edward Snowden raised the stakes of privacy in June 2013 when he released the scope of the internet and phone surveillance by American intelligence agencies.  We learned quite a bit about what types of data collections were being done. Phone records … Continue reading →

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IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part III

Posted on June 16, 2016 by DocDock

The curse of technology The cool thing about technology demos is how everything just works, well unless you are demoing it to the boss.  The equipment is usually quite new, the scope is simple enough and there are never any … Continue reading →

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IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part II

Posted on June 10, 2016 by DocDock

In my previous article IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part I, I provided an example on how to put and get messages into the queue.  What we were doing was essentially performing a stateless transfer of information between systems.  The data … Continue reading →

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IBM Websphere MQ manipulations – part I

Posted on June 6, 2016 by DocDock

Quite some years ago on a project that I was involved with, I was exposed to Websphere MQ.  Our needs were actually very basic to put it mildly.  We were using it as a secure method for transferring not messages … Continue reading →

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command line fun – getting to the base of things

Posted on June 1, 2016 by DocDock

Just a short time back I received a mail from a colleague with an error message.  The question from him was about the error and more importantly was this my program.  I did find some code that generated the same … Continue reading →

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bash – its not a bug its a feature

Posted on May 26, 2016 by DocDock

It’s not a bug it’s a feature It has been said so many times it goes beyond cliche.  It is really easy to try and explain away odd behaviors as some sort of esoteric feature It took a while before I … Continue reading →

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Advertising versus reality (eating in the 21st century)

Posted on May 17, 2016 by DocDock

It was mothers day 2016 and so the entire family wanted to go out and celebrate with a fancy brunch. We packed up the whole family, make arrangements of when and where to meet and off we went.  We were … Continue reading →

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how much are your friends worth?

Posted on May 10, 2016 by DocDock

I sometimes wonder why exactly Google or Microsoft, or well their search engines are interested in my queries about cats, recipes or Java syntax interests.  I suppose the cookies that are left on my hard disk while shopping are interesting … Continue reading →

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