I had a couple of bad surprises with wordpress websites getting compromised because WordPress was not thouroughly updated.
Since, I looked for an easy WordPress backup solution, one that would take care of backing up not only posts, but plugins, pictures, etc. And ideally, that would be free.
UpdraftPlus has since saved my life more than once, not only from hackers, but also from erroneous configuration changes.
If you need to check if your Vertica ROS is lagging behind your WOS, you can use the following query to retrieve the last good epoch (i.e : the last one written to disk, which ensures you won’t lose any data even in the case of a catastrophic failure where all your nodes would shut down simultaneously) :
SELECT epoch_number, epoch_close_time
FROM v_monitor.system
JOIN epochs dbadmin ON epoch_number = last_good_epoch;Would you like to prove to your contacts the authenticity of your emails ? A S/MIME signature of your messages may be a solution. It will guarantee that a message comes from you, and that its content wasn’t altered. You can do it for free – as long as it’s for a personnal use – using a Comodo free email certificate. The solution may be seducing, but there are two caveats.
First, the validation of your signature is done by your recipient email client, and most email clients just don’t support it. As a rule of thumb, consider only the outlook desktop app supports it (gmail, outlook.com, default android client don’t support it, iphone can support it but it’s disabled by default). And there’s nothing you can do about it.
Second, the procedure to sign your messages may give some headaches, and it’ll be different for each email client. But at least, here is a step by step guide to digitally sign outgoing messages on Outlook.
If you don’t already own a mail certificate, you can get a free one from Comodo here, or directly here.
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When using named parameters in native SQL queries with Hibernate implementation of the Java Persistence API (JPA), you may run into the following error
[code lang=java]
org.springframework.dao.InvalidDataAccessApiUsageException: Parameter with that name [orderId] did not exist;
nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Parameter with that name [orderId] did not exist
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This happens even if the named parameter was properly set, as in the following example :
For example :
[code lang=java]
void update(EntityManager em) {
Query q = em.createNativeQuery(“SELECT * FROM orders where id = :orderId;”);
q.setParameter(“orderId”, “1234”);
q.executeUpdate();
}
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The issue comes from Continue reading