Last week I had the chance to drive a Mercedes-Benz E class. For me it was the first Mercedes-Benz at all that I drove. Of course I took the opportunity to have a deeper look at the car and summarize my impressions.

Technical data

The car's basic data looked like this:

While testing a web application that uses PHP PDO to establish a connection to a PostgreSQL database I stumbled upon the following error message:

1Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[08006] [7] FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "user"' in xxx.php …

If you haven't used an Oracle database for some time you might stumble upon the issue I just had: all internal user accounts were locked and I also didn't know the passwords.

By default login information of internal users are invalid after 180 days.

The following accounts are important to me on my Oracle 11gR2 Database …

This week VMware introduced plenty of new, long-awaited product versions during an online event. I also joined this event to see the further development that was taking place since VMworld 2014.

vSphere 6

The biggest highlight was vSphere 6 - in accordance with VMware this is the "biggest release ever". With …

Recently I stumbled upon various PHP errors while using the free analytics software Piwik:

1PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 2442473628 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 64 bytes)
2...
3Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in .../piwik/core/DataTable.php

The solution is quite simple - the …

Doing a recent Wordpress theme installation I stumbled upon a problem which could have taken much time to fix it.

The theme I installed offers multiple sidebar configurations (left, right, none). There is no default settings which means that it is necessary to set the sidebar configuration for every particular blog …

This week one of the SUSE Linux Expert Day events that are taking place worldwide since september 2014 was hosted at 25hours Hotel Frankfurt by Levi's - a very stylish and fancy location!

Agenda

The event was planned for 5 hours and consisted of many interesting talks:

• Keynote - Michael Jores, Regional Director …

This week Red Hat Satellite 5.7 was released. With the ninth update of the 5.x tree many improvements from the Spacewalk development were applied.

New web interface

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Winter time is crafting time! I spent the last couple of days on the Raspberry Pi and PIR sensors (Passive Infrared). Using this sensors it is possible to recognize motions - in combination with GPIO APIs you can create useful applications.

The first idea that came in my mind was to monitor my washing machine in the …