Author: Marc Olivier Meunier

Marc has spent the past few years putting oil on the fire of a hyper growth ad tech company. At Smartly.io he was in charge of scaling the support and its culture. At Eficode he is now leading an engineering team and running operations. He leads by example and puts a lot of emphasis on diversity and inclusion, constantly working to create a safe environment. A warm leader with a passion for memorable experiences and innovation.
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New ADM3 FM module

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis summer I finished a partial rewrite of the FM (Fault Management) module of the NetAct OSS ADM3 Troubleshooting class.
I have been compiling lots of troubleshooting guides and troubleshooting techniques into this course and applied it to all the FM processes of a regional cluster.

It has now been tried several times and it seems people are liking it.
If you want to follow this course, contact your local NSN solution manager or go to the academy website if you’re an NSN internal and enroll for the course OS9033 (customers) or OS9034 (internals)

TeleFinland HTC Magic Data Settings

Reading Time: < 1 minute Easy as a breeze:
APN Name: TeleFinland
APN: internet
MMS protocol: Wap 2.0
MCC: 244
MNC: 91
APN type: default

All the rest, don’t touch.

Nexus one power button not working

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMy Nexus one has been a good friend for the past year but now I am running into problems with the power button.
I had 2 options:
– open heart surgery, order the replacement unit and change it myself.
– flash the phone in order to remap the power button to the trackball.

I chose the second option as it was available to me right now.
I followed this guide:
https://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/nexus-one

Reset the default drupal theme with SQL

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSometimes a drupal theme can be broken and it can be needed to reset the default theme so the site can be accessed again in order to fix the problem.

As a rule of thumb I always try to use the theme "Cube" for the administrive part of drupal. that makes things a lot easier and if you breeak the theme you can at least still use the admin part.

Here is anyhow how to reset the theme using SQL:

Simply execute the three following commands:

UPDATE system SET status=1 WHERE name = 'garland';

Bloom’s taxonomy, action verbs for objectives setting

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Bloom is categorizing action verbs in 6 groups:

Knowledge: acquire, attend, choose, collect, complete, copy, define, describe, detect, differentiate, distinguish, duplicate, find, identify, imitate, indicate, isolate, label, list, mark, match, name, order, outline, place, recall, recognize, reproduce, select, state, underline

Export putty settings

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt looks like your putty sessions are stored in the registry.

 
Start up the registry editor: regedit.exe (on Windows 7, hit the windows key and type regedit.exe)
 
Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SimonTatham
 
Right click on "Sessions", choose export. Give a name. Email the file.
 
On the other computer, get the file, save it, right click on it, click on merge. Done

bypass authentication for a specific URL with squid and webmin

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you need to setup some webmin rule for bypassing authentication for a specific URL, it’s VERY easy to setup.

This is something that can be needed if you have a windows server behind a proxy and that server needs direct access to the internet in order to be activated:

Activation fails when you try to activate Windows 2008 over the Internet… 

Trainer Assessor

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Today I got an interesting call from my boss. I am going to become an assessor for other trainers at Nokia Siemens Networks. This means that I will have to assess the training capabilities of my peers.
Since I have been a respectable trainer for the past 5 years I have indeed accumulated a good experience.
I feel very proud that my efforts are rewarded with this opportunity.

How to find which SQL is executed by a process

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If you are looking for the last SQL query ran by a specific process, try this: 

 
select substr(sa.sql_text,1,1000) txt
from v$process p, v$session s, v$sqlarea sa
where p.addr=s.paddr
and s.username is not null
and s.sql_address=sa.address(+)
and s.sql_hash_value=sa.hash_value(+)
and spid=&SPID;

How to get rid of conduit as a default search engine in Firefox

Reading Time: 2 minutesSo it looks like this conduit thing is stuck in your browser.

First, why would any company want to do that.
A bit of datamining, a lot of google adverts money.

I don’t know for sure but maybe this company which is by the way providing some nice software most of the time, is keeping records of the searches you are entering in google. They probably don’t really build any profile on you but at least they get a good idea of what the people they are connected to are looking for on the web.