Simple Nepali Calendar Widget for Mac

Sunil Tandan — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 04:37:49 GMT

This blog goes through the steps that you need to take in order to install a small calendar widget that stays in your mac’s status bar.

First download the .zip from: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i38we6LhdWDRGj25J9njXeB65DwVR5KY/view?usp=sharing

Once downloaded double click it and Nepali Calendar.app will be shown. Drag this to your Applications folder and open it.

Since this is not signed (I currently do not have an apple developer account), you will need to trust this application.

You will see a window like the following:

Click on Done and open Settings. Go to Privacy and Security tab and scroll below. You will see “Nepali Calendar.app” was blocked to protect your Mac.”

Click on Open Anyway.

You will see another pop up:

Click on Open Anyway and Provide either your fingerprint or password:

Once provided you will see a widget on your mac’s status bar:

If you like the app to autostart on startup, you can click on it and mark Start at Login:

You can exit the application with Quit.

PS: You can reorganize the calendar on your status bar to right or left by pressing the Command key on your keyboard and dragging it.

Oracle APEX: Database Credential Error

Sunil Tandan — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:06:11 GMT

If you are using Oracle APEX docker locally, you might encounter the following error.

ORDS was unable to make a connection to the database. The database user specified by db.username configuration setting is expired. The connection pool named: |default|lo| had the following error(s): ORA-28001: The account has expired. The password must be changed.

First let connect to our database as sysdba. You can use SQL Developer or just use the Terminal.

docker exec -it «container_id» /bin/bash

sqlplus / as sysdba

ALTER SESSION SET CONTAINER = FREEPDB1; #XEPDB1 for express

If we check our DBA_USERS with:

select * from DBA_USERS where ACCOUNT_STATUS = 'EXPIRED';

We should see all the database users whose password has been expired, including ORDS_PUBLIC_USER. We could solve this issue changing the password, however this would also require the change in ORDS configuration for APEX.

Instead we would like to set the ACCOUNT_STATUS to OPEN without changing the password. This can be done by providing the same password, however we might not know what the password was set to. Instead we can create a SQL statement by executing:

SELECT 'ALTER USER '|| name ||' IDENTIFIED BY VALUES '''|| spare4 ||';'|| password ||''';' as sql2execute FROM sys.user$ WHERE name='ORDS_PUBLIC_USER';

This will provide you the SQL statement that you should execute like:

ALTER USER ORDS_PUBLIC_USER IDENTIFIED BY VALUES 'S:15ED52D32554831E2A03656B9091A52765EBB3C6E74BBB483BE5190D6B50;T:3B0F75432BA387C46E59D88C2A48297AAD5832139E6F8C43C9EA492DF15F51DC13BBF8EB6B45DEE777EB0118D0BF022BEADE80D1D14066676C40EC63E49DEB6869B6A0E336C25E42A513CBA96AF9EF22;';

Just copy the given result and execute it.

You should now see that the account status has been changed to OPEN. Restarting the docker will cause Oracle APEX to load properly.

BONUS (since my docker is used only for development):

You can turn off expiration completely using:

alter profile "DEFAULT" limit password_life_time UNLIMITED;

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