Date: 03/26/08     Keywords: php, software, java, jsp

Check out our career pagehttp://www.taragana.com/career and open positions. We prefer candidates from Kolkata, India. Exceptional candidates out of state will also be considered. In short we are looking for: 1. Software Engineer You will be developing very high quality software products and services catering to a worldwide market. Java (JSP, Servlets etc.), PHP and Javascript are the key [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/we-are-hiring/

Date: 03/25/08     Keywords: php

Browse to http://your.blog.domain/wp-admin/options.php Replace your.blog.domain with your own blog domain like for example blog.taragana.com for this blog.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/view-all-wordpress-options/

Date: 03/23/08     Keywords: browser

The online US non-immigrant visa application site - https://www.vfs-usa.co.in/ doesn’t allow you to submit the visa application using the popular Firefox browser. However it never says it explicitly. Only when you try to go through the screens, it will incorrectly throw date errors which are impossible to fix in Firefox. While US Government warned against [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/us-non-immigrant-visa-application-rejects-firefox-users/

Date: 03/23/08     Keywords: no keywords

A new forum for 3 column widgetized Anaconda Theme is now open. It is a highly popular free WordPress theme with tons of functionality built-in and a cool look. Looking forward to see you there.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-forum-for-3-column-widgetized-anaconda-theme-wordpress/

Date: 03/23/08     Keywords: php, spam

Users, including forum admins, sometimes gets message while editing a post, sometimes for quick edits and sometimes for longer edits - “The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.” This is not really an error but one of the two protection mechanisms in place in phpBB to protect your forum from spams. Here is how [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-fix-phpbb-error-the-submitted-form-was-invalid-try-submitting-again/

Date: 03/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

WordPress provides an easy way to display archives of any year. For example here are the archives of this blog for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008. Here is the archive of Stem Cell blog for 2007. The idea is simple. Just add the (virtual) directory archive followed by the year. So, for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-display-yearly-archives-of-wordpress-blogs/

Date: 03/22/08     Keywords: no keywords

Have you seen the error while installing a package using yum / yumex? Error: vlc conflicts with faad2 >= 2.5 Error: Missing Dependency: faad2 < 2.5 is needed by package ffmpeg-libs The error is because of using freshrpms repository or other repository to install recent version of faad2. Now let’s see how you can solve it. This is a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/solution-missing-dependency-faad2-25-is-needed-by-package-ffmpeg-libs-error-vlc-conflicts-with-faad2-25/

Date: 03/22/08     Keywords: php

PHP files are scripts which are interpreted by php interpreter (php.exe in windows). Converting them to exe files makes it easy to distribute PHP applications to Windows users. Unfortunately Zend, the PHP company, doesn’t provide a way to convert PHP scripts to Windows executables. Today I am going to show you a simple way to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-php-script-to-windows-exe-file-generation/

Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: java

I got an invitation for covering JavaOne and received a Press pass for the conference. I am planning to attend the conference from 6-9 May in San Francisco and live blog about the event. I will be updating soon on the sessions I plan to attend and more. Looking forward to meet some old friends in San [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/live-blogging-from-javaone-conference-6-9-may-in-san-francisco/

Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Holi is the festival of radiance, colors and usher in spring. I wish you all a happy Holi / Dol (as we Bengalis say) and hope that you all remain safe (no colors in eye). Holi / Dol is also used as an occasion for old foes to come together and forget their feuds, at least [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wish-you-happy-holi-dol/

Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: spam

I received a non-typical email spam, a well written (spams are usually filled with bad spelling mistakes and grammatical errors, especially those from Dakar, Senegal for example) email from Maria Wyatt (most likely forged) claiming to be Nadezhda from Saint-Petersburg in Russia. The full email without the headers: Hello! How are you? I hope that all good [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dating-spam-with-love-from-russia/

Date: 03/21/08     Keywords: no keywords

Editing boot configuration in Windows Vista is complicated for most users. You have to manually edit the BCEdit file using bcdedit.exe. However there is a simpler and better way - VistaBootPRO. VistaBootPRO was developed to make changes, backups to the Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data (BCD) registry quickly and easily, and faster than manually editing the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/windows-vista-how-to-install-second-os-manage-boot-configuration-easily/

Date: 03/19/08     Keywords: linux

XnView is an cross-platform utility for viewing and converting graphic files. It can import about 400 graphic files format and export about 50 graphic file format. It is a must have for viewing graphic files, fax documents etc. from various platform. XnView works on Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/xnview-cross-platform-graphic-file-viewer-converter-400-graphic-file-formats-supported/

Date: 03/18/08     Keywords: no keywords

I have been trying for the last 6 hours to access ICICI PayPal alternative, PaySeal (203.27.235.72). Unfortunately the site is unreachable from India as well as USA. Even the server cannot be pinged. I am not sure what exactly happened. What could bring down a major online payment processor? I wonder if it is a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/icici-payseal-paypal-alternative-offline/

Date: 03/18/08     Keywords: linux

In Linux you can use the dd command to copy MBR from one hard disk to another. You can also use dd to backup your master boot record to a different (or same) media. One of the common use of MBR copying is to ensure transparent fail-over in RAID-1 hard-disk array, should one hard-disks [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-copy-master-boot-record-mbr-between-hard-disks/

Date: 03/16/08     Keywords: no keywords

Take a look at this multi-lingual kid genius. He speaks tons of languages fluently, learning just by selling hand fan to tourists. He is simply amazing. I wish someone could provide him support for education instead of having to selling hand fans on the street at such a tender age.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-multi-lingual-indian-kid-genius/

Date: 03/16/08     Keywords: php, html, apache

Apache HTTPD servers are configured by default to display directory listing, when index files like index.htm or index.html of index.php etc. are not present in the directory. This can expose sensitive information to prying eyes and are often indexed by search engines. This can compromise your data by making it visible to unintended audience. The [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-use-htaccess-to-prevent-apache-httpd-directory-listing/

Date: 03/14/08     Keywords: java

The enclosed three videos gives you a pretty good introduction of using Eclipse IDE for Java development with a test driven development approach: Introducing Data Persistence: How to use the debugger:

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/eclipse-java-tutorial-for-beginners/

Date: 03/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

Here is a nice story on sorting the priorities of life: A professor stood before his Philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sorting-priorities-in-life/

Date: 03/13/08     Keywords: no keywords

Would you approve a (blog) comment where the commenter’s name is “Best Way To Loose Weight”? Any sane blogger would never approve such comments even if it is relevant to context. Do you know why? As comment author is linked with author URL, such comments are obviously intended to highlight the keywords he wants to increase [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-bloggers-get-comments-with-strange-author-names/