Date: 03/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

Drop in replacement for resource hogging Admin DashBoard in WordPress 1.5.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-hack-how-to-trim-the-fat-resource-hogging-dashboard-in-admin/

Date: 03/19/05     Keywords: spam

Overview A Plugin to bounce back referrer spam attempts; requires no upfront configuration, no mod-rewrite. It is like the strong silent bouncer at your favorite club. Tested only on WordPress 1.5. Should work with earlier versions. It does one job and does it well. Enough said. Background I was trying to block referrer spammer’s from my blog sites. I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/word-press-1-5-plugin-referer-bouncer/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

A discussion on a failure vector of naive bayesian classifiers

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-naive-bayesian-classifier-can-be-made-ineffective/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

LOS ANGELES -- Researchers might be getting closer to finding a cure for diabetes. Researchers announced a new treatment and medicine, and the discovery of a gene that might play a role. The study, presented by researchers from the Institute for Medical Research of North Shore-Long Island Jewish Hospitals said a gene might increase levels of a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ingap-closer-to-cure-diabetes/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

13 modern day mysteries of science.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/13-things-in-science-that-do-not-make-sense/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: java

Few days back I moved to providing categorized feed for JavaBlogs and Artima. However I realized two big problems with this approach which questions the viability as of now. 1. When I create new entries the corresponding category feeds are not pinged to any server. WordPress ping implementation is very basic. You don't even know if [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/back-to-the-drawing-board-on-category-feeds/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: web

Coverage of posts and websites of interest participating in the nofollow debate.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nofollow-coverage/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: java

A technical analysis of the duplicate post problem in JavaBlogs.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-analysis-of-the-actual-problem-with-javablogs-aggregator/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: java

An anti-tirade against few republican java geeks.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/whats-up-with-republican-java-geeks/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: linux

I am eagerly waiting for my copies of Ubuntu. The site says that it was sent on February 22. Have you got yours? "Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "humanity to others". Ubuntu also means "I am what I am because of who we all are". The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/did-you-get-your-ubuntu/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: spam

Feel free to copy it to your Blog. It can be added in Options/Discussion/Comment Blacklist text area. It takes care of my comment spam. If you decide to add it to your site then remember to surely test it by commenting on your posts to see that the comments go through. This post will always be [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-blacklist-for-wordpress-15/

Date: 03/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

Here is a map of topics on Simple Thoughts Blog. It is also available from the front page below topics header in the sidebar, named as (map). Enjoy!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/map-of-topics-on-simple-thoughts-blog/

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

What happened After my WordPress 1.5 upgrade and enabling of an option to reject comments from open proxy, no comments (over 100) were appearing on my blogs. Moreover they were silently discarded. Details I recently upgraded to WordPress 1.5. WordPress has an option to specify keywords in a blacklist. Any comments matching those keywords will be automatically and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apology-to-simple-thoughts-blog-commenters-in-last-20-days-or-so/

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: spam

It was surprising to find no comment spam after installing WordPress 1.5, noting that I haven't enabled CAPTCHA with this upgrade. However I soon realized that I wasn't receiving any normal comments too on very commentable articles. I realized yesterday the culprit was this option in WordPress: Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/all-comments-get-nuked-by-blackhole-option-on-blocking-open-proxy-lists-in-wordpress-15-strayhorn/

Date: 03/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

A seismologist in India says that the country has moved closer to Indonesia due to the massive earthquake which triggered the tsunami in December. The findings of Dr Gahlaut's survey reveal that the geographical distance between India and Indonesia - the epicentre of the deadly earthquake - has reduced from distances of five meters to 15 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/india-moved-east-after-tsunami/

Date: 03/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

India should stop developing a gas pipeline with Iran because Iran is bad US gives no commitment about India's seat in UN permanent council US will go ahead with sale of F-16's to Pakistan desite Pakistan being a well known terrorist heaven Pretty bilateral dilogue don't you think?

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/summary-of-condoleezza-rices-bilateral-dialogue-with-india/

Date: 03/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

A five year old girl failed to bring a plastic bag to school and paid a "heavy price". She is now in a state of shock. The picture looks horrible. If there is sufficient interest I can scan a copy, though I would rather not. This event has been widely reported in all local papers. KOLKATA: [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/missionary-school-teacher-punishes-5-year-old-student-by-tearing-fistful-of-her-hair/

Date: 03/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

New theory on efficacy of Atkins, Zones diet regimes

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/old-wine-in-new-bottle-why-atkins-diet-work/

Date: 03/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

A report on Viacell Inc. approach to cure diabetes.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/an-injection-to-cure-diabetes/

Date: 03/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have been asked this question several times. Recently Xyling asked the same question in his blog. So I thought a simple explanation may be in order. To unload a class you have to create a custom classloader and load the class using it. Tomcat does it and so does JRun. You can look in Tomcat [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-unload-java-class/