Date: 02/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have observed this phenomena. In addition to fear of failure as mentioned in the article smart people often also tend to be over sensitive which occupies enough brain processing cycles and memory, leaving them vulnerable to failure. The second factor kicks in particularly when the stakes are...

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Date: 02/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have observed this phenomena. In addition to fear of failure as mentioned in the article smart people often also tend to be over sensitive which occupies enough brain processing cycles and memory, leaving them vulnerable to failure. The second factor kicks in particularly when the stakes are high. Sometimes it is better to be [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-smart-people-choke-under-pressure/

Date: 02/12/05     Keywords: rss, google

I think many of us, including myself, often find ourselves distracted while doing a job on computer. The distractions could range from checking email, IM, checking RSS feeds of latest news or getting sucked into google mode and continuing browsing, in detrement to the work at hand. Personally I get...

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Date: 02/12/05     Keywords: spam

I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog!

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Date: 02/12/05     Keywords: rss, google

I think many of us, including myself, often find ourselves distracted while doing a job on computer. The distractions could range from checking email, IM, checking RSS feeds of latest news or getting sucked into google mode and continuing browsing, in detrement to the work at hand. Personally I get most distracted with great ideas popping [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/attention-distraction-disorder-of-computer-users/

Date: 02/12/05     Keywords: spam

I accidentally stumbled upon a site ( spam-guard[dot]blogspot[dot]com ) which exists for the sole purpose of spamming. It is a spam blog! For sometime spammers have targeted blogs, first through comment spam and now increasingly through trackback spam. While bloggers are adopting measures like captcha and spam karma to thwart them they have turned to another [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-horizons-in-spamming-aka/

Date: 02/11/05     Keywords: web, hosting

I had tried several web hosting providers before settling down. Recently I was checking to see if something better have come up. This post is a summarization of my quest to find the best value for features in web hosting providers.

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Date: 02/11/05     Keywords: php, java

Background I started my career with C then move to C++ and finally stuck on with Java ever since late 1995. I learnt other languages like VB, Basic, Fortran, Pascal (I loved it!) and recently php and some smattering of perl, lisp etc. Yes I also dabbled in C#. As you know structurally all modern...

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Date: 02/11/05     Keywords: browser

My blog readers prefer Mozilla based browsers, which is used by 51.21%. IE is lagging behind at 39.08%!

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Date: 02/11/05     Keywords: web, hosting

I had tried several web hosting providers before settling down. Recently I was checking to see if something better have come up. This post is a summarization of my quest to find the best value for features in web hosting providers. The focus of the review is to identify the key features to look for in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-hosting-recommendations-for-power-users/

Date: 02/11/05     Keywords: php, java

Background I started my career with C then move to C++ and finally stuck on with Java ever since late 1995. I learnt other languages like VB, Basic, Fortran, Pascal (I loved it!) and recently php and some smattering of perl, lisp etc. Yes I also dabbled in C#. As you know structurally all [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-java-is-my-language-of-choice/

Date: 02/10/05     Keywords: browser, linux

My blog readers prefer Mozilla based browsers, which is used by 51.21%. IE is lagging behind at 39.08%! On the other hand my readers prefer Windows with Windows XP alone accounting for 51.48%. MacOS tops non-Windows platform at 6.74%. Linux following closely behind at 5.12%. SunOS is in the last position. It makes sense to open [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-blog-readers-prefer-mozilla-browsers-on-windows/

Date: 02/05/05     Keywords: spam

A very simple trick for clueless trackback spammers attacking WordPress Blogs. Delete your first post (id 0). Write the same content in another post. I receive many trackbacks targeted for the first post. They never show up as the post isn't there!

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Date: 02/05/05     Keywords: spam

"The hardest form to spam is that which requires manual authentication such as captchas." - LinkSpammer interviewed at Register.co.uk. That validates (from horses mouth) what I have been arguing for long. Hmm. Have I insulted the horse species in the process?

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Date: 02/04/05     Keywords: spam

A very simple trick for clueless trackback spammers attacking WordPress Blogs. Delete your first post (id 0). Write the same content in another post. I receive many trackbacks targeted for the first post. They never show up as the post isn't there! I am assuming you have word filter enabled too. That is a must.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/simple-tip-for-trackback-spam-prevention-on-wordpress-blogs/

Date: 02/04/05     Keywords: spam

"The hardest form to spam is that which requires manual authentication such as captchas." - LinkSpammer interviewed at Register.co.uk. That validates (from horses mouth) what I have been arguing for long. Hmm. Have I insulted the horse species in the process? The trackback is still an open issue. However so far I find them easy to filter [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-hardest-form-to-spam-is-that-which-requires-manual-authentication-such-as-captchas-linkspammer/

Date: 02/04/05     Keywords: java, jsp

Target Audience Java/JSP developers on Tomcat and Application Server administrators. Problem Tomcat 5.5 (unlike Tomcat 5.0 and versions below) comes with Eclipse JDT compiler enabled by default for JSP compilation. JDT compiler is not jdk 1.5 compliant as of now.

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Date: 02/03/05     Keywords: java, jsp

Target Audience Java/JSP developers on Tomcat and Application Server administrators. Problem Tomcat 5.5 (unlike Tomcat 5.0 and versions below) comes with Eclipse JDT compiler enabled by default for JSP compilation. JDT compiler is not jdk 1.5 compliant as of now. Solution To just use the javac 1.5 compiler with Java 1.4 source code compliant JSP pages (you cannot [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-javac-15-or-beyond-compiler-for-jsp-compilation-in-tomcat-55-with-generics-enabled-and-other-15-only-features/

Date: 02/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

I realized that Firefox 1.0 download manager often completes abruptly declaring the file download as completed, even when only a portion of the file is downloaded. This is very frequent in slow connections. At this point there is also no facility to re-download the file or better yet recover from...

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Date: 02/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

I realized that Firefox 1.0 download manager often completes abruptly declaring the file download as completed, even when only a portion of the file is downloaded. This is very frequent in slow connections. At this point there is also no facility to re-download the file or better yet recover from the failed download. Secondly firefox [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-download-manager-is-broken/