Date: 12/07/07     Keywords: browser, microsoft

Microsoft was the sole leading browser (all versions combined) in 2002-2003 with over 85% of market share. The earlier leader Netscape had by then sunk into oblivion. Flash forward 2007 and we can see Microsoft Internet Explorer barely holding on to over 50% market share with its fortunes steadily declining. It is still at 57% [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-internet-explorer-market-share-2002-2007/

Date: 12/07/07     Keywords: software, browser, web

Cross-browser and cross-platform testing is a bane as well as a requirement for web applications. Consider Internet Explorer on Windows. There are two major version 6 & 7, not to mention still used 5.5. You need to either use different machines or multi-boot machines or use hacks to run them simultaneously or virtualization software like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-test-web-application-on-internet-explorer-55-6-7-on-windows-mac-safari-firefox-linux/

Date: 12/04/07     Keywords: spam

DROP (Don’t Route Or Peer) is an advisory “drop all traffic” list from Spamhaus, consisting of stolen ‘zombie’ netblocks and netblocks controlled entirely by professional spammers. DROP is a tiny sub-set of the SBL advisory designed for use by firewalls and routing equipment. It can also be implemented in iptable rules as explained below. DROP is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-protect-linux-server-from-stolen-zombie-netblocks-100-pro-spammer-controlled-netblocks/

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

In MySpace on average (based on sample size of 2071208 images) 15 photos are uploaded per user. Considering only users who have at least one or more photos uploaded, they have on average uploaded a staggering 32 photos. MySpace contains at least 289604263 users at the time of this writing. That gives an estimated 4.2 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/myspace-photo-statistics/

Date: 11/30/07     Keywords: spam

I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more. We have combined years of experience [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-wordpress-comment-spam-protection-plugin-released-for-internal-testing/

Date: 11/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

I have added a plugin to allow you to subscribe to comments on my blog and track it in real-time with email. Subscribe to blog comments plugin ( link ) allows you to follow the discussion on articles you like without having to check my blog every time. You will find a checkbox with text [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/subscribe-to-blog-comments/

Date: 11/29/07     Keywords: spam

GMail has apparently gone bonkers with its vaunted spam protection feature or maybe spammers have finally managed to successfully corrupt its (naive bayesian?) filters. GMail is generating tons of false positives (valid emails being marked as spam) with no hope in the horizon so far. You need to be very careful with using GMail. I send [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/beware-gmail-goofs-up-on-spam-protection/

Date: 11/27/07     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

To delete duplicates from a MySQL database table I normally copy the duplicate data first to a temporary table and then use the copied id’s to delete from the original table. Delete using the temporary can take two forms. First is the slow way: delete from target where id in (select id from temp); This can be [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysql-sql-delete-notes/

Date: 11/23/07     Keywords: mysql, sql

In MySQL you can use the GRANT statement to create users and assign privileges to them at the same time. It is extremely convenient and beats create user or directly hacking the mysql.user table. I learned few things about GRANT the hard way. MySQL allows you to create users associated with a particular host name [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysql-creating-users-granting-access-simplified/

Date: 11/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

I learned it the hard way. Our gateway machine with firewall (shorewall) has multiple ADSL connections configured with load balancing for more bandwidth and transparent fail-over. Today I faced an unenviable problem where one or other of the ADSL connections were going down sometime after a network restart. It was unique because the ADSL modems [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/never-restart-network-on-multi-adsl-connection-machine/

Date: 11/22/07     Keywords: google

Text-Link-Ads upped the ante in their fight against Google (in their effort to help people buy page rank) with the following “tips” for bloggers: Our advertisers don’t like ad blocks that are titled “Sponsored Links” “Advertisements” “TLA” “Text Link Ads” etc. They prefer no heading but if you do use a heading please consider using an [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/text-link-ads-new-tips-for-beating-google-pagerank-penalty-asks-bloggers-to-sell-their-integrity/

Date: 11/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

Engadget and few other sites are sporting a creative Mac ad utilizing both the leaderboard and vertical sidebar space to make fun of Vista (again). Check the video. Personally I have given up on Vista long ago. Share This

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dont-give-up-on-vista/

Date: 11/19/07     Keywords: spam

I used to receive around 5,000-7,000 spams daily on angsuman [at] taragana [dot] com email which is publicly available on the internet. It was consuming too many productive hours daily to fight spam. I decided to fight back. To reduce the spams I first made changes to my postfix configuration with the aim to stop [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/6-simple-safe-postfix-changes-for-over-95-spam-reduction/

Date: 11/18/07     Keywords: google

By default in Firefox you can type one or more keywords in the location bar. Firefox recognizes that it is not an URL and uses I’m Lucky search with Google search engine for version < 2; it uses Google search by name for Firefox version 2 and above. Here is how you can change it. 1. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-firefox-location-bar-searching/

Date: 11/18/07     Keywords: linux

AlienBlaster is a refreshing open source shoot-the-aliens game with various levels and an arcade mode. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS/2 & eComStation, Mac OSX (DarwinPorts), MorphOS and AmigaOS4. It isn’t seriously addictive like Battle for Wesnoth, but AlienBlaster is pretty relaxing in its own way. Personally I use it as a stress buster [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/game-review-tips-alien-blaster-for-windows-linux-mac/

Date: 11/18/07     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

Replicating on two or more MySQL master database servers 1. MySQL Master-Master Replication Fails With ERROR 1200 (HY000) on Master 2. Password problem are solved by carefully checking your grant statements 3. When you have more than two master servers, you must use log-slave-updates option to ensure that changes are propagated in a chain. Beware of infinite looping [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/6-mysql-database-replication-tips/

Date: 11/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

This is how you create an infinite loop in bash to run a piece of code perpetually at pre-defined intervals. #!/bin/bash while [ 1 ] do # Your code goes here # Modify sleep time (in seconds) as needed below [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-write-infinite-loop-in-bash/

Date: 11/18/07     Keywords: mysql, sql

Monitoring MySQL queries is a favorite pastime of MySQL administrators especially for performance reasons. Here is a simple bash script to monitor long running MySQL queries in realtime using the ubiquitous ’show processlist’: #!/bin/bash while [ 1 ] do mysql -N -u root -ppassword -e 'show processlist' |grep -v 'show processlist' [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/monitoring-mysql-queries-using-bash-script/

Date: 11/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

This is a comprehensive list of hosted subversion subversion (source code repository) service. I did not include the list of hosted subversion service providers who restrict to only open source projects like sourceforge or tigris. Company Notes SVNRepository Level 1 @ $3.95 / mo comes with 500 MB space, unlimited developers, 1 repository & trac instance. Level 5 @ [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hosted-subversion-services-comprehensive-list-reviews/

Date: 11/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

Lenovo (formerly IBM division) announced very good price for Lenovo H Series (531188Q) Desktop with Intel Pentium Dual-Core Processor E2140 (1.6 GHZ), 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD and 17″ Flat CRT monitor. E2140 Mini Review E2140 processor has 1MB L2 cache at 1.6Ghz speed. It has 800 Mhz front side bus. Thermal design power is 65 Watts [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/great-deal-for-lenovo-desktop-pc-india-at-rs-21100/