Date: 01/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

Much as I try to understand, I think Sun's freeing up of Solaris is a bad bad move. Solaris was their cash cow!

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Date: 01/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

In my microcosm of viewers (of this blog site) Firefox is rapidly gaining in popularity and accounts for ~24% of the market share. Mozilla & Netscape accounts for merely 6%. Overall they account for 32% of the market share. IE family accounts for 66% of the market and Opera remains a fringe...

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Date: 01/15/05     Keywords: software

Much as I try to understand, I think Sun's freeing up of Solaris is a bad bad move. Solaris was their cash cow! If I were in the hot seat I would have kept Solaris up and running as paid-for-software with new innovations (like dtrace) and simultaneously have gone for: 1. new product offerings in grid computing [...]

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Date: 01/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

In my microcosm of viewers (of this blog site) Firefox is rapidly gaining in popularity and accounts for ~24% of the market share. Mozilla & Netscape accounts for merely 6%. Overall they account for 32% of the market share. IE family accounts for 66% of the market and Opera remains a fringe player with less than [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/browser-war-results-from-my-microcosm-of-the-web/

Date: 01/08/05     Keywords: mysql, sql

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart And of course there is the brute force way to kill all the processes: $ for i in `ps -ef |grep mysqld |awk '{print $2}'`; do `kill -9 $i`; done cut doesn't cut it in this case.

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Date: 01/08/05     Keywords: mysql, sql

/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld start /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart And of course there is the brute force way to kill all the processes: $ for i in `ps -ef |grep mysqld |awk '{print $2}'`; do `kill -9 $i`; done cut doesn't cut it in this case. Sure you can also just use awk. Thanks to Anthony Eden for the comment (below) to remove the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-startstop-mysql-server-on-linux/

Date: 12/27/04     Keywords: no keywords

How can I configure Thunderbird to allow me to use any of the chosen accounts to send my email. This is something which is very helpful for me in MS Outlook.

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Date: 12/27/04     Keywords: no keywords

How can I configure Thunderbird to allow me to use any of the chosen accounts to send my email. This is something which is very helpful for me in MS Outlook. Use case: I use different SMTP accounts to send email addresses. Also they serve me as backup when tbere is any problem in my main smtp [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/missing-in-thunderbird/

Date: 12/26/04     Keywords: software, java

I have put a new blog which lists hot jobs postings associated with software & bioinformatics industry, job leads available by word-of-mouth, mailings lists of alumni associations, java architects, java user groups, vc mailings lists etc. In other words postings, often for high profile jobs,...

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Date: 12/25/04     Keywords: software, java

I have put a new blog which lists hot jobs postings associated with software & bioinformatics industry, job leads available by word-of-mouth, mailings lists of alumni associations, java architects, java user groups, vc mailings lists etc. In other words postings, often for high profile jobs, which are normally accessible to inner circle only.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/announcement-job-blog/

Date: 12/25/04     Keywords: spam

My recipe for getting rid of comment spam once and for all: Install WordPress 1.2.1 or later. Install ImageAuth hack

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Date: 12/25/04     Keywords: spam

I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site. Wonder of wonder's the spam karma filter trigerred again! And then it took me to a CAPTCHA plugin :) After validating it complanied again by throwing me a beautiful looking...

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Date: 12/25/04     Keywords: no keywords

Lets start with a great story by Prescott in his book on consulting. "... My grandpappy used to tell a story about a stubborn cucumber. When he put it in the barrel, it looked around at the other cukes and was revolted by what had happened to them. 'Dadgum it,' he cursed. 'What's the matter with...

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Date: 12/25/04     Keywords: spam

My recipe for getting rid of comment spam once and for all: Install WordPress 1.2.1 or later. Install ImageAuth hack Go to Options Tab. Under Discussion ensure: Email me whenever: Anyone posts a comment is checked. Email me whenever: A comment [...]

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Date: 12/24/04     Keywords: spam

I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site. Wonder of wonder's the spam karma filter trigerred again! And then it took me to a CAPTCHA plugin :) After validating it complanied again by throwing me a beautiful looking [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bad-karma-by-spam-karma-filter/

Date: 12/24/04     Keywords: no keywords

Lets start with a great story by Prescott in his book on consulting. "... My grandpappy used to tell a story about a stubborn cucumber. When he put it in the barrel, it looked around at the other cukes and was revolted by what had happened to them. 'Dadgum it,' he cursed. 'What's the matter with [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cucumbers-get-more-pickled-than-brine-gets-cucumbered/

Date: 12/21/04     Keywords: spam

Excerpt from the best spam of 2004: In 1977, Kaplan Education LTD was sued by the Federal Trade Commission at Federal Trade Commission v. Kaplan Education, LTD, et al, 433 F. Supp. 989, *; 1977 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15398, **; 1977-2 Trade Cas (CCH) P61, 541, for false, misleading, and deceptive...

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Date: 12/21/04     Keywords: java

Typing a keyword like java in the location box does an automatic search and takes you to the first link it finds. It fails when the link contains a (dot). This is useful for "I'm lucky" kind of search.

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Date: 12/21/04     Keywords: html

http://www.gadflyonline.com/10-29-01/ftr-caryl-chessman.html Many years have passed since his death. Its time to look back again. He may have been a "smartass" as they say but did he deserve to die?

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Date: 12/21/04     Keywords: no keywords

Radio waves from mobile phones harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions, according to a new study majority-funded by the European Union, researchers said on Monday.

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