Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: database

Automattic hosts WordPress.com using dedicated servers from LayeredTech. According to Todd Abrams, President & COO of Layered Technologies: “The Layered Technologies support database was a target of malicious activity on the evening of 9/17/2007 that may have involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and server login details for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpresscoms-dedicated-web-hosting-provider-layeredtech-accounts-compromised/

Date: 09/19/07     Keywords: browser, html, java

Scott Schiller has re-created the classical Araknoid game with DHTML. It is elegantly done and a fun to play. He nicely summarizes his experience in developing the game: Many late nights and coffee went into the development of DHTML Arkanoid. Forget formal education - this was a double-header in Object-Oriented Javascript, DOM procedures, and cross-browser compatibility. Oh and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/classical-araknoid-game-in-dhtml/

Date: 09/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

AdSense supports Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) for direct deposit of you AdSense income in 26 countries. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) directly deposits into your bank account, in your local currency, to greatly speed up and simplify the payment process. You do not have to take the hassle of submitting your check every month nor do [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/guide-to-adsense-electronic-fund-transfer/

Date: 09/18/07     Keywords: web

Event: What’s New with AdSense Webinar. Description: AdSense support specialists will provide an overview of the latest features in AdSense as well as a refresher on the top support issues every publisher should know. Date and Time: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:30 pm India Standard Time (Bombay, India) or Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:00 am Pacific Daylight [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-google-adsense-online-webinar/

Date: 09/17/07     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (approx: $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission. The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position. A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-lost-appeal-against-497-million-euro-fine-by-european-commission/

Date: 09/17/07     Keywords: web

I am faced with the task to evaluate between several strongly competing product ideas in Web 2.0 space. It is not an easy task to evaluate strong competing ideas, each with a reasonable business model, in this space because of unpredictability of the market. So I asked this question to my highly experienced peers in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-compare-product-ideas/

Date: 09/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

PayPal support page isn’t visible even for logged in users. Any email to support@paypal.com is automatically bounced. The support page is a hidden page in PayPal (nice way to ensure good customer support, isn’t it?). You can find it here - https://www.paypal.com/ewf/f=default It has a standard set of questions which tries to outguess you. Few pointers: 1. You [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-contact-paypal-customer-support/

Date: 09/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

Translator Plugin Gold for WordPress Blogs Statistics Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Gold has served over 3,033,523 translated pages since May 2007. 97.068% of the translated pages were served from cache. Over 1,159,197 pages were served to human traffic (38.21%) Don’t you think your blog deserves such traffic boost too? Translator Pro Gold does automatic machine translation of your blog to 32 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-gold-over-3-million-translated-pages-served-in-4-months/

Date: 09/16/07     Keywords: linux

The SCO Group filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. SCO’s subsidiary, SCO Operations, Inc., has also filed a petition for reorganization. As many had predicted over the years, SCO’s last ditch attempt to force Linux users to fund the company proved fruitless. Their largest creditor is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sco-linux-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/

Date: 09/16/07     Keywords: asp

-> As you all probably know by now Sun decided to sell Windows 2003 servers (gasp, sputter… Scott McNealy would surely turn in his grave on hearing this news; wait a minute, he is still the Chairman of Sun) on its hardware. The key question on everyone’s mind is has Sun finally found a direction as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-joins-the-dark-lord-strategic-move-or-totally-lost/

Date: 09/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

UK Ministry of Defence is using secure Blackberry’s to allow their staff to communicate on the move. It uses The Blackberry Enterprise Server system which allows lost or stolen smartphones to be remote controlled, shut down, or even wiped clean by IT administrators. Users have secure wireless access to email, phone access and organizer [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/uk-ministry-of-defence-adapts-blackberry-is-it-safe/

Date: 09/12/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Most guide to adding multiple IP addresses on Linux starts with the Microsoft-like solution of using ifconfig. While the solution is correct it doesn’t survive a reboot or even a network restart. Here’s how you can easily and permanently add multiple IP addresses to the same (or different) network interface on your Linux machine. I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-multiple-ip-addresses-on-linux-fedora-core-fedora/

Date: 09/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

I morally support BadVista campaign in as much as it helps educate people that: 1. Windows Vista is actually a downgrade (from Windows XP or Windows 2000) wherein you are forced to support DRM (for content producers) at your expense (CPU & Memory) forcing you to upgrade your hardware just to get reasonable performance out of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-microsoft-vista-is-bad-badvista-good-but-fsf-bad/

Date: 09/11/07     Keywords: html

I have tried several HTML Editors over the years. One of the earliest WYSIWYG HTML editor I used was Netscape Gold / Composer, which was quite basic but probably the only one at that time (1995). For quite sometime after that I used Visual Page, even when the product was discontinued because of its simplicity [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/recommended-free-windows-linux-html-editor-open-source/

Date: 09/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Cree, Inc. (Nasdaq:CREE), a leading innovator in LED lighting components, today announced it has demonstrated light output of more than 1,000 lumens, an amount equivalent to the output level of a standard household light bulb, from a single LED. A single-die LED, driven at four amps, produced 1,050 lumens in cool white and 760 lumens [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/finally-single-led-1000-lumens-as-bright-as-incandescent-bulb/

Date: 09/09/07     Keywords: web

Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn’t be abused by using keywords like “Web Banner Design”, for example. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/abusing-comment-name-field-for-seo-no-sir/

Date: 09/09/07     Keywords: php, security, linux

I was looking for the wiki of a popular Linux based firewall site. The main url was 404, so I went up one level hoping to find a new url. Suddenly I had a directory listing with interesting files and a link to phpMyAdmin. Wondering how a firewall site maintains its own security, I clicked [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firewall-site-exposes-sensitive-data-through-phpmyadmin/

Date: 09/09/07     Keywords: spam

Spammer of the day - Florida based Interactive Marketing Group repeatedly spammed us 86 times abusing our Contact Form touting their ImgSite[dot]net service from the IP address 85.255.121.130. They are our spammer of the day. Their email is tech@imgsite.net. Feel free to email them and add them to your ban list. Share This

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spammer-of-the-day/

Date: 09/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Run the command: ip address show In the output you will find lines like these: inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet 192.168.1.10/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth1 The highlighted portions are your (ipv4) ip addresses. The /8 or /24 represents your network. /8 means your subnet mask is 255.0.0.0 and /24 means your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. You will not have [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-find-all-ip-addresses-on-linux/

Date: 09/08/07     Keywords: linux

I am wading through tons of material to improve my knowledge of Linux networking in general and more specifically to configure our firewalls properly and routing for multiple uplink providers with traffic shaping and failover. My earlier attempt to shortcut with eBox failed so this time I am going all the way. Expect more articles [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wading-in-iptables-traffic-shaping-routing-for-multiple-uplink-providers/