Date: 09/07/07     Keywords: yahoo

You too may have received a sad notice from Yahoo Photos: Dear Angsuman, Thank you so much for using Yahoo! Photos. Before we go, we can help you move your photos to Flickr, Yahoo!’s other photo sharing service. You must decide what to do by October 18, 2007, because any photos still here after that date will be [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-photos-is-closing-so-what/

Date: 09/07/07     Keywords: rss

WordPress provides you the capability to write an excerpt for your post. A post excerpt is displayed as a summary of the post in front page and archive pages. It is also used in RSS feeds where summary option is enabled. To write a post excerpt you can click on Optional Excerpt section (below upload section) [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-how-to-automatically-create-post-excerpt-summary/

Date: 09/06/07     Keywords: no keywords

Tom Davis is an entrepreneur who is currently deployed in PSYOP in Afganistan for US Army. He is trying to launch his startup company from Afganistan with a co-founder presumably in US. He tells us about his experience in launching a startup from the restrictive environment (”I live in a room the size of a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/startup-lessons-from-psyop-barracks-in-afganistan/

Date: 09/05/07     Keywords: java, linux, google

Joshua has come up with very “specific” and very interesting rumors from “reliable sources” about the Google Phone: 1. the phone will run on a Linux distro 2. It will not only have Java Virtual Machine embedded but also the operating system and all the phone applications with be Java based too. The performance is said to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/specific-rumors-on-java-os-based-google-phone-running-on-linux/

Date: 09/05/07     Keywords: google

I noticed something funny with this site’s statistics. On average people are spending 4 minute 8 seconds on the site. That has to be good, right? However the bounce rate is hovering at 70% according to Google Analytics. What does both these figures translate to? Any suggestion in improving the bounce rate or increasing the average [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/help-me-with-understanding-my-site-stats/

Date: 09/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

Here is the live feed of visitors from our side. You can also see it on the right sidebar. FEEDJIT gives you real-time traffic data on your blog. No registration is required. See it after the break. Also how you can get one for your blog. You can find it here. Share This

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tip-what-others-are-reading-on-this-site/

Date: 09/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

Today I was reading a very interesting blog by Scott who has detailed analysis of all Dr. House episodes which are very engrossing to read. I also came across his experience as a medical student where he was treating a patient with severe depression - “Mrs. D was brought to the ER last night for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/power-of-star-trek-to-cure-severe-depression/

Date: 09/04/07     Keywords: rss

You can get my daily twitter digest here. Here is the RSS feed of the daily digest. My twitter id is angsuman. Feel free to link with me on twitter. Share This

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/daily-twitter-digest/

Date: 09/04/07     Keywords: java

You heard it right. I too am surprised to say the least. I am part of JavaJousters mailing list, a Java algorithms challenge group, where we discuss about JRobots tournaments and tips and tricks on creating or improving JRobots, an addictive game for java programmers. Today Ashmitha Govada joined the mailing list and then immediately [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-spamming-mailing-lists/

Date: 09/03/07     Keywords: linux, google

Marco discovered a nice Flight Simulator from Google hidden within Google Earth. You need the latest version of Google Earth for it. I had Google Earth version 4.1.x which didn’t work. You have to download the latest version 4.2. It provides You can activate it on different operating system as follows: On Linux Press: Ctrl-Alt-a On Windows [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-flight-simulator-hidden-easter-egg-in-google-earth/

Date: 09/03/07     Keywords: web, google

Compete is a relatively new player in website ranking and third party analytics, a space dominated so far by Alexa rankings and Google PageRank. Whereas Google PageRank is an approximate ranking for a single page, Compete rankings are, like Alexa, for the entire site and they offer it for free. In my initial analysis compete [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/compete-free-website-ranking-analytics/

Date: 09/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

I currently use RAID1 with LVM on Fedora Core including RAID 1 on boot partition. This provides a fully redundant storage system with the ability to expand volume size in future. However RAID & LVM has to be managed from command line tools like mdadm in raidtools package. EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) on the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/converting-raid1-lvm-fedora-core-to-evms-enterprise-volume-management-system-experiences/

Date: 09/03/07     Keywords: linux

SystemRescueCd is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains lots of system utilities (GParted, parted, partimage, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hard-disk-crash-recovery-using-bootable-systemrescuecd-free/

Date: 09/03/07     Keywords: software, linux

Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystems (see below) to an image file. It is a free and open source alternative to the popular software Norton Ghost or DriveImage. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported. The partition image file can be compressed with the gzip / bzip2 programs to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/partimage-free-open-source-norton-ghost-alternative/

Date: 09/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

Social Bookmarking is back on Simple Thoughts blog. I have added Alex King’s Share This plugin along with a modified version of Digg It plugin. These plugins allow you to easily bookmark any of our articles for future reference and also to share them with other viewers. Share This plugin also allows you to email [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/social-bookmarking-is-back-use-it/

Date: 09/03/07     Keywords: php

Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress blogs provides automatic machine translation of your blog in 14 languages* - English, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Swedish, Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional. It is fully customizable with PHP API & tags. One of the frequent requests is how we can provide only [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-display-links-only-in-translator-plugin-pro/

Date: 09/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

I changed my Tata Indicom Broadband plan to 1 Mbps Unlimited starting from this month. My experiences in brief… I am pleasantly surprised to find the sustained download bandwidth of 1.6 Mbps for last 6-7 hours. Nice bonus, eh? I am using it to download Fedora 7 DVD now. I had heard lots of bad reviews [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tata-indicom-broadband-1-mbps-unlimited-broadband-experience/

Date: 09/02/07     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

Have you tried Master-Master replication (bi-directional slave-master replication) for MySQL? I am finding myself in a position where I need to have this replication to support the load on my blogs and sites. I would very much appreciate if you can share your experience & suggestions with master-master replication of MySQL database. I don’t want to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysql-master-master-replication/

Date: 09/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

I extensively use awk (along with cut and grep) for data processing of log files or for any text processing needs. AWK is an excellent text processing tool / filter and report generator. Why is AWK so important? It is an excellent filter and report writer. Many UNIX utilities generates rows and columns of information. AWK [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comprehensive-awk-manual-awk-example/

Date: 09/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Cartoon Network is a sick little puppy which forces really poor serials like Pokemon (someone dubbed it as Poke-shit) on its ever dwindling number of hapless viewers. I dare Cartoon Network to show me one, just one, non-brain-dead viewer (obviously excluding Cartoon Network execs) who enjoys Pokemon. I started watching CN again for Dragon Ball Z. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/who-watches-pokemon-except-cartoon-network-execs/