Date: 08/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

One of the good reason is that one (or more) of the servers you ping after you publish a post has gone down or is overloaded. When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the configured ping servers that your site has been updated. For last few days my blog posting were taking virtually [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-your-wordpress-blog-posting-is-slow/

Date: 08/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

1. They, for all purposes, do not have customer support: There is a number (1800-424-1600) but when there are problems in the line, nobody picks it up. In the rare cases when somebody does pickup and answer, they can never solve any problem. They will just take the complaint and give you a number. The complaints are never [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-5-reasons-why-bsnl-dataone-broadband-sucks/

Date: 08/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

The WordPress plugin contest results were just announced by Mark Ghosh. We sponsored a copy of Translator Pro 5.0 plugin for the competition. The winners are: Grand Prize Winner The Grand Prize Winner of the Wordpress Plugin Competition is Anirudh Sanjeev for his OneClick Plugin. OneClick is a Wordpress Plugin and Firefox Extension combo that allows you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/congratulations-wordpress-plugin-contest-winners/

Date: 08/26/07     Keywords: java

Java is used either for long running server side applications / application servers or for running short scripts. Let’s look at how you can speed-up both these type of applications. How to speed-up server-side Java applications It is very simple really. Just add -server after the java command like this: java -server HelloWorld Replace HelloWorld with your application name. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-speedup-java-over-100/

Date: 08/26/07     Keywords: spam

I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue. I am trapping the spam comments for our Comment Guard plugin. So all spammers are welcome to spam me! Obviously your comment will not go past the moderation queue and also several bad things will happen to you (spammer) but [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spam-me-ye-comment-spammers/

Date: 08/26/07     Keywords: spam

I got over 2000 comments in my moderation queue, all spam. I was testing Akismet and it appears it is overloaded for quite sometime now and putting literally every comment in moderation queue (happens when it fails or when the connectivity to Akismet fails). Also whenever I am trying to moderate my queue, it is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/akismet-overloaded-down-slowing-blog/

Date: 08/26/07     Keywords: java

There is a minor-war going on in Sun Alumni mailing list and elsewhere where the common misconception: “Java is slow” is surfacing again and again, much to the dismay of knowledgeable Java developers who have known for ages that Java is fast even compared to C++ and has been so for several years. All this [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-is-slow-revisited/

Date: 08/25/07     Keywords: no keywords

Several people are having a bad experience with State Bank Credit Card, myself included. The whole operation smells, run by outside-minimally-paid agents and there are gaping holes in the system which can rob your blind. Even State Bank employees personally advised me not to get one. They are known to overcharge and spuriously charge your [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/beware-of-state-bank-of-india-credit-card/

Date: 08/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

I realized that it is very easy to be a master wand fighter in Harry Potter’s wizarding world, unless off-course you are protected by love-charm in which case you can continue doing whatever you are doing and you will still be protected. Others’ please read the 4 minute guide with 5 tips (+1 bonus) to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-tips-to-be-a-master-wand-fighter-wizard-witch-in-harry-potters-world/

Date: 08/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

APEWS Black List is a joke. They have the whole netblock of VSNL, the Internet Backbone provider of India on their stupid blacklist! VSNL is, as far as I know, the only way you can get a static IP address in India. They are the first and the biggest ISP in India. So if your [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apews-black-list-lists-most-of-india/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, has written a heart-felt piece on the value of branding for a company and its customers. I very much agree with him. A brand is not just a promise, it is an expectation, it is a theme to rally behind. The saying goes, “a brand is a promise.” On a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-meaning-value-of-branding/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

That has to be bad, isn’t it? As per the definition I am really really obese, way beyond regular fat guy. Let’s see what the heck is BMI. What is BMI? BMI is the ratio of your weight divided by the square of your height (metric system). BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-body-mass-index-bmi-is-404-whats-yours/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: technology, java

Kind of gives you a clear indication where Sun (NASDAQ: SUNW) is headed, doesn’t it? It does give me a warm feeling too knowing Sun is so much committed to Java, a language I have been working on since 1996. The change will go into effect on Aug. 27. “The Java brand and technology have [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-to-change-stock-ticker-symbol-to-java/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: spam

The message was a surprise coming from Ryze, which I thought was pretty sane and non-spammy. On investigating their link I realized they want me to subscribe to their paid services to see who wants to network with me! While I am fine with monetization efforts, I just don’t get it. Why would someone sane [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ryze-says-someone-wants-to-network-with-you-so-pay-up/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

A Trojan horse, with a descriptive name Infostealer.Monstres, was used to steal more than 1.6 million records from several hundred thousand people who posted resumes on Monster.com, Symantec has reported. The personal details of hundreds of thousands of candidates, such as name, surname, email address, country, home address, work/mobile/home phone numbers and resume ID etc. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/job-search-site-monster-hacked-16-million-user-records-stolen/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: mysql, sql, spam

I was watching the mysql queries using mytop just before our server went down. In a flash I realized the cause of our persistent server load problem. I have also come up with an elegant solution which I will implement in the next few days. The problem is due to huge spam comment load on my [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-server-load-problem-cause-solution/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: linux

According to DesktopLinux.com’s just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in 2006, and Ubuntu remains the no. 1 Linux distribution of choice for desktop users. The survey comprised of a self-selected sample size of 38, 500 users. This year’s survey produced 38,500 votes versus 14,535 votes over the same number [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/desktop-linux-users-double-in-2006/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: web

Round robin DNS is a simple way to load balance your servers. You can use it balance the load between multiple web / ftp or other servers. Each server has its own IP address. In round robin mode the DNS serves one of the available IP addresses in random order to the requester. The simplest [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-implement-round-robin-dns-for-load-balancing-servers/

Date: 08/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

We are in the middle of changes. We will first switch IP addresses and then add a new server to take on the load, bring it on. Let me know if you ever face any problems in accessing our sites.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/changing-ips-and-adding-servers/

Date: 08/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

Fedora project has created a simple script to install Fedora 7 on a USB Drive with 1GB+ capacity. To use the script you will need two things: 1. A working Fedora 7 installation. You can download the Fedora 7 DVD iso image from here. You will have to burn the image to a DVD and install [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-fedora-7-linux-on-usb-pen-drive-1gb/