Date: 07/02/07     Keywords: web

Twitter is down again. Initially I was getting down for maintenance messages. Now even that is gone. You will be greeted with a stunning blank page (makes me think that too much of anything, including whitespace, is bad). It is facing growing pains like any other suddenly popular Web 2.0 startups. Twister is destined to be [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/twitting-twitter-again/

Date: 07/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

This is a rejoinder to Frank’s article on the same topic. He discusses 13 scenarios. I would like to point to one simple way to spot a non-coding architect. Also how you can spot a good architect. A non-coding architect will inevitably show lack of practical knowledge and use specifications and authorities to justify his statement. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/one-simple-way-to-spot-non-coding-architects/

Date: 07/02/07     Keywords: rss, html, web

Here is a simple one line change which will make your webpages viewable well on iPhone and Blackberry. Add the following to your HTML HEAD section: Apple is using the following on their RSS reader website: The other parameters you can experiment with: initial-scale (first loaded scale), user-scalable (boolean), minimum-scale (default 0.25), maximum-scale (default 1.6). There is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/iphone-hack-make-your-website-readable-on-iphone-blackberry/

Date: 07/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

Here are 6 legitimate reasons why you wouldn’t want to buy an iPhone: 6. You hate Steve Jobs and / or Apple fanatics. 5. You prefer longer talk time. 4. You need the quiet and solitude that comes with less connectivity. 3. You value your eyesight and don’t want to waste it reading New York Times on iPhone 2. You [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-6-reasons-not-to-buy-iphone/

Date: 07/01/07     Keywords: web, yahoo, google

I use both YPN & AdSense. Read below for a summary of my experience with both Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN). Ad Relevance / Targeting of YPN & AdSense AdSense provides much more relevant ads than Yahoo publisher network in general. However YPN provides publisher the ability to select ad categories for their website. There [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adsense-versus-yahoo-publisher-network/

Date: 07/01/07     Keywords: linux

Rapidshare is a popular site for sharing files. With free access you can only download 1 file per hour. Here is how you can bypass this limit on Linux. This hack is applicable to (A)DSL users without static IP address. In India DataOne Broadband is one such provider. To bypass the limit run the following [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rapidshare-hack-bypass-1-hour-download-limit-on-linux/

Date: 06/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

A UAE based site (Souq.com) is auctioning blank sheets of original watermarked 5 Rs Indian notes. The current bid is 79 AED. One of India’s growing problems is rampant distribution of fake notes to fund terrorist operations. My concern is that such auctions may make it easier for them to procure raw materials to use [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/watermarked-blank-5-rs-indian-bank-notes-on-auction/

Date: 06/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Today, 29th June, CN aired the last episode of DragonBall Z. It will start looping again from the beginning from 2nd July. Forget about Frieza saga, Goku turning SSJ, not to mention Cell or Buu saga. Cartoon Network India, by even the most lenient standards, is sick. I am now officially over Cartoon Network. It [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-download-dragonball-z-episodes/

Date: 06/29/07     Keywords: java, jsp

After sometime I am back to developing in Java & JSP. And boy does it smell good! If there is a programmers heaven, I am in it now. I have small self-made libraries to help automating regular tasks, tons of high quality free third-party libraries for the bigger ones like opencsv, poi etc. and I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-smell-of-java-jsp-or-a-case-for-java/

Date: 06/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

Sun Microsystems announced today that its hardware will power the largest supercomputer ever built, with 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of memory, 1.7 petabytes of disk space, and 504 teraflops of performance. Ranger will be hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, Austin. It is due to go online on January [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/suns-new-super-computer-equals-120-of-human-brain/

Date: 06/27/07     Keywords: no keywords

Translator Plugin Pro & Gold tries through all the available engines for a language combination to translate the page. This ensures much higher reliability than single engine translations. We use several translation engines. Each engine occasionally gives certain errors which we recognize and take appropriate action. Such action may include turning off the engine for a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/understanding-translator-error-page/

Date: 06/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

Seagate announced availability of Terabyte disk drives at 7200 rpm; separate models targeted for enterprise and consumer desktops. The enterprise drives features serial attached SCSI interface option. Last week Samsung announced terabyte disk drives. A brief overview of the offerings and key differentiators. Seagate Terabyte Drive Models The Barracuda ES.2 model is targeted for enterprise use and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/terabyte-disk-drives-from-seagate-samsung/

Date: 06/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

AT&T Inc. and Apple Inc. on Tuesday revealed prices for iPhone service, which would start at $59.99 a month and require customers to buy an Internet plan. Where to buy iPhone iPhone is expected go on sale Friday evening at 1,800 retail stores operated by AT&T (T) and about 200 stores run by Apple (AAPL) . Apple [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/iphone-service-starts-at-5999-internet-plan/

Date: 06/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

We are sending the updates as we speak. It will take us few more days to complete the process. Please have patience. We are on the job. I promise you the wait will be worth it. Share This

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-happened-to-my-atpp-update/

Date: 06/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

In directories under subversion there may be files which you do not want to add to subversion. Normally such files would show in subversion status (svn stat) with ? in front of them. This is useful to let you find files that you may have missed. However in some cases there are files you want [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/subversion-how-to-ignore-files-from-status-display/

Date: 06/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

I really like the opening song of Ben 10 sung by Mz. Moxy & written by Andy Sturmer. The lyrics are hard to fully understand. I used a high pass filter and here it is: “It started when an alien device did what it did And stuck itself upon his wrist with secrets that it hid Now he’s [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ben-10-lyrics/

Date: 06/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

While Twitter is an useful service and pretty enjoyable too, it has become blindingly slow to the point of being unusable, the price of popularity I presume. Now you can look in my twitter profile to find out everything, which I decide to write about, I am doing. It is much more detailed than my blog. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/twitter-is-blindingly-slow/

Date: 06/22/07     Keywords: software, java

Fedora Core team, in its infinite wisdom, decided to ship a so-called “free” (but essentially useless and crappy; pardon my French) JVM (read gcj) with its installation. Not only that this “free” JVM is integrated with java softwares from Fedora repositories making them pretty hard to use too. I think this is a ridiculous decision [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-java-compiler-in-ant-on-fedora-core-linux/

Date: 06/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

I just got hooked into twitter, a service which exists for the sole purpose of letting others know what you are doing at this moment. However it is more than that. You can use it to privately communicate with your friends, find out what they are doing and more. Twitter can bring your globally distributed friends [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/twittering-away/

Date: 06/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is reviewing 162 identifiable records of registered Mississippi sex offenders provided by MySpace. “MySpace has assured us that the sex offenders they reported to us have been removed from the site,” said Hood. “We are working with MySpace to improve and expand the effectiveness of protections for children under [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/162-mississippi-sex-offenders-in-myspaceis-myspace-safe/