Date: 05/19/07     Keywords: database, sql, java

HSQLD is a mature, high-performant database written in Java. It is used in several high profile popular commercial and open source products like Open Office 2.0 (Office productivity suite; competitor of MS Office), JBoss (Application Server), JFox (Application Server), Jonas (Application Server), Mathemetica, Hibernate (ORM), Jira (Defect Tracking), TrackStudio (Defect Tracking), C-JDBC (Database Clustering) etc. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-case-for-hsqldb-as-rdbms-for-java-development/

Date: 05/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

A King had, as only son, a young Prince, brave, skillful and intelligent. To perfect his knowledge of Life, he sent him by the side of an Old Wise Man. “Bring Light to my Path of Life”, the Prince asked. “My words will faint away like the prints of your steps in the sand”, the Wise [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-path-to-freedom/

Date: 05/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

Two likable Hindi songs by A.R. Rehman and danced by Prabhu Deba. When the songs first came out, it was significantly different from the rest of the pack. These songs mark the rise to fame of A.R. Rehman. Both the songs are also available in Malayalam version. Enjoy!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/two-beautiful-hindi-songs-from-past/

Date: 05/16/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft, google

Google AdSense allows exporting the data in CSV format, suitable for Microsoft Excel. It doesn’t open in Mousepad, Gedit or even in normal spreadsheet programs under Linux. Here’s how you can open and use it under Linux. Open the file in KSpread and choose Unicode ( utf16 ) as its encoding. Also select Tabulator as delimiter [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-open-google-adsense-spreadsheet-data-in-linux/

Date: 05/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Translator Plugin Pro 5.0 has been fully tested and ready for release. The final step before the release is completing the documentation. Translator 5.0 is focussed on providing enterprise grade robustness and automatic recovery capability in case of failures. The product has been re-designed and tons of new features have been added. Some of the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-50-update/

Date: 05/16/07     Keywords: google

I got a ping from Google India’s R&D department. They are looking for leadership role and were apparently quite impressed with my online resume; which hasn’t been updated for about 5 years or more. I politely refused as I am very happy where I am, developing new products and services. So unless someone comes up [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-rd-contacted-me-for-leadership-position/

Date: 05/15/07     Keywords: no keywords

Let us assume that you have already setup your NFS and NIS server. Now you need to configure your clients. Here are the steps you can follow to configure them in 5 minutes or less: Configuring NFS Client Run: chkconfig portmap on chkconfig ypbind on chkconfig nfslock on chkconfig netfs on service portmap start service netfs start service nfslock start Open /etc/auto.master and add the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/3-minute-guide-to-configuring-nfs-nis-clients/

Date: 05/15/07     Keywords: security

Several years ago I noticed a big issue with NIS security at Sun, which I promptly reported hoping for a patch. Today I found out it is still there. Hopefully a full disclosure will help solve it. In typical NFS-NIS setup, users on NIS client machines login to their NIS accounts (like Windows users login [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/full-disclosure-nis-security-hole-full-access-by-nis-client-root/

Date: 05/15/07     Keywords: database

I faced an extremely weird problem of ghost DNS lookups on machines configured as NFS clients. It took quite an effort to solve it. Here are the details. Configuration I have a machine configured as NFS & NIS server, named database. There is another machine (named internet) configured as caching DNS server and also to provide DNS [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ghost-dns-lookup-puzzle-on-nis-clients/

Date: 05/14/07     Keywords: browser, google

SearchStatus extension for Firefox is a cool extension which shows Google as well as Alexa rankings for each page. However it synchronizes between rank updates in each tab and literally hangs your browser for extended periods when you are working with multiple tabs. In short it simply makes multi-tabbing unusable. The cpu utilization isn’t high [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/beware-of-searchstatus-firefox-extension/

Date: 05/14/07     Keywords: no keywords

SessionSaver is a popular Firefox extension which allows you to seamlessly save existing session and restore it automatically at startup. You can also name the session and retrieve them anytime in future. Unfortunately SessionSaver isn’t available in Firefox 2.0.x and is likely not to be made available. However there are two good alternatives. Firefox 2.0.x provides [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sessionsaver-for-firefox-20x/

Date: 05/14/07     Keywords: browser

Fedora Core 6 ships with Firefox 1.5.x version. Firefox 2.0.x is currently in development repository of Fedora Core 6. So the command to update to Firefox 2.0.x browser is: yum -y –enablerepo=development update firefox It also updates fedora-bookmarks and yelp. At around 21M it is a must upgrade. The current version as of today is 2.0.0.3-4. BTW: I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-update-to-firefox-20x-in-fedora-core-linux/

Date: 05/14/07     Keywords: php, xml

WordPress 2.2 is about to be released. Currently the release candidate 2 has the following features: PHP 5.2.2 fixes: WP importer now works in PHP 5.2.2 Workaround for PHP 5.2.2 bug that breaks XMLRPC Fixed fatal error in cache.php by flushing output buffers during shutdown. The archives widget is fixed so the show count option works for dropdowns TinyMCE is now [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-22-release-fixes/

Date: 05/12/07     Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, postgresql, linux

Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux. It used MySQL as backend. Here are the steps: 1. Export Mantis MySQL database from Windows, upload it on Linux and then import it to MySQL database on [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-migrate-mantis-defect-tracking-system-from-windows-to-linux-fedora-core-6/

Date: 05/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

I get tons of requests to hack MySpace so someone can spy on their wife / husband / girlfriends / spouse / daughter. The requests are varied but the overall theme is same. Someone feels betrayed or has the nagging feeling that something isn’t right. They somehow conclude that spying on their suspect via hacking [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cheating-wives-girlfriends-and-myspace/

Date: 05/07/07     Keywords: web

Dean asked me: Hello, im 21 looking to build a website for the first time. I’ve been looking into adsense and have been interested for a while. I was wondering if you built your website for that sole reason? to make money from adsense? because I think maybe thats the reason I want to build one. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-did-i-create-simple-thoughts-blog/

Date: 05/07/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Are you a developer or QA engineer, in an all Linux workplace, always looking for scarce Windows machines to run Microsoft Internet Explorer for testing your product and services? You could also be the manager who is eager to switch to Linux but cannot do so because of strong requirement for testing on Internet Explorer. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-run-microsoft-internet-explorer-7-6-55-51-in-linux/

Date: 05/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

Bob Rosner from ABCNews shares few good tips from Rachelle Canter’s book, “Make the Right Career Move”, for executive resumes. How many of them do you follow? The key points he makes are: Resumes are necessary even for executives Resumes will help your internal advocates sell you to their colleagues. They can create a buzz about [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tips-for-executive-resumes/

Date: 05/04/07     Keywords: database, asp, google

No seriously, a significant portion of my brain is in Google databases, accessible to everyone around the world. I only keep the index. Let me explain. The way I work is that I remember the most significant aspect of any concept and few keywords to identify the concept or idea and then I use Google [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-brain-is-in-google/

Date: 05/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

While cleaning my computer I came across the audio of a very motivating commencement speech by Steve Jobs, delivered to 2005 Stanford graduates. The summary of the speech, in his own words, is: You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/