Date: 05/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

Working at DoubleTwist was my best experience as an employee. I loved every minute working there. I am still in touch with several of my friends from DoubleTwist. While cleaning my my old computer I found some pictures from my DoubleTwist days which brought back flood of memories, so I thought I should share. All of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/images-from-my-doubletwist-past/

Date: 05/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

In the process of mirroring Fedora Core updates repository over a slow (256 Kbps) connection using rsync, I realized that the process can be extremely frustrating as you spend lots of time looking at the console, waiting for something to happen…anything. Then I found the magic option to show a progress meter - –progress. Add [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tips-on-downloading-with-rsync-over-slow-connection/

Date: 05/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

I was recently introduced to Mercurial, a new distributed version control system people are talking about. Version control systems are central to any development team and a choice shouldn’t be made lightly as you will often find your development process limited by the limitations of the system. We use Subversion, a decision I made [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meta-review-of-mercurial-distributed-version-control-system/

Date: 05/02/07     Keywords: no keywords

The Trashcan on your Fedora Core desktop (tested for gnome) is actually located in ~/Trash directory. So a simple commaond as below should clear your trash: rm -rf ~/.Trash/* Why did I need this? There were some files in the Trash can which I didn’t have permission to clean. Most likely I used some program with root permissions [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-delete-trash-from-command-line-in-linux-fedora-core-6/

Date: 05/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Today when I was trying to install createrepo and repoview, I repeatedly got this weird error: Error: Missing Dependency: python(abi) = 2.4. The problem is strange at first sight because yum is designed to include missing dependencies. The solution is very simple, just run: yum –rebuilddb That’s it.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-solve-missing-dependency-errors-in-yum/

Date: 04/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

It was very frustrating to watch DragonBall Z dubbed poorly in Hindi in Cartoon Network, India today. It is murder, plain and simple. DBZ sucks in Hindi and that too with a really sad voiceover of Raditz. Finally Cartoon Network started airing a decent serial and they goofed up again by providing Hindi dubbing, oh [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dragonball-z-in-hindi-a-tragedy/

Date: 04/30/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

I am evaluating different Groupware packages (like Microsoft Exchange) for Linux. Can you please give some recommendations? So far I have come across Scalix, eGroupware, Open-XChange and The Horde project. Have you used any of them for business?

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/groupware-on-linux-recommendations/

Date: 04/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am using a Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHZ x 2), one of the best processor (review) in market today, with 2GHZ of DDR 2 667 RAM (read about my dream computer setup), and yet Firefox manages to hog 97% of the CPU in no time at all. I admit that I open too [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-solve-100-cpu-hogging-by-firefox-in-2-steps/

Date: 04/30/07     Keywords: linux

To monitor CPU temperature in Linux you will need to install lm_sensors package and then install gnome-applet-sensors (assuming you are using gnome) to get a nice graphical display. The devil is in the details. The shipped lm_sensors doesn’t work on Fedora Core 6 with 2.6 kernels. It also doesn’t support core 2 duo. Install To [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/lm_sensors-guide-or-how-to-monitor-cpu-temperature-in-linux-fedora-core-6-26-kernel/

Date: 04/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

I needed to run Synergy server for my triple monitor setup at startup of Gnome session. crontab isn’t going to help here. I found a simple solution in Sessions applet located at System->Preferences->More Preferences->Sessions. It allows you to add scripts to run during X session startup. This is equivalent of adding programs to Startup group in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-programs-to-x-gnome-session-startup/

Date: 04/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

I have a love-hate relationship with Alliance Broadband, mostly hate. I took their service twice or thrice and ended up dropping them in favor of BSNL Dataone Broadband. The hate was mostly from poor connectivity in the past. Today I noticed they have a attractive (from Indian standpoint) package: Super Executive Pack Bandwidth: 512 Kbps Access time: Any [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/alliance-broadband-unlimited-512-kbps-plan-thoughts/

Date: 04/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

Indian government proposes to offer all citizens of India free, high-speed broadband connectivity by 2009, through the state-owned telecom service providers BSNL and MTNL. This has the potential to kill current telecom business model in India. As a consumer and internet based service provider, I whole-heartedly support this proposal. Many cities in the US already have [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-broadband-in-2009/

Date: 04/29/07     Keywords: linux

I started using dual monitors (SyncMaster 740N) on Linux (Fedora Core 6) about a month back on my new dream computer. I used GeForce 6200 LE with 256 MB RAM which provides for dual monitors with a VGA and DVI output. I had to use a DVI to VGA converter to attach the second [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/using-triple-monitor-setup-with-dual-monitor-laptop-linux-windows/

Date: 04/24/07     Keywords: no keywords

Following three simple steps now you can get rid of the pesky and sometimes buggy Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) notifications: 1. Reboot Windows in safe mode (hold the f8 key while booting and you will get the option to boot in safe mode) and then: 2. Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and search for wgalogon folder and delete [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-disable-windows-genuine-advantage-notification-in-3-simple-steps/

Date: 04/22/07     Keywords: no keywords

Aisi Lagi Lagan - … “In our families there are the heads; some of them are successful, others are not. Why? We complain of others in our failures. The moment I am unsuccessful, I say, so-and-so is the cause of the failure. In failure, one does not like to confess one’s own faults and weaknesses. Each [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/swami-vivekananda-on-personality/

Date: 04/22/07     Keywords: virus

Active immunization is an extremely interesting technique in fighting against internet based viruses, trojans and worms. Laurent Oudot of the Rstack team created a prototype in 2003. He identified hosts compromised with msblast.exe worm using honeyd - a popular honeypot and then immunized them using the same exploit (to obtain a shell) as the worm [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/active-immunization-against-internet-viruses-worms-trojans/

Date: 04/22/07     Keywords: software, linux

BSNL DataOne provides software for connecting to Linux. However I found that you can setup much easier and without using their custom software. First you must know that the DSL modem from BSNL can be directly setup to connect automatically, provide firewall, DHCP and even NAT to allow multiple computers to connect to the internet. So [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-setup-bsnl-dataone-broadband-on-linux-fedora-core/

Date: 04/22/07     Keywords: linux

ADSL conenctions are flaky in Calcuta. They tend to go out often and stay off for prolonged periods. However whenever they come back I want to reconnect immediately and also update DynDNS servers so they point to proper IP address. On windows this happens automatically. However on Linux the only client available (the API is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-update-dyndns-server-immediately-after-xdsl-reconnection-on-linux-and-fast-xdsl-reconnection/

Date: 04/22/07     Keywords: web

Snap.com provide capability to allow web viewers to get a image preview of pages behind the links. While it sounds like an advantage, in my experience it is a major distraction while viewing the site. Recently I was in Ryan Boren’s site which uses snap for link preview. The article was interesting but the big [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/snap-is-a-big-distraction-in-site-usability/

Date: 04/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

CartoonNetwork India is continuing to show mediocre and utterly lame shows interspersed with few gems. I decided to give them a marksheet to help them and viewers identify the quality of shows being aired. The ratings are for an adult. Feel free to add your own ratings in comments below. The classifications are: Awesome - great [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cartoon-network-india-tv-shows-mark-sheet/