Date: 04/19/07     Keywords: no keywords

Cartoon Network have started advertising about the popular anime series Dragonball Z starting in India from 30th April. I have seen it twice. The first show will be at 5:30 pm on 30th April. The episode is Arrival of Raditz. You can see the full schedule for the day here. The same show will repeat [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dragonball-z-starting-in-cartoon-network-india-on-30th-april/

Date: 04/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

“Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making and character-making assimilation of ideas.” said Swami Vivekananda. Today I am reminded again and again of his wise words after looking first-hand how students are led to believe that by [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/educationeducation-is-not-the-amount-of-information-that-is-put-into-your-brain-and-runs-riot-there-undigested-all-your-life/

Date: 04/18/07     Keywords: no keywords

Killers like Cho Seung-hui aren’t made in heaven or hell. They are ordinary people who face ordinary social crisis like abandonment of girlfriends. In any college or society at large you will find some loners, introverts who cannot adjust themselves well with the scoiety after rebuffed by it at some stage in their life. Most [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-dorm-killers-and-gun-control/

Date: 04/17/07     Keywords: linux

FireStarter is for Linux what ZoneAlarm is for Windows, a simple to use but fully functional firewall for small business and homes for free. The simplicity of firewall even surpasses ZoneAlarm, even a novice can set it up properly with very minimum knowledge. To understand Firestarter or any other Firewall let’s take a look a very [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firestarter-super-easy-powerful-firewall-for-linux/

Date: 04/13/07     Keywords: linux

I talked about xmemo as possible ipmsg alternative for Linux. Unfortunately I found it very much inferior to ipmsg. IPMSG is a messaging client for Windows which also is able to do super-fast file and directory transfer. Once you have got used to ipmsg, it is hard to live without. Fortunately I found a good [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ipmsg-for-linux/

Date: 04/12/07     Keywords: web, linux

nVidia provides linux drivers from its website. Unfortunately it doesn’t work with recent kernels. The installation script fails in multiple ways. After much googling and with tons of diverse advices I found the simple solution. BTW: By default nv driver is installed for nVidia cards which provides very poor graphics performance even for non-gaming usage. Also [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-nvidia-graphics-driver-on-fedora-core-6-linux-in-5-simple-steps/

Date: 04/12/07     Keywords: php, blogging, software, database

WordPress is a popular blogging software. As a design decision it stores the blog content in database and uses php to fetch and display the pages. This consumes more resources (cpu and memory) than blogging softwares generating static pages. Here are 5 tried and tested power tips to reduce memory & cpu resources and speed [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-golden-tips-for-wordpress-performance-optimization-slashdot-digg-protection/

Date: 04/12/07     Keywords: no keywords

Today while setting up and trying new application I found that one of the Gnome panels containing Applications, Places and System menu (taskbar for Windows users) wasn’t displaying. After restarting the Gnome session I found an error message along the lines of: Error panel already running will exit panel. It repeated 6-7 times and then [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-solve-gnome-panels-not-displaying-problem/

Date: 04/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Go to the following menu: System -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions Click on Startup Options tab and click on Add button to add your program to startup.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/micro-tip-how-to-add-startup-programs-to-gnome-sessions-in-fedora-core-6/

Date: 04/11/07     Keywords: rss, java, linux

RSSOwl is a high quality cross-platform (written in java; uses swt library) RSS / Atom Feed reader which is a superior free alternative to Newzcrawler or Feedreader for linux. Fedora Core 6 provides an RPM distribution for it, which doesn’t work, and you can install it simply by: yum install rssowl However as you may have guessed [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-rssowl-high-quality-feed-reader-in-fedora-core-6-linux/

Date: 04/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

Anaconda has a well documented defect where it installs i586 based kernel in i686 machines. It causes problems with several drivers including nvidia drivers. Also you will gain performance improvement by moving to i686 kernel. Let’s upgrade the kernel in just 7 steps. First you must verify that you do have a i686 cpu and you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-why-to-install-i686-kernel-in-fedora-core-6-in-7-steps/

Date: 04/11/07     Keywords: no keywords

XMemo is an alternative to IPMsg (for Windows only) and claims to interoperate with IPMSg protocol. In short a quick messaging tool for intranet use. The standard procedure, which doesn’t work out of the box, to install it is to download the tar.gz file, uncompress it to a folder and execute the following: ./configure make make install However that didn’t [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-xmemo-ipmsg-alternative-in-fedora-core-6-linux/

Date: 04/04/07     Keywords: php

I tried using eAccelerator alone and then integrated it with PHP Zend Optimizer for better performance. The result was surprising. eAccelerator alone came up slightly ahead in several tests and was at least equal in performance to eAccelerator with Zend Optimizer combined, even with further optimization to Zend default setup. I used eAccelerator with 128 MB [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/php-performance-with-eaccelerator-versus-eaccelerator-with-php-zend-optimizer/

Date: 03/30/07     Keywords: spam

I have just started downloading my email and guess what - I have 4538 email messages in queue, most of them obviously spam as even Bill Gates isn’t that popular. Unfortunately my new stopgap setup doesn’t have a bayesian filter setup so I will have to filter them manually. Please bear with me as I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/downloading-1-of-4538-mail-messages/

Date: 03/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

I am minimally back online. The office renovation is in full progress. I will be moving to my new office sometime next week. Tomorrow will be a hectic day. The machines will be setup on all new workspaces. Each of the machine have been upgraded. I am moving to a sexy core 2 duo with [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/back-online/

Date: 03/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

We are completely renovating the office for better, more spacier accomodation. The new electrical outlets and LAN connectivity is almost completed. We will be starting the wall painting (plastic paint from Berger in case you are interested) from tomorrow. By thursday we anticipate we should be able to get 80% operational. By the end of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/renovation-in-progressplease-wait/

Date: 03/23/07     Keywords: google

Strangely the most obvious means to reset Google AdSense password may not work for you. By obvious I mean the link on AdSense login page: I cannot access my account. The first link on that page, if followed, is: I forgot my password. Obviously any sane person would think that is the way to change [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-reset-google-adsense-password/

Date: 03/14/07     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Major international bank HSBC will standardize its Linux deployments on Novell’s SUSE distribution, with Microsoft’s premium support. The HSBC deal requires Microsoft to supply the bank with three-year priority support subscriptions to Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. HSBC, which has more than 9,500 branches employing 284,000 staffers in 76 countries, is seeking to reduce the diversity of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hsbc-bank-will-adopt-suse-linux-with-microsofts-support/

Date: 03/14/07     Keywords: java

I am in the last stages of assembling my dream computer. The final hurdle is a DVI to VGA connector which turned out defective. I wanted a strong Java development system with reasonable costs and high quality tested components. I also have plans for using it for high throughput processing and data processing. Here is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-dream-computer/

Date: 03/10/07     Keywords: software, crm, web

While installing Compiere, the leading web based open source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) & CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, on Windows you may face some non-trvivial problems. This document is an overview of the problems you can face while installing Compiere and how to solve them. First and foremost keep the installation guide open and follow [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/compiere-installation-gotchas-using-oracle-database-10g-xe/