Date: 02/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

I have added a job board to this blog. You can browse for jobs or post a job. The jobs will be displayed on all the pages of this blog under the heading Recent Jobs in the sidebar. This is a good way to gain wide coverage for your job postings to tens of thousands [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/taragana-job-board/

Date: 02/04/07     Keywords: no keywords

Effectively this means that any retail upgrade DVD can be used as a fully functioning full retail copy of Vista. You can pay the price of an upgrade DVD version to get a clean Vista installation! The steps have been confirmed. Boot from the Windows Vista Upgrade DVD and start the setup program. When prompted to enter [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-clean-install-vista-without-xp-from-upgrade-version-in-7-steps/

Date: 02/03/07     Keywords: microsoft

I recently faced a strange situation where my mail server was showing over 700 emails but Microsoft Outlook was failing to download them with timeout error. The problem was that it wasn’t downloading even a single email. Here’s how I solved it. First I checked that I am really able to connect by connecting using telnet [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-fix-ms-outlook-jam-with-outlook-express/

Date: 02/03/07     Keywords: no keywords

Investigators at the University of Alberta have recently reported that the drug DCA is able to cause tumor regression in a number of human cancers growing in animals. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), is being used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and is known to be relatively safe. It is also not protected by patents [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cheap-non-patented-drug-kills-most-cancers/

Date: 02/02/07     Keywords: spam

I am happy to announce the release of Comment Guard Plugin (0.2 Beta) for beta testing1. Comment Guard plugin (for WordPress) unobtrusively prevents robotic spam2 (which accounts of over 99% of your spam) without causing any problem for humans. Humans will not feel any difference at all. Additionally it also stops cold certain well-known human spamming3 techniques [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-comment-spam-protection-comment-guard-plugin-beta-release/

Date: 02/01/07     Keywords: security

Bill Gates claimed that Vista was “dramatically more secure” during an interview with BBC News. He said the improved security in Vista was a reason all by itself to upgrade from Windows XP. Is the claim valid? Vista exploits and vulnerabilities are starting to turn up on discussion boards where such things are traded and developed. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-vista-secure/

Date: 01/31/07     Keywords: microsoft

An interesting journey of a Mac user who, attracted by shiny new Microsoft Vista, decided to move to Vista and after experiencing it decided to move back again to a “brand new, white MacBook” on which he told his story. His story is long but interesting. I think the zen of his story is in the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mac-user-moves-to-microsoft-vista-and-back/

Date: 01/30/07     Keywords: yahoo, google

Google announced that they have devised an algorithm to defuse Google bombs like “Miserable Failure” pointing to the current President of USA - George W Bush. Currently “miserable failure” in Google points to a BBC article explaining the hoax. However in MSN and Yahoo search engines the search for “msierable failure” still leads to the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bush-still-a-miserable-failure/

Date: 01/30/07     Keywords: software

In India several households and even companies are looking at PC’s in the price range of Rs. 10,000 (~ 227 USD). However to use Vista you need computers in the price range of Rs 40, 000 or more. Additionally the software itself costs Rs. 10, 000. Overall it costs way above what common people is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hasta-la-vista-for-microsoft-vista-in-india/

Date: 01/30/07     Keywords: java, linux

Now you can easily convert your .NET applications to Java / J2EE and run it on Linux or other Java enabled platforms directly from your Visual Studio .NET IDE. You can use your Visual Studio .NET IDE to build server applications that can run natively on J2EE and hence on Linux and other Java enabled platforms, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-convert-aspnet-applications-to-java-j2ee-introducing-grasshopper/

Date: 01/30/07     Keywords: no keywords

NDS, the company behind DirecTV PVR, came up with two very innovative products. The Distributed DVR from NDS allows users to use hard drives from anywhere on a home network instead of being restricted to a hard drive on a single PVR. This will give users a lot more freedom and space in storing content. The second [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/worlds-first-p2p-dvr-and-distributed-dvr/

Date: 01/29/07     Keywords: no keywords

A large study, conducted by Dr. James M. Brophy and his colleagues, from the McGill University Health Center in Montreal, confirms that selective COX2 inhibitors - Vioxx (rofecoxib) and Celebrex (celecoxib) are both associated with increased risk of repeat heart attack. They also found that Vioxx (rofecoxib), but not Celebrex (celecoxib), is associated with increased [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/vioxx-celebrex-raise-risk-of-first-repeat-heart-attack-large-study/

Date: 01/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

I have been trying hard to update all of our existing customers with the latest version of Translator Plugin Pro. It is a hard and time consuming effort (and without any remuneration). There are essentially two challenges to this. First of all the batch processing script used to create a customized version is doing something very [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-updates-56-left/

Date: 01/28/07     Keywords: no keywords

Fairplay DRM (an ironical name) actually restricts fair play by other music players. You are forced to buy an iPod if you want to listen to iTunes music. Sounds unfair? You bet. Finally Norway has taken a positive step forward and declared that Apple’s iTunes store is illegal under Norwegian law. Norway’s powerful consumer ombudsman ruled [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/norway-outlaws-apple-itunes-for-fairplay-drm/

Date: 01/27/07     Keywords: web

It a dire necessity of the times to do some degree of floccinaucinihilipilification of Web 2.0. To understand the concerns lets take a look at what makes Web 2.0. Web 2.0 crowd, like its predecessor now commonly referred as Web 1.0 or dotcom hype artists, is characterized by over-enthusiasm of technologies and solutions that have [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-floccinaucinihilipilification-of-web-20/

Date: 01/26/07     Keywords: web

Chinese Communist Party big shot Hu Jintao today announced China’s intention to maximise the economic potential of the web, while seeking to “purify the internet environment”, Reuters reports. The comments came as the party’s politburo met to cast an eye over China’s burgeoning internet - boasting 137m registered users at the end of 2006, up by [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/china-vows-to-purify-internet/

Date: 01/26/07     Keywords: virus

University of Florida reported a study that found microwave ovens can be used to sterilise kitchen sponges. Unfortunately many people who decided to experiment didn’t read the fine print. The research team found that two minutes in the microwave at full power could kill a range of bacteria, viruses and parasites on kitchen sponges. Obviously someone had [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sterlizing-sponge-with-microwave-dont-forget-to-soak/

Date: 01/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

After several months of hard work, we are proud to unveil the auto lemon law site. It aims to be the one-stop resource portal for lemon law. It provides comprehensive information of lemon law requirements and statutes in all the US states, attorneys who specialize in lemon law cases and other important contact information like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/welcome-to-the-lemon-law-site/

Date: 01/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

In several cases of spectacular accidents reported last year in Europe, satellite navigation system can be fairly blamed to be the cause. In October a 53-year-old German, obeying his satnav’s command “Turn right now!” jerked the wheel over and crashed into a roadside toilet hut 30 metres before the crossing he was meant to take, causing [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/satellite-navigation-responsible-for-increased-accidents/

Date: 01/26/07     Keywords: no keywords

1. Goldman Sacks predicts India will beat US by 2050, lagging only behind China in economy. I think it will be much sooner. 2. Moninder Singh Pandher, accused cannibal and serial killer of several dozens of children and teenagers, and his man Friday got lynched by lawyers in court premises. Talk about lawyers taking law in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/india-in-brief-on-the-republic-day/