Date: 01/05/07     Keywords: no keywords

USA and its puppet government finally commited the lynching (for lack of better word) of Saddam Hussein. He was no saint, but in light of the headcount Bush Jr. ranks higher, much higher. CNN widely reported the last words of Saddam as “Muqtada Al Sadr”. In reality they were - “Heya hay il marjala…?” which is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/the-shame-of-iraq-cnn-and-the-big-question/

Date: 01/03/07     Keywords: spam

Over the last couple of weeks I have been inundated with spam comments. I identified the culprits. Meet them, know them and block them. 1 Offence count IP Address Owned by 2 32715 82.137.247.131 & 82.137.247.132 person: Samer AL Nashef address: 1 Mazza Autostrad Damascus, Syria. P.O.BOX [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/meet-the-top-10-comment-spammers/

Date: 01/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

Translator plugin Pro uses dual caching to speed up your access time. The first level cache doesn’t use the WordPress object cache and will improve your performance even with standard caching disabled. It simply caches frequently used data. The second level cache uses WordPress Object cache which allows us to serve your translated pages much faster [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-translator-plugin-pro-improves-performance-by-dual-caching/

Date: 01/01/07     Keywords: no keywords

WordPress bloggers often engorge themselves with tons of plugins which are freely available (free wordpress plugins we provide). However quality is not assured with most of the free plugins out there in the wild and often they end up significantly slowing the site. How can you assure optimum performance without sacrificing functionality? Note: We do extensive [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-increase-your-wordpress-site-performance-without-losing-functionality-by-10-times-or-more/

Date: 12/26/06     Keywords: java, web, linux, hosting

Install Sun’s Java Virtual Machine ( J2SE(TM) Development Kit 5.0 Update 9 ) on Fedora Core / Linux platform in 5 simple steps. The procedure is geared for users having access to Linux box from ssh / telnet only as in a vpn / dedicated web hosting. However it can be used by anyone. Step 1: Login [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-sun-jvm-jdk-15x-on-linux-fedora-core-in-5-simple-steps/

Date: 12/23/06     Keywords: no keywords

Translator Plugin Pro provides automatic machine translation of your blog in thirteen major additional languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Dutch, Greek, Russian, Swedish and Chinese (features, testimonials and download). It comes with country flags representing the various languages it can translate to. One of the frequent requests we have is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bigger-and-better-flag-images-for-angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-for-wordpress/

Date: 12/22/06     Keywords: linux

Linux colorization of terminal output is very straining to the eye even for normal people and absolutely meaningless for color-blinds. I find it irritating as it makes it really hard to see, especially with the bad choice of colors like deep-blue on black. It you are in the same boat read on. Steps: 1. su as [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-turn-off-colorization-of-linux-terminals/

Date: 12/19/06     Keywords: cms

Drupal is known to be geeky (read hard) for casual CMS users. Drupal was all set to change its geeky image with a super cool theme - Garland. WordPress.com’s founder Matt Mullenweg asked for free help in porting this special theme to WordPress from the WordPress hacker’s community. It was generally perceived as a bad [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpresscom-copies-core-drupal-branding-theme-citing-gpl/

Date: 12/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

You can see the demo version of Translator 4.0 Plugin in our Law blog. Look at the wide array of languages supported.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-40-plugin-demo/

Date: 12/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

At Doubletwist, last company I worked for before starting my own business, had couple of Foosball table. Personally I found them very entertaining but also somewhat addictive. Recently I was contemplating buying a Tornado Foosball table (professional quality) for my office. My initial thought was that it should improve productivity by providing relaxing light entertainment. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/does-foosball-increase-productivity/

Date: 12/17/06     Keywords: no keywords

In this article I will discuss 3 important tips to signifcantly speed up your internet access through BSNL Dataone broadband connection. Tip 1: One of the major problems with BSNL Dataone Broadband connection is the DNS servers they provide by default. Most of the time they are very slow and sometimes they fail to respond. I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/3-tips-to-significantly-speed-up-bsnl-dataone-broadband-connection/

Date: 12/13/06     Keywords: no keywords

Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro now supports 14 languages (English, ) as base language of the blog in version 4.0 (currently in testing). Previously it supported only English as the base language of the blog. Not only that, in version 4.0, it also provides translation for each these 14 languages to 13 other languages and with [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/matrix-of-languages-supported-in-translator-plugin-40/

Date: 12/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

Sue Cline, one of our valued client, tested the effects of Translator Plugin Pro, a plugin to automatically translate your blog to 13 (with version 4.0; currently in testing) different languages, on Jen Burke’s Transcending Gender blog since October. They found over 400% increase in site visitors and over 150% increase in links crawled [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-explodes-web-traffic-and-links/

Date: 12/12/06     Keywords: browser

When you have sites in multiple languages you may notice, depending on your server configuration, that particular languages are not displayed properly in browser. And yet when you save the file and view it they display fine. This is a particularly perplexing problem and may affect some users of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro, a professional [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-properly-display-multi-lingual-sites/

Date: 12/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am back from a business trip to USA. Last 10 days have been very hectic and I couldn’t properly respond to many emails nor could I address some of them, despite my bext efforts. However now I am downloading all 10000 of them and am responding in order. So if you have emailed me [...]

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

Date: 11/29/06     Keywords: no keywords

After my not-so-pleasant experience with Holiday Inn Carlsbad, I moved to Ramada Inn & Suites, Carlsbad. This is far better in comparison and exceeds my expectations in facilities and services. The rooms are of reasonable size. It was fitted with local temparature control unit. Basic amenities in toilet as well as a writing table equipped [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ramada-inn-suites-carlsbad-better-choice-for-travellers/

Date: 11/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

Today I received an email from our QA engineer. Translator Plugin Pro 4.0 (WordPress plugin to automatically translate your blog to 10 or more languages) is translating even WordPress admin pages correctly. Is this a bug or a feature? Let’s consider the use cases. A common use case would be registered users choosing to view [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/translator-plugin-pro-translating-even-admin-pages-bug-or-feature/

Date: 11/27/06     Keywords: no keywords

I stayed for two days in Holiday Inn, Carlsbad, CA. Overall my experience has been quite negative. They have become pretty cheap in services and quality. For 130 $ per night, it is simply not worth it, maybe even 50$ is too much. Holiday Inn Quality & Service My first impression of the room was negative. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/holiday-inn-carlsbad-is-cheap-in-services-quality-not-price/

Date: 11/27/06     Keywords: spam

In Simple Thoughts blog and many other blogs worldwide there is a feature to email an article you liked (or hated) to your friends. Recently I noticed that this feature is being abused to send SPAM. How does it work? When you email any article to anyone, you are offered a choice to write your own [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/spamming-by-email-this-article-feature/

Date: 11/20/06     Keywords: no keywords

We are working on Version 4.0 of Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress blogs. The key features we are focussing on are: 1. Multi-lingual support. Translator 4.0 will support blogs written in non-English languages. 2. Additional Translation Engine. We are adding a new translation engine with this release. It offers additional choice of languages as well as additional [...]

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