Date: 10/14/06     Keywords: software

These are few samples of actual comments from our customers of Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress blogs. Frankly I am overwhelmed by the positive response and support of the blogger community. Note: Angsuman’s Translator Plugin Pro (features, get software) is a professionally designed plugin which provides automatic machine translation of your blog in eight different [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-customers-are-saying-about-angsumans-translator-plugin-pro-for-wordpress-blogs/

Date: 10/12/06     Keywords: php, java

if (isClueless()) { goToIBM(); } else if (runOfTheMill()) { goToWipro(); } else if (thinkUMLIsDesign() && bigAmbitionToBeADesigner() && chooseVariableNamesLikeTheLengthOfThisOne()) { goToAccenture(); } else if ( appreciateDesign() && (knowJava() ¦¦ knowPHP()) && isTrueDeveloper()) { welcome(); } If that looks like you and you are located in India [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/algorithm-for-hiring-at-taragana/

Date: 10/12/06     Keywords: no keywords

I think I just had a conversation with a splogger wannabe. Read the gory details: [15:54] Tbs: You there mate..?? [15:56] angsuman: Yes [15:57] Tbs: great.. I am Tbs from [[Location]].. Can you help me out to get a auto poster for wordpress? there is a plugin available.. but i dont know which one it is [15:59] angsuman: Why [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/conversations-with-a-splogger-in-making/

Date: 10/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

X-Prize Foundation is offering $10m for the first private team that can decode 100 human genomes in 10 days. It is said to be the largest medical prize in history. Rapid genetic sequencing along with stem cell therapeutics are science’s next great frontiers. Rapid genetic sequencing is expected to usher in a new era of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-million-prize-for-fast-human-genome-decoding/

Date: 10/10/06     Keywords: google

Google Inc. announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock exchange. Both companies have approved the deal, which should officially close in the fourth quarter. YouTube will retain its brand identity, strengthening and complementing Google’s own fast-growing video business. YouTube will continue to be based in San [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-acquired-youtube-for-165-billion/

Date: 10/09/06     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft is making the last trial version (Release Candidate 2) of Vista operating system available to developers and beta testers before it releases the finished product. RC2 version of Vista can only be downloaded by TechNet and Microsoft developer network members. You can however download RC2 here. Microsoft claims Vista RC2 will provide performance improvements and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-vista-final-beta-rc2-released/

Date: 10/09/06     Keywords: php, linux, microsoft

In PHP on Microsoft Windows you have to simply configure two parameters to enable sending mails through SMTP server. In Unix / Linux it is slightly more complicated. The solution, however, is much more powerful and works also on Windows. Let’s first start with Windows. In Microsoft Windows PHP installation you just have to change two [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-send-mails-using-smtp-server-in-php/

Date: 10/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory. When the download is complete, it reconstructs the file and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-temporary-download-directory-of-download-accelerator-plus-dap/

Date: 10/08/06     Keywords: no keywords

When installing Windows 2000 or Windows XP, you have to decide the evergreen question: Should I choose FAT32 or NTFS and why? Today I will try to answer it once and for all. Note: I haven’t discussed FAT file system because it is very much obsolete with todays high volume hard-disks. The real choice is between [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fat32-versus-ntfs-what-should-you-choose/

Date: 10/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

It struck me that there are certain last names that most people would really hate to have. On the top of my list are Bush, Lewinsky, Laden and Hitler. There are few more I have in mind that would be less universal (read even more controversial than Bush). And lets not even get started on [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/worst-last-names-in-history/

Date: 10/07/06     Keywords: crm, web

Contents Wireless access for field technicians Insurance claim processing with web application and 3G wireless network Free Wi-Fi in retail stores Operational CRM - Anticipating ways to add to a customers’ experience Preventing drug counterfeiting using RFID tags Selling internal IT products & services to fund IT projects, R&D & infrastructure upgrade OCR to speed transportation Automated personalized offer generation for cross-selling Using GPS [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/9-technology-strategies-which-work/

Date: 10/04/06     Keywords: technology, virus

Sophos has launched a host intrusion detection technology which it claims can spot any malware before it has a chance to execute anywhere on the network. It is integrated into the company’s anti-virus scanning engine. HIPS uses “behavioural genotype protection” to analyse executable code at the network gateway, or before it runs on server or [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sophos-claims-inventing-foolproof-malware-scanner-using-behavioural-genotype-protection/

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: no keywords

IBM asked the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City for summary judgment against all of SCO’s claims. The SCO vs. IBM case is more than three years old and yet The SCO Group has little success so far. On June 28 last year, Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells ruled largely in favor of an IBM motion [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ibm-goes-for-scos-jugular/

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft introduced on Sept. 27 the public beta of its System Center Data Protection Manager version 2 at the Storage Decisions conference in New York. It is built upon Microsoft’s DPM (Data Protection Manager) 2006 which is the Microsoft’s first storage software (released last October). System Center Data Protection Manager version 2 will enable customers to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-makes-inroads-in-data-storage-replication-market/

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: software, microsoft

Microsoft Corp. has sued an anonymous computer hacker whose free program FairUse4WM allows users to copy digital movies and songs by bypassing a software protection (DRM) built into the company’s Media player. Microsoft charges that the hacker with alias “Viodentia” has illegally obtained proprietary source code (of Microsoft) to create FairUse4WM. The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-sues-fairuse4m-windows-media-drm-remover-author/

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: software, technology, security

Remote XT technology, a UK firm designed a cell phone security system which sets off a high pitch scream, permanently locks the handset and finally wipes all data if the cell phone is stolen. They hope it will halt the spiraling rise (190% increase) in phone theft. The Remote XT technology works by installing software onto [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/screaming-cell-phones-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/

Date: 10/02/06     Keywords: yahoo, google

Wired News teaches us how to disassemble an Atomic Bomb in four steps: Disconnect the wires Remove the neutron trigger Remove the conventional explosive Separate the U-235 masses Google got nostalgic on its founding garage. I also found some Principal in Norway who have absolutely no social life. Yahoo open up its mail code in a desperate hope of getting some help [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-a-day-interesting-news-from-around-the-globe/

Date: 10/01/06     Keywords: no keywords

I was pleasantly surprised to find Bobby Henderson, founder of Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (Venganza.org) adopting Translator Pro plugin for his highly popular site promoting Pastafarianism, an equally plausible alternative to “Intelligent Design”, which is a thinly veiled attempt to introduce Biblical creationism in schools. His open letter to Kansas school board is classical [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-adopts-translator-plugin-pro/

Date: 09/29/06     Keywords: no keywords

To be eligible for CNN Citizen Journalist Award, a participant: must be a citizen and resident of India; should not be a professional journalist, a freelance journalist or an employee of any media / publishing / broadcast or online news organization; and must be more than 18 years of age. How can you compete for CNN Citizen Journalist Award? The [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cnn-announces-award-for-indian-citizen-journalists/

Date: 09/27/06     Keywords: programming, xml

Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: “XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design. I’m talking about perverting XML for programming applications. It’s inappropriate to use XML as a scripting language (e.g., ANT), [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/say-no-to-xml-as-programming-language/