Date: 06/19/06     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft Corp. is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple’s iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple’s iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said on Friday. Robbie Bach, a rising star at Microsoft who headed development of the Xbox video game business, is overseeing the project, one source said. The company [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsofts-ipod-competitor-headed-by-ex-ipod-development-head/

Date: 06/19/06     Keywords: google

Google has designed and tested a system which listens to the show you are watching to deliver personalized information or advertisement. The “mass personalization” system can identify a programme from as little as five seconds of sound. Google researchers believe it could also be used to monitor audience size or create social networks around viewers watching [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-personalized-advertisement-based-on-tv-shows/

Date: 06/19/06     Keywords: sql, web

rgod has discovered a vulnerability in Mambo & Joomla, which can be exploited to conduct SQL injection attacks. Input passed to the “Name” field when submitting a web link isn’t properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code. The vulnerability has been confirmed [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mambo-joomla-sql-injection-vulnerability/

Date: 06/18/06     Keywords: no keywords

Cure for diabetes could be around the corner after US scientists found cells from the spleen can transform into insulin-producing cells. US researchers were able to halt, and even reverse, the disease in mice. The research by Massachusetts General Hospital offers hope to millions of people with Type 1 diabetes who need daily insulin injections to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/diabetes-cure-breakthrough/

Date: 06/18/06     Keywords: software, technology, crm, web

AdventNet, network management software provider, announced the release of Zoho CRM, a “cost-effective and easy to deploy” web-based customer relationship management solution targeted for mid-sized businesses. It uses AJAX technology to significantly enhance its user interface. Finally a CRM software adopts ajax technology. Zoho CRM is a web-based Customer Relationship Management solution, which provides Sales force [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ajax-based-crm-software-zoho-crm/

Date: 06/18/06     Keywords: linux

This is a simple guide to making friends (as many million as you like) on MySpace automatically (otherwise where is the fun?). Ensure you have perl available on your system. Windows users may have to download ActivePerl. Download GlitchCast Friend Adder script (perl) by Glitch. Usage instructions: Linux, Windows & Mac users: Invoke it as follows: perl GlitchCastFriendAdder.pl Windows users: To get the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-make-friends-on-myspace-automatically/

Date: 06/18/06     Keywords: xml, web, apache

Web Services You get first-class support for writing XML web service client applications (death of Apache Axis). No more messing with the plumbing (unless you really want to). You can also expose your APIs as .NET interoperable web services with a simple annotation. For developers who want to handle XML directly Mustang adds new parsing and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-java-se-6-features/

Date: 06/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

This is a neat magic by Criss Angel, pretty sensational. My theory is that the upper half is someone with half a body, either by birth or due to an accident. The lower half could be photoshopped or actually have some gear to make it move slightly. In any case it is definitely good magic.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-split-a-women-in-half/

Date: 06/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

How can you recursively delete files and directories in windows? You can select them in explorer (in windows) and delete it, right? The problem with the explorer approach is that if one or more files and / or directories cannot be deleted then the whole process fails. Try cleaning your Local Settings\temp directory to see [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-recursively-delete-files-and-directories-using-java/

Date: 06/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

When you checkout a repository from subversion it creates a .svn directory (with subdirectories) for every directory (and subdirectory) checked out. The .svn directory contains information about the repository and files in the directory and allows you to run svn commands without having to authenticate yourself in future. However when you want to package the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-clean-subversion-directories/

Date: 06/15/06     Keywords: no keywords

The theme is familiar to many independent movies - explicit chat about love and sex - but the tool used to shoot an Italian feature-length documentary is unique - a standard cell phone camera. Italian directors have completed a 93-minute documentary they claim is the first feature film to be entirely shot by such a technique. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/93-minute-feature-film-shot-with-cell-phone-camera/

Date: 06/15/06     Keywords: web, hosting, apache

No, I am not joking. I recently found out how my web hosting provider was depriving me (unintentionally I hope) of significant revenue per month by making my site inaccessible to large number of users daily. And the way it was done took me by surprise. Apache server has an interesting directive called MaxClients. MaxClients sets [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-your-web-hosting-provider-robbing-you/

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am happy to announce that the new version of our hugely popular WordPress translator plugin is almost ready. We have fixed the single-page translation only bug from previous release and added several exciting new features. The key new features are: Ability to use it behind firewall. Ability to automatically translate all pages on the site in your [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-automatic-translator-plugin-almost-ready-with-exciting-features/

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am very excited about the new theme we are building. Please, please, please take a look and shower it with your comments and feedback. Let us know how we can improve. It is a three column theme designed from scratch. It is still a work in progress but I have enough to show and get your [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-wordpress-theme-please-review/

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: no keywords

Hurricane Katrina devastated scores of IT businesses. One bright turning point has arrived - The New Orleans IT Recovery Center. Located downtown on Prytania Street, the center promised to help IT companies get back on their feet. For just $100 a month, tenants would get a desk, a laptop and wireless internet access. Tenants could stay [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/it-business-incubation-post-hurricane-katrina-in-new-orleans/

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: java

You can forcibly bind to the same address and port to which there is an open server socket by using SO_REUSEADDR option (ServerSocket.setReuseAddress(boolean on) in Java). Such reuse can be exploited by malicious applications to disrupt the functioning of the original server application and worse. The SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE option prevents other sockets from being forcibly bound [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/server-security-how-to-prevent-socket-hijacking-on-windows/

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: software, java

Spencer Katt, eWeek columnnist, speculates Sun may be on his way to sell its hardware business and focus on software instead (read Java). The KattPhone’s new ring tone, “Here Comes the Sun,” brought a call from a crony asking the Kitty if he thought Sun’s restructuring plans were an indication that the company is prepping for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-planning-to-sell-hardware-business/

Date: 06/14/06     Keywords: google

Spencer Katt has an interesting (read funny) take on future Google products (and then there are mine). They are: 1. Google Schoolyard(beta) - Will supply home-schooled kids with timeless schoolyard myths. 2. Google Lube(beta) - Change your car engine oil through your favorite search engine 3. Google Peek(beta) - Magically view unsuspecting Google users in real-time video Seriously, I [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/future-google-products/

Date: 06/10/06     Keywords: google

Google is also known for its interesting interview questions. Enjoy this one and my solution. Suppose you have two eggs. These are special eggs—they can take much more punishment than you average chicken egg. The question is exactly just how much punishment can they take? Using a 100 storey building and only the two eggs, how [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-and-the-puzzle-of-dropping-eggs/

Date: 06/10/06     Keywords: blogging

I have been exploring externally managed commenting systems (example) and so I revisited Haloscan (registered in my blogger blogging days). The funniest part was their support forum. Their answers are distributed thinly across the forum. A consolidation post, by a “satisfied customer”, will aptly illustrate the challenges of using Haloscan. 1. Help! My old comments disappeared [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-haloscan-sucks-free-commetning-system-for-blogs/