Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are: Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX. It is hard to use because it is small and also [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-unveils-windows-live-portal/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

The company said the new chip for server computers, called Woodcrest, would offer an 80 percent performance improvement and require 35 percent less power; the Conroe chip for desktop computers, which will be released later in the year, will offer 40 percent performance improvement and require 40 percent less power. The foundation for the chips [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/intel-unveils-new-chips-woodcrest-server-and-conroe-desktop/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

Blood-red colored rain fell over Kerala on July 25, 2001. It continued for two months, raining crimson, turning clothes pink, burning leaves on trees. In some places, the rain fell in scarlet sheets. Its extraterrestrial origin is now being accepted in international circles. Scientists at that time concluded that the rain was red because winds had [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blood-red-rain-in-kerala-of-extraterrestrial-origin/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: no keywords

Apple iTunes music and video store unvelied a new service called Multi-Pass that lets users buy TV shows on a monthly basis. iTunes, in partnership with Viacom Inc.'s Comedy Central Network, is rolling out "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" on the service. Fans will be able to buy the next month's [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apple-moves-to-monthly-subscription-for-tv-shows/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: microsoft

I have heard and seen enough of Origami, the futuristic laptop from Microsoft. I went through the apparently secret video of product advertisement, I have seen numerous pictures of origami and I have decided. I hate it. Origami is yet another monstrosity from Microsoft (with due regards to Windows). It is a clumsy product to carry [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/i-hate-origami-futuristic-laptop-from-microsoft-rant-ahead/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: java, google

To my delight today I discovered the best java blog on the net. Check for yourself - Google I'm lucky search for best java blog

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/best-java-blog/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: security

WordPress released yet another security release 2.0.2 fixing (yet again) unannounced XSS security bugs. I have not upgraded any of my blogs to 2.x release. When 2.0 was released it was bug ridden and I recommended against it. In natural course several of those defects were fixed and two patch releases later we have 2.02. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-202-time-to-upgrade/

Date: 03/10/06     Keywords: software, web, google

Google Inc. bought the Silicon Valley start-up Upstartle, creators of Writely , high quality internet word processing software. Writely lets users compose documents on the Web and share them with others as well as blog them. Upstartle released a test version of Writely software last August. The acquisition puts Google in direct competition with Word software from [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-acquires-writely/

Date: 03/09/06     Keywords: google

Google Inc. said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it. Read more in the Phil Law Blog.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-to-pay-90-million-usd-to-settle-click-fraud-class-action-lawsuit/

Date: 03/09/06     Keywords: no keywords

A corporate attorney, with first hand experience of identity theft, formulated guidelines for the employees in his company. It contains very useful and non-trivial advice and information to protect yourself from identity theft. Read the article in the Phil Law Blog and preferably print it and keep a copy for emergency, especially the numbers at [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-protect-yourself-from-identity-theft/

Date: 03/09/06     Keywords: mysql, database, sql

The MySQL database supporting this blog was consuming massive amount of CPU, which effectively lead to site going down 3-4 times this week. I knew an obvious culprit. However reality differed. I knew for sometime I had a jumbo query, which was not cached, and is likely to contribute to MySQL server load: [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/mysql-performance-optimization-a-lesson/

Date: 03/08/06     Keywords: java

I have started covering some of the blogs I love to read, bloggers who resonate with me at some level. In the first article I covered Guy Kawasaki's blog. Today I will talk about Russell Beattie's Notebook. Old Russ is a veteran in Java world and you can also find his posts on javablogs aggregator. He [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blogs-i-read-russell-beattie-notebook/

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

The site statistics shows a healthy upwards trend, despite lack of significant attention last month. I am really looking forward to breaking the 1 Million mark, first per month and then per day. How long do you think it will take?

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/site-statistics/

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

An entertaining puppet show. The key question is what is mahnamahna? Who cares… The original site where I found this beauty - link.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-mahnamahna-a-puppet-show/

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

The following collection of useful Unix utilities can be obtained for free on Windows platform without requiring to install Cygwin. df - Shows the free space on disk, also it shows: cluster count, cluster size, free clusters. kill - Terminates a process using its process ID (PID). The PID can be obtained from the task manager process [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/unix-utilities-for-windows-nt-2000-xp/

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: no keywords

RoR multi-table transaction appears to be a mess. You have to create transactions on each table. In essence it isn't really multi-table transaction. Also nested transactions do not work as expected. If the outer transaction fails then the data is in inconsistent state as the inner transaction has succeeded. Then you will have to manually [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fun-with-ror-transactions/

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: browser, technology, microsoft

Microsoft is vigorously defending its decision to turn on its ClearType font rendering technology in Internet Explorer 7 even if users have switched it off system-wide. ClearType is designed to make text more readable on LCD screens. By default, it's disabled in Windows, but Microsoft's IE 7 team has decided to enable it for the browser, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-knows-whats-best-for-you/

Date: 03/07/06     Keywords: java

Here are the top ten Java lies I have heard over the years. Feel free to add yours in the comments. Enjoy! Java is slow Java is dying / dead Java is not free Java sources are not available / documented J2EE is required for enterprise development Applets are unusable / slow / dead To learn Java learn Ruby / C. Java is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-10-java-lies/

Date: 03/06/06     Keywords: no keywords

I am really missing the kitchen sink from this one. This beast of a phone can store about 2,000 songs. SGH-i310 comes with the latest version of Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphones, which allows users to view files and carry their music library with them. It also offers USB 2.0 and a plug-and-play feature that [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/samsung-sgh-i310-smart-phone-comes-with-phone-digital-camera-mp3-player-and-8gb-hard-disk/

Date: 03/06/06     Keywords: web

Pencilmation has some funny movies with stick figures. My favorite one is enter the pen. Best friends forever is a grim story for Barney-and-friends types. The site also features innovative web navigation with Flash. I find Flash based websites abhorrent. I will make an exception for this one. Enjoy!

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pencil-animation-movies/