Date: 11/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

It seems too good to be true. A new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing, uses tiny amounts of water as its fuel and produces next to no waste and goes against quantum mechanics theory. Alok Jha, Guardian, reports about alternative power source by creating a new hydrogen atom (Hydrino*) by bringing the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/blacklight-power-unlimited-alternative-power-source-or-snake-oil/

Date: 11/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Length of string can be interpreted variously - number of chars in the string number of characters in the string number of bytes in the string String.length() gives you the number of chars in the string accurately. However a char is not necessarily a complete character. Why? Supplementary characters exist in the Unicode charset. These are characters that have [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-coding-how-to-find-number-of-characters-in-a-string-stringlength/

Date: 11/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

I received an interesting offer to earn revenue which smells very much like the offer which maligned Matt Mullenweg, WordPress author in the past. Here is the full unedited text except email address and name of the authoress of the offer: I have an offer for your business if you’re interested in increasing revenues each month. I’ll [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/revenue-offer-wordpress-matts-style/

Date: 11/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Under the UK's Computer Misuse Act, denial of service attack isn't apparently a crime. A British teenager has been recently cleared of launching a denial-of-service attack against his former employer. At Wimbledon Magistrates Court in London, District Judge Kenneth Grant ruled that the teenager had not broken the CMA, under which he was charged. The [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/uk-new-haven-for-computer-crimes/

Date: 11/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

BoingBoing reported: "Forbes has a free service that lets you send an email to yourself and have it arrive in 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20 years." The site looks like Forbes site because it has same template of text and images as is available in Forbes. However the URL to the site is forbes.codefix.net/capsule/ Can you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/forbes-time-capsule-and-outsourcing/

Date: 11/07/05     Keywords: software, virus

Computer hackers are exploiting increasing fears over bird flu by releasing a computer virus attached to an email passing itself off as containing avian flu information, warned Spanish computer firm Panda Software. The virus Naiva.A masquerades as a word document with email subject lines such as Outbreak In North America and What Is Avian Influenza (bird [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hoax-bird-flu-email-used-to-spread-virus-and-hijack-computers/

Date: 11/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

As I mentioned before I am slowly moving towards creating separate blogs to cater to my diverse interests. From now you will hear my rants and raves exclusively on The Angsuman Chakraborty Blog (ain't that innovative naming?). So if I am feeling angry about something I will vent it there. If I am happy… you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hear-my-rants-and-raves/

Date: 11/07/05     Keywords: spam

On the internet almost everyone asks for your email address. I used to give in good faith and in return I received tons of spam. I am sure it has happened to you too. Here's how you solve it. Use mailinator.com. The beauty is that now you can use any random email address like john@mailinator.com or [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/solve-your-email-spam-problem-with-fully-disposable-emaill-addresses/

Date: 11/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Have you ever tried to configure your ADSL Modem to automatically connect to the internet without requiring to connect from a computer? Are you a BSNL Broadband user? I have played without success with the ADSL Modem manual before I found this gem on BSNL site. Full Screen View Link Few Tips: You may not want to keep [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-configure-bsnl-adsl-modem-ut-300r-ut-300r2-for-multiple-users-on-windows-nt-2000-xp-linux-mac/

Date: 11/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

New York Times does Bible with its issuance of 10 commandments for consumer electronics component makers. In "thou shalt not" style it brings forward some of the strong grievances which in simple English is as follows: Do not use "indestructible" plastic casings. At the least have one cardboarded side which can be easily opened. Use proper English [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-commandments-for-electronics-component-makers/

Date: 11/06/05     Keywords: no keywords

A 15 year old boy has unveiled the so-called anonymity protection offered to anonymous sperm donors using internet and lots of ingenuity. Let's look at what he did. First he sent a swab he collected from his cheek to an online genealogy DNA-testing service. The teenager tracked down his father from his own Y chromosome. The Y [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-trace-your-genetic-father-using-internet-no-more-anonymity-for-anonymous-sperm-donors/

Date: 11/05/05     Keywords: no keywords

Firefox 1.5 introduced two new features which drastically simplify extension development - the greatly simplified chrome registration scheme and reworked Extension Manager. Read this article to get started with extensions development. Note: The extensions created following this article will only work on Firefox 1.5 and later. Mozilla Foundation has announced a competition for Firefox extension developers. Submit your [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/learn-how-to-develop-extensions-for-firefox-15-and-later-participate-in-firefox-extension-development-contest/

Date: 11/05/05     Keywords: browser, technology

More than 10% of net users are going online with the Firefox browser according to analysis firm One Stat. In US it has higher shares of 14%. Link However there appears to be a consensus among technical blogs that Firefox usage is around 50% in technology users. I had posted before about this (see in links below). The numbers [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-rises-to-10-market-share-worldwide/

Date: 11/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

I realized that all my feeds in artima have been, without my knowledge, replaced with a sedo site, a domain squatter, with my domain name as a query in their script. Either they have hacked into my Artima account or they found some loophole in Artima site which they exploited to increase their page rank [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sedo-appears-to-be-hacking-into-my-account/

Date: 11/04/05     Keywords: web, google

Google has silently added an option to display referral links (with images) in your blog or web sites. If anyone referred by you earns 100$ or more then Google credits your account with 100$. When a user you’ve referred to Firefox plus Google Toolbar runs Firefox for the first time, you’ll receive up to $1 in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-adds-referral-earning-to-adsense-changes-terms-of-service/

Date: 11/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

67 Year Old GrandPa Sued for $600,000 by MPAA

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/67-year-old-grandpa-sued-for-600000-by-mpaa/

Date: 11/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

I was looking for electronic dog doors for a rather large dog and I came across something rather disturbing. Your mileage may vary. I realized that the bigger dog doors are sized about 20″ by 14″, enough for a small human to slide through. And what opens this door is a sensor attached to dog collar [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/are-electronic-dog-doors-safe/

Date: 11/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

IBM claims a major breakthrough in the quest developing photon based computers instead of todays electron based silicon chips. In its Silicon Wave Guide chip it claims to have managed to slow down light to 1/300 of its normal speed of 186, 000 miles per second. The light can be further slowed by applying [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ibm-breakthrough-in-photonic-chip-slows-light-300-times/

Date: 11/04/05     Keywords: software, java

Subversion is a popular version control software and replacement for CVS, the grand-daddy of all version control software which is still widely used in open source community. Recently I had the necessity to invoke Subversion commands like checkout from Ant, a popular java based build software which replaces make tool. There are two ant tasks to accomplish [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-integrate-subversion-version-control-software-with-apache-ant/

Date: 11/03/05     Keywords: no keywords

Almost all of us have been pained by telemarketers. You probably have realized by now that they follow a script which guide the conversation and make it one-sided, in their favor and against you. I found a hilarious yet very successful script / algorithm to talk with tele-marketers. Now you turn the tables on them. Not [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/algorithm-for-talking-with-telemarketer/