Date: 09/13/05     Keywords: cms

A comprehensive comparison of two leading open source CMS - Mambo versus Drupal

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/leading-open-source-cms-mambo-versus-drupal-a-comprehensive-comparison/

Date: 09/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Pentagon has drafted important revisions to the The Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations. The Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations describes the role of U.S. nuclear deterrence, force posturing and deployment considerations. In short the doctrine specifies definite rules for the use by the U.S. of nuclear weapons. The newly revised doctrine provides more options and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/preemptive-nuclear-strikes-by-usa-now-only-a-matter-of-time/

Date: 09/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

A 31 year old Dutchman returned from work to find a strange car in the drive of his home in Pieterburen, near Groningen. Two children were sitting on the back seat so the man asked them where their father was and was told that his father was inside, "robbing" the house. The man rushed inside to find [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/my-dads-burgling-your-house/

Date: 09/11/05     Keywords: java

There are hundreds of online calculators ranging from javascript, flash and java calculators. Many of them provide an astounding array of functionalities. However when I needed a simple calculator, which allows me to enter numbers by hand in multiple lines ( often with one line per number as is normal in accounting) with support for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/a-calculator-for-multiline-numerical-accounting-calculations/

Date: 09/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

Some college kid decides to sell each pixel on his home page for 1$ in minimum slots of 10X10 pixels or 100$. He is aiming for 1 million dollars. Surprisingly enough companies are paying him to secure a place in "internet history" as he boasts. Those managers should be outright sacked for their stupidity. In [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/crazy-get-rich-schemes-and-crazier-fools/

Date: 09/09/05     Keywords: no keywords

I started using Trillian recently (second time). One of the features of AIM is Buddy Icon. I decided to add one. So I went to Cool Buddy and selected my icon: aim:BuddyIcon?src=http://www.coolbuddy.com/icon/animals/animals001.gif Unfortunately the link is designed to trigger AIM and not Trillian. Also Trillian doesn't offer any obvious way to add an icon from [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-add-an-aim-buddy-icon-to-trillian/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Cell phones today carry wealth of personal data. They can even act as mobile credit cards. Unfortunately they can very easily be lost or stolen. Keith Cocita of Santa Cruz, California, US, has come up with a way to prevent valuable information kept on a cell phone from falling into the wrong hands. If a cell phone [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cell-phone-neuralizer-data-protection/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: java

GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail. SysTray for Java SysTray for Java is an API written to enable Java applications access the system tray. Originally it was running on [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/three-free-notable-java-software-api/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

The highlights of JBuilder 2006 which is expected to release this week are: Peer-to-peer developer collaboration Chat similar to IM Integrated application life-cycle support covering requirements management modeling source code management unit testing JBuilder 2006 represents the last major release on the Primetime platform JBuilder releases next year and beyond will be based on Eclipse Patrick Kerpan, CTO of Borland, said they are working on [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/jbuilder-2006-buzz/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: virus

Researchers at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, China, and Intradigm in Maryland, have reported the first successful use of Interfering RNA (siRNA) against the viral respiratory disease SARS, in primates (Nature Medicine, DOI: 10.1038/nm1280). Two siRNA sequences that matched bits of the SARS virus genome largely protected macaques against SARS when given as nasal sprays shortly [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/interfering-rna-sirna-helps-monkeys-recover-from-sars/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

A ROBOT dog that monitors your daily food intake and exercise levels and warns you not to eat that cheesecake could encourage people to stick to their diets. The health-conscious dog connects wirelessly to the dieter's pedometer and an electronic diary of their eating habits, to calculate their daily calorie intake and expenditure. Its US developers from [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/canine-robot-coach-to-keep-dieters-on-a-leash/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: database, security, web

A web based pilot program is currently underway to rapidly determine the eligibility of a worker to work legally in US. Under the "Basic Pilot Program," employers enter a person's name, birth date and other data on a website. The information is then run through databases maintained by the Social Security Administration and U.S. Citizenship and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-based-immigration-checks-for-companies/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: technology

With technology, it's easy to break the law "As technology marches on, our laws don't always march with it. They're written by men with agendas that are different than ours — men who don't understand (or have the incentive to understand) what they're trying to legislate. So chances are there will come a day when there won't [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/interesting-links-technology-law-micropayment-solution-biotechnology-blog-gmail-tools-12-types-of-medical-students/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Doctors commonly view excessive daytime sleepiness as a cardinal sign of disturbed or inadequate sleep. But a new study suggests it could also signal depression or even diabetes or obesity, regardless of whether an individual doesn't sleep well. Among a random sample of 16,500 men and women ranging in age from 20 to 100 years old [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/excessive-sleepiness-may-signal-depression-diabetes-or-obesity/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

A nifty idea where you can use a Suggest box (AJAX enabled) to enable users to search any data on your site, including your pages etc. The downside is that it is Internet Explorer only solution. The example doesn't work in Firefox. Check it here.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ajax-based-sugggest-box-for-your-website/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

A simple ten minute survey to determine your life expectancy. It says about me: In an extremely high risk overweight category, meaning you are at extremely high risk for obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and cancer. I didn't know cancer was linked with obesity! And it didn't mention diabetes, which is really [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/10-minute-survey-to-life-expectancy/

Date: 09/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Problem Firefox downloads any file to desktop by default. This soon leads to a cluttered desktop. The location is not changeable from the download manager, which should have been the obvious place. Why It took me some time to figure out how to change the default download location. So I thought this might me useful to someone else too, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-change-default-download-location-for-firefox-browsers/

Date: 09/07/05     Keywords: technology, java

At Doubletwist Inc. we worked with 40 4 CPU Sun Ultra Machines with 4 GB RAM each to carry out annotations of human genome. We were first, ahead of Celera and HGP. At that time (2000-2001) it was possibly the largest massively scaled Java Technology Deployment. Human Genome Annotation run took about 1.5 months the first [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/massively-scaled-java-technology-deployment/

Date: 09/07/05     Keywords: software, yahoo

Yahoo (with their Instant Messenger product), in apparent desperation, is treading the fine line between adware/malware and legitimate software. I think it has crossed the line. You decide. First Yahoo updater automatically checks the internet for the new version and then nags you repeatedly and painfully till you submit. I was in a hurry. I simply [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-venturing-into-adware-stay-away-from-yahoo-instant-messenger/

Date: 09/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

I was reading about Data Mining from Sys-Con. Suddenly out of nowhere I was part of a strange discussion. It was initially barely audible (trying subliminal techniques?). On increasing the volume I realized someone was utilizing my bandwidth to serve me with information that I didn't ask for. Upon investigation I realized that Sys-Con Media is [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/jdj-sys-con-media-forces-podcasts-on-web-surfers/