Date: 07/22/05     Keywords: linux, microsoft

Angus McLaren at TechRepublic writes cluelessly: Anyone who claims to hate Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS or any other operating system is not a true techie or network guru. You don't ever bash the OS, in fact if the OS crashes then it's your fault not the OS; Why didn't you make sure that it was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-do-it-people-really-bash-windows/

Date: 07/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

This is the first of two articles in which we describe how to acquire and build the source code for OpenSolaris. The first article provides all the necessary background information (terminology, where to get the tools, and so on) and describes a basic compilation and installation, and the second article will describe a more complicated [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-install-and-build-source-code-for-open-solaris/

Date: 07/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

One-day treatment with the anticancer drug carboplatin is as effective and less toxic than three weeks radiation therapy for a type of testicular cancer, according to a report published in this week's issue of The Lancet. For the last 50 years standard care for stage 1 seminoma - a cancer of the testes - has been surgical removal of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/one-day-treatment-with-the-anticancer-drug-carboplatin-is-as-effective-as-radiotherapy-for-testicular-cancer/

Date: 07/22/05     Keywords: no keywords

Cell phone sales will exceed one billion handsets a year by 2009 as they become the most common consumer electronics device with 2.6 billion people using one by then, according to a survey published on Wednesday. Around 1.04 billion cell phones will be sold in 2009, up from an upwardly revised estimate of 779 million this [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cell-phone-sales-expected-to-grow-to-1-billion-per-year-by-2009/

Date: 07/22/05     Keywords: technology

Broadband Internet access via TV cables can reach 100 Megabits per second as early as next year, 50 times faster than the average broadband speeds now offered to cable TV homes, a Finnish firm said on Wednesday. "This is a cost-efficient technology as we use the cable TV networks which are already in place," Jukka Rinnevaara, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/100-mbit-cable-internet-to-hit-us-in-2006/

Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: blogging, web

Report Summary: As the prevalence and social influence of weblogs continue to increase, the issue of the ethics of bloggers is relevant not only to the blogging community, but also to people outside it. This study explored ethical beliefs and practices of two distinct groups of bloggers–personal and non-personal–through a worldwide web survey. Over a period of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/findings-of-ethics-in-blogging-survey/

Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft recently claimed Longhorn will be faster than XP. The Inquirer shows how you can have that speed boost in Windows XP too. The only reason why its faster is they added a superfetch feature to the prefetcher. If you look at the key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\Prefetcher you will notice in windows xp EnablePrefetcher = 3 and you will [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ms-windows-longhorns-most-useful-feature-now-available-in-windows-xp-for-free/

Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

Columnist John C. Dvorak raises several interesting concerns about Creative Commons Initiative. Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous "fair use" provisos of existing copyright law. This is one of the dumbest initiatives ever put forth [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/creative-commons-license-solution-looking-for-a-problem/

Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: software, technology, java

When Java software developers consider portable devices as platforms for their applications, they often see cell phones as the only real option. Cell phone only focus is now changing. With worldwide adoption of open-standard digital television platforms based on Java technology finally becoming a reality, developers can add Television's to the list of devices looking for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/understanding-j2me-based-open-cable-application-platform-ocap-for-java-application-developers/

Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: google

Google has now ventured into Moon Mapping. Evidently earth has become too small for Google. Google Moon uses NASA images in the Google Map system to enable you to browse lunar surface. The effort was made to commemorate first Lunar expedition from USA - The Apollo Mission. Drag the zoom scrollbar to maximum (move it upwards) [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-map-for-moon-google-ventures-into-lunar-mapping/

Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

A 30-year study of 1037 children has found that those who watch the most TV are least likely to go to university and get a degree. "Those who watched little television had the best chance of going on to university and earning a degree," said researcher Bob Hancox, deputy director of the Dunedin Research Unit. Over 20 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/tv-idiot-box-hypothesis-validated-by-research-in-new-zealand/

Date: 07/21/05     Keywords: no keywords

Dear terrorists, new firman issued, Kill 10, take a branded T-shirt and be best terrorist in the group. Jihad begins from July 18-20. –Osama bin Laden The above is not a message on the Al-Jajeera channel and neither it is from Osama. It was the creative minds at ICICI-Prudential Life Insurance company (A joint venture between ICICI [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/osama-bin-laden-used-to-sell-insurance-policy-in-kanpur/

Date: 07/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

Obesity is no exception. It's a mistake for anyone to abandon, or worse, sidestep the proven behavioral solutions of exercise and a balanced diet. The risks of invasive bariatric surgeries ( such as gastric bypass, adjustable gastric banding, duodenal switch, etc. ) are substantial. And their benefits can be achieved with less cost, no risk, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/on-the-dangers-of-weight-loss-surgery/

Date: 07/20/05     Keywords: no keywords

I am very disappointed. The storyline especially the death looked very contrived; the death was as if publisher (or someone else) forced Mrs. Rowling to kill someone important and he was chosen. The logic behind the sequence of events were very flimsy. Also the death takes away the factor that holds together the tomes. Overall it appeared [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/book-review-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-two-thumbs-down/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: browser, security, web

GreaseMonkey is a popular Firefox extension which allows lots of great enhancements to your browser using third party GreaseMonkey scripts. Yesterday a serious security vulnerability was found which exposes the hard drive content of GreaseMonkey users to any website you visit. Windows as well as Mac users are affected. And there is more. Here are [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/critical-security-vulnerability-with-greasemonkey-firefox-extension/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: blogging, web, hosting

News Corp is bolstering its newly-formed internet unit by spending $580 million on Intermix - the company behind free blog hosting provider myspace.com. Intermix owns and runs about 40 websites but currently the best performer is myspace.com. Myspace is a blogging and networking site. It brought in 15.6m viewers in May, according to comscore Media Metrix. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/rupert-murdoch-buys-blog-hosting-site-myspace/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: technology

Since India has agreed to not share it with other countries, the US will now help grow India’s Nuclear technology, although details are still sketchy. Buried under “Disaster relief”: “Indian and US militaries will conduct ‘‘joint and combined military exercises’’. US Pacific Command and the Indian Integrated Defence Staff will be the military leads in establishing ‘‘a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/from-corporate-czars-to-farmers-india-us-join-hands/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

And if that’s not enough, it is brighter than LCDs. This could radically change publishing and art worlds. Not hard to imagine having several large pieces of these color e-papers hanging on your walls allowing you to cycle through different images. In fact, even if the refresh rate doesn’t allow fast video frames or animation, it still would [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/fujitsu-announces-bendable-color-e-paper/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

Akiyoshi KITAOKA, Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, has presented some wonderful visual illusions. Even after knowing the truth they continue to fool you. I can attest to that. Caution: The page contains some works of "anomalous motion illusion", which might make sensitive observers dizzy or sick. Should you feel dizzy, you had better [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wonderful-optical-illusions/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center team is launching a high-tech study to determine if early screening using a special camera and images transmitted over the Internet can prevent blindness in Medicaid patients with diabetes. "Medicaid patients are rarely screened and are at risk of becoming blind," said Ramon Velez, M.D., M. Sc., the principal [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/internet-program-launched-to-prevent-blindness-in-diabetic-patients/