Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

From the start of July, PIR (Public Interest Registry) will provide domain-name sellers with a $5 rebate for every domain they sell in Latin America and India. The cost to registrars is $6 per domain per year, and they are usually sold for a few extra dollars to consumers. Registrars will not be obliged to hand [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/1-domains-for-india-and-latin-america/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

You may be a genius but that doesn't assure you of living happily when it matters most, when you are old and vulnerable than ever before. Not so intelligent people take heart. You have as much chance of living a happy old age as anyone. Intelligence may lead to a better paid job and quality of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/intelligence-is-not-a-guarantee-for-happy-old-age/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

A gene that may regulate the body's response to insulin has been linked to both obesity and type-2 diabetes, researchers in Britain and France reported on Monday. Scientists found 11 different variations of the gene, called single nucleotide polymorphisms or SNPs. Six of these forms were linked with severe obesity. The discovery helps explain how being overweight [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/single-insulin-regulator-gene-linked-to-obesity-and-diabates/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: no keywords

The fundamental questions There are two questions that you need to ask when compiling your program: 1. What do I know about the platforms that this program will run on? 2. What do I know about the assumptions that are made in the code? The answers to these two questions determine what compiler [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/selecting-the-best-compiler-options/

Date: 07/19/05     Keywords: java

You can use assertions to detect errors that may otherwise go unnoticed. Assertions contain Boolean expressions that define the correct state of your program at specific points in the program source code. The designers of the Java platform, however, didn't include support for assertions. Perhaps they viewed exceptions as a superior feature, allowing you to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/using-assertions-in-java-technology/

Date: 07/18/05     Keywords: no keywords

An well-known photographer Sharad Haksar has been threatened with legal action by beverage giant Coca-Cola Co. for displaying one of his photographs - depicting water shortages against a backdrop of the company's ubiquitous logo - on a giant billboard. Truth hurts! The wholly-owned Indian subsidiary of the Atlanta based company has asked Sharad Haksar to remove [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/indian-photographer-faces-lawsuit-over-displaying-water-shortage-juxtaposed-with-coke-ad-on-billboard/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

"Keeping glucose levels from jumping too high or dipping too low may help to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, which has been connected to erratic glucose levels in those with diabetes," said Robert Gabbay, MD, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centre, and co-director, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pizzas-are-bad-news-for-diabetics/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

The European study of patients with Type I diabetes found that short-term treatment lowered insulin dependence by 12 percent and increased insulin-making capabilities for at least 18 months. "The results are very promising. There are not many instances where you can stop an autoimmune disease in its tracks," said Dr. Richard Insel, executive vice president for [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/breaking-news-european-study-reports-halting-of-progress-of-type-1-diabetes-by-drug-anti-cd3-antibody/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

The RSPCA is urging pet owners to be aware of diseases that pets can have that are normally not associated with animals like diabetes. Amid National Diabetes Week, the RSPCA says even though it is a rare disease in animals, it can still happen. Symptoms owners should be aware of animals include drinking and urinating more, initially [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/pet-owners-warned-of-diabetes-risk/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: rss

Archive.org collection houses a number of classic public domain feature films and shorts, now available for viewing and downloading at the Internet Archive. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to keep yourself updated about the latest additions to the library. You can also view the latest additions online. What else can you do? Browse the Entire [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/free-classic-feature-films-and-shorts-available-online/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: programming, java

According to Forrester survey data and analysis, Java's 66% penetration is the highest among strategic programming languages for enterprise applications. Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and C/C++ have nearly as much penetration as Java, but VB6 is past mainstream support and C/C++ has a comparatively limited ecosystem. The two most strategic .NET languages, Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/of-strategic-languages-javas-adoption-is-highest-forrester-report/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: google

Once again Google has started playing with site PR values everflux as they say. This site home page is bouncing from 5 to 6. Personally I think it should be at least 7 but that me Last time was rather drastic; however it turned out ok at the end(no changes). This time I am [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-pr-pingpong-time-again/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

After Karl Rove, one of Jr. Bush's most trusted advisers, publicly outed an undercover CIA operative, David Lazarus of SF Gate takes it a step further by uncovering the full details of the operative, including her address, personally identifiable information and complete with a detailed map of her home. And all in less than 30 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/privacy-is-easy-to-breach-exposing-an-undercover-cia-operative/

Date: 07/17/05     Keywords: no keywords

Dr. Richard Stallman's latest tirade is against Harry Potter's publishers. As you might know HP publishers in Canada acquired a court order to prevent reading of Harry Potter books before the official release date. To punish the publisher's (in what he thinks violation of "right to read") he implores people not to buy Harry [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/stallmans-tirade-against-harry-potter/

Date: 07/16/05     Keywords: google

I heard it in the grapevine about the work culture at Google. Read on.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/work-culture-at-google-an-inside-story/

Date: 07/16/05     Keywords: no keywords

A multicenter international study chaired by a Joslin Diabetes Center investigator and reported in the July issue of the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes brings hopeful news to the 18 million people in the United States — and millions more worldwide — with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Initial results of the Phase III [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ruboxistaurin-rbx-may-reduce-risk-of-vision-loss-in-diabetics/

Date: 07/15/05     Keywords: linux

An email by Michael Davidson sent to Senior Vice President, Reg Broughton, who forwarded it to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride with a cover note suggests that an investigation commissioned by The SCO Group failed to produce any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code. In the Aug. 13, 2002, e-mail, engineer Michael Davidson said "At [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sco-email-from-2002-no-smoking-gun-in-linux-code/

Date: 07/15/05     Keywords: no keywords

Pretty hilarious, if I may say so. To quote from the site: Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/open-letter-to-kansas-school-board-on-alternative-theory-of-intelligent-design/

Date: 07/14/05     Keywords: php, database, java

Today I had an interesting conversation with my ex-Boss and good friend. He asked me to summarize the current state of Java world these days as he was busy with databases and scientific computing. Here is my short take on it. Ruby has become a cult like Apple. PHP guys think they are winning over Java. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-is-java-world-going-thse-days-a-summary/

Date: 07/14/05     Keywords: software, java

Sun has started showcasing Java Applications in Java.com. It provides opportunity for developers to showcase their products. As a software development company I too was excited at the prospect of advertising on java.com. However excitement turned to serious frustration soon. On their front page they are showcasing how you can get your fix for Texas Hold'em Poker [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-an-unholy-combination-of-sun-mobile-and-texas-holdem-poker-companies/