Date: 07/14/05     Keywords: no keywords

130 Cops and 2 Tanks were deployed to catch Taiwanese Chang Hsi-ming aka Evil Dragon, who was wanted for murder, illegal possession of weapons and multiple kidnappings. Taiwan police have been tracking him for about a year. Unfortunately for him his gaming habits proved too costly as cops sniffed out his online persona, and tracked [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/130-cops-and-2-tanks-to-chat-with-a-gamer/

Date: 07/14/05     Keywords: blogging, rss, software, spam

What features would you like in your dream blogging software? Let me know your thoughts. Here's what comes to my mind: Commenting with: WYSIWYG with shortcuts and buttons and spell checker (Tom Raftery's suggestion) Strong Spam Protection through: Blacklist Trackback Moderation Keyword (regex) moderation IP Banning Referrer Bouncer Rule based spam checking Full support for RSS 2.0 & Atom 0.3, Pingback protocols Offline Blogging support through MT and [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-would-be-the-features-of-an-ideal-blog-software/

Date: 07/13/05     Keywords: no keywords

Implanted Fetal Stem Cells Survive 16 Months and Multiply 10 Times as Fast as Adult Stem Cells Young Lives gets fighting chance with Umbilical Cord Blood Transplants Cord Blood may become Key Source of Stem Cells Illinois Stem Cell Research gets $10 million India’s Apollo to set up Stem Cell Therapy Centres World Stem Cell Map Stem Cell Therapy For Spinal [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/top-stem-cell-therapy-news/

Date: 07/13/05     Keywords: hosting

In this article I cover the hard questions to ask (checklist) while choosing a shared hosting provider. These questions are gathered over the years and through hard experience with different shared hosting providers. You may not get everything from one provider. However you will know from this checklist what compromises you are making and you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hard-questions-to-ask-while-choosing-a-shared-web-hosting-provider/

Date: 07/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

Have you wondered why Hotmail is so uncool these days? Read on.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/hotmail-is-the-new-aol/

Date: 07/12/05     Keywords: java, web

I just read a post titled - Java Applets = Stupid Design. The actual contention was - My example would have been web pages that are written entirely as Java applets. HORRID! I can see web applications designed entirely as applet as very appropriate. Several web applications have been successfully (in business) made that way. Like [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-applets-stupid-design-stupid-comment/

Date: 07/12/05     Keywords: no keywords

I have started a page dedicated to WordPress users only. Here you will find links to latest WordPress plugins, news, information, tips, how-to and guidelines. In short everything WordPress related. Future WordPress projects (in pipeline) will be announced here first. Check now for one. The page is also available permanently from the left sidebar in the About [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/for-wordpress-users-only-section-started/

Date: 07/12/05     Keywords: google

Assorted list of latest products from Google targeted at Firefox users.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/google-goodies-for-firefox-users/

Date: 07/12/05     Keywords: java

I have found Java Studio Creator to be very useful and worthwhile for JSF based development. Join the Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access program and download the new IDE for FREE through October 2005. Includes SDN Membership. As a Sun Java Studio Creator Early 2 Access participant, you gain access to the pre-release version of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-studio-creator-2-%e2%80%93-early-access-is-available-for-free/

Date: 07/12/05     Keywords: java

I have found Java Studio Creator to be very useful and worthwhile for JSF based development. Join the Java Studio Creator 2 Early Access program and download the new IDE for FREE through October 2005. Includes SDN Membership. As a Sun Java Studio Creator Early 2 Access participant, you gain access to the pre-release version of [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-studio-creator-2-early-access-is-available-for-free/

Date: 07/11/05     Keywords: no keywords

Naukri is one of the leading Indian job posting sites. While exploring the option of posting few jobs there I realized something strange and potentially unethical practice. When you go to naukri.com you will notice the left side column is titled - Top Employers. To most of us that means that this employers have surpassed employee [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/unique-recruiter-placement-policies-at-naukri/

Date: 07/10/05     Keywords: technology, java

A Brief Overview of Java Server Faces Technology.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/brief-notes-on-java-server-faces-technology-jsr-172/

Date: 07/08/05     Keywords: web, spam, yahoo

I received a strange comment (spam) from an user nicknamed John complimenting this blog. He provided his web address as www.yahoo.com and gave his email as john@yahoo.com. It was suspicious because Yahoo is not known to engage in such behavior. No decent company in their right mind would. The IP address recorded was 202.149.50.6. Not surprisingly [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-spamming-this-blog/

Date: 07/08/05     Keywords: php, software, java, security

After recent reports of several critical security vulnerabilities of PHP based software. I decided to take a closer look at the current state of security with PHP based products. A casual search at Secunia revealed 1599 Secunia Security Advisories. In contrast Java has 225 security vulnerabilities and much younger .NET platform has 827. PHP based products has [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/is-php-secure/

Date: 07/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Merck & Co. Inc. tried to patent a drug that would reduce heart attack risks for Vioxx (COX-2 selective inhibitors) users, three years before the company withdrew the painkiller drug from the market because of safety concerns. According to government records, the company applied for the patent in 2001. Merck voluntarily withdrew Vioxx, a $2.5 [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/past-patent-application-could-implicate-vioxx-makers-merck-in-vioxx-lawsuit/

Date: 07/08/05     Keywords: database

The newly released Oracle Database 10g Release 2 offers enhanced automated features designed to ease the burden of statistics collection and analysis. Automation is the key mantra with 10g release. In the words of Mark Townsend, Oracle's Senior Director of Database Product Management, "wherever we could, if it was a housekeeping task, we would automate [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/oracle-database-management-system-10g-r2-takes-a-huge-leap-forward-on-automated-diagnostics-and-monitoring/

Date: 07/08/05     Keywords: no keywords

Benjamin Smith III from St. Petersburg faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network a third-degree felony. Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon. So the bottomline is he is facing third degree felony charge for using bandwidth [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/man-arrested-and-charged-for-stealing-wifi-signal/

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

I hate to say this but after installing Ubuntu on a 1.8 GHz PC with 256 MB RAM, I found it to be slower than Windows 2000. Here is my experience. The boot-up sequence takes almost 1.5-2 times longer than Windows 2000. In case of power failure, which is not uncommon here, Windows [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/ubuntu-is-slow/

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Crude oil, after reaching a record $62.10 a barrel in New York, plunged as terrorist bombs that killed at least 37 people in London raised the possibility of an economic slowdown. It was the biggest price swing in 14 years. Today's $4.90 intraday move was the biggest swing since the Persian Gulf War in 1991. On [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/oil-price-falls-from-record-as-london-blasts-threaten-economic-growth/

Date: 07/07/05     Keywords: java

An excellent article, with screenshots, describing in details the ease of use of Java Studio Creator and JSF (using Java Studio Creator). The author is pretty impressed with the product. I have started using Java Studio Creator, thanks to the free gift from Sun, and so far I too am pretty impressed with its capabilities. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/test-driving-java-studio-creator/