Date: 05/07/05     Keywords: no keywords

Cranberries are long known for beneficial effects on UTI (Urinary Tract Infection). Diabetic and immunosuppressed patients (after kidney or heart transplant) are more susceptible to recurrent UTI problems, women much more then men. Recent animal study conducted by University of Wisconsin-Madison indicates they may be good for heart too. Early results from studies indicate that feeding [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/research-animal-study-indicates-cranberries-are-good-for-heart-too/

Date: 05/05/05     Keywords: spam

Comment Spam, Trackback Spam, Pingback Spam and Referrer Spam are ever increasing problems with blogs. After moving my blog over to WordPress 1.5, I revisited my Spam prevention strategy. I used CAPTCHA before, which has problems for visually impaired people. Also it requires some effort by the user to fill in the CAPTCHA code. Hence [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-keep-your-wordpress-15-blog-spam-free/

Date: 05/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

I am sure most of us have noticed at grocery stores and large retailers, the cashiers rarely, if ever, verify your signature. In fact some even give back your card before you return your signed receipt! I didn't know how pervasive the problem was till I read John Hargrave's exploits with credit card. It makes [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-secure-is-your-credit-card/

Date: 05/04/05     Keywords: no keywords

The paper - "Grossly Excessive Penalties in the Battle Against Illegal File-Sharing: The Troubling Effects of Aggregating Minimum Statutory Damages for Copyright Infringement" by J. Cam Barker argues that the file sharers sued by the RIAA have a constitutional right to pay much smaller penalties than the millions of dollars they can be liable for under [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/constitutional-validity-of-huge-claim-lawsuits-filed-by-riaa-questioned/

Date: 05/04/05     Keywords: web, linux, apache

The simplest configuration is described. It assumes you already have Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.0 (instructions for Apache 1.3 is also provided) installed and running. The instructions are applicable (have been tested) for Windows as well as Linux platform. Assume you want to map test directory of Apache to the mytest web application of Tomcat. Change [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/5-steps-to-integrate-tomcat-55-with-apache-20/

Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

Nobel science prizes will face a "more daring" rival from 2008 with $1 million awards for research into everything from the "big bang" to the brain, a Norwegian-born philanthropist said on Monday. Fred Kavli, a physicist who left Norway in 1955 with $300 and turned it into a $340 million fortune in California, said he was [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/nobel-prize-has-a-strong-competitor/

Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

Kuro5hin author rianjs wrote an article on information overload in our daily life. The article itself is a burning example of verbosity and useless information overload. Hence I decided to summarize (my commentaries are in italics in the end of each line) it for my readers: We are facing information overload - See Why can't you [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/summarizing-kuro5hin-article-on-information-overload/

Date: 05/02/05     Keywords: no keywords

It may be the greatest irony of the information age. All of that data flying at you by e-mail, instant message, cell phone, voice mail and BlackBerry--it could actually be making you dumber. Dr. Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist who's studied attention deficit disorder for more than a decade, has identified a related disorder he calls attention [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/why-cant-you-pay-attention-anymore-attention-deficit-trait/

Date: 05/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

An interesting article "debunking conspiracy theorists' paranoid fantasies about Sept. 11" (read mainstream media aka official version) from balsamic vinigga @ Kuro5hin. Few excerpts: Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event there will usually be at least one ,often several wild conspiracy theories which spring up around it. So its hardly surprising that the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/debunking-911-conspiracy-theorists/

Date: 05/01/05     Keywords: no keywords

Fellow blogger laments: "But it isn't really the blog that annoyes me, it's my lack of concentration and my inablity to stay focused. This weakness shows in almost all facets of my life. For example I do 5 different sports and want to be good at all of them." We all face the same problem time [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-stay-focussed-on-a-task/

Date: 04/29/05     Keywords: spyware

After publishing the story on New York Attorney General filing a lawsuit against a California based Spyware Company, NYT reporter decided the title (New York Sues Internet Company Over use of Spyware) was gramatically dubious. So he decides to change "Over" to "On". Then he realizes "On" doesn't look so good, specifically the capitalization. So he [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/new-york-times-reporter-has-spelling-blues-blogger-versus-reporter/

Date: 04/29/05     Keywords: browser, web

A picture speaks better then thousand words. As far as technologists are concerned Firefox browser is a clear winner by a wide margin with 49% of the market share. Overall Mozilla group has 57% of the market share. Note: This statistics are from my website. It averages around 120, 000 page impressions per month [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/firefox-browser-is-a-clear-winner-with-technologists/

Date: 04/29/05     Keywords: technology

A new dawn for Sun Microsystem or the end of Sun as we know it? CEO Scott McNealy is considering taking Sun private with the help of Silver Lake Partners, says a hedge-fund manager close to McNealy and the private equity fund. Silver Lake has done LBOs for Seagate Technology (STX ) and SunGard Data Systems [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/sun-going-private/

Date: 04/29/05     Keywords: java

I heard in grapevine that Sun marketing has decided to change the names like J2EE, J2SE, J2ME etc. The name change involves removing the "2" from the platform names. (E.g. Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) will become Java Platform, Standard Edition (short-hand: Java SE). Looks like finally someone is looking into the naming fiasco. [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/no-more-j2ee-or-j2se/

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: spam

Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. However it happens. Is it spamming? I think it is. Without knowing the religion of a person if you try to thrust your own religion down his throat, it is wrong. The comments are mostly out-of-context which is a sure sign of spam. It is irrelevant [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-is-comment-spamming-couple-of-interesting-case-studies/

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

The United States reported on Wednesday that terrorist activity in the world increased sharply last year with the number of attacks and dead more than tripling but that it was winning the global "war on terror". The US National Counterterrorism Center, an arm of the Central Intelligence Agency, said in a report there were [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/terrorist-activity-tripled-last-year-us-insisting-it-is-winning-the-war-on-terror/

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

"If a woman is tortured, the first thing police do is arrest her in-laws, even though they are elderly. What if I am tortured by my daughter-in-law? All 498A(a section that deals with physical and mental torture of women) does is put people like us behind bars, it will never put my daughter-in-law behind bars. Police [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/what-if-i-am-tortured-by-my-daughter-in-law-suicide-note-of-an-elderly-clerk-from-kolkata/

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: technology

Scientists have developed the world’s tiniest refrigerator – and it’s pretty cold too. Even smaller than a college dorm fridge, the microchip sized fridge can cool objects down to -459 degrees Fahrenheit. The National Institute of Standards and Technology-designed refrigerators, each 25 by 15 micrometers, are sandwiches of a normal metal, an insulator and a superconducting [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/worlds-smallest-refrigerator/

Date: 04/28/05     Keywords: no keywords

UCLA scientists led by Dr. Seth J. Putterman are reporting today that they have produced nuclear fusion in a footlong cylinder just five inches in diameter. Their findings are being reported in the journal Nature. However it will not even heat your palm, at least not yet. The minifusion device accelerates hydrogen atoms and slams them [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/cold-fusion-comes-in-a-foot-long-cylinder/

Date: 04/27/05     Keywords: no keywords

I tried wp-staticize for caching my blog. It produced certain pages with really strange characters. Today I tried wp-cache, which is a fork of staticize. It produces blank pages for me. Sure they are faster to load but... Looks like WordPress caching programs doesn't like me. What the heck. I will make this blog even more [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/no-caching-for-me/