I made a small change in commenting policy. I am experimentally blocking comments from "open and insecure proxies". This is to prevent the deluge of comment spam I have been getting lately on this blog (over 3000 per day). If you find yourself unable to comment on my blog please email me at angsuman[at]taragana[dot]com and let me know.

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Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based Niagara servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said on Tuesday.

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New York Post confirmed that Microsoft has been involved in top secret discussions to buy eBay. Apparently Microsoft wants to merge eBay into its MSN portal as part of its "war" against Google.

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Symantec's antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and US government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers from eEye Digital Security said.

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I don't like it very much but one of my colleagues do. What do you think?
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I briefly reviewed my corpus of 4569 comment spams in my Akismet queue. Of them over 53% of the spam has been contributed by Top 100 spamming IP addresses.

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I used Mamma Media Solutions as alternative ad with Google AdSense. To summarize my experience: Not worth it.

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WordPress Plugin Cheat Sheet

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Akismet is a spam prevention plugin from the WordPress author, Matt Mullenweg. It uses collective wisdom in filtering spams. Essentially you, blog owner, help it learn by marking comments as spam. It then uses the knowledge to filter spams from other blogs and your too. There are two major problems with this approach.

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The free book on complete eye care - Better Eyesight Through Natural, Herbal and Yogic Methods has been updated to provide commenting support. Now you can add comments and share your experiences in using the book on each page.

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