If I had to Start My Blog Again…

November 16th, 2006 When MS DTC fails to start and you get an error like: "The Distributed Transaction Coordinator service terminated with service-specific error 3221229584 (0xC0001010)." You know you are in trouble. Fortunately there is a simple solution.

August 10th, 2008 nginx [engine x] is a high quality, light footprint (much ligher than Apache HTTPD), high performance HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. nginx is distributed under BSD license unlike its competitor Lighttpd.

January 20th, 2009 Have you installed the Windows 7? Are the overhead services running in your background slowing down your system? The rudimentary ideas suggest disabling the unused services in the background to revamp the speed. Now how do you do that in Windows 7.

July 10th, 2008 We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were: We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.

April 19th, 2006 The Java 2 Standard Edition 5.0 Release 4 update, issued Monday, fixes a vulnerability in Java Web Start. An application, exploiting the vulnerability, may grant itself permissions to read and write local files that are accessible to the user running the Java Web Start application.

January 12th, 2004 I decided to start the year with a better layout for my blog, which was formerly located at http://taragana.blogspot.com/. Why? Lot of features like RSS syndication, better history navigation were missing from blogspot It didn't make sense to host it on blogspot, when I have more than enough space on my own server, in fact two servers! More freedom & control to do as I please, without relying on blogspot Needed something to support multiple pages Category support And a whole lot of other features It means I will be spending more time to provide more content, update it more regularly and overall try to provide you with better experience.

March 25th, 2006 Ruby and ROR fanatics have adopted a highly annoying habit of luring hapless readers with highly provocative titles like "Ruby is not ready for production. Definitive proof".

August 20th, 2008 Google has decided that boring (into) the World Wide Web is not enough and it plans to start drilling into the earth's crust. Google promised nearly $11 million in technology to expand USA’s geothermal energy reserves.

July 24th, 2009 On the Call: Microsoft CFO Chris LiddellSEATTLE — With businesses cutting back on technology spending and consumers favoring low-end notebooks, the average amount Microsoft Corp. brings in from selling a copy of its Windows software has fallen.

January 24th, 2007 Some of my customers have complained that they were unable to access my site. They complained that the site was accessible by IP address (72.36.134.131) but not by domain name - http://blog.taragana.com/.

January 24th, 2004 I recently discovered the joys of pingback. It came with the Blog product I use - WP.

April 7th, 2009 Simple Thoughts have always let you and us to interact and share knowledge with each other on a very healthy and fulfilling terms. In the recent past, we have started achieving and surpassing small milestones conveniently.

July 8th, 2006 The perfect setup of fedora core 4 fails you on multiple fronts. First you cannot install apt as the package it mentioned has become obsolete and latest packages do not install with rpm.

January 7th, 2009 This is for all those iPhone 3G owners still in fix and searching for ways to watch videos on your new gadget. Today I'll let you know how to watch DVD movies and videos from other sources on your iPhone.

November 13th, 2007 Openfire (Jabber/XMPP server) by default binds on port 8080 which is also used by Tomcat. This causes Tomcat to fail when openfire is started before it.