Preparing For Site Overhaul and CSS Reboot

April 29th, 2008 I am preparing for attending JavaOne. I will cover JavaOne 2008 live on this blog and on twitter.

August 28th, 2007 This is a news to me! I am using LayeredTech dedicated server for over a year and just today while browsing their new encompass console I found they have three nice buttons labelled Reboot, Power On & Power Off. Obviously I tried and it worked.

June 3rd, 2008 How effective is a site re-design? The final proof is in site traffic. When we started re-designing Taragana.com we had many apprehensions.

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.

August 12th, 2007 One of the main challenges of managing multiple dedicated web / database servers is the ability to centrally monitor and manage them, automate tasks which requires out-of-band access like rebooting the server or find out if the server is dying and arrange for replacement ahead of time etc. Unless you are a very big web service provider, chances are you are using dedicated servers from one or more of dedicated web hosting providers.

July 5th, 2006 I have been looking for a unmanaged dedicated web hosting provider for the last 7 days or so. I performed sucks tests (search in Google for "xyz sucks"), went to web hosting forums, asked questions to the provider, analyzed their plans with a fine tooth comb.

August 26th, 2006 Suddenly my Hard-disk & MySQL Server had gone read-only, thereby making this blog (because it is cached) and other sites inaccessible, including ssh access. Do you have any idea why this could have happened? A hard reboot rectified the error for now.

March 26th, 2005 I use WordPress to maintain this site. After upgrading to version 1.5 I was left with a theme which doesn't do much of what I want to do with my site.

November 7th, 2005 Have you ever tried to configure your ADSL Modem to automatically connect to the internet without requiring to connect from a computer? Are you a BSNL Broadband user? I have played without success with the ADSL Modem manual before I found this gem on BSNL site. Full Screen View Link Few Tips: You may not want to keep the default IP address of 192.168.1.1 for the DSL Router.

June 2nd, 2008 My minimum requirements are: Pentium Core 2 Duo 2 GB RAM 2 X 160GB SATA II Harddisk with Hardware RAID 1 1500GB Bandwidth 10Mbps with option to easily upgrade to 100Mpbs in future Remote Reboot facility 5 usable IP Addresses Price lock for at least an year or more. CPanel / Plesk not required Note: It would like to have CentOS installed and RAID-1 configured.

March 7th, 2006 The site statistics shows a healthy upwards trend, despite lack of significant attention last month. I am really looking forward to breaking the 1 Million mark, first per month and then per day.

July 18th, 2005 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.

May 6th, 2006 This book provides a basis for revising for the Sun Certified Programmer examinations, not to teach the Java language or the topics required for the exam. It is designed to collect all the essential information you need to retain, in one place, and is designed for someone who has already finished their own study and is about to take the exam.

February 10th, 2007 Barack Obama, US presidential candidate, has taken a huge leap forward from his contemporaries by creating his own social networking site, in addition to maintaining his presence in YouTube and MySpace (possibly unofficial) and other places. I just registered and created a blog to test the site.

August 22nd, 2005 I suddenly decided to change this site. It wasn't planned nor very well thought out.