World’s First P2P DVR and Distributed DVR

August 30th, 2006 Sony released DVR writer named AWG170A (they need to fire their naming department), touted as world's fastest, with a blazing 18x speed for burning single layer disks. It would write your 16x discs too at the higher speed.

October 9th, 2006 Google Inc. announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock exchange. Both companies have approved the deal, which should officially close in the fourth quarter.

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.

June 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new approach to online security, based on distributed sanctions, could help prevent cybercrime, fraud and identity theft, according to a report. Susan Brenner, of the University of Dayton School of Law, and Leo Clarke, of the Thomas M.

October 18th, 2007 I never thought that BSNL, the world's crappiest broadband service, can get any more crappier, but it did. BSNL DataOne is notorious for rapidly switching between up and down states, so fast that it will make your head dizzy.

July 19th, 2005 And if that’s not enough, it is brighter than LCDs. This could radically change publishing and art worlds.

November 8th, 2008 Any reasonable (web) application which deals with some subset of web data (rss feeds, web pages, product pricing data etc.), has to use distributed data processing to go anywhere. Unless you have very deep pockets and / or have strong VC funding (which is rarer than a bottle of Mouton Rothschild Pauillac Premier Cru First Growth these days) you will have to opt for consumer grade hardware (instead of big iron which more companies opted during the dotcom era ) and use them in a distributed computing framework like hadoop or GridGain or older (more mature) high throughput computing systems like OpenPBS (ignore the marketing talk to download the free version) or Condor.

February 18th, 2009 BSNL broadband is full of surprises. It will never cease to amaze you with the height of irritation, poorest of technologies, almost dead-man-sitting customer care services and most importantly the service for which you pay.

July 16th, 2007 Chuq Von Rospach is an Adobe Photoshop veteran. Recently he had series of bad experiences with Adobe Photoshop customer support.

March 3rd, 2008 I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template: Hi, We've seen your website at http://blog.taragana.com/ [Full URL here] and we love it! We see that your traffic rank is [######] and your link popularity is [##]. Also, you have been online since [#/#/####].

June 21st, 2007 I just got hooked into twitter, a service which exists for the sole purpose of letting others know what you are doing at this moment. However it is more than that.

May 2nd, 2007 I was recently introduced to Mercurial, a new distributed version control system people are talking about. Version control systems are central to any development team and a choice shouldn't be made lightly as you will often find your development process limited by the limitations of the system.

March 19th, 2009 '123456' is the most common password used by people on the Internet. Obscenities, names of fast cars and even ncc1701 - the ship number for Star Trek's Starship Enterprise, have made it to the list of top 500 worst passwords of all time.

April 28th, 2005 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.

May 5th, 2006 Kelly Odell posted an interesting marketing plan template which should result in a marketing plan of roughly 24 pages. You should try to answer each square in the template with no more that one page including diagrams and pictures.