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Adi Oltean's Weblog - Flashbacks on technology, programming, and other interesting things
Web page real estate - how to use it?
Here is an interesting question: If you have 20% space to spare on your web page, what would you...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/16/2006
How to write in plain English
An interesting guide: https://www.plainenglish.co.uk/plainenglishguide.html Now, if I only would have...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/10/2006
Bloom filter calculator
Bloom filters are amazing data structures, perfect to represent sets of numbers in a small bit...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/10/2006
New hard drive price war coming
Seagate, Hitachi and Samsung will compete for more price cuts for harddisks in the near future. The...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/10/2006
Search Engines and Privacy
The recent AOL scandal had one and only one learning lesson for any software company. Think 10x,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/09/2006
Vista speech recognition? It actually works... :-)
Long Zheng gave it a try and he was impressed (along with lots of diggers). He recorded the video on...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/09/2006
Time Machine: Vista Previous Versions are now making their way into Mac OS X Leopard...
Mac OS X Leopard incorporates now a previous versions feature called Time Machine - similar with...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/07/2006
The Previous Versions feature in Vista - an ArsTechnica review
ArsTechnica noticed our new Previous Versions feature in Vista. Give it a click:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/31/2006
Why Flash memory is good for your computer
Simply put, flash memory will enable a revolution in improving computer performance in daily...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/05/2006
Puzzle: floor() function
Proof that: floor(x * n) = floor(x) + floor(x + 1/n) + floor(x + 2/n) + ... + floor(x + (n-1)/n)...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/26/2006
New live.com launched! (with screenshots on Vista)
Link: www.live.com It looks beautifully, isn't it? [Screenshot] live-s2.PNG
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/16/2006
Carbonite: discovered (or something like it)
When I was in 7-8 grade I saw (as anyone else) the StarWars episodes. After this experience, I still...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/15/2006
Poincare's conjecture proof completed?
A few years ago, I was surprised to see an announcement in Mathworld stating (again) that the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/05/2006
Digg surpasses Slashdot?
Looking at Alexa, we can definitely see a trend: Alexa might be contested, however. And, speaking of...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/29/2006
Latest LINQ CTP available for download
Latest LINQ CTP released for download. The list of goodies is here: What’s new? Enhanced DLinq...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/11/2006
Spam Poetry
Those evil spam masters get better and better to attract your attention. Lately, I noticed lots of...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/04/2006
How to run Defrag on a scheduled basis
On Windows XP, it's simple. Just run this command and you are done: schtasks /create /TN defrag /RU...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/07/2006
Wikipedia is getting pretty good lately
Maybe I am biased, but I am pleasantly surprised by Wikipedia recently. There is a lot of material...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/07/2006
Boot from iSCSI? It's coming.
Wonder of wonders. One of the interesting features of SANs in general, and iSCSI in particular, is...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/07/2006
I am Slackware Linux
Huh? Which OS are You? For the record - I work on Windows, BTW :-)
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/17/2006
New www.live.com launched!
Check it out: www.live.com Personally, I like the smart scroll feature.
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/08/2006
Puzzle: prime numbers
Show that (N^4 + 4^N) is a prime number if and only if N=1.
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/07/2006
Overhype - a new global epidemy in the blogosphere?
Overhype is something very noticeable these days. Just last week, everyone on the blogosphere...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/05/2006
Ahh, backups... the eternal conversation subject
Finally! The wait is over. Brett Shirley started to blog. As I expected, Brett started with a highly...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/05/2006
Walking the long road ahead
Recently there was a lot of noise in the media about a Microsoft official (Neil Holloway - President...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/04/2006
Usability
Any UI programmer should watch this video, and learn. :-)
Author: AdiOltean Date: 02/24/2006
What is the quickest way to get the file system type on a volume?
A colleague of mine says that whenever he wants to see what file system is on some volume, he types...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 02/13/2006
Getting the free space available under a certain directory
There is a useful function called GetDiskFreeSpaceEx( ). The GetDiskFreeSpaceEx function retrieves...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/31/2006
Internet Explorer 7 Beta2 available for download
It's finally here: https://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/31/2006
A brief history of harddrives
A topic that I find eternally fascinating... CNET published a series about the history of...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/27/2006
More VSHADOW stuff: how to backup Exchange, SQL, NTFS
While researching for the previous post, I just started a few searches for VSHADOW on the internet,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/25/2006
Fast backup of Virtual Server images (using VSHADOW)
Jeff Trumbull published a very nice script on how to backup a Virtual Server image wiht about one...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/25/2006
How to build a cheap backup server
A while back, our team helped the Small Business Server team with some interesting VSS issues just...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/21/2006
Using NTBackup to achieve P2V
I always thought about writing a post about physical-to-virtual migration strategies in combination...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/20/2006
Storage grid in the sky - a new concept?
So, what if you take the principles behind BitTorrent (share more bandwidth to get more data) and...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/20/2006
Favorites - this time, for real!
Finally! I just noticed a new service in the https://live.com family: Live Favorites...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/19/2006
XBox 360 committed to HD-DVD
There were some recent rumors that XBox 360 has some plans to offer a Blu-Ray external drive....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/17/2006
The OpenSearch 1.1 specification
I just installed a recent Vista build on my dev box, and I noticed a new set of options to add a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/16/2006
Perpendicular storage arrives on laptops
https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060116/ap_on_hi_te/seagate_drives Seagate's new drive, the Momentus...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/16/2006
How Hotmail works? - an interview with Phil Smoot
ACM Queue published an interesting interview with Phil Smoot. Phil is the person in charge of...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/14/2006
Unix guy shares his experience in switching to Windows
Simon Gerber wrote a slightly-negative article titled Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/11/2006
Microsoft - again, among the 100 best companies to work for in US
Fortune.com just published their top100 list for the best companies to work for in US - here....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/10/2006
The VDS API is now public on MSDN
The VDS API is now live on MSDN! What is it? VDS offers a COM-based API for volume, disk and LUN...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/05/2006