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More news on holographic storage
Forget the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD battle. Think H-ROM. At CES, InPhase gave more hints on this...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/05/2006
Windows Backup - highlighted as one of the main Vista features!
Whoohoo! Windows backup is there. Proeminently:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/05/2006
How to stay safe with the new Windows vulnerability
As previously published here, this is a quick-and-dirty method to get yourself in a relatively safe...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 01/03/2006
Improving your own memory
It is so funny that we spend such amount of time optimizing data structures, but we never think...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/29/2005
How to do atomic writes in a file
Let's assume that you want is to write some simple code that writes to a text file. A few...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/28/2005
Puzzle: probability problem
Here is an interesting probability problem who recently generated long discussions in our team: Say...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/28/2005
Cool way to get customer feedback
Lenovo tries to understand whether we prefer titanium or black for the next ThinkPad. And set up a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/18/2005
Funny experiment
OK - here is an surprising experiment. Do you know what this does? 1) Open some UI that contains an...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/13/2005
Are the SATA disks reliable enough?
An empirical report was recently published by Jim Gray and Catharine van Ingen. Here is the summary:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/13/2005
Bloom filters and everything else
If, by some strange and unexplained phenomenon, all blogs on blogs.msdn.com will dissapear, except...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/13/2005
How to stop filesharers from stealing hotel bandwidth
Simply brilliant:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/08/2005
Batch processing is back!
It's interesting that the Cell Broadband Engine is reviving batch-based computing as one of their...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/08/2005
Windows Local Live is out in the wild!
Here it is: https://local.live.com Check out some cool bird's eye images:- Space Needle- Microsoft...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2005
Search Technology Center - opened by Microsoft in China
I am watching with a lot of interest the evolution of search technologies in China - everyone knows...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2005
Pure Gold XBox 360 faceplate
I am amazed too about the eBay XBox 360 mania (as noted in my previous post). But I didn't thought...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2005
Home-made XBox 360 auctioned on eBay for $611
OK - this is getting out of hand... :-) "I never (actually) thought people would bid on this," wrote...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2005
Did you know that MySpace.com runs ASP.NET 2.0 on x64?
I found this quote interesting: The Internet Information Services 6.0 Web server featured in the OS...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 is now RTM
These are the good old days. Windows Server 2003 R2 is now released to manufacturing! R2 was a very...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2005
digg.com - the new Slashdot?
I just discovered digg.com a few days ago, and I am hooked. So far, it seems surprisingly good....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/02/2005
Math puzzle: minimum number?
What is the minimum number that cannot be expressed with less than two english words? Also, how...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/30/2005
This time, a real blog about Google
I am reading an excellent blog written by a few ex-Googlers. I especially like Doug Edwards's posts,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/29/2005
Holographic storage for everyone
Maxell hints that it will ship 300 GB optical media next year, in September 2006 to be more exact....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/26/2005
Tracking your own misconceptions
It is certainly refreshing when,once in a while, you realize that you can do some things in a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/24/2005
SSE - an RSS extension for two-way synchronization
Ray Ozzie mentioned an interesting variation of the RSS protocol. RSS is essentially a one-way...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/21/2005
The newest, greatest, smallest iPod is now announced!
It holds eight million songs and every photo ever taken... Here it is:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/21/2005
Want free email? Bring your own domain
Forget the battle between Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail. Just use your own domain and go to...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/21/2005
Home page adventures - this time the new, shiny MSDN search beta
I could write a little history on the (frequent) changes of my home page during the last twelve...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/17/2005
Ray Ozzie blogs again!
I am sure this will be a good blog to watch. So, when we will see Steve and Bill join the crowd?
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/17/2005
Search-based toolbars ARE addictive
I used to play with both MSN and Google toolbars in parallel for a while now, but even if I had the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/08/2005
Singularity - a new research OS from Microsoft
Here it is: https://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ There are several interesting ideas in...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/06/2005
Check the reality: What most gamers use as their gaming PC?
I just got prompted today for a survey on what most gamers use as their gaming PC. Very interesting...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/04/2005
live.com - better than start.com?
I like that live.com is easier to type: one character less than start.com, and a lot easier than...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/03/2005
.NET FX 2.0 available for download
https://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/default.aspx
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/28/2005
Be polite when you are driving!
Otherwise this is what could happen to you. Well, that's it for now! I'm closing the blog while I am...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/15/2005
Yahoo launches blogs, news search engine
Various Yahoo rumors are coming furiously from several directions. First, a new blog search engine,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/11/2005
Who da'Punk?
While the whole mini-msft seems to be an interesting blog these days, I personally just don't buy...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/08/2005
Short gamma-ray burst mystery is solved
Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are probably the most violent events that happen today in universe. In a few...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/05/2005
DOSDEV.EXE - a misterious tool
Once in a while, you might encounter this tool in some Microsoft-provided SDKs, or Resource Kits,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/04/2005
Random Repro vs. Consistent Repro, and a surprise under the cover...
(Continuing on my previous post on supportability) Supportability Principle # 3 - When writing code,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/03/2005
A review of AOpen's Pandora Box
So, we all saw the recent article in CNet around the new Pandora box. Still - no specs in that...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 10/01/2005
Are there any COM programmers out there?
Even with all this new wave of .NET stuff, I still find myself in the XXI century doing good old COM...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/30/2005
Start.com has now Hotmail integration
It looks like Hotmail is slowly getting integrated with start.com. Go to https://mail.start.com for a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/27/2005
Day of Defeat: Source - released!
A few hours ago (one hour later than expected, at 4.00 PM PDT), Day of Defeat: Source was released...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/27/2005
An internet-enabled sewing machine... but does it run Windows?
Yes it does. This is Bernina Artista 200e and it runs Windows CE! The 200/200e models have some...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/24/2005
CMD programming - elements of style
Everyone knows how to write CMD scripts. And this is the reason why we have so many messy CMD...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/23/2005
How big is Hotmail?
Huge. Here is some data from a PDC Hotmail presentation: ~200 million active users 3.3 billion...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/23/2005
Virtual disease affecting World of Warcraft characters
We are living in interesting times. First, WoW created the possibility of virtual economies. Now we...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/21/2005