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Script recipe: How to increase the maximum number of quotas in the FSRM Quota Report (W2K3 R2)
One of the customer requests we had on Windows Server 2003 R2 was the ability to increase the...
Date: 09/18/2009
Statcounter: Bing leapfrogs Yahoo again
You might remember Statcounter.com as the site that came in the news a few weeks ago when Bing...
Date: 06/27/2009
Bing Community - an undiscovered site
Check it out: https://www.bing.com/community/ Nice layout & content organization. Much better...
Date: 06/25/2009
FCI – how to use classification (video)
Just found a new video demonstrating the new classification feature in Windows Server 2008 R2....
Date: 05/28/2009
What does Bing stands for?
In my personal opinion, BING = Bing Is Not Google (to continue the tradition of recursive acronyms)...
Date: 05/28/2009
Script of the week: how to expire files with Classification
It is an eye opening experience to sit at our FCI booth and see customer after customer telling us...
Date: 05/15/2009
The buzz around Classification is going up!
More and more posts appear on File Classification - it's hard to keep track of them. Here is a few...
Date: 05/14/2009
Classification – under the hood (part 1)
As promised, I will add more technical information about File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) in...
Date: 05/14/2009
File Classification Infrastructure – launched today!
Today it is an exciting day for all of us – we just announced our new classification platform at...
Date: 05/11/2009
Tom’s Hardware: SSD comparison table (take 2)
Tom’s Hardware does it again! https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/256gb-samsung-ssd,2265-8.html What...
Date: 05/04/2009
A simple way to access Shadow Copies in Vista
In the past, I presented various ways to browse these mysterious device objects called "shadow...
Date: 02/28/2008
Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?
I love this - if you have kids, and if you are a geek, you'll understand....
Date: 01/09/2008
Puzzle: create a Pentagon with rule and compass
The title sums it all. P.S. And, as a Christmas bonus, here is a nice chess puzzle. In the...
Date: 12/27/2007
Flash-based harddisks - the new laptop feature to look for
A review in ComputerWorld features the new Samsung's 64 GB Flash drive: Samsung rates the drive with...
Date: 12/27/2007
Puzzle solution: Xen voting algorithm
I think that the problem stated in one of my earlier posts is one of the most fascinating puzzles I...
Date: 11/26/2007
Zune 80 - $400 on eBay?
A few completed transactions: - $420:...
Date: 11/16/2007
Is my harddisk (almost) dead?
I just started to play with HD Tune, just to get a tool to look at my S.M.A.R.T. data. Not that I...
Date: 11/13/2007
What causes Harddisk failures?
A fascinating article in ACM Queue examines the various ways in which a harddisk can fail. Here is...
Date: 11/13/2007
Puzzle: Xen voting algorithm
There is a huge amount of aliens living on the Xen planet who want to elect their new leader (since...
Date: 10/30/2007
Defrag in Vista - what's new?
There is a new article in the hard-to-discover https://support.microsoft.com world, about various...
Date: 10/08/2007
[Cool spam] Our internal discussion list is nominated in a Who's Who award!
Here is an interesting piece of spam I received this morning on our internal discussion list: Dear...
Date: 10/05/2007
.NET Framework source code - public
I sure hope that you will appreciate this - the .NET 3.5 source code will be publicly released....
Date: 10/03/2007
Toshiba doubles hard-disk density
Just when we thought that there is no room more room on those little bits on a harddisk, Toshiba...
Date: 09/09/2007
[RO] Seminar - Storage si programare distribuita
Florin Lazar, Todi Pruteanu si cu mine am demarat in cursul acestei saptamani un seminar tehnic pe...
Date: 05/03/2007
Windows Home Server - links
A friend of mine didn't know about Windows Home Server - so I sent him these links: - Main site:...
Date: 03/15/2007
Demo: New virtualization technologies in Windows Server (Longhorn)
A nice demo that shows you several things: - Windows Server virtualization (a separate partition...
Date: 03/02/2007
Previous Versions in Vista - on Channel 9!
Hot and fresh from Channel 9: a session on Shadow Copies in Vista, and its applications: Previous...
Date: 02/26/2007
Flicks - A gesture based scrolling interface in Vista
If you have a Tablet PC or a touch-sensitive model, check out Pen Flicks. Here is a video capture of...
Date: 01/31/2007
A server for your home
One of the innovative things I like in Windows Home Server is its "infinite storage pool" idea. If...
Date: 01/08/2007
The next generation of storage management is here!
Storage management is complex, we all know it. For many people, even the simplest opeartions in a...
Date: 12/07/2006
Yet another 3D photo wonder is now available - Microsoft Photosynth is available for preview
Try it here: https://labs.live.com/photosynth. It is an interesting approach of building a 3D world...
Date: 11/09/2006
Lock-free programming: used now in games!
Lock-free programming is a performant multi-threaded synchronization technique that allows you to...
Date: 11/08/2006
Vista is now shipped!
A new OS is born - and I hope you will like it!
Date: 11/08/2006
Datacenter in a box
This is an interesting concept. This datacenter looks like a simple cargo container that can be...
Date: 10/18/2006
The new must-have gadget: Flash laptops
The entire world is now slowly shifting to Flash-based storage in mobile devices. The latest trend...
Date: 10/13/2006
XBox 360 awarded Good Design Award... in Japan!
This is surprising. I didn't know that the XBox 360 case was designed by a Japanese design lab. The...
Date: 10/12/2006
Vista - any opinions? Let us know. It's not over yet...
Vaibhav Kamath asked on one of my previous posts if there will be any UI changes after Vista RC1....
Date: 09/25/2006
12-disk SATA storage box for less than a grand
ExtremeTech has a review of the Norco DS-1220 eSATA storage box, which can accomodate up to 12 SATA...
Date: 09/21/2006
A bit of black magic: How to assign drive letters to VSS shadow copies... on Windows XP !
A while back, I wrote a post on how to assign drive letters to shadow copies. On Windows Server...
Date: 09/19/2006
IronPython 1.0 released!
Jim Hugunin just published the IronPython 1.0 download path here: https://www.codeplex.com/IronPython...
Date: 09/06/2006
Media Center PCs - the end of high-end DVD players?
A report on hardware.info confirms what many of us already know - the end is near for those...
Date: 09/01/2006
Vista RC1 is now done!
Whew! Time for a beer :-) https://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/01/453491.aspx The...
Date: 09/01/2006
Gartner redesigns Windows Vista
There is an article in Techworld.com mentioning a curious research report from Gartner implying a...
Date: 08/26/2006
Simple probability problem
I love probability puzzles. Here is one I liked: There are a 100 people trying to get onto the same...
Date: 08/19/2006
WS-Management? Already here in Vista!
WS-Management is a new web services-based management protocol. It's SOAP-based of course, and it is...
Date: 08/19/2006
Full list of online advertising networks
My previous post got me thinking to the following question: what other alternatives to AdSense and...
Date: 08/16/2006