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The VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) SDK is available for download

This is the...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/30/2004

How would you administer millions of machines?

With the arrival of "Internet search engines" like Google, Yahoo or MSN, it is now a common practice...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/29/2004

Building a bridge in France versus US

Recently I read an article about the newest bridge in Millau, France. Everything about this bridge...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/28/2004

Keeping a cool head about the Open Source pixie dust...

I just read an interesting proposal from Robert Scoble to "open source" WMP along with all sorts of...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/28/2004

Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Many people have trouble doing copy/paste in CMD.EXE. Indeed, there are no keyboard shortucts for...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/27/2004

Don't disable system services! (unless you REALLY know what you are doing)

(1) The problem While searching the newsgroups I found out an interesting issue. It seems that many...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/26/2004

Who hogs down my CPU?

I always wanted to find a simple way to figure out the answer for this puzzling question. Usually I...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/21/2004

Book: Mind hacks

This is one of the weirdest books... https://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mindhks/ A collection of sample...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/19/2004

The Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS) API is finally available on MSDN!

The link is here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vss/base/vss_portal.asp

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/17/2004

Tips for deploying Shadow copies for Shared Folders

Shadow copies for shared folders (in short, SCSF) requires two steps in deployment: 1) Enabling...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/17/2004

Reading books online on amazon.com?

Amazingly enough, you can read (at least apparently) entire books online at amazon.com, using the...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/15/2004

Creating shadow copies from the command line.

A less-known feature in Windows XP and Server 2003 is the command-line support for shadow copies....

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/14/2004

Shadow copies - a peek under the hood

Starting with XP and Windows Server 2003 we have a new shadow copy functionality feature built-in...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/11/2004

No fireworks yet...

... but we have pollution. At least this is the conclusion from the latest Seattle Times article....

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/08/2004

When is a volume eligible for Shadow Copies for Shared Folders?

There is a new feature in Windows Server 2003 that works almost like magic: you can automatically...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2004

Running SBS under Virtual PC

I downloaded the trial version of Virtual PC and installed a full SBS instance under it: Next step -...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/07/2004

Contrarian finding: Computers are a drag on learning

https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1206/p11s01-legn.html Hmmm, interesting - especially the quote about...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/06/2004

Sun shines on interoperability progress with Microsoft

In ComputerWorld (and the associated thread in theserverside.com) I read today a different type of...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/06/2004

Tabbed browsing interface

I try to get myself used to tabbed browsing - it is an interesting concept. Not only Firefox has...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/06/2004

Yet another MSN Spaces post

The MSN Spaces buzz is hard to miss. In case you live under a rock and you haven't heard of it,...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/03/2004

The virtual enterprise

I think that virtual machines are one of the coolest products from the last decade. And what I like...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 12/03/2004

What would be image #5?

Enjoy :-) https://ianwhite.is-a-geek.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0ac66f08-5eac-4796-a881-83fc12d5061f

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/30/2004

Launching a CMD window as Local System

What is your favorite method of launching CMD.EXE as Local System? I found the following method...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/29/2004

Running CMD.EXE as Local System

Many times in the past I had to run an interactive command-line shell under the Local SYSTEM...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/27/2004

Downloads - Microsoft Research

Accidentally, I just discovered an interesting web page with all sorts of curious (downloadable)...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/23/2004

Using RFID at home

An interesting article about various uses of the RFID technology:...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/22/2004

Another puzzle: Self-extracting EXE

The rules are the following: 1) Before starting the test, you choose the computer + OS you want,...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/19/2004

Radio Feedback

This morning, while listening to some boring songs on C89.5, I was thinking that it would be great...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/18/2004

White magic with Microsoft Exchange (Part I)

Here at Microsoft we have lots of discussion groups, probably in the order of thousands. And I am...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/18/2004

Script Recipe of the week: Detecting a new disk inserted in the system

Calvin Hsia presented a method to detect a device arrival in Visual Fox Pro. The code looks pretty...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/16/2004

Unskilled and Unaware of It - the psychology of overconfidence

A funny read at the beginning of the week: https://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/15/2004

SBS, and a discussion about Shadow-copies and backups

One interesting things about NTBackup in XP and Windows Server/SBS 2003 is that is has two operating...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/14/2004

Little math problem

OK, probably you already had your latte this morning but here is nice puzzle: Let's say that a...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/12/2004

The new MSN Search rocks!

I was just looking this morning to beta.search.msn.com - the MSN guys did an amazing work. I thought...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 11/11/2004

WS-Test - a controversial benchmark

So, it looks like Sun finally published the source code behind the WS-Test benchmark. (Disclaimer:...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/06/2004

A peek into the future

A simple question: Let's assume that some time from now, we have (near) infinite computing power...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/11/2004

Who is scared of Web services?

I just finished reading a fascinating interview with Henning Kargemann. The initial theme (and...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/11/2004

Writing self-replicating code in C#

No, this post is not about viruses. The problem is to write a C# program that prints to the console...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/07/2004

Playing with iSCSI

For a long time I wanted to get my hands on a true iSCSI hardware target. Without a target, the only...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/30/2004

Remembering passwords...

It looks like the number of passwords that I have to remember grows linearly over time. Since I...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/22/2004

Another way to expose a COM/.NET DLL assembly as a secure DCOM service

In my last post I mentioned a simple way to expose a .NET class under a secure DCOM connection. That...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/21/2004

How to write a DCOM server in C#

Updated 12/06/2006:...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/18/2004

MSDN article

I collaborated with Stephen Toub and Steve Lamb on a MSDN article on .NET reflection - check it out!...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/18/2004

Script Recipe of the week: Shadow Copy secrets

One useful feature that you probably noticed in Windows Server 2003 is Shadow Copies for Shared...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/05/2004

Ponder this

I just discovered this site. It contains all sorts of math/cs/algorithm-related problems. Some of...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/05/2004

Blogs - as a reversed form of Inbox.

The human mind is always in search for some sort of symmetry...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/02/2004

The best blog ever.

Right now (as I write this paragraph), my blog seems to be the best blog ever - it has no posts...

Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/02/2004

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