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Interview with Anders Heljsberg on the next version of C#
(No, I didn't mean Whidbey. I meant C# 3.0) The interview appeared on Microsoft Watch. Here is the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/15/2005
Water cooling technology for server racks
Dissipating the heat in a rack full of servers can be a real problem given the extreme power...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/14/2005
Managed Speech APIs and other cool utilities...
New speech-related utilities here. A new addition is BuildAppLex: BuildAppLex Speech Utility for...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/13/2005
Price Guides, July 2005: Storage
AnandTech runs a very nice comparison between the various deals that you can get today for...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/11/2005
Article: Service Level Agreements explained
Acronyms like SLA are often confusing. To quote the article: What’s this buzzword really about, and...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/09/2005
Data Protection Manager closer to shipping...
The new Data Protection Manager is almost done! From Infoworld: Microsoft has completed production...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/08/2005
Steve Ballmer: the interview
Robert Scoble, our unofficial blogging vicepresident here at Microsoft, interviewed Steve Ballmer...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/08/2005
Hanford Site: now open for public tours
I am not sure how I became fascinated about nuclear engineering in the last months. But, anyway, in...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/02/2005
New feature in Windows Server 2003 R2: directory-level quotas
If you are an IT administrator that has to manage file servers, you are probably familiar with...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/01/2005
Be careful with that keyboard!
OMG. This is by far the most expensive typo in history......
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/01/2005
Ars Technica: 2005 buyer's guide is out!
https://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/system-guide-200506.ars What is interesting is that the budget...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/29/2005
Nanoholes: more capacity for harddisks
The quest for more storage density continues... Fujitsu researches suceeded to develop a similar...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/29/2005
Atlas: Seamless AJAX programming
Scott Guthrie has a great blog entry on several platform enhancements, code-name Atlas, that will...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/28/2005
Puzzle: two cubes
You are given two white cubes. You are asked to draw a digit (from 0..9) on every square of these...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/27/2005
Puzzle: How do you get out of the prison (Part II)
The previous puzzle was solved correctly in the comments. So I thought to present with another...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/25/2005
When CoCreateInstance returns 0x80080005 (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE)
A sneaky error The following post summarizes my personal experience with a subtle COM error....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/24/2005
XBOX 360 Graphics Demystified
Beyond3D has a very detailed article about Xenos, the GPU provided by ATI in XBox 360......
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/16/2005
Playing with transportable snapshots
Transportable shadow copies are another practical consequence of a new paradigm - the data is stored...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/16/2005
Hackers meet Microsoft
Blue Hat summit seems to be a new type of events going on. It's a rare event when you start...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/16/2005
In search for a geeky toy...
At first, I wanted to buy one to surprise my friends, but then I changed my mind and just posted the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/16/2005
An interview with Daniela Florescu
Unless you live under a rock, you already know XQuery as one of the newest and coolest standards in...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/14/2005
Welcome Max
Max Feingold just started a blog! In the past, I knew him as one of the good COM experts around....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/14/2005
Puzzle: what is the next card?
This is a very nice puzzle that kept me awake for a long time... :-) John and Dianne, two...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/13/2005
Searching for the next bubble burst
It looks like the new burst is set to happen in the real-estate market. Or, at least, this is the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/13/2005
Ageia's PhysX: Hype or Revolution?
There is more and more excitement building up on an upcoming physics hardware acceleration engine....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/12/2005
Storage is still hot
IDC says: while the rate of growth is slowing down (to only 6%), it is still the eight consecutive...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/10/2005
A harddisk with 1 terabit per square inch?
This is funny. I just blogged about the new perpendicular storage technology (which is estimated to...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/08/2005
Seagate adopts perpendicular recording technology for harddisks
Another storm in the harddisk industry is coming. Hitachi announced its commitment a few months ago....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/08/2005
Seattle - the most unwired city of America?
According to Intel, Seattle is now the most unwired city: Seattle is now the most unwired city in...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/08/2005
Windows Server Update Services released for download
The ultimate solution for hassle-free patching of Windows, SQL Server, Exchange and others is...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/07/2005
.NET versus J2EE - New case studies and benchmarks
New benchmark results comparing .NET 2.0 vs .NET 1.1 and J2EE platforms are now available. 1)...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/07/2005
Managing Solaris with MOM
Hmm... interesting demo presented today at TechEd. A quote from https://www.e2ksecurity.com/: VS2005...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/06/2005
New toys in the start.com playground
According to Dare, start.com just got more interesting. Here is my new home page:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/06/2005
Using RAM instead of a harddisk?
At Computex, Gigabyte presented a RAM-based harddisk that offers more than 60x the performance of a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/06/2005
The WS-* world is changing
I just finished reading a shocking post from Richard Monson-Haefel, where he blatantly states that...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/05/2005
Apple on x86 - ripple effects?
I recently read a top story on AnandTech about comparing Mac OS X versus Linux. It looks like most...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/04/2005
Retrospective: What Have We Learned from the PDP-11
I put in the post title the original name of this fascinating article written by Gordon Bell. My...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/03/2005
The various aspects of Open Source
A funny thing that I just realized is that the term "open source" is generally used to denote...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/03/2005
Is Fibre Channel doomed?
Or at least this is what Bob Metcalfe says in an interview. Given the increasing competition between...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/03/2005
History: old computers...
Did you know that the three-digit IBM models (IBM 701, for example) were based on vaccum tubes and...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/02/2005
The Art of Viktor Antonov
This type of art that leaves me in complete amazement. A fantastic place, an atmosphere close to...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/02/2005
Interesting way to squeeze permalinks
Argh... looks like I am rediscovering the wheel. In the past I used services like https://tinyurl.com...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 06/01/2005
Never use catch(…)
Yun Jin had an interesting note on the catch(…) operator. There is an additional thing that I would...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/31/2005
A weird-looking concept: End-user development?
Normally, you would think that developers and end users do not mix. And, given the current state of...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/31/2005