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Adi Oltean's Weblog - Flashbacks on technology, programming, and other interesting things
WS-Management specification submitted to DMTF
WS-Management was just submitted to DMTF! WS-Management is a web-service based spec for system...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/19/2005
Age of Empires III
I can't wait to get it. In the meantime, interesting things on https://ageofempires3.com. AOE3 will...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/19/2005
The death of the A-list?
There are two important events that happened recently in the blogosphere: 1) The launch of...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/15/2005
A new Hotmail interface
The new Hotmail interface was presented at PDC - and here is already an ArsTechnica review. The UI...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/15/2005
Gates on Vista, Office 12, LINQ, and other stuff
Interesting - three more interviews with Bill Gates:1) with CNet.2) with Jon Udell.3) and with...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/15/2005
LINQ: a post-modern revolution in software development
Arguably, LINQ (Language Integrated Query) will be the next major revolution in programming...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/14/2005
Puzzle: all horses have the same color
Several answers to my previous puzzle reminded me about an old result: Theorem: All horses have the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/13/2005
Start.com Developer Center is launched! (or at least the web site is up)
It looks like it is possible to create your own start.com site, develop "gadgets" for it, etc. Go...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/13/2005
100 GB in your cell phone?
Using nanotechnology, Rusell Cowburn and other researchers developed a new 3D architecture for...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/12/2005
Two math puzzles
What is the value of this expression? If that was too easy, how about this one?
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/12/2005
GetVolumeInformationW warnings in VSS - what do they mean?
I mentioned a while back a weird-looking event log entry: Event Type: WarningEvent Source: VSSEvent...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/12/2005
eBay and Skype?
When I saw Fred's entry on eBay and Skype was "What? Skype is on sale on eBay?". Then, I quickly...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/08/2005
The Bill Gates interview
Robert Scoble did it again! The latest interview on channel9.com we have Bill Gates in person...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/08/2005
Samsung will launch DVD player with HD DVD + Blu-Ray support
Samsung came with a brute-force solution to the HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray debate: it will launch a player...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/07/2005
Hurricane Katrina: Plea for help revealed by satellite imagery
I hope that the right people already know about this particular message for help: This message was...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/06/2005
start.com - what I like, and what I want
In reply to my "Start.com rocks" post, Dragos asked me the other day: >>> what is it that...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/06/2005
Thoughts on chirality
In a recent post that I've missed until now, Eric Lippert describes a simple mental experiment: why...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/04/2005
Vendors try out VDS 1.1
The VDS plugfest is almost done now... The most interesting part is the new VDS 1.1 feature set,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/02/2005
Tricks with Mark of the Web: Behaviors, XML files
A new feature of Internet Explorer is the Local Machine lockdown that blocks by default the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/02/2005
Start.com rocks!
Less is more - and now it's even more less than what you saw last time. I hope that https://start.com...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/01/2005
Iain McDonald talks about R2
R2 is a server technnology. It is essentially a specialized Windows OS for server management in file...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/01/2005
VSS writers and inconsistent shadow copies
A few days ago, a customer told me that he encountered a weird error while using NTBackup to backup...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 09/01/2005
Virtual Earth hacks
https://viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/Default.ashx I personally like Flash Earth.
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/31/2005
Nature, the beautiful nature, can be bad
Reuven told me about what happened in New Orleans. I browse the dramatic news and I feel an...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/31/2005
Nostalgia: Cray Y-MP EL - available for online access
rchrd pointed that a Cray Y-MP EL is freeely available for online access. This was one of the first...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/29/2005
We Want Posts in Brett's Blog!
In my regular visit to Brett's blog (I don't want to miss any new posts!) I noticed the following...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/29/2005
What's your favorite bug story?
... SteveJS asks. I saw many curious bugs in my developer life, but here is one that I remember:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/27/2005
The simplest search portal. Ever.
What? MSN with no ads? :-) https://www.start.com/developer [source: Scott's "SiteExperts" place]
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/27/2005
The fun days of app-compat testing
Raymond Chen describes his past experience on testing a randomly chosen third-party app with Windows...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/24/2005
New goodies in Virtual Server
[source: CNet] Several new exciting features in Virtual Server got publicly announced at Intel...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/24/2005
RAID 6 comes back
There is a growing level of interest in exotic RAID technologies, like RAID 6. The main improvement...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/20/2005
Creating life from scratch?
There is always "one more link" for today... This time - news about an old subject - how to create...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/19/2005
Remote controlled humans
Scary stuff... so when I will see a headline saying "Debugging humans"? Smiling nervously, the young...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/19/2005
Hitting the search relevance wall
There is a curious fenomenon going on in the search arena today - something I call the "hitting the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/19/2005
Puzzle Solution: a geometry problem
The geometry problem from my previous math puzzle has a nice solution. I particularly like it...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/18/2005
Bloggers, and the maximum coolness threshold
Statistics are fun to watch, as long as you don't take them seriously. For example, while reading...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/18/2005
Interview: Bill Hilf on Open Source
Bill Hilf, Microsoft's Linux Lab Manager responds to various questions on Microsoft's relation with...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/08/2005
Here comes the Spyware patrol!
I just read in eWeek about yet another technique to find suspicious sites. The principle is...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/07/2005
Puzzle: a little geometry problem, and a sequence question
This is not really a puzzle, but a real geometry problem. Let's take a random triangle (ABC), and...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/06/2005
IE7... feels different
I like IE7. A few days ago, being too brave maybe as usual, I decided to instal it on my dev box and...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/06/2005
ECMA standards now aligned with the new Whidbey, C# 2.0
Few days ago, ECMA approved the third edition of the C# and CLI standards. This aligns the language...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 08/03/2005
The most human looking robot?
The psychology of human-robotic interaction is a very interesting research area. Japanese scientists...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/28/2005
SecureEasySetup - the holy grail of Wireless security
Recently, Linksys, a division of Cisco and Broadcom joinly announced support for the SES technology...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/28/2005
Script recipe: how to query a HTTP/HTTPS web page
It is sometimes hard to diagnose browser problems. For example if you have problems loading a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/28/2005
Neural networks used to improve relevance in web search
Did you know that the most recent version of the MSN Search engine uses neural networks to improve...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/19/2005
Worst-case scenario: How to survive a hurricane
Of course, everyone knows the Worst-case scenarios survival series. But, as an IT administrator, you...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/17/2005
Open source and proprietary software
An interesting article from CNET.com confirms what I always thought of open source: The fact that...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/16/2005
Bubble Fusion reconfirmed?
It seems that we have another experimental confirmation of bubble fusion. From PhysicsWeb.com:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 07/15/2005