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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