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My blogging policy
Since this is my personal blog, I am the absolute dictator here :-) Therefore, I reserve absolute...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/29/2005
Windows - what are the memory limits?
I keep forgetting this all the time, so I cut & paste the necessary data in my blog so I will...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/26/2005
Is corporate blogging still risky?
In my personal opinion, probably yes. But right now, I personally think that the risk is pretty...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/25/2005
Virtual Earth - on Channel 9!
I like Google Maps, and I like Virtual Earth even more :-) Steve Lombardi, Cody Ebberson and others...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/25/2005
Article: Volume Shadow Looms Large
I just found out this new article about VSS in the Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/23/2005
Puzzle: solve this problem in your head
This problem initially had two parts but now has three. OK, let's start with this: let's assume that...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/19/2005
Genetics from a software perspective. With a security touch.
One intriguing observation about the genetic code is that, in the end, it's pure software. In a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/19/2005
Innovative database technology coming from... High Energy physics
How would you design a database if you have to store gigabytes of new data every second? A particle...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/17/2005
Pure rumors: Is Sun working on a language independent JVM?
The following snippet in CNet News caught my eye: And there's potential that Sun also could be more...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/16/2005
Read this if you plan to install Windows Server 2003 R2 Beta Eval (the web download version)
I posted earlier an article about the newly released R2 Beta release which is available for download...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/16/2005
A funny-looking trace, and a real problem
Matt Pietrek wins my unofficial prize for the funniest call stack of the year: ChildEBP...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/16/2005
IBM employees allowed now to blog
No wonder that everyone is catching the blog virus these days......
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/16/2005
How does a four-dimensional world look like?
Eric Lippert is running an eye-catcher series on High Dimensional spaces (see here part one and...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/16/2005
New article: Localization practices for .NET 2.0
Michelle Leroux Bustamante posted an article on The Server Side about localization practices for...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/16/2005
New Identity specifications from Sun and Microsoft
Fortunately, Liberty Alliance and WS-* efforts and are starting to merge... Here are the links:- Web...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/13/2005
Do you think that RSA is safe in the next 30 years? Think again.
There is an inherent assumption that cryptography works, and it will be 100% safe at least for near...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/13/2005
Firefox downloads bumped up by its security patches?
An interesting quote from ZDNet concerning its 50 million downloads mark: Firefox late last month...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/12/2005
How PR works
An interesting article about PR here: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html I especially liked the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/12/2005
Blogging for kids?
I can imagine the following conversation with my daugher four years from now: Hey dad, can you help...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/11/2005
Humor: Tom Lehrer in The elements
It's a classic... https://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html You might already know it,...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/06/2005
Windows Server 2003 R2 Beta is now available for download/preview
First - what is R2? Think of it as an "storage enhancement pack" for Windows Server 2003 SP1. It...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/06/2005
My stupid score?
Argh, I still don't feel comfortable with this result...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/05/2005
How to query the list of disks/partitions for a certain volume (and viceversa)
A good comment in one of my previous posts: >>> Any idea how to get a Volume Name...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/04/2005
Script recipe: How to enumerate dependencies for all resources in a cluster
A few days ago I wanted to gather more data from a cluster on a customer site. I hoped that the...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/04/2005
Kernel-mode ambient transactions, TxF and System.Transaction
One think I really love in Longhorn is the new TxF file system (I blogged about it a while back)....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/04/2005
Microsoft Campus remains in Redmond
I knew that Microsoft planned to expand in Issaquah, but I never knew the technical details behind...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 05/04/2005
Transactions for the masses - Transactional NTFS
There is a new blog on my radar - Malcom Smith started to write about Transactional NTFS here:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/25/2005
First hybrid harddrive with NAND flash memory
Now this is wild - a hybrid harddrive that mixes both NAND flash and a spinning disk! The NAND drive...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/25/2005
Mark Russinovich started a blog!
It is right here https://www.sysinternals.com/blog/ I can't wait to hear new interesting stories...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/25/2005
How online/offline works in a cluster for Physical Disk resources
I was always fascinated about the concept of shared disks in a Microsoft cluster. Fortunately there...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/24/2005
Advanced C++ features and Kernel-mode programming don't mix
I was just reading recently a whitepaper from the Microsoft web site, describing how you you should...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/24/2005
Puzzle: do you know chemistry?
Here is a very nice puzzle - But unfortunately you have to ressurect a little chemistry knowledge to...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/22/2005
Microsoft releases public beta of Data Protection Manager
Data Protection Manager is the first enterprise-level backup product released by Microsoft. It's...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/22/2005
You can't say that engineers lack a sense of humour...
https://home.cwru.edu/~cdt3/Funstuff/qantas.htm
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/21/2005
Subtle issues when using predefined accounts
The code below has a small problem - can you spot quickly? const MAX_TEXT_BUFFER = 1024; BYTE...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/19/2005
Actually there are posts in Brett Shirley's blog...
... but the font is apparently too small. You need a really, really good magnifier to view them......
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/19/2005
Online demo: How to control a nuclear power plant.
If you have nothing to do right now, here is your opportunity to learn how to avoid an accident in a...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/17/2005
NTFS Curiosities (part 2): Volumes, volume names and mount points
In the old days of MS-DOS and Windows 95 you could identify any volume by its drive letter. Things...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/17/2005
Puzzle: geometry problem
Here is a fun one: The triangle ABC is isoseceles, with angle(ABC) = angle(ACB) = 80°. We draw now...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/11/2005
Reuven is here
Reuven Lax (another member of our VSS team) just started a blog no MSDN here. This is good - I'm...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/07/2005
Report: Many users don't understand security terminology
A study performed by AOL (apparently) proofs once again that the average computer user is unfamiliar...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/06/2005
New experimental pages from the MSN Search team
Someone just told me about two new pages from the MSN Search playground (https://sandbox.msn.com)....
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/06/2005
How to design an indestructible computer
It''s funny to see how people are dealing with computers......
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/04/2005
COM and .NET: what's wrong with this code?
Can you spot the mistake in this code? Here we implement a CCW-based .NET object. This COM class is...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/01/2005
Psychology trick: See yourself as an outsider
An interesting study in PhysOrg.com presents a different approach to regular psychological...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 04/01/2005
Windows Server 2003 SP1 available for download
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22CFC239-337C-4D81-8354-72593B1C1F43&di...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/31/2005
Preliminary versions of Avalon and Indigo are available for download.
The Indigo & Avalon CTP (Community Technology Preview) is available for download here:...
Author: AdiOltean Date: 03/28/2005