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Adi Oltean's Weblog - Flashbacks on technology, programming, and other interesting things
One of the customer requests we had on Windows Server 2003 R2 was the ability to increase the...
Date: 09/18/2009
You might remember Statcounter.com as the site that came in the news a few weeks ago when Bing...
Date: 06/27/2009
Check it out: https://www.bing.com/community/ Nice layout & content organization. Much better...
Date: 06/25/2009
Just found a new video demonstrating the new classification feature in Windows Server 2008 R2....
Date: 05/28/2009
In my personal opinion, BING = Bing Is Not Google (to continue the tradition of recursive acronyms)...
Date: 05/28/2009
It is an eye opening experience to sit at our FCI booth and see customer after customer telling us...
Date: 05/15/2009
More and more posts appear on File Classification - it's hard to keep track of them. Here is a few...
Date: 05/14/2009
As promised, I will add more technical information about File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) in...
Date: 05/14/2009
Today it is an exciting day for all of us – we just announced our new classification platform at...
Date: 05/11/2009
Tom’s Hardware does it again! https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/256gb-samsung-ssd,2265-8.html What...
Date: 05/04/2009
In the past, I presented various ways to browse these mysterious device objects called "shadow...
Date: 02/28/2008
I love this - if you have kids, and if you are a geek, you'll understand....
Date: 01/09/2008
The title sums it all. P.S. And, as a Christmas bonus, here is a nice chess puzzle. In the...
Date: 12/27/2007
A review in ComputerWorld features the new Samsung's 64 GB Flash drive: Samsung rates the drive with...
Date: 12/27/2007
I think that the problem stated in one of my earlier posts is one of the most fascinating puzzles I...
Date: 11/26/2007
A few completed transactions: - $420:...
Date: 11/16/2007
I just started to play with HD Tune, just to get a tool to look at my S.M.A.R.T. data. Not that I...
Date: 11/13/2007
A fascinating article in ACM Queue examines the various ways in which a harddisk can fail. Here is...
Date: 11/13/2007
There is a huge amount of aliens living on the Xen planet who want to elect their new leader (since...
Date: 10/30/2007
There is a new article in the hard-to-discover https://support.microsoft.com world, about various...
Date: 10/08/2007
Here is an interesting piece of spam I received this morning on our internal discussion list: Dear...
Date: 10/05/2007
I sure hope that you will appreciate this - the .NET 3.5 source code will be publicly released....
Date: 10/03/2007
Just when we thought that there is no room more room on those little bits on a harddisk, Toshiba...
Date: 09/09/2007
Florin Lazar, Todi Pruteanu si cu mine am demarat in cursul acestei saptamani un seminar tehnic pe...
Date: 05/03/2007
A friend of mine didn't know about Windows Home Server - so I sent him these links: - Main site:...
Date: 03/15/2007
A nice demo that shows you several things: - Windows Server virtualization (a separate partition...
Date: 03/02/2007
Hot and fresh from Channel 9: a session on Shadow Copies in Vista, and its applications: Previous...
Date: 02/26/2007
If you have a Tablet PC or a touch-sensitive model, check out Pen Flicks. Here is a video capture of...
Date: 01/31/2007
One of the innovative things I like in Windows Home Server is its "infinite storage pool" idea. If...
Date: 01/08/2007
Storage management is complex, we all know it. For many people, even the simplest opeartions in a...
Date: 12/07/2006
Try it here: https://labs.live.com/photosynth. It is an interesting approach of building a 3D world...
Date: 11/09/2006
Lock-free programming is a performant multi-threaded synchronization technique that allows you to...
Date: 11/08/2006
A new OS is born - and I hope you will like it!
Date: 11/08/2006
This is an interesting concept. This datacenter looks like a simple cargo container that can be...
Date: 10/18/2006
The entire world is now slowly shifting to Flash-based storage in mobile devices. The latest trend...
Date: 10/13/2006
This is surprising. I didn't know that the XBox 360 case was designed by a Japanese design lab. The...
Date: 10/12/2006
Vaibhav Kamath asked on one of my previous posts if there will be any UI changes after Vista RC1....
Date: 09/25/2006
ExtremeTech has a review of the Norco DS-1220 eSATA storage box, which can accomodate up to 12 SATA...
Date: 09/21/2006
A while back, I wrote a post on how to assign drive letters to shadow copies. On Windows Server...
Date: 09/19/2006
Jim Hugunin just published the IronPython 1.0 download path here: https://www.codeplex.com/IronPython...
Date: 09/06/2006
A report on hardware.info confirms what many of us already know - the end is near for those...
Date: 09/01/2006
Whew! Time for a beer :-) https://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/01/453491.aspx The...
Date: 09/01/2006
There is an article in Techworld.com mentioning a curious research report from Gartner implying a...
Date: 08/26/2006
I love probability puzzles. Here is one I liked: There are a 100 people trying to get onto the same...
Date: 08/19/2006
WS-Management is a new web services-based management protocol. It's SOAP-based of course, and it is...
Date: 08/19/2006
My previous post got me thinking to the following question: what other alternatives to AdSense and...
Date: 08/16/2006