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What would be image #5?

Enjoy :-) http://ianwhite.is-a-geek.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0ac66f08-5eac-4796-a881-83fc12d5061f Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 30, 2004 9:16 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Launching a CMD window as Local System

What is your favorite method of launching CMD.EXE as Local System? I found the following method after a little experimentation. Just run the command below to create a generic service called TESTSVC. C:\>sc create testsvc binpath= "cmd /K start" type= Read More...
Posted Monday, November 29, 2004 8:45 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

Downloads - Microsoft Research

Accidentally, I just discovered an interesting web page with all sorts of curious (downloadable) projects developed by various teams from Microsoft Research: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/downloads/ Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 23, 2004 10:24 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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Using RFID at home

An interesting article about various uses of the RFID technology: http://www.primidi.com/2004/11/20.html and its associated Slashdot link . But, I actually have a different wish from RFID. I always dreamed of some "smart" hand-held RFID scanner that could Read More...
Posted Monday, November 22, 2004 3:06 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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Another puzzle: Self-extracting EXE

The rules are the following: 1) Before starting the test, you choose the computer + OS you want, etc. 2) Then, I give you a certain file. 3) You need to create a self-extracting EXE for it, that is always smaller than the original file. You can use any Read More...
Posted Friday, November 19, 2004 3:01 PM by AdiOltean | 12 Comments
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Radio Feedback

This morning, while listening to some boring songs on C89.5, I was thinking that it would be great to have some sort of an "feedback" mechanism. Something extremely simple and dumb, that every radio should have - two buttons: a red and a green one. If Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:08 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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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 not sure about how many emails are going daily on these groups but you got the idea. Now, since I always liked to have a peek in everything, I ended up being Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 1:12 AM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

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 long, even for a C++ programmer like me :-) I am wondering if there is a shorter variant... Here is a similar code VBScript, which uses WMI events: Set Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 16, 2004 3:15 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Unskilled and Unaware of It - the psychology of overconfidence

A funny read at the beginning of the week: http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html Read More...
Posted Monday, November 15, 2004 2:04 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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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 modes: with shadow copy and without shadow copy. First, NTBackup will try to create shadow copies of the involved volumes and try to copy stuff from these Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:19 AM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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Little math problem

OK, probably you already had your latte this morning but here is nice puzzle: Let's say that a rectangle is "rational" if the ratio between the width and height is a rational number. Now, proof that a rectangle is rational if and only if the rectangle Read More...
Posted Friday, November 12, 2004 2:54 PM by AdiOltean | 14 Comments
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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 we went to catch up google but now it looks like we are way ahead in terms of usability. But this is just my personal opinion - go ahead and take a look Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 11, 2004 4:34 PM by AdiOltean | 7 Comments

Best Practices for Event Logging...

I think this is a good topic for a debate. So what is the best way to use the event log? The classical thinking is that a well-designed event log entry should contain only very easy-to-read, easy-to-follow, pertinent observations such as "the disk space Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 02, 2004 3:23 AM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
 
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