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October 2005 - Posts

.NET FX 2.0 available for download

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Posted Friday, October 28, 2005 1:42 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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Be polite when you are driving!

Otherwise this is what could happen to you. Well, that's it for now! I'm closing the blog while I am in vacation. Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 15, 2005 3:16 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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Yahoo launches blogs, news search engine

Various Yahoo rumors are coming furiously from several directions. First, a new blog search engine, as noted by Steve Rubel, at the (still non-existent) blog.search.yahoo.com . Apparently, there was a Yahoo blog search engine available for some time (but Read More...
Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 10:02 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Who da'Punk?

While the whole mini-msft seems to be an interesting blog these days, I personally just don't buy into the anonymity thing. I don't know, and I can't explain why - personally I just feel wrong about the idea. Second, there is a very high risk that it Read More...
Posted Friday, October 07, 2005 11:16 PM by AdiOltean | 7 Comments
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Short gamma-ray burst mystery is solved

Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are probably the most violent events that happen today in universe. In a few seconds or less, a gamma-ray burst releases an enormous quantity of energy (10 44 - 10 46 J), which is comparable to burning up the entire mass-energy Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 05, 2005 12:21 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

DOSDEV.EXE - a misterious tool

Once in a while, you might encounter this tool in some Microsoft-provided SDKs, or Resource Kits, for example in the Windows Resource Kit, the Exchange Report Toolkit, and others. But this tool never came with any relevant documentation. It just displays Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:51 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

Random Repro vs. Consistent Repro, and a surprise under the cover...

(Continuing on my previous post on supportability) Supportability Principle # 3 - When writing code, avoid random, hard-to-diagnose, unpredictable failures at all costs. I previously mentioned that good predictability means less costs in supporting your Read More...
Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 2:42 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Supportability is not a feature

I recently read about a Linux to Windows switch story . It made me remember something: supportability is crucial to the success of your software. Your programs are out there in the wild, alone. There are no helpful debuggers that you (or anyone) can hook Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 01, 2005 5:09 AM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments

A review of AOpen's Pandora Box

So, we all saw the recent article in CNet around the new Pandora box. Still - no specs in that article. However, I was curious and after a little search, I found these (unofficial) specs on www.legitreviews.com Celeron M 1.3G 256MB DDR II 40G 2.5” HDD Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 01, 2005 3:12 AM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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