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November 2005 - Posts

Math puzzle: minimum number?

What is the minimum number that cannot be expressed with less than two english words? Also, how about less than thirteen english words? Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 9:02 PM by AdiOltean | 12 Comments
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This time, a real blog about Google

I am reading an excellent blog written by a few ex-Googlers. I especially like Doug Edwards's posts, which seems to be a funny guy. The blog describes how Google felt like, from the inside, in the early days, and how the atmosphere evolved over time. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:24 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Holographic storage for everyone

Maxell hints that it will ship 300 GB optical media next year, in September 2006 to be more exact. The bandwidth is decent too: 160 Mbps. The technology behind all this? Holographic storage: Holographic recording technology uses intersecting signal and Read More...
Posted Friday, November 25, 2005 11:09 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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Tracking your own misconceptions

It is certainly refreshing when,once in a while, you realize that you can do some things in a completely different way. Richard mentions a little gem in his last post (the actual post topic is somewhat unrelated - hiring qualities of an analyst): I’ll Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:43 AM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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SSE - an RSS extension for two-way synchronization

Ray Ozzie mentioned an interesting variation of the RSS protocol. RSS is essentially a one-way synchronization protocol. What it would take to change the RSS standard in a very minimal way, such that it will work for two-way replication. A simple idea, Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 12:25 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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The newest, greatest, smallest iPod is now announced!

It holds eight million songs and every photo ever taken... Here it is: http://section3.net/stevejobs_SNL Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 9:57 AM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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Want free email? Bring your own domain

Forget the battle between Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail. Just use your own domain and go to http://domains.live.com to get free email services, plus antivirus/antispam protection! And if you don't have yet a domain, just create one. The prices are pretty low Read More...
Posted Monday, November 21, 2005 9:39 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

...but, in Soviet Russia, the web services use YOU!

Actually, in US too. No, I'm serious! The technique it's called Mechanical Turk , and its first form is developed by Amazon.com. The process is quite simple: 1) A large number of humans are going to that site. 2) They will be asked to do some work. 3) Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 19, 2005 11:53 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

Home page adventures - this time the new, shiny MSDN search beta

I could write a little history on the (frequent) changes of my home page during the last twelve months. Why not? So far I was on: 1) google.com for a while - until a year ago if I remember correctly. At that time, this was the only search engine page Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 6:03 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Ray Ozzie blogs again!

I am sure this will be a good blog to watch. So, when we will see Steve and Bill join the crowd? Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:01 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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Search-based toolbars ARE addictive

I used to play with both MSN and Google toolbars in parallel for a while now, but even if I had the convenient search box in the toolbar, I still used to go to a web-based search (Google until half year ago, now MSN search). I don't know why - as if my Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:49 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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Singularity - a new research OS from Microsoft

Here it is: http://research.microsoft.com/os/singularity/ There are several interesting ideas in this new operating system. It's not just an "OS written in managed code". There are a new set of techniques in modern software development: contracts, verifiability Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:40 AM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

Check the reality: What most gamers use as their gaming PC?

I just got prompted today for a survey on what most gamers use as their gaming PC. Very interesting results: http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html A few notes: 1) Most peope are still in the ATI 9600/9800 ballpark. Hmmm... now this is interesting. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 04, 2005 9:33 AM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

live.com - better than start.com?

I like that live.com is easier to type: one character less than start.com, and a lot easier than typing search.msn.com (and also easier than google.com!). So I am not using start.com as the choice for a quick search portal. Of course, first thing I do Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:48 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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