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September 2006 - Posts

Vista - any opinions? Let us know. It's not over yet...

Vaibhav Kamath asked on one of my previous posts if there will be any UI changes after Vista RC1. The answer - no major changes, of course. Just fit & finish at this point. If you have any comments or issues around Vista, please log them on our forum Read More...
Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 10:07 AM by AdiOltean | 10 Comments

12-disk SATA storage box for less than a grand

ExtremeTech has a review of the Norco DS-1220 eSATA storage box, which can accomodate up to 12 SATA disks. The price is pretty low (on Newegg.com it is $840 without disks). I computed a small table that shows how much it will cost for a simple JBOD configuration. Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 4:34 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments
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A bit of black magic: How to assign drive letters to VSS shadow copies... on Windows XP !

A while back, I wrote a post on how to assign drive letters to shadow copies. On Windows Server 2003, the solution is simple, as there is already an API (called ExposeSnapshots()) to assign a drive letter to a shadow copy device. This API can be exercised Read More...
Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 9:00 PM by AdiOltean | 10 Comments

IronPython 1.0 released!

Jim Hugunin just published the IronPython 1.0 download path here: http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython As an open-source product, it was an interesting exercise in deep integration between a highly dynamic language to the language-independent CLR environment Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:22 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Media Center PCs - the end of high-end DVD players?

A report on hardware.info confirms what many of us already know - the end is near for those high-end, super-cool DVD players. Indeed, why buying a $2000 high-end DVD player (and now, with HD sparkling flavor crystals) when you can buy a pretty good media Read More...
Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 3:39 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Vista RC1 is now done!

Whew! Time for a beer :-) http://blogs.technet.com/windowsvista/archive/2006/09/01/453491.aspx The new OS runs pretty sweet on my dev box (aside a few bugs that I noticed and which are mostly already fixed in newer builds). Read More...
Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 3:26 PM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments
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