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[RO] Seminar - Storage si programare distribuita

Florin Lazar , Todi Pruteanu si cu mine am demarat in cursul acestei saptamani un seminar tehnic pe teme de storage in Vista si programare distribuita in WCF. Mai multe detalii aici: http://reg.studentclub.ro . Pana acum seminariile din Bucuresti si Cluj Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 10:57 AM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments

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

Gartner redesigns Windows Vista

There is an article in Techworld.com mentioning a curious research report from Gartner implying a redesign of the Windows Vista code base, around virtualization. Huh? To quote from the article: Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:55 PM by AdiOltean | 5 Comments

Carbonite: discovered (or something like it)

When I was in 7-8 grade I saw (as anyone else) the StarWars episodes. After this experience, I still had lots of unanswered questions. For example, what is carbonite - the black material they used to pack Han Solo in Episode 5? Hmmm... I had that question Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:48 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Poincare's conjecture proof completed?

A few years ago, I was surprised to see an announcement in Mathworld stating (again) that the Poincare conjecture has been proved. "This time for real" they said. Being skeptical, I waited for more independent confirmation of this result... which never Read More...
Posted Monday, June 05, 2006 3:22 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Digg surpasses Slashdot?

Looking at Alexa , we can definitely see a trend: Alexa might be contested , however. And, speaking of trends, Google Trends tells us a similar thing, this time with respect to Google search volume : slashdot digg Read More...
Posted Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:15 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Overhype - a new global epidemy in the blogosphere?

Overhype is something very noticeable these days. Just last week, everyone on the blogosphere (except me, of course :-) was trying to guess what Apple will announce. After the announcement, people were a little bit dissapointed (there is even an article Read More...
Posted Sunday, March 05, 2006 6:13 PM by AdiOltean | 8 Comments
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My top 10 tech predictions for 2006

Let's see how this game will play out: 1) Amazon will come up with more and more interesting stuff. I expect to be surprised. 2) Someone, probably Yahoo, will buy digg and memeorandum. These sites are hot. 3) In 2004, Google captured everyone's interest Read More...
Posted Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:32 AM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

How Hotmail works? - an interview with Phil Smoot

ACM Queue published an interesting interview with Phil Smoot. Phil is the person in charge of managing the development teams at Hotmail. Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 12:31 AM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments

Batch processing is back!

It's interesting that the Cell Broadband Engine is reviving batch-based computing as one of their preffered development paradigms. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-fpfunleashing/?ca=dgr-lnxw01CellUnleash Maybe it makes sense in certain Read More...
Posted Thursday, December 08, 2005 12:17 AM by AdiOltean | 0 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

The death of the A-list?

There are two important events that happened recently in the blogosphere: 1) The launch of http://www.memeorandum.com/ - a web site to automatically generate a summary of "what's hot" in the blogosphere, and 2) The widely expected launch of the first Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 15, 2005 2:42 PM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

The simplest search portal. Ever.

What? MSN with no ads? :-) http://www.start.com/developer [source: Scott's "SiteExperts" place ] Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 27, 2005 12:47 AM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments

The most human looking robot?

The psychology of human-robotic interaction is a very interesting research area. Japanese scientists just created a robot that can could pass for a human - for a few seconds at least. So, whatever happened to the uncanny valley ? Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 11:20 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Nuclear fusion to be probed in France?

ITER is one the largest physics experiments ever attempted. In short, it should be the first research fusion reactor that actually will succeed to produce power. ITER attempts to operate in the 500 MW (thermal) range, which is around the output of a small Read More...
Posted Monday, June 27, 2005 2:16 PM by AdiOltean | 0 Comments
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