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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

My top 10 predictions for 2006 - seven out of ten. What went well?

It's a funny exercise which I would recommend to you as well: pick 10 (less-predictable) predictions and see what would happen. Let's take my previous predictions for 2006 : Let's see how this game will play out: 1) Amazon will come up with more and more Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:13 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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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

New hard drive price war coming

Seagate, Hitachi and Samsung will compete for more price cuts for harddisks in the near future. The toughest competition seems to be on the low-end, 80 GB harddisk models. So, what do you think the new non-rebate price would be for, say, 160 GB drives? Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:35 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 | 7 Comments
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What is the quickest way to get the file system type on a volume?

A colleague of mine says that whenever he wants to see what file system is on some volume, he types CHKDSK, then <ENTER>, then ^C. You get something like this: C:\Users\aoltean>chkdsk The type of the file system is NTFS. C:\Users\aoltean> Read More...
Posted Monday, February 13, 2006 7:02 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

Storage grid in the sky - a new concept?

So, what if you take the principles behind BitTorrent (share more bandwidth to get more data) and put them as a way to store your own, personal data? You get something interesting. Allmydata attempts to do just that - building a storage grid that can Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 12:07 AM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments
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First artificial black hole created?

As an unexpected side effect of an experiment, Horatiu Nastase (of Brown University of Providence, Rhode Island), found something which looks like a black hole: When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 12:31 PM by AdiOltean | 2 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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