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The new must-have gadget: Flash laptops

The entire world is now slowly shifting to Flash-based storage in mobile devices. The latest trend is to get rid of harddisks in your laptop - and you will have longer battery life, faster shutdown/reboot, better shock-resistance. Not to mention that Read More...
Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 1:31 PM by AdiOltean | 15 Comments

Why Flash memory is good for your computer

Simply put, flash memory will enable a revolution in improving computer performance in daily utilization scenarios. Your computer will boot up faster. It will launch applications significantly faster. (Hey, it will shutdown faster as well.) The problem Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:17 AM by AdiOltean | 7 Comments

Internet Explorer 7 Beta2 available for download

It's finally here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 31, 2006 10:45 AM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

How to stay safe with the new Windows vulnerability

As previously published here , this is a quick-and-dirty method to get yourself in a relatively safe position: 1) Click Start, click Run, type "regsvr32 -u %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll" (without the quotation marks), and then click OK. 2) Restart the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 03, 2006 7:35 AM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

Windows Local Live is out in the wild!

Here it is: http://local.live.com Check out some cool bird's eye images: - Space Needle - Microsoft campus . [ Update - Dec 8, 11 PM ] It turns out that the service is not exposed to the public yet. Funny enough, it works fine from my dev box, but not Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 2:43 PM by AdiOltean | 1 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 | 8 Comments

IE7... feels different

I like IE7. A few days ago, being too brave maybe as usual, I decided to instal it on my dev box and in a few days I succeeded to develop dangerous addictions for several things. First, on tabbed browsing (pretty fast given that each IE window is a separate Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 06, 2005 12:36 AM by AdiOltean | 6 Comments

SecureEasySetup - the holy grail of Wireless security

Recently, Linksys , a division of Cisco and Broadcom joinly announced support for the SES technology ( SecureEasySetup ). These are fantastic news! What SES allows is brain-dead, risk-free wireless security configuration of your network, with a very simple Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:31 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

Using Virtual machine technology to get better security

There is a growing general consensus that the virtual machine technology can help in making a system more secure. This is true both for consumer market and server market. Let's take Virtual PC for instance. First of all, you have the ability to run separate Read More...
Posted Friday, March 04, 2005 4:30 PM by AdiOltean | 4 Comments

Tricks around the "copy" command...

The copy command can be very useful for quick operations. However, there are a number of tricks that are not widely known. 1) Copying the contents of a source directory into the current directory: just specify the source directory! y:\privates>copy Read More...
Posted Friday, February 25, 2005 9:19 PM by AdiOltean | 8 Comments

Windows Internals book is now available!

The fourth edition of Microsoft Windows Internals (formerly known as Inside Windows) is available in the stores: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619174/qid=1106614530/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-2739301-3965610 Dave Solomon and Mark Russinovich Read More...
Posted Monday, January 24, 2005 8:03 PM by AdiOltean | 2 Comments

Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE

Many people have trouble doing copy/paste in CMD.EXE. Indeed, there are no keyboard shortucts for this thing, and the selection of the text to copy can only be done through the mouse. You have to go to the system menu, select "Copy", then do your selection, Read More...
Posted Monday, December 27, 2004 6:24 PM by AdiOltean | 16 Comments
 
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