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A simple way to access Shadow Copies in Vista

In the past, I presented various ways to browse these mysterious device objects called "shadow copies". Shadow copies are static images in time (snapshots) of your volume contents, at some point in the past. These shadow copies are volumes on Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:37 AM by AdiOltean | 29 Comments

Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

I love this - if you have kids, and if you are a geek, you'll understand. http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08/1000446145 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 08, 2008 10:58 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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Puzzle: create a Pentagon with rule and compass <EOM>

The title sums it all.   P.S. And, as a Christmas bonus, here is a nice chess puzzle. In the above diagram you must add the two missing kings in such a way that White, who is on the move, can deliver immediate mate, i.e. mate in one move. [source: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:37 PM by AdiOltean | 9 Comments
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Flash-based harddisks - the new laptop feature to look for

A review in ComputerWorld features the new Samsung's 64 GB Flash drive: Samsung rates the drive with a read speed of 100MB/sec and write speed of 80 MB/sec, compared to 59MB/sec and 60MB/sec (respectively) for a traditional 2.5" hard drive. We ran Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:33 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Puzzle solution: Xen voting algorithm

I think that the problem stated in one of my earlier posts is one of the most fascinating puzzles I came across recently. Many people that got confronted with it said bluntly that the problem simply has no solution, otherwise it would contradict common Read More...
Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 1:19 PM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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Zune 80 - $400 on eBay?

A few completed transactions: - $420: http://cgi.ebay.com/Microsoft-ZUNE-2-Gen-Black-80-GB-mp3-NEW-NIB-EXTRAS_W0QQitemZ320182867203QQihZ011QQcategoryZ147175QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - $405: http://cgi.ebay.com/Microsoft-ZUNE-2-Gen-Black-80-GB-mp3-NEW-NIB-EXTRAS_W0QQitemZ320183303981QQihZ011QQcategoryZ147175QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 3:44 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Is my harddisk (almost) dead?

I just started to play with HD Tune , just to get a tool to look at my S.M.A.R.T. data. Not that I trust SMART a lot, but I wanted to see what's there. So that's how I discovered my main drive has a bunch of reallocated sectors. Ouch! What is a reallocated Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:03 AM by AdiOltean | 3 Comments
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What causes Harddisk failures?

A fascinating article in ACM Queue examines the various ways in which a harddisk can fail. Here is an example - the fault tree for reading failures. Read More...
Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 11:48 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Puzzle: Xen voting algorithm

There is a huge amount of aliens living on the Xen planet who want to elect their new leader (since their previous leader died a while back). They want to switch to a very democratic voting process, through the help of a very special communication field Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 9:52 PM by AdiOltean | 8 Comments
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Defrag in Vista - what's new?

There is a new article in the hard-to-discover http://support.microsoft.com world, about various improvements of defrag in Vista. In summary: defragmentation is now performed automatically by default (at 1 AM on every Wednesday - that is, if your laptop Read More...
Posted Monday, October 08, 2007 4:14 PM by AdiOltean | 11 Comments

[Cool spam] Our internal discussion list is nominated in a Who's Who award!

Here is an interesting piece of spam I received this morning on our internal discussion list: Dear VSS Lab Account, You were recently appointed as a biographical candidate to represent your industry in the Madison Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals, Read More...
Posted Friday, October 05, 2007 2:39 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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.NET Framework source code - public

I sure hope that you will appreciate this - the .NET 3.5 source code will be publicly released . Initially, we will see .NET BCL, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, XML and WPF. Later, more libraries will be added (WCF - yes!), LINQ and Workflow. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 03, 2007 12:12 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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Toshiba doubles hard-disk density

Just when we thought that there is no room more room on those little bits on a harddisk, Toshiba doubles their density again: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2007/06/c5819.html From their press release: Toshiba Corporation today announced Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 08, 2007 10:09 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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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

Windows Home Server - links

A friend of mine didn't know about Windows Home Server - so I sent him these links: - Main site: http://stopdigitalamnesia.com - Interview with Charlie Kindel http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=270965 - Download: https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0&siteid=38 Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:43 PM by AdiOltean | 1 Comments
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