Antimail

First - what is R2? Think of it as an "storage enhancement pack" for Windows Server 2003 SP1. It comes as an additional CD with a set of optional Windows components, mostly for storage management (DFS/FRS, Storage and SAN management, a better NFS implementation...

This problem initially had two parts but now has three. OK, let's start with this: let's assume that we have two, trains, 100 miles apart, each going with 20 mph to the other. A fly travels between them at 50 mph, zig-zagging just before getting smashed...

I keep forgetting this all the time, so I cut & paste the necessary data in my blog so I will not where to look for it next time :-) Note that the memory limits have changed between Windows Server 2003 RTM and SP1, especially for 64-bit support...

I just found out this new article about VSS in the Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, containing several interesting comments about VSS usage. Ron Rynbrandt, (who works for the Dr Pepper 7UP Bottling Group) had the following observation: ...

A good comment in one of my previous posts : >>> Any idea how to get a Volume Name ( \\?\Vol{GUID }) or drive letter for a given disk XX + partition XX? i.e. If I have a partition table for DiskDrive0 I need to find out what volume/drive letter...

Eric Lippert is running an eye-catcher series on High Dimensional spaces (see here part one and two ). Which got me thinking. The classical laws of Optics work can be easily generqalized to N spatial dimensions. You could easily imagine things like refraction...

I posted earlier an article about the newly released R2 Beta release which is available for download on the web for evaluation and preview. But here is a rule which apparently is not described properly in the download page: if you downloaded the Evaluation...

There is an important difference in the way the DateTime.FromFileTime (...) method adjusts for daylight changes versys the rest of the Win32 world. This thing can be truly confusing if you are not aware about the problem. The cause is pretty subtle, and...

Matt Pietrek wins my unofficial prize for the funniest call stack of the year. However, there is an insidious issue under the cover......

Argh, I still don't feel comfortable with this result...

Yun Jin had an interesting note on the catch(…) operator. There is an additional thing that I would like to mention. On earlier versions of the Microsoft C++ compiler, this language construct was used as a general garbage sink of all exceptions, including...

Normally, you would think that developers and end users do not mix. And, given the current state of software development, I would agree. But , on the other side I always thought that we need more tools that allow simple end-users to do more or less...

A few days ago I wanted to gather more data from a cluster on a customer site. I hoped that the uber-management tool for MSCS called CLUSTER.EXE can be used to enumerate the dependencies for all resources in the system, since it can enumerate the dependencies...

An interesting quote from ZDNet concerning its 50 million downloads mark: Firefox late last month marked 50 million downloads of its browser since the Version 1.0 release in November. Downloads do not equal users, because a single user often downloads...

Since this is my personal blog, I am the absolute dictator here :-) Therefore, I reserve absolute rights to add/edit/remove stuff at any time both in posts or my own comments with or without any prior warning. In most cases, this willl be usually related...

Michelle Leroux Bustamante posted an article on The Server Side about localization practices for .NET 2.0: http://www.theserverside.net/articles/showarticle.tss?id=LocalizationPractices The funny thing is - localization for a front-end system like...

How would you design a database if you have to store gigabytes of new data every second ? A particle accellerator generates a huge amount of data, that needs to be stored in real-time on very large storage systems. Usually, the offline analysis phase...

It's a classic... http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html You might already know it, especially if you love (or hate) chemistry. If not, enjoy!

In my personal opinion, probably yes. But right now, I personally think that the risk is pretty moderate. Here are the main reasons: 1) A source of danger in the past was a phenomenon that I will call "rumor rush". The atmosphere around most companies...

I like Google Maps, and I like Virtual Earth even more :-) Steve Lombardi, Cody Ebberson and others are talking about Virtual Earth on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=71140

Fortunately, Liberty Alliance and WS-* efforts and are starting to merge... Here are the links: - Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile defines an interoperability profile of the Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol that allows using...

The following snippet in CNet News caught my eye: And there's potential that Sun also could be more accommodating of C#, Microsoft's .Net analog to the Java language. Sun Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos said Sun is examining modified...

There is an inherent assumption that cryptography works, and it will be 100% safe at least for near term. The longer the RSA key, for example, the safer is the algorithm. The assumption goes beyond that - the time complexity of the code-breaking algorithm...

One intriguing observation about the genetic code is that, in the end, it's pure software. In a conceptual sense, the genetic material is just abstract information: sequences of numbers (similar with the machine code). And, while the "software" would...

No wonder that everyone is catching the blog virus these days... http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/05/scoop_can_blogg.php