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Legends of Windows Home Server -- Checkin Garfield

It was a logn time ago, so, I guess, it's ok to tell this story at last... Well, everybody knows what "checkin" is, right? That's when you send your updated, fixed or new code to the depository for safekeeping. There is a lot of systems for that. OpenSource

Economy crisis 101

Pardon for another non-technical post, but I thought it may be interesting. A friend of mine, a professor at the University of Texas, presented an article of his student, introducing some mathmatical theory explaining the roots of today crisis in economy.
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I almost got back to the weight I had when I came to United States....

Just a few days ago I tried, and I fit perfectly into the suite, in which I came into the United States from Russia in now so old 1996 year. Since that I fattened a lot on Cola, pizzas and other dubious food substitutes from 195 pounds to almost 255 pounds
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I am really thinking about reviving this blog...

...but not the way it was before. My Russian blog on Technet is flooded with readers, and I am wondering if I could bring some of that value to English-speaking audience. First, while I still will publish an occasional technical piece or two, the topics
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Ciao, bambino, sorry! -- Leaving Windows Home Server

I just wanted to let readers of my blog know that I just left Windows Home Server team and won't be available for questions about this product anymore. Good resources are: Windows Home Server team blog: http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/ Forums: http://forums.microsoft.com/windowshomeserver/default.aspx?siteid=50
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Let me introduce -- Sergey Solyanik, ex-dev manager of Widnows Home Server

Sergey was the dev manager of Windows Home Server and one of three people, for whom I decided to leave BizTalk Server and join Windows Home Server team. He is a remarkable person and a friend of mine. Some time ago he left Microsoft for Google, but he
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5 worst problems of home-grade routers

During our crusade for Home Server and Beta programs we faced a multitude of home network configurations. We learned a lot, and some of that we did not like. In fact, that's our beta-participants who did not like that, it's just they did not know what

Nine years ago I failed on interview… and still proud of it.

(he) Sometimes, we have to put 10,000 lines into a single scrollbox. Computer hangs, memory consumption goes through the roof, slider is too small, nothing works. What would you do?
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I am Annoyed with Spam …and I don’t get it, why is it still a problem.

...Frankly, when I think of spam fighting today, it reminds me the fight for communism in the former Soviet Union. It takes a lot of time, it creates jobs, and it does not bring tangible results...

Question in mail: Do you need assembly language?

From: sandusergiu1984@... Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 2:12 AM To: Eldar Musayev Subject: (Random Thoughts and Hints on Software Development) : Hello Importance: High Hello Eldar, I've read somewhere that every developer who want to write great efficient
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What it takes to be a good software developer…

Last week I’ve got such a message from my blog: -----Original Message----- From: sandusergiu1984@... Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:17 AM To: Eldar Musayev Subject: (Random Thoughts and Hints on Software Development) : Hello Eldar! Importance: High Can
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Developers productivity in US

In his blog, Philip Su - dev manager at MSN Search - gives intersting numbers on the productivity of developers in the USA: USA 1999 -- ...
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Last week my manager tried to break my code...

He was in China, and with five our Shanghai developers worked on breaking my code for ~17 hours non-stop. As he says, they've started around 6AM and finished around 2AM (apparently, there was a lunch in-between). For all that effort they've found only
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GUI design - what does this button do?

Recently, when going up in an elevator, I was puzzled by this picture. What do you think "Low Oil" button at the very top should do? ---------------------- A hint (white on white, select to see) It's not really a button. It's just some design genius made
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Starting a new blog...

After the move to another group, my old blog devoted to BizTalk Server seems like a wrong place to conitue on a new topic. Many people are coming there for BizTalk MSMQ hints, and it's probably a bad idea to discourage them with randomized posts on completely
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