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Saturday, September 05, 2009 11:37 AM

Labor Day weekend in Seattle

"How do you call two rainy days in a row in Seattle? Weekend!" For reference, Labor Day is September 7th here, so we have a long weekend: from Saturday September 5th ro Monday September 7th: As usual from the personal blog ...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:47 PM

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
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Sunday, June 14, 2009 11:57 PM

How to use tripod with the basic Amazon Flip camera

Some time ago I've got an Amazon Flip camera. I loved it, but one thing did not worked well: I've got the basic one and it did not had the jack for a tripod. Not good... The answer happened to be simpler than I expected. You may want to watch this video
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:37 PM

Working Paper #666

Recently, in one of the current economic crisis disccusions, I saw a link to a Working Paper #666 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. At first I thought it's a prank. Well, the number alone sounds like some dark humor. Nope. It was not. I went
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Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:25 PM

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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Friday, August 22, 2008 11:17 PM

A Case Against Code Reviews

I know, it sounds odd in the modern world where code reviews are almost like one of the Sacred Commandments, that is taken religiously and you could be burned at the stake for not respecting it. So, please, hold with me for a little heresy… No, I don’t
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 11:14 PM

The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson – Hyperion, 2006/2008, 267 p., ISBN 978-1-4013-0966-4 This book is almost a classic by now, so if you did not heard about it, at least briefly
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:32 AM

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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Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:26 PM

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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Friday, February 22, 2008 4:01 PM

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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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:07 AM

Honey, where are my keys???

No, really? Suppose, you’ve got a certificate from some certificate authority, installed it in the localmachine store, and then your application cannot see it!!! What happened? Is it a bug? Is it a virus? Did somebody stole you precious key??? Not quite…
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:12 PM

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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Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:03 PM

Home Network Troubleshooter -- Windows Home Server Toolkit V1

One of the problematic spots for Windows Home Server are the networks, where it is supposed to work. During Beta-testing we found that home networks are often not up to the task. It's either the name resolution, or UPnP does not go through, or some other
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Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:21 PM

Windows Home Server System Builder Edition is now available on NewEgg.com

Windows Home Server System Builder Edition is now available on NewEgg.com , and some companies already offering it on Amazon.com site . As a reminder, System Builder Edition is a standalone software without support. Like OEM edition it is supposed to
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:15 AM

More books on Windows Home Server...

A new book on WHS was published last month (September 13): Microsoft Windows Home Server Unleashed by Paul McFedries . Very thick, 912 pages. What's interesting is that the author not merely pointed out which buttons to press -- that's something we tried
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