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2009 10

  1. Script recipe: How to increase the maximum number of quotas in the FSRM Quota Report (W2K3 R2)
  2. Statcounter: Bing leapfrogs Yahoo again
  3. Bing Community - an undiscovered site
  4. FCI – how to use classification (video)
  5. What does Bing stands for?
  6. Script of the week: how to expire files with Classification
  7. The buzz around Classification is going up!
  8. Classification – under the hood (part 1)
  9. File Classification Infrastructure – launched today!
  10. Tom’s Hardware: SSD comparison table (take 2)

2008 2

  1. A simple way to access Shadow Copies in Vista
  2. Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

2007 17

  1. Puzzle: create a Pentagon with rule and compass <EOM>
  2. Flash-based harddisks - the new laptop feature to look for
  3. Puzzle solution: Xen voting algorithm
  4. Zune 80 - $400 on eBay?
  5. Is my harddisk (almost) dead?
  6. What causes Harddisk failures?
  7. Puzzle: Xen voting algorithm
  8. Defrag in Vista - what's new?
  9. [Cool spam] Our internal discussion list is nominated in a Who's Who award!
  10. .NET Framework source code - public
  11. Toshiba doubles hard-disk density
  12. [RO] Seminar - Storage si programare distribuita
  13. Windows Home Server - links
  14. Demo: New virtualization technologies in Windows Server (Longhorn)
  15. Previous Versions in Vista - on Channel 9!
  16. Flicks - A gesture based scrolling interface in Vista
  17. A server for your home

2006 63

  1. The next generation of storage management is here!
  2. Yet another 3D photo wonder is now available - Microsoft Photosynth is available for preview
  3. Lock-free programming: used now in games!
  4. Vista is now shipped!
  5. Datacenter in a box
  6. The new must-have gadget: Flash laptops
  7. XBox 360 awarded Good Design Award... in Japan!
  8. Vista - any opinions? Let us know. It's not over yet...
  9. 12-disk SATA storage box for less than a grand
  10. A bit of black magic: How to assign drive letters to VSS shadow copies... on Windows XP !
  11. IronPython 1.0 released!
  12. Media Center PCs - the end of high-end DVD players?
  13. Vista RC1 is now done!
  14. Gartner redesigns Windows Vista
  15. Simple probability problem
  16. WS-Management? Already here in Vista!
  17. Full list of online advertising networks
  18. Web page real estate - how to use it?
  19. How to write in plain English
  20. Bloom filter calculator
  21. New hard drive price war coming
  22. Search Engines and Privacy
  23. Vista speech recognition? It actually works... :-)
  24. Time Machine: Vista Previous Versions are now making their way into Mac OS X Leopard...
  25. The Previous Versions feature in Vista - an ArsTechnica review
  26. Why Flash memory is good for your computer
  27. Puzzle: floor() function
  28. New live.com launched! (with screenshots on Vista)
  29. Carbonite: discovered (or something like it)
  30. Poincare's conjecture proof completed?
  31. Digg surpasses Slashdot?
  32. Latest LINQ CTP available for download
  33. Spam Poetry
  34. How to run Defrag on a scheduled basis
  35. Wikipedia is getting pretty good lately
  36. Boot from iSCSI? It's coming.
  37. I am Slackware Linux
  38. New www.live.com launched!
  39. Puzzle: prime numbers
  40. Overhype - a new global epidemy in the blogosphere?
  41. Ahh, backups... the eternal conversation subject
  42. Walking the long road ahead
  43. Usability
  44. What is the quickest way to get the file system type on a volume?
  45. Getting the free space available under a certain directory
  46. Internet Explorer 7 Beta2 available for download
  47. A brief history of harddrives
  48. More VSHADOW stuff: how to backup Exchange, SQL, NTFS
  49. Fast backup of Virtual Server images (using VSHADOW)
  50. How to build a cheap backup server
  51. Using NTBackup to achieve P2V
  52. Storage grid in the sky - a new concept?
  53. Favorites - this time, for real!
  54. XBox 360 committed to HD-DVD
  55. The OpenSearch 1.1 specification
  56. Perpendicular storage arrives on laptops
  57. How Hotmail works? - an interview with Phil Smoot
  58. Unix guy shares his experience in switching to Windows
  59. Microsoft - again, among the 100 best companies to work for in US
  60. The VDS API is now public on MSDN
  61. More news on holographic storage
  62. Windows Backup - highlighted as one of the main Vista features!
  63. How to stay safe with the new Windows vulnerability

2005 229

  1. Improving your own memory
  2. How to do atomic writes in a file
  3. Puzzle: probability problem
  4. Cool way to get customer feedback
  5. Funny experiment
  6. Are the SATA disks reliable enough?
  7. Bloom filters and everything else
  8. How to stop filesharers from stealing hotel bandwidth
  9. Batch processing is back!
  10. Windows Local Live is out in the wild!
  11. Search Technology Center - opened by Microsoft in China
  12. Pure Gold XBox 360 faceplate
  13. Home-made XBox 360 auctioned on eBay for $611
  14. Did you know that MySpace.com runs ASP.NET 2.0 on x64?
  15. Windows Server 2003 R2 is now RTM
  16. digg.com - the new Slashdot?
  17. Math puzzle: minimum number?
  18. This time, a real blog about Google
  19. Holographic storage for everyone
  20. Tracking your own misconceptions
  21. SSE - an RSS extension for two-way synchronization
  22. The newest, greatest, smallest iPod is now announced!
  23. Want free email? Bring your own domain
  24. Home page adventures - this time the new, shiny MSDN search beta
  25. Ray Ozzie blogs again!
  26. Search-based toolbars ARE addictive
  27. Singularity - a new research OS from Microsoft
  28. Check the reality: What most gamers use as their gaming PC?
  29. live.com - better than start.com?
  30. .NET FX 2.0 available for download
  31. Be polite when you are driving!
  32. Yahoo launches blogs, news search engine
  33. Who da'Punk?
  34. Short gamma-ray burst mystery is solved
  35. DOSDEV.EXE - a misterious tool
  36. Random Repro vs. Consistent Repro, and a surprise under the cover...
  37. A review of AOpen's Pandora Box
  38. Are there any COM programmers out there?
  39. Start.com has now Hotmail integration
  40. Day of Defeat: Source - released!
  41. An internet-enabled sewing machine... but does it run Windows?
  42. CMD programming - elements of style
  43. How big is Hotmail?
  44. Virtual disease affecting World of Warcraft characters
  45. WS-Management specification submitted to DMTF
  46. Age of Empires III
  47. The death of the A-list?
  48. A new Hotmail interface
  49. Gates on Vista, Office 12, LINQ, and other stuff
  50. LINQ: a post-modern revolution in software development
  51. Puzzle: all horses have the same color
  52. Start.com Developer Center is launched! (or at least the web site is up)
  53. 100 GB in your cell phone?
  54. Two math puzzles
  55. GetVolumeInformationW warnings in VSS - what do they mean?
  56. eBay and Skype?
  57. The Bill Gates interview
  58. Samsung will launch DVD player with HD DVD + Blu-Ray support
  59. Hurricane Katrina: Plea for help revealed by satellite imagery
  60. start.com - what I like, and what I want
  61. Thoughts on chirality
  62. Vendors try out VDS 1.1
  63. Tricks with Mark of the Web: Behaviors, XML files
  64. Start.com rocks!
  65. Iain McDonald talks about R2
  66. VSS writers and inconsistent shadow copies
  67. Virtual Earth hacks
  68. Nature, the beautiful nature, can be bad
  69. Nostalgia: Cray Y-MP EL - available for online access
  70. We Want Posts in Brett's Blog!
  71. What's your favorite bug story?
  72. The simplest search portal. Ever.
  73. The fun days of app-compat testing
  74. New goodies in Virtual Server
  75. RAID 6 comes back
  76. Creating life from scratch?
  77. Remote controlled humans
  78. Hitting the search relevance wall
  79. Puzzle Solution: a geometry problem
  80. Bloggers, and the maximum coolness threshold
  81. Interview: Bill Hilf on Open Source
  82. Here comes the Spyware patrol!
  83. Puzzle: a little geometry problem, and a sequence question
  84. IE7... feels different
  85. ECMA standards now aligned with the new Whidbey, C# 2.0
  86. The most human looking robot?
  87. SecureEasySetup - the holy grail of Wireless security
  88. Script recipe: how to query a HTTP/HTTPS web page
  89. Neural networks used to improve relevance in web search
  90. Worst-case scenario: How to survive a hurricane
  91. Open source and proprietary software
  92. Bubble Fusion reconfirmed?
  93. Interview with Anders Heljsberg on the next version of C#
  94. Water cooling technology for server racks
  95. Managed Speech APIs and other cool utilities...
  96. Price Guides, July 2005: Storage
  97. Article: Service Level Agreements explained
  98. Data Protection Manager closer to shipping...
  99. Steve Ballmer: the interview
  100. Hanford Site: now open for public tours
  101. New feature in Windows Server 2003 R2: directory-level quotas
  102. Be careful with that keyboard!
  103. Ars Technica: 2005 buyer's guide is out!
  104. Nanoholes: more capacity for harddisks
  105. Atlas: Seamless AJAX programming
  106. Puzzle: two cubes
  107. Puzzle: How do you get out of the prison (Part II)
  108. When CoCreateInstance returns 0x80080005 (CO_E_SERVER_EXEC_FAILURE)
  109. XBOX 360 Graphics Demystified
  110. Playing with transportable snapshots
  111. Hackers meet Microsoft
  112. In search for a geeky toy...
  113. An interview with Daniela Florescu
  114. Welcome Max
  115. Puzzle: what is the next card?
  116. Searching for the next bubble burst
  117. Ageia's PhysX: Hype or Revolution?
  118. Storage is still hot
  119. A harddisk with 1 terabit per square inch?
  120. Seagate adopts perpendicular recording technology for harddisks
  121. Seattle - the most unwired city of America?
  122. Windows Server Update Services released for download
  123. .NET versus J2EE - New case studies and benchmarks
  124. Managing Solaris with MOM
  125. New toys in the start.com playground
  126. Using RAM instead of a harddisk?
  127. The WS-* world is changing
  128. Apple on x86 - ripple effects?
  129. Retrospective: What Have We Learned from the PDP-11
  130. The various aspects of Open Source
  131. Is Fibre Channel doomed?
  132. History: old computers...
  133. The Art of Viktor Antonov
  134. Interesting way to squeeze permalinks
  135. Never use catch(…)
  136. A weird-looking concept: End-user development?
  137. My blogging policy
  138. Windows - what are the memory limits?
  139. Is corporate blogging still risky?
  140. Virtual Earth - on Channel 9!
  141. Article: Volume Shadow Looms Large
  142. Puzzle: solve this problem in your head
  143. Genetics from a software perspective. With a security touch.
  144. Innovative database technology coming from... High Energy physics
  145. Pure rumors: Is Sun working on a language independent JVM?
  146. Read this if you plan to install Windows Server 2003 R2 Beta Eval (the web download version)
  147. A funny-looking trace, and a real problem
  148. IBM employees allowed now to blog
  149. How does a four-dimensional world look like?
  150. New article: Localization practices for .NET 2.0
  151. New Identity specifications from Sun and Microsoft
  152. Do you think that RSA is safe in the next 30 years? Think again.
  153. Firefox downloads bumped up by its security patches?
  154. How PR works
  155. Blogging for kids?
  156. Humor: Tom Lehrer in The elements
  157. Windows Server 2003 R2 Beta is now available for download/preview
  158. My stupid score?
  159. How to query the list of disks/partitions for a certain volume (and viceversa)
  160. Script recipe: How to enumerate dependencies for all resources in a cluster
  161. Kernel-mode ambient transactions, TxF and System.Transaction
  162. Microsoft Campus remains in Redmond
  163. Transactions for the masses - Transactional NTFS
  164. First hybrid harddrive with NAND flash memory
  165. Mark Russinovich started a blog!
  166. How online/offline works in a cluster for Physical Disk resources
  167. Advanced C++ features and Kernel-mode programming don't mix
  168. Puzzle: do you know chemistry?
  169. Microsoft releases public beta of Data Protection Manager
  170. You can't say that engineers lack a sense of humour...
  171. Subtle issues when using predefined accounts
  172. Actually there are posts in Brett Shirley's blog...
  173. Online demo: How to control a nuclear power plant.
  174. NTFS Curiosities (part 2): Volumes, volume names and mount points
  175. Puzzle: geometry problem
  176. Reuven is here
  177. Report: Many users don't understand security terminology
  178. New experimental pages from the MSN Search team
  179. How to design an indestructible computer
  180. COM and .NET: what's wrong with this code?
  181. Psychology trick: See yourself as an outsider
  182. Windows Server 2003 SP1 available for download
  183. Preliminary versions of Avalon and Indigo are available for download.
  184. Why Java VMs do not have a Pre-JIT feature?
  185. What is your preffered deployment strategy: SxS/GAC or XCOPY?
  186. The Institute for Backup Trauma
  187. Implementing a COM component in... VBScript
  188. Too funny
  189. Puzzle: solve this equation!
  190. Is AJAX something revolutionary?
  191. Good bye DCOM
  192. Script recipe of the week: multitasking and syncronization in batch files
  193. Why do we buy books?
  194. Using Virtual machine technology to get better security
  195. What keeps people away from blogging?
  196. Tricks around the "copy" command...
  197. 0.3 Petabytes of storage available free of charge?
  198. Is Microsoft serious about security?
  199. Script Recipe: How to evaluate numerical expressions in the command line
  200. One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge
  201. Is there anybody else using Visual C++ 6.0?
  202. Nerd score
  203. Using XSLTProcessor programatically in IE to minimize client-server bandwith
  204. Cameron Purdy on distributed caching
  205. Quick Puzzle: what does this program print?
  206. Trick of the day: How to compress long URLs into very short ones
  207. Gosling: Huge security hole in... Java?
  208. Warning: Shadow Copies for Shared Folders are not a replacement for backup
  209. Google Suggest
  210. Where are all my iPods?
  211. Rory's handwriting
  212. After life
  213. NTFS curiosities (Part I): Short file names
  214. Script puzzle: Solving Hanoi ... in shell
  215. No need for TCP?
  216. Windows Internals book is now available!
  217. Attack of the clones: how to assign a drive letter or directory to a shadow copy
  218. Why the name VSS?
  219. [RO] Daca vreti sa lucrati la Microsoft...
  220. Ttl
  221. Ten tips - how to write a well-structured threat model document
  222. How make sure that your Windows XP Home is secure against spyware/viruses/etc
  223. Weak vs. Strong typing
  224. Another puzzle: Gödel, Goldbach and other "G" names...
  225. Puzzle: Shakespeare numbers...
  226. How many shadow copies you can create in Windows?
  227. Hungarian notation causing buffer overruns?
  228. Script recipe of the week: how to copy an opened file
  229. Dawn of the Undead Data

2004 49

  1. The funny thing about time traveling ...
  2. How you can uniquely identify a LUN in a Storage Area Network
  3. The VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) SDK is available for download
  4. How would you administer millions of machines?
  5. Building a bridge in France versus US
  6. Keeping a cool head about the Open Source pixie dust...
  7. Useful copy/paste trick in CMD.EXE
  8. Don't disable system services! (unless you REALLY know what you are doing)
  9. Who hogs down my CPU?
  10. Book: Mind hacks
  11. The Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS) API is finally available on MSDN!
  12. Tips for deploying Shadow copies for Shared Folders
  13. Reading books online on amazon.com?
  14. Creating shadow copies from the command line.
  15. Shadow copies - a peek under the hood
  16. No fireworks yet...
  17. When is a volume eligible for Shadow Copies for Shared Folders?
  18. Running SBS under Virtual PC
  19. Contrarian finding: Computers are a drag on learning
  20. Sun shines on interoperability progress with Microsoft
  21. Tabbed browsing interface
  22. Yet another MSN Spaces post
  23. The virtual enterprise
  24. What would be image #5?
  25. Launching a CMD window as Local System
  26. Running CMD.EXE as Local System
  27. Downloads - Microsoft Research
  28. Using RFID at home
  29. Another puzzle: Self-extracting EXE
  30. Radio Feedback
  31. White magic with Microsoft Exchange (Part I)
  32. Script Recipe of the week: Detecting a new disk inserted in the system
  33. Unskilled and Unaware of It - the psychology of overconfidence
  34. SBS, and a discussion about Shadow-copies and backups
  35. Little math problem
  36. The new MSN Search rocks!
  37. WS-Test - a controversial benchmark
  38. A peek into the future
  39. Who is scared of Web services?
  40. Writing self-replicating code in C#
  41. Playing with iSCSI
  42. Remembering passwords...
  43. Another way to expose a COM/.NET DLL assembly as a secure DCOM service
  44. How to write a DCOM server in C#
  45. MSDN article
  46. Script Recipe of the week: Shadow Copy secrets
  47. Ponder this
  48. Blogs - as a reversed form of Inbox.
  49. The best blog ever.