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Adi Oltean's Weblog - Flashbacks on VSS, FSRM, VDS, Storage, XBox, Windows programming, Web Search, etc.

Passwords: Bad "best practices"
So, you think that your password is secure? Let's see: does it contain a mixture of uppercase/lowercase letters, punctuation marks and digits? Yes? Well, even in this case, your password might be still completely insecure. Read ahead why... To...

The definition of the Internet, in 1974
These words belong to Andrei Sakharov: "I foresee a universal information system (UIS), which will give everyone access at any given moment to the contents of any book that has ever been published or any magazine or any fact. The UIS will have...

How to run Defrag on a scheduled basis
On Windows XP, it's simple. Just run this command and you are done: schtasks /create /TN defrag /RU "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /SC weekly /TR "defrag %systemdrive%"

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Wikipedia is getting pretty good lately
Maybe I am biased, but I am pleasantly surprised by Wikipedia recently. There is a lot of material coming, at least on the subjects that interest me (I don't know, reading about coffee, tea, scientology, estimation theory, neural networks,...

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Boot from iSCSI? It's coming.
Wonder of wonders. One of the interesting features of SANs in general, and iSCSI in particular, is the ability to boot directly from the exposed logical units (i.e. disks in SAN terminology). You don't need local storage. Why would that be useful?...

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I am Slackware Linux
Huh? Which OS are You? For the record - I work on Windows, BTW :-)

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Puzzle: prime numbers
Show that (N^4 + 4^N) is a prime number if and only if N=1.

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Overhype - a new global epidemy in the blogosphere?
Overhype is something very noticeable these days. Just last week, everyone on the blogosphere (except me, of course :-) was trying to guess what Apple will announce. After the announcement, people were a little bit dissapointed (there is even an...

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Ahh, backups... the eternal conversation subject
Finally! The wait is over. Brett Shirley started to blog. As I expected, Brett started with a highly technical, but very interesting story. You might not believe it, but many customers are very optimistic, and they never perform backups of their...

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