AntimailAdi Oltean's Weblog - Flashbacks on VSS, FSRM, VDS, Storage, XBox, Windows programming, Web Search, etc.Puzzle: Xen voting algorithm- October 30, 2007 There is a huge amount of aliens living on the Xen planet who want to elect their new leader (since their previous leader died a while back). They want to switch to a very democratic voting process, through the help of a very special communication field called the vortessence. One interesting property of voting through vortessence is that it can tell them whether there is a certain unique leader which is guaranteed to meet a certain percentage of votes X% (which is a number chosen ahead of...http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2007/10/29/xen-voting-algorithm.aspx Defrag in Vista - what's new- October 8, 2007 There is a new article in the hard-to-discover http:support.microsoft.com world, about various improvements of defrag in Vista. In summary: defragmentation is now performed automatically by default (at 1 AM on every Wednesday - that is, if your laptop is not powered off) and it works nicely in an incremental manner - no need to restart a full new defrag every time. Here is an excerpt: Partial defragmentation By default, the defrag tool only defragments files smaller than 64 megabytes...http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2007/10/08/defrag-in-vista-what-s-new.aspx Cool spam Our internal discussion list is nominated in a Who's Who award!- October 5, 2007 Here is an interesting piece of spam I received this morning on our internal discussion list: Dear VSS Lab Account, You were recently appointed as a biographical candidate to represent your industry in the Madison Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals, and for inclusion into the upcoming 2007-2008 "Honors Edition" of the registry. We are pleased to inform you that on October 4th, your candidacy was approved. Your confirmation for inclusion...http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2007/10/05/cool-spam-our-internal-discussion-list-... .NET Framework source code - public- October 3, 2007 I sure hope that you will appreciate this - the .NET 3.5 source code will be publicly released. Initially, we will see .NET BCL, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, ADO.NET, XML and WPF. Later, more libraries will be added (WCF - yes!), LINQ and Workflow.http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2007/10/03/net-framework-source-code-public.aspx |