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Sat, Oct 18 2008 4:43

Buying computer in Switzerland

I was inspired to write this post after having tried several companies in Switzerland in terms of computer staff. First thing you notice in Switzerland is that: 1. The prices usually are higher than in US or Canada (difference is quite big) 2. There are...
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Wed, Aug 27 2008 3:33

Undeletable bug in VS2008?

I see this bug for a quite a long time, starting from VS2005. To illustrate the problem: 1. Go to project properties, open some tab 2. Do not close the property dialog windows simply change the focus by clicking in code editor [...] Please read the post...
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Sat, Jun 21 2008 10:31

Moving to www.shcherbyna.com

I always wanted to have an own domain, hosting mail, blog and probably some important files for me. However, I always felt the leak in time, and this direction was non primary for me. Until today. As you probably have mentioned, the server msmvps.com...
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Tue, May 27 2008 9:09

Windows Research Kernel

Have you ever think about accessing sources of Microsoft Windows kernel? Now thoughts might become reality. Quote taken from http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/licensing/researchkernel.mspx : “ The Windows Research Kernel (WRK) packages core...
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Thu, Mar 6 2008 9:13

Microsoft has opened Singularity sources

Everyone is able to download sources at http://www.codeplex.com/singularity
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Thu, Dec 27 2007 20:41

explorer.exe is in danger :)

Kaspersky ( http://www.kaspersky.com/ ) recently released a signature update that treats explore.exe as a virus. This false signature may affect those people who set the option 'delete virus' ON - it let's anvtivirus delete the suspicious...
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Tue, Dec 25 2007 18:02

NG tips document

Newsgroups tips doc has been published recently on my blog. I am pretty sure it will be useful for newbies who are going to use Microsoft newsgroups. For more details, please visit this link .
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Fri, Nov 30 2007 23:49

my first FAQ ...

Well, it's "better later then never" . I decided to write a small FAQ document on TDI. The idea to write this document came into my head when I noticed that there is not so much documentation on this field. Yes, I realize that TDI becomes...
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Thu, Aug 23 2007 21:34

A shame on Kaspersky ...

As one of the stages in my work, I do tests of different antiviruses with components I develop. This allows me to handle incompatibility issues, profiling BSODS and other critical errors that might appear during software lifecycle ;) These days I was...
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Wed, Dec 20 2006 1:36

Do you code in assembler ?

I do. And the best tool for me to code in asm is RadASM . This is the great IDE which is able to work with following the compilers: - masm - tasm - nasm - fasm - goasm I wonder, why MS did not wrote any simular IDE for assembler programming. BTW, IIRC...
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Sun, Dec 17 2006 13:51

IE7 release still beats us

I participate in wininet NG from time to time. Since IE7 release, the major part of issues that I read there is connected with the changes introduced by IE7. Fortunatly for us, WNDP team is ready to investigate any bug you'll find. Of course, you can...
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Thu, Nov 16 2006 11:46

www.sysinternals.com is gone

There is no www.sysinternals.com already. If you try to navigate to Mark's web site you will find that it redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx . Since Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006 it already changed...
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Thu, Nov 9 2006 12:38

Developers Days in Kiev, Ukraine. Novermber 10, 2006

If you live in Ukriane you have a chance to visit Microsoft Developers Days that will take place in Kiev on 10-th of November 2006. For more details visit the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/Ukraine/Events/DevelopersDaysAutumn2006/Kiev.mspx I...
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Thu, Nov 9 2006 1:22

Russian guy in Windows Kernel Team ...

Here is an interesting blog I read from time to time: http://blog.not-a-kernel-guy.com/ . Unfortunately the blog is written in russian, so those of you who does not know it need to use translation tools. The blogger name is Alexey Pakhunov and he works...
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Wed, Nov 8 2006 13:09

TDI Filter drivers in Vista: new article is coming

WNDP team is going to publish on its blog the document which describes in details how to create TDI clients and TDI filter drivers in Vista. An interesting thing is that Vista does not allow to hook the dispatch table of TDI provider. The TDI filter should...
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Wed, Jul 19 2006 19:35

The magics of FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag or contradiction in the MSDN library

MSDN : "The FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flag specified in the call to CreateFile gives the backup application process permission to read the access-control settings of the file or directory. With this permission, the backup application process can...
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Wed, Jul 5 2006 15:29

First (rather philosophical) post ...

Here there. My name is Vladimir Scherbina. I am a software developer living in Ukraine in a nice city named Kiev. I am kind of person from a "new generation" - those who started their programming expirience with high level languages. My first...
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