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Looking for a faster antivirus

The antivirus is one of the most important software that should be on installed on any computer. I doesn’t matter if you’re using Windows XP, Vista or Linux. “Fences” like the UAC or sudo aren’t that strong because they’ll just ask if you want to allow a program to run in privileged mode, they won’t […]

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Static constructors: populating static collections

Static Constructors
As Wikipedia explains, a constructor is a special method that is used to initialize member data. This member data can be object’s data, i.e. for each individually object (instance of a class) these fields are initialized with specific values, or class’s data known as static data, available to all instance objects as 1 […]

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.NET Concurrency Study

A couple weeks ago, my colleague Vasile Sumanschi (Schumi) and I held two presentations regarding the concurrency models in Java and .NET. This was part of the Parallel & Distributed Computing Architectures course.
Schumi handled the Java part, while I went on the .NET path. The presentations turned into a discussion and we had a friendly […]

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Quickly recover data from broken OS

Broken Windows / Linux or some other OS? I’ve faced this problem at least a dozen times. In these situations my best advice is to completely reinstall the OS.
But first you need to…

recover data
check your computer for hardware problems

I’ve just returned from my cousin, where a computer crashed. Because there was some important info […]

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Software Projects Management using MSF & VSTS

I’ve just completed a 3 day training on the Management of Software Projects using Microsoft Solutions Framework and Visual Studio Team System.
This training (or seminar) was organized by Microsoft Romania and it was intended for software pros from the area of Cluj-Napoca. Myself, along with a couple of other Microsoft Student-Partners, were […]

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