Author Archives: Maris

RAID 1 (mirror) read speed as fast as RAID 0 (stripe)

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Maris

To our big surprise, the new Intel Raid controller on the Motherboard Intel DX79TO (ver. AAG28805-401) with Intel X79 Express Chipset shows awesome read performance. The raid model is Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise 3.0 (Intel Rapid Storage enterprise – … Continue reading →

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Executing very large script on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 fails

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Maris

I was trying to execute very large .sql script in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, that runs on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. First I tried to copy/paste script into Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. The server has plenty of … Continue reading →

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Building OpenSSL with Visual Studio 2010 for x64 / Win64 causes error

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Maris

Today I was trying to build the latest OpenSSL 1.0.1c with Visual Studio 2010. Following instructions form the INSTALL.W32, I was able to successfully build the 32-bit version. Trying the same with 64-bit (x64) version, again following the official instructions … Continue reading →

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Did you know that IP addresses (IPv4) can be written in shorter representations?

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Maris

Did you know that IPv4 addresses can be written in shorter representations, like IPv6 addresses? Everyone have seen form of IPv6 represented as “shorter form”: Example from IPv6: 2001::7334 ::1 :: You can use our free tool ipv6-literal.com to convert … Continue reading →

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C# / .NET MessageBox is hidden behind the Form

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Maris

Imagine calling the following C# code:MessageBox.Show(this, “Some text…”, “Title”, MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel); After executing this line, the Message Box is not visible, it seems like hidden behind your form, without input focus, mouse clicks cause default beeps, and it suddenly appears if … Continue reading →

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String.format in Java has weird rounding by default

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Maris

I was participating in one of our Android projects, and while testing I discovered, that our program acted weird — app displayed one value, but acted like the value was different. The value was 1.45, and our Java Android app … Continue reading →

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PowerShell in Unicode, Windows 8 RP and Windows Server 2012 RC

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Maris

I was testing our software with latest version of Microsoft Windows — Windows 8 Release Preview and Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (Windows Server 2012 RC Datacenter). There was some changed behavior in very specific cases for some rarely used … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Form Editor: To prevent possible data loss before loading the designer, the following errors must be resolved

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Maris

This is not the first time. I have seen this error message in the past (probably multiple times), and every time I look to this error and I do not understand, why it appeared and how to fix it. I … Continue reading →

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Spammed by WordPress comment stealing bot with Facebook profile

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Maris

Some time ago (1/2 year, may be 1 year) strange comments started to appear in our WordPress comment moderation queue. They all contained some random comments from random places, they all had the similar URL: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX where XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is profile … Continue reading →

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Your program is returning ErrorLevel 128 (exit code)

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Maris

Here is a scenario: You have written a program; You run it; First line of the program never gets executed; ErrorLevel (exit code) 128 is returned. You search Google for solution, but nothing useful is found. This happened to me. … Continue reading →

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