Summary: This is a story about the most elusive and sinister software bug I ever came across in my decades-long career as a programmer. T...

Back in 1999-2000 the state of the art in computer telephony was called Interactive Voice Response (IVR).  Nowadays when we speak of "...

Techniques demonstrated: Solving an intractable problem using a scoring heuristic Super-indexing data structures for ultra-fast domain-speci...

I added a page where I list posts on this blog that can collectively serve as my portfolio. It can be found here: Michael Belivanakis ...

This question was asked on Programmers SE on Jun 12, 2015. I answered it, but after a few days the question was closed as primarily opinion-...

Oracle talks a lot about 11g Express Edition, and how it differs from the full (paid) versions of their database, but it does not say a word...

The question is on a controversial topic, and as usual, I take the controversial stance.  So, it is no wonder that people do not agree with ...

So, with Windows 8 sporting these god-awfully ugly opaque square boxes, which are not adorned in any way whatsoever, (not even the decent in...

To disable the administrative shares in Windows, (default shares like C$, ADMIN$, etc.) follow these steps: 1. Run the Registry Editor and...

To enable the Administrator account in Windows: 1. Open up an elevated command prompt.  (If you do not know what this is, you should not ...