Interesting: Microsoft buys up SysInternals

The announcement came this week from Mark Russinovich of SysInternals that he, co-founder Bryce Cogswell and the tools are moving to Microsoft. It's not really all that surprising being that Mark is better at building tools for the Windows platform than many of the folks already at Microsoft. SysInternals hosts many excellent troubleshooting and recovery tools including Process Explorer and Rootkit Revealer.

All the tools and support are currently still available from the site while Microsoft reviews the options of how to best leverage its new purchase. I already have them all, but I'll be sure to download current versions of everything just in case Bill deceides to hide them behind WGA.

Mark says "I’m looking forward to making Windows an even better platform for all of us!" Russinovich will be appointed as a Microsoft Technical Fellow, a title "awarded to someone whose technical vision, expertise, and world-class leadership is widely recognized." Microsoft currently has 14 Technical Fellows. Analysts are hoping that Russinovich and Cogswell will each add to the stability and security of future versions of Windows.

Here's to hoping for even better tools now that he is on the inside.

Interesting: Getting a little slack about this

Wow, it's been awhile since I put anything here. Since the whole point was to get me to start writing something on a regular basis I'm just going to throw some random links out here from stuff I've been looking at.

Microsoft's Powershell has had much of my attention for the last month, although I'm still not where I want to be with it. A command shell with access to .NET objects is double plus good if you want to automate ... well, anything in Windows. Scott Hanselman has so many things to say about I'm just going to link to a google search. Ars Technica has a guided tour that explains much of the reasoning and syntax in Powershell. There is also a Microsoft Blog for PowerShell. There are tons of other resources out there for this awesome tool and I'll likely post much more about it as I get more comfortable using it.

I've been slowly becoming more and more of a web hermit, although you'd think that would make me post more ... apparently not.

I keep finding PETA more and more disturbing.

I've also been trying to figure out if Chappelle Theory is a joke, a whacko conspiracy theorist, or actually the truth.

I got a new monitor that I'm very happy with. Although the price has gone down steadily, I still got a much better deal than what Dell lists.

And I've been to the beach, the Southern League Double A All-Star Game in Montgomery and spent a massive amount of time sitting on my back porch with a laptop. I should really post some pics at flickr and link to them, but I'm lazy ... maybe next time.