Interesting peek at Win7
I’ve been hearing little anecdotes about Win7 for months now, but Ars has one of the better articles I’ve seen so far. Interesting:
Traut runs a team of about 200 software engineers at Microsoft that is responsible for the core kernel scheduling, memory management, boot sequence, and virtualization technology such as Virtual PC and Virtual Server. […]
No more single-core chips
Intel is phasing out single-core desktop processors. The end of the end of an era!
UPDATE: Ken covered this a while ago regarding a similar decision by AMD.
I guess it depends on what you’re hex editing
Ken and Rich Johnson from MSRC were both extolling the virtues of hiew as a hex editor a few weeks ago. I recently needed to do some hex editing of a pcap file (needed to manually munge some network packets for IM driver testing), and my new laptop didn’t have a hex editor yet, so […]
Metasploit as the security Mendoza line
If you are in (or near) data security and you haven’t heard of Metasploit, you owe it to yourself to check it out. The RiskAnalys.is blog observes today that Metasploit is the security Mendoza line. I’ll let them explain the analogy for the non-baseball fans in the crowd.
I think I forgot to mention the release […]
The return of err.exe
I’ve been working with Karin Meier-Magruder from the SDK team at Microsoft to get everyone’s favorite tool, err.exe, [re-]added to the PSDK. She’s working on getting it done, but meanwhile, as a special treat for Kernel Mustard readers, I have a newly updated err.exe ready for download. There’s a EULA inside the .zip that governs […]