Re: [PLUG] Unix-like tools for Windows

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:25:44 -0400
> From: Toby DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Unix-like tools for Windows
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:22:18PM -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> > 4) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx
> > Wait, wait, I know it's M$, but...  It used to be sys/wininternals and 
> > Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell.  They have extremely cool tools and 
> > utilities, almost none of which require installation.  Just download the 
> > zip file, open it and run.  They are/were *so* good at digging into 
> > Windows guts that M$ bought them (out of self-defense I like to 
> > imagine).
>
> You should hope not. If it was a defensive acquisition, kiss the utility
> of those tools goodbye ;-)

Yeah, that's why I mirrored the "real" site the day I found out about 
the acquisition.  But thus far, everything *seems* OK. :-)

Later,
JP
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Innate design flaws of Windows make a personal firewall, anti-virus
and anti-malware software mandatory. The resulting software arms race
has effectively flattened Moore's Law on hardware running Windows.
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