While recording a podcast episode in the wake of the 2024 Crowdstrike Incident, I spoke briefly about the reactions I had seen from the technical community. At that moment, I realized that, even though many of us treat the terms “kernel”, “shell”, and “operating system” as 101 level, basic, simple concepts, we should not. You …
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When a company “deprecates” something, it means that they won’t put any more resources into developing it. They will usually continue to support it. Sometimes that support has a clear end date, sometimes it does not. As a fairly famous example, Microsoft deprecated the SNMP feature quite some time ago, but you can continue to …
Scenario: You connect your Windows or Hyper-V system to a FiberChannel or iSCSI target device that supports multi-path I/O (MPIO). When you view Disk Management, it shows up twice (or more). You can bring one online, but any others show “Offline (The disk is offline because it has a redundant path with another device)”. The …
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[citationic] While not terribly common, sometimes you need to know the “bitness” of an executable (32-bit or 64-bit). The sudden growth of architectures besides traditional x86 and x64 (ARM, etc.) has introduced a related need to know the processor that an executable targets. Every EXE file has this information embedded in a common, easily read …
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