(hey, it’s a container for some cygwin hacks I stumble upon)
Intro:
Yes, I’m a sucker for Cygwin. Being “forced” to live inside a few windows boxes on the corporate world made me embrace this tool to escape from a few nazi-ish policies and improve my efficiency when faced with common (and then again, maybe not) tasks.
Cygwin [...]

I often find myself crawling under the desk looking for labels or turning around laptops trying to find half-erased and destroyed panels showing computer serial numbers and other cryptic hyeroglyphs.
Let me tell you about serial numbers. These are quite useful to keep handy in case your stuff is stolen. Luckily, for most manufacturers like Dell, [...]

This process will let you build custom topography maps based on freely available map tiles. These maps can be then uploaded to your Garmin GPS receiver, along with the maps you’ve already got (CitySelect or CityNavigator, for instance), providing a transparent layer with contour lines. The process has been know to work in a number [...]

Wow. Sysinternals has been acquired by Microsoft
There was a time where Microsoft was known for buying small startups that looked like some kind of threat or offered software pieces tightly binded to Windows (and most of all, popular) so that these could slowly be bundled with their software. Most of these software solutions ended [...]

Now, an interesting piece of software. I wonder why did it take so long for someone to come up with this. Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user’s profile and ownership of [...]