USB flash drives often advertise impressive headline speeds, but those figures rarely tell the full story. I tested a range of popular drives using large files, mixed workloads and sustained transfers to measure their real-world read speed, write performance

My scripting language of choice is PowerShell. For my sins, and there are plenty, I am a Microsoft engineer. Life choices were made, clearly not all of them wise. Still, PowerShell is built into Windows. Then there is PowerShell's QuickEdit. QuickEdit is one of those “helpful” Windows console features that sounds useful right up until it parks a Tank on top of your deployment script. It lets you interact with a running PowerShell window, select text directly from the co

PowerShell ISE has a dark theme, let's face it, it's sub-optimal, half-arsed and clearly created by Microsoft. So I've fixed it myself with a Tenaka Theme for ISE.