Monthly Archives: February 2009

Early Impressions of the Kindle 2

The Kindle 2 I bought arrived today and I have spent the evening playing with the new gadget. I haven’t had very much time for some serious reading with it yet, but there are some fairly clear early impressions that can be drawn. The e-ink display is absolutely amazing. It is just beautiful. I find

Oddities in Gathering Windows Performance Data

At Zenoss we do quite a bit of remote monitoring of computers running Windows. In the Enterprise edition of the product, we collect raw performance counter data using the conventional remote Windows Registry APIs. We ran into an issue recently with a customer running Windows 2000 where the data from the remote server was being