Blog du Tristank
Migrating to https://blog.tristank.com/ . And still so terrific that 3 of 4 readers rated it "soporific"
ISA 2004 Firewall Rule Guidelines
Spotted via Stanislas, the ISA Server Guidance Centre has published an article on Firewall rules...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/02/2005
ISA 2004 EE: CARP Revisited
Oh, I do CARP on, don't I? Chortle. I'm so funny. Just a quickie this time: In ISA 2004 Enterprise...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/02/2005
Trixie Rocks!
I hate to stir*, but when I caught the link to Trixie via Dare and Robert Scoble, I had to chuckle -...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/01/2005
Game Dev 101, Anyone?
As soon as I can find the time, I'm going to check out these webcasts on C# Game Development. Or at...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/01/2005
More on the Support Lifecycle: Windows 2000 and IE
The IE team posted a reminder about the upcoming Windows 2000 Support Lifecycle events, and reading...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/31/2005
Watch for Competition and Convergence In The Physics Space
As I mentioned before - this'd make a killer addition to a GPU. People originally found 3D add-in...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/25/2005
The Unending Quest For Drivers
I'm still manually going round-robin on a bunch of sites offering drivers for X64 systems that don't...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/23/2005
SBS 2003 SP1 is available now (with ISA 2004!)
...as noticed over on Susan's Blog, avec some sage advice. Looks like the weekend's going to be...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/19/2005
Working Late with Microsoft Office Communicator 2005
It's probably been noted in a hundred other places by now, but the new corporate IM client (link to...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/18/2005
MSN Toolbar and Windows Desktop Search, Final Release
It's all over the blogosphere already, so on the off-chance you haven't seen it yet, I'll link to...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/17/2005
Speaking of Xboxen: Neon
Llamasoft are back again, this time with the Neon light synthesiser, which is apparently built into...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/16/2005
Anand Looks at the Athlon64 X2
I cannot wait to get my hands on an Athlon64 X2. Multicore is my bag, baby. The Gaming performance...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/15/2005
ISA 2004: Netstat vs Fwengmon and Server Publishing
If I recall correctly [1], ISA 2000 used to bind and listen to Server Published ports as soon as the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/13/2005
XBox 360 Announced
Pretty good coverage on the Xbox 360 launch so far, especially the blurb from TeamXBox. I was...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/13/2005
Haushaltung: Shameless SEO
OK, so it's not that shameless, just a quick request - if you currently have a static link to the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/12/2005
Noodling with the VS2005 Class Diagram Thing
Well. This is really quite smart. Apart from the tight grouping, which is just there for the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/11/2005
NLB Inter Host Comm Support: New Feature in Windows Server 2003 SP1
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 adds a useful workaround for an old Wibbles caveat: when in...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/10/2005
Games on X64 Update
Here's how it is: [Update: The 64-bit Far Cry patches are now available from the link below - a...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/10/2005
Haushaltung. (also: Hey, Nvidia!)
(Blame Altavista for the translation - I was looking for "housekeeping" rather than "house brought...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/09/2005
How To Run A Soccer Team Site?
I have a problem. My girlfriend has started playing soccer in a womens' (always unsure where that...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/07/2005
Blog Facelift Twelve
Since the CS migration, I've been sticking with Marvin3 Red, which wasn't really red enough for me....
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/07/2005
Aussies! Job! Here! Fun**!
I was burbling some copy together for a possible job ad, and figured I'd post it here. Like to work...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/06/2005
Doctor Who and Dirk Gently
I was browsing through the Doctor Who site, inspired because ABC (Australia) are working through all...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/03/2005
ISA 2004: CARP Exclusions (and a tip for 2000)
In ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition, one of the new features that was added based on user feedback was...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/28/2005
x64: Windows XP x64 Edition Upgrade Offer
aka Double Your Bits For Free! That's right - if you bought a Win32 version of XP and you're ready...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/28/2005
Hitchhiker's Guide Movie: Four Stars
As a fan of the trilogy-o-five and a bunch of Douglas Adams' other work, I was quietly skeptical...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/28/2005
A Physics Accelerator?
No, not something with which you can fall down faster, we're talking about a Physics Processing...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/22/2005
Learn VPN and Quarantine with Uncle Michael™
Kleefie just posted an excellent series of Blogcasts that run through the basics of configuring...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/20/2005
Mental Note
Next time, run the setup on a fast machine, then port the Additions-installed VHD over. Duh. There's...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/19/2005
My Email Solution for 0-2 users
From before - I decided that My Real Problem with Outlook having a single delivery location is the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/19/2005
Frustrated with Outlook
More a "thinking out loud" post than anything useful. Please ignore me for the time being. After the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/18/2005
.Net 2.0 Beta 2 Install - It's not over 'til it's over
I just installed the .Net Framework 2.0 Beta 2 runtime on my home x64 box, so that I could again run...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/18/2005
x64 Compatibility
The theme for this week is compatibility, brought to you by the letters W and O, and the number 64....
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/12/2005
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil under x64
This doesn't work, as the MSI is coded to only allow "pure" Windows 2000 or XP installations. Faux...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/08/2005
Ooh, MSN Messenger 7.0 is out
Noticed on ActiveWin that MSN Messenger 7.0 is out now. IMO, the coolest feature is the MSN Spaces...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/07/2005
x64: It's Lonely Out Here (But I Feel Powerful)
No TV. Latest casualty: DVICO FusionHD DVB-T card. No XP64 drivers now (and not for a while, at...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/06/2005
ISA 2004 SP1 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 (install in that order)
Just a quick note - if you're planning on upgrading Windows Server 2003 to Service Pack 1, and you...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/04/2005
x64 Gaming
Since my upgrade to XP x64, I've been looking for patches so that my favourite titles can benefit...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/03/2005
And the Windows Server 2003 x64 version is out there too!
Versions of Microsoft Windows for AMD64 and EM64T are now available: Windows Server 2003:...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/30/2005
Windows Server 2003 SP1 Out Now
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=22CFC239-337C-4D81-8354-72593B1C1F43 If...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/30/2005
The Great Blog Migration
EBTDF is now https://blogs.technet.com/tristank/ , as opposed to the old one. I apologize to all six...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/27/2005
Aussies! Want To See Something Specific At Tech-Ed 2005?
Busy month so far, so a quickie: head over to Michael Kleef's blog, where he's looking for feedback...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/23/2005
ISA 2004 Standard Edition SP1 Available Now
(When it rains, it pours...) The first Service Pack for Internet Security and Acceleration Server...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/02/2005
ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition Trial Download Now Available
Go get it from https://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/evaluation/trial/ .
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/02/2005
Evil Features: I like 'em.
I quite liked the idea of Smart Tags. Unlike "Smart Tags Are Evil" Scoble. I like the way Smart Tags...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/01/2005
New Feature: RDP over SSL with Windows Server 2003 SP1
Release Candidate 2 for Windows Server 2003 SP1 is available to test from microsoft.com, which means...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/24/2005