Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 adds a useful workaround for an old Wibbles caveat: when in Unicast mode, cluster members can't use their NLB'd interfaces to talk to each other. In Unicast mode, the NLB-bound interfaces for all nodes in a cluster...

TristanK investigates Fwengmon after too many coffees at dinner....

TristanK works for small morsels of food. You may negotiate a better package, with larger morsels of food....

Oo-arr, tha sitchooayshun soiems loike it be gettin baettar, oit does....

TristanK on the Windows 2000 Support Lifecycle....

Tristan Likes the new LCS2005 client....

Tristan Wants A Hosted Group Solution For His Girlfriend's Soccer Team....

Pretty good coverage on the Xbox 360 launch so far, especially the blurb from TeamXBox . I was particularly interested in the new baby being liquid cooled from their tech-focused article. Nice. The wireless controllers were mentioned as using the infrared...

Basic experimentation with Avalon, part 1....

Comments being eaten. Plus, TristanK Wishes That Online Stores Were More Online....

It's all over the blogosphere already, so on the off-chance you haven't seen it yet, I'll link to the best wrap-up I've seen so far: Dare's . To skip the commentary and jump right in: http://toolbar.msn.com/ , and if you're into PDFs (and others),...

...as noticed over on Susan's Blog , avec some sage advice. Looks like the weekend's going to be fun.

Tristan now likes Class Diagrams....

I cannot *wait* to get my hands on an Athlon64 X2 . Multicore is my bag, baby. The Gaming performance page is here , keep in mind that the vast majority of games are currently single-threaded, and won't benefit directly from having two CPUs. While...

Tristan discovers that Douglas Adams was reusing ideas for Dirk Gently, and might have to reread it now....

Fifteen?...

Rory suggested a gaming OS. Well, WinXP 32-bit looks like the dedicated Gaming OS for me....

Jeff Minter's back with the Llamas and a lightsynth....

More on Physics accelerators....

Tristan contemplates providing RSS feeds Where There Are None, so you can give up searching websites and just wait to be told about a new driver....

OK, so it's not *that* shameless, just a quick request - if you currently have a static link to the old EBTDF URL (blogs. msdn .com/tristank and variants) on your site, please could I ask you update it to the newer Blogs. Technet .Com/Tristank url? ...