Ah haaaaaa haaaaaaaa ha hahahaha haaaaa hahahahaha haaaa hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! (every single one of those was typed. Individually. In time with me cackling insanely after coming down from a slaughter high). Bedtime. But seriously...

No self-respecting Xbox gamer would have missed that tonight's the night! Aussies - by virtue of our timezone being 17 hours ahead of Redmond - and Kiwis (2 more hours ahead of us) get their first crack at Halo 2 tonight. Expectations aren't so much high...

Usability strides in ISA 2004 aside, ISA Server is a powerful product that's still quite easy to misconfigure. With great flexibility comes great potential complexity... Most of the time, there's a straightforward explanation for unintended results...

Forget circles . Forget copper . I mean, sure, I get that I'm not supposed to use or pick up copper, but glass just completely freaks me out. I'm more scared of glass than I am of spiders. And I'm really scared of spiders, so scared I couldn't even use...

Private IP addresses are defined in RFC 1918 (a very readable RFC, for my money, and quite short to boot). The RFC defines three ranges: 10.0.0.0 -> 10.255.255.255 (10.0.0.0/8 - an A class network in oldspeak) 172.16.0.0 -> 172.31.255.255 (172.16...

It's old news, but I thought I might as well get the conversation started, after John emailed me asking about getting ISA working with Xbox Live. I need to state up front that last time I heard anything about anything, Xbox Live wasn't officially supported...

Update : Also works for ISA 2006 and TMG. There were a couple of newsgroup questions on ISA 2004 authentication that prompted me to go digging through the SDK. Edit: A little more background so this makes more sense: When an HTTP request is submitted...

(following on from the last post)... I was too wired. Instead, I hit the ISA newsgroups again, and picked up a couple of fascinating questions. A couple of people had VPN problems with ISA 2004, but it turns out that the problems are different (and not...

NB I'm on cold & flu medication, so please forgive me if I'm a tad scattered, or even weirder than usual. I was having fevered semi-dreams of something to do with a wireless access point, and somehow, every time I swallowed, the clients disconnected...

Inaugurated in October 2004, the EBTDF Ninja Feature award marks a truly kickass (can I say kickass on MSDN ?) feature. Each EBTDF Ninja Award recipient is listed below in the Hall of Fame. The EBTDF Ninja Feature Hall Of Fame Small...

( Wild divergence warning - skip to Back To The Topic At Hand if you don't want to read about my childhood) I sometimes raid my collection of 200+ game CDs (yes, all purchased legally) to dig out some of the old DOS games I grew up with. It often happens...

I just went out and saw Collateral . I really enjoyed the movie, and found myself wondering if Scoble had seen it, while watching the scenes where Vincent was working on a Tablet PC. I was trying to come up with a positive marketing message from it. ...

Remote Web Workplace is (in my humble opinion) The Ninja Feature of SBS2003. In fact, it gets the inaugural EBTDF Ninja Feature award for being so cool. Thanks to Susan Bradley for putting me on to it . Let me say right now - if you're using...

I fairly frequently need to use an image editing application for random minor acts of vandalism (see links at left for examples), or just formatting and saving blog images. I've had Paint.Net 1.1 RC1 installed for a while, but hadn't remembered to try...

Something I ran across before work: With ISA 2004, the FTP filter is a slightly different beast from ISA 2000. In ISA 2000, the FTP Application Filter added two distinct protocol definitons: FTP, and FTP Download Only. You could assign permissions...

My parents' Celeron 800 was getting a little long in the tooth, so I figured I'd upgrade their PC as a "welcome home" present. I got them a new AMD Sempron 2400+, 512MB DDR RAM I had left over from my last upgrade, a new Gigabyte motherboard, and a Radeon...

(It's clickable) I don't know when it happened, but I'm glad it did! Xbox Live Alerts are now enabled for the Aussie Live crowd. Might have to try it out later, when my homies get back. Now all we need is that Messenger tab that shows you when all your...

Just spotted that ISAServer.org have a new article on RADIUS authentication for Web Publishing rules from their RSS feed : Using ISA Server 2004 RADIUS Authentication in Web Publishing Rules (Part 1) http://www.ISAserver.org/tutorials/ISA2004-RADIUS-Authentication...

Go check it out - http://arstechnica.com/ ! I stumbled on the new look while surfing from their RSS feed , and thought I'd ended up at the wrong site! I was only recently looking for a way to customize the Ars look to something less white-on-black (and...

The usual disclaimers about third-party software apply here; we make no warranty, expressed or implied, about anything to do with anything, ever. Cautionary Admonition: ISA is a serious network security product. Never use it for fun things like this....

Question : I'm trying to get Apple Remote Desktop to function through ISA Server. The standard definition of udp 3283 send/receive does not work. Any ideas? Answer : Assuming Apple Remote Desktop needs only the one port (based on this article it seems...

The events herein took place a couple of months ago. My rage has subsided into a background hum of frustration. Only now can I write about the experience. My parents' ISP uses some wonderful spam software that they won't describe to anyone. (Repeated...

In my earlier post on Xbox 2 rumours , I mentioned that I'd like a DVI adapter for the Xbox 2. (I wasn't able to find one for Xbox 1 yet, either) But I have a problem now with my Xbox 1, which is that since I picked up an Apple Cinema Display , I can...

Right up front: I'm not on the Xbox team. I have no direct connection with the Xbox team. If you imagined the distance from Sydney to Redmond, and then doubled it, that's still less far away from the People Who Know than I am. So, this is purely from...

For no real reason, I decided my old design was a bit pants, and started out on my second Annual Blog Facelift , the former of which was all the way back in June. While I'm usually the poster child proving that people with basic coding skills shouldn...