June 2004 - Posts

ISA 2000: Handling Apps That Don't Like Proxy Authentication
25 June 04 03:55 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   
Quite often, we're faced with a situation where an application has its own Web Proxy client mechanism, and that mechanism has various issues, like: It doesn't support NTLM authentication, and only NTLM is enabled on the ISA Server It doesn't support more Read More...
An MSN Messenger Update...
25 June 04 12:59 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
Which thoughtfully reset my painstakingly reconfigured emotional-blackmail-free Messenger sound scheme. Still, at least I've a simple solution these days. I upgraded while Novaworld (appeared to be/was) down for the last few minutes, while waiting to Read More...
ISA 2000: Script for Bigpond Cable Heartbeat
21 June 04 10:36 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   
If you're not on the Australian Telstra Bigpond Cable network, you don't need this. Update: Since 2007 (or maybe before; I lost track), Bigpond moved away from their heartbeat, instead using cable modem authentication. So, no need for this any more. W00p! Read More...
More Fiddling: Emotion-Free (quiet!) MSN Messenger Sound Scheme
19 June 04 09:34 PM | tristank | 4 Comments   
After migrating to a new user profile (easiest way to make a clean start and work out what I actually need on my desktop), I remembered one of my pet annoyances: MSN Messenger (and/or Windows Messenger) sounds like an ice cream van when it's installed. Read More...
Pointless Fiddling: XML Deserialization vs DataSets
19 June 04 12:25 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
I was tinkering with one of my pet .Net 1.1 applications this evening (" They're my friends. I make them. I make my friends! ") - I figured I'd try to get the hang of XML Serialization by trying to deserialize a SQL Reporting Services report. The reports Read More...
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IRL: I was an Angry Young Man, once...
16 June 04 03:30 AM | tristank | 5 Comments   
Triggered by http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/06/15.html#a7770 . I normally don't comment on Scoble's posts - I just sponge from them - but this one really struck a chord, and it's about time for a personal-ish blog (My content-to-personality quota Read More...
New Australian Support Offering: Professional Support Advantage
13 June 04 07:54 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
If you're someone that uses the pay-per-incident Professional Support in Australia (13 16 30), then you may be interested in Professional Support Advantage, a new support offering that we're piloting at the moment, accepting signups until mid-October. Read More...
NLB Will Actually Converge On A Crossover Cable
11 June 04 04:23 PM | tristank | 4 Comments   
...It's just that it's of no use to anyone outside the cluster - and I can't think of a way of making anything useful happen using a crossover cable within an NLB cluster, so if anyone's got a good usage scenario for Wibbles with a crossover cable, please Read More...
TS Licensing in 90 Words Or Less
10 June 04 05:50 PM | tristank | 4 Comments   
Various aspects of TS Licensing are often misunderstood, so I set myself the goal of explaining it relatively clearly in under 90 words. I cheated by using a picture, which is reputedly worth a thousand words, though I think that mainly applies to people Read More...
Blog Facelift: The Joy Of Filters (aka Getting IE Filters to Work)
09 June 04 02:26 PM | tristank | 10 Comments   
I admit it (as if it wasn't already obvious) - I dropped out of Graphic Design at Uni. The sad truth is that I'm a much better design critic than creator. /me shrugs, I'm from the Scoble school of blog design - it's all about the content! Still, a friend Read More...
NLB: The Importance Of Interface Metrics
08 June 04 09:07 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   
More on Network Load Balancing... If you're setting up a garden-variety NLB (WLBS / " Wibbles ") cluster, there are a couple of things that will possibly make life easier: For multi-NIC configurations where one adapter is for incoming cluster traffic Read More...
C#: The Good Life
08 June 04 12:50 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   
So I decided one day that my rudimentary knowledge of C++ isn't really up to par (after several half-hearted book purchases and first-three-chapter reads, as is my M.O.), and that I should really spend some time improving my skills. I'm fairly fluent Read More...

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