July 2004 - Posts

Security Update MS04-025 for IE has been released
31 July 04 11:03 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
The details are in the bulletin MS04-025 . If you're an IT Pro and not already signed up for the Security Bulletin Notification Email service, or the RSS Feed if you'd prefer to use an aggregator. Read More...
Rob Hensing on Passphrases
29 July 04 02:47 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   
All I can say about Rob is that he's in the PSS Security team got a lot of security-related troubleshooting experience got some crazy theories about passwords an engaging and sincere speaker I had the privilege of meeting Rob on his recent trip to Australia, Read More...
Proposal: Namespace Operator Pronounciation - :: = "blup blup"
27 July 04 12:01 AM | tristank | 7 Comments   
So - does the Namespace operator have a specific phonetic pronounciation? Something onomatopeic? “Colon colon” suffers from having too many syllables. If there's no generally accepted practice, I submit that whenever “::” needs Read More...
XmlHttp, WinHttp, Cookie-based Auth and Too Much Coffee
23 July 04 03:11 PM | tristank | 4 Comments   
I had a couple of cups of coffee with dinner last night, and ended up perched in front of my PC, unable to sleep, and unable to solve a problem involving XMLHTTP and (as it turns out) cookies. As a long-time Bigpond Cable user at home, I was interested Read More...
I'd Really Like Better Messenger Integration with IE
23 July 04 01:03 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   
I've officially declared Friday to be Browser Fiddling day. Overnight, I tried out Slim Browser and Maxthon (MyIE2) - thanks to Brad C's comments, they both: allow middle-click-open-in-new-window-in-background have tabs that can be closed by double-clicking Read More...
More on How I Work (and Lookout's now available!)
22 July 04 08:48 PM | tristank | 8 Comments   
[Updated 23/07/04 with public Lookout download] A couple of people internally and externally asked about a couple of aspects of the array of software I use to do my job, so I thought I'd expand on it. As a Support Professional, my key tasks involve information Read More...
The Death Of Favourites (an Ode to OneNote)
20 July 04 02:12 AM | tristank | 6 Comments   
Finally, one of the banes of my existence is going away. No, "Favorites" aren't disappearing from Internet Explorer (er, not that I know of, anyway), but I just noticed that my browsing experience had been greatly streamlined. By using Favourites. Which Read More...
ISA 2004: RTM Now On Microsoft.com!
15 July 04 12:08 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
Yep, Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 information is now becoming available on Microsoft.com . ISA 2004 incorporates much of the feedback that the ISA community had about ISA 2000, and - so far for me at least - is just as reliable and ten Read More...
ISA 2000: Filter Proxy Logs with FIND
13 July 04 07:39 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
I'm often faced with the somewhat daunting task of wading through a 500MB log file to try to identify a problem with one user of a proxy server. I find the simplest way to even the odds a bit - using out-of-the-box tools - is to use the humble FIND command Read More...
Communities Blog Portal Now Open! With Keyword RSS Feeds!
10 July 04 12:16 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs/PortalHome.mspx Coolest feature: the ability to fashion a keyword/category query into an RSS feed across all Microsoft blogs. If you're only interested in certain things (and personalities be damned!), you can Read More...
First Impressions of Visual C# Express: Wow!
02 July 04 02:01 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   
I downloaded Visual C# 2005 Express (beta) and installed it yesterday, but didn't have much time to fiddle, until today. I've spent about 20 minutes with it so far. Before I get to the good, the ordinary: The “has it hung? What's wrong” part Read More...
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