November 2004 - Posts
Thanks to Eric TF Bat who dropped me a comment: There's an issue with this blog on standards-compliant browsers; the right-hand navbar seems to be making the central text area go haywire. Check it out in Firefox to see the effect. It's probably a side-effect
Read More...
HP claimed the first victim of the holidays - a teary mother. I'd given her an HP PSC 1315 as an early Christmas present, and it's really, really good so far. With one fairly significant blow: it doesn't like printing Avery labels properly. Mum likes
Read More...
Somewhat controversially, I don't think it's the best game ever . It's good, but it's not all that , girlfriend. I was playing through it wondering if there was something I was missing that all the other reviewers knew. It's a good first person shooter
Read More...
I was having an argument with a friend from elsewhere in the Aussie support organization about ISA's (new in 2004) network templates and their default routing layouts. I like arguments - I learn a good 57.3% of what I know from (friendly) arguments with
Read More...
First, my sincerest thanks to the jerk currently at 221.219.2.87 for comment spamming me; moderation's enabled for the time being. Hope we can get a nice CAPTCHA thingy implemented here soon. While it might *look* to the casual observer like Halo 2 came
Read More...
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,
Read More...
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
Read More...
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, it's
Read More...
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
Read More...
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 (172.16.0.0/12)
Read More...
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
Read More...
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 by a client (also called a "user agent", because
Read More...
