January 2005 - Posts

About The Colour
27 January 05 12:35 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

I'll freely admit that I've never been particularly gifted at website design (though I'm an excellent critic), and since changing the background colour from a subtle pink to a raging gold, well, there have been... complaints. Well, one complainant, anyway, Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Some ISA 2004 Custom Protocol Definitions at Arkane Systems
27 January 05 12:27 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

I just spotted the Arkane Systems blog , where they have been posting some of the protocol definitions they find useful for ISA 2004 - a VMRC (Virtual Machine Remote Control, used by Virtual Server) definition was just added . One of the cool things about Read More...

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PasteOff 0.8
25 January 05 02:09 PM | tristank | 8 Comments   

Mainly UI fixes in this PasteOff update, so your settings should be preserved if upgrading. Read More...

Filed under: Developery, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Games Moving to Online Distribution?
24 January 05 12:33 AM | tristank | 5 Comments   

Change is in the wind. As far as I know, when Valve released Half-Life 2 via Steam , they became the first developer/publisher to offer a top-tier AAA title using online distribution, right from the release date. Hopefully, this will become the first Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games

Apple Cinema Display Saga: I Upgraded And Text Mode Now Works
20 January 05 09:29 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

Since August, I've had to use a second monitor to view full-screen Text-mode (like the BIOS and DOS apps, or Text-mode setup for that matter). This year, I was once again faced with the problem of my favourite online retailers closing over the Christmas Read More...

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My MSN does RSS
18 January 05 06:57 PM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

Looks like it's here now - Mike mentioned this was coming last week. I'm still checking it out , but it looks pretty cool so far. MSN's instructions for adding the clicky things ("Buttons, Tristank, they're called buttons") and on syndication with RSS Read More...

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It's ISA Webcast Week
18 January 05 11:46 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   

I barely need to mention this, but in case you missed it, ISA Webcast Week has started. I'm in the category "timezone challenged" (Australian Eastern), so I'll probably wait for the on-demand versions, but if you're up and vaguely coherent at the times Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, ISA Server, Networking

Disassembling my Notebook Optical Mouse
18 January 05 11:00 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

I converted to the Notebook Optical Mouse as a desktop mouse about eighteen months ago, and haven't looked back. I find that using a heavier mouse is now actively challenging for me - I find the larger type sluggish and unresponsive. The added battery Read More...

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Get Involved with the ISA Server Community! (and win stuff!)
13 January 05 11:07 AM | tristank | (Comments Off)   

ISAServer.org is (IMHO) the premier ISA Server community site, and they're running a competition in which you could win a signed copy of Tom and Deb Shinder's new book, Configuring ISA Server 2004 . There's a variety of ways in which you can enter (one Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, ISA Server, Networking

ISA 2004 vs HTTP Compression
12 January 05 06:30 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   

Been a while since a dedicated ISA post, so Happy New Year to my ISA-focused readers! I spotted this post in my ISA Server watch list, from the new Port 80 Software blog. As they mentioned, we've published the mother of all KB articles on how the HTTP Read More...

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ISA 2004 SDK now on the Web
12 January 05 06:29 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Last time I looked for the ISA Server 2004 SDK (late last year), it was only available as an HTML Help (CHM) file. While researching the next post, I noticed that the ISA 2004 SDK is now available on MSDN online, and web searchable. Enjoy! [Update:] The Read More...

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LCS 2005 Resource Kit Out Now
11 January 05 10:01 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   

We just released the Live Communications Server 2005 Resource Kit to Microsoft.com. It's available now from the Microsoft Download Center . If you're using LCS2005 (and in some cases LCS2003, I'm told), it's worth checking out. This release of the Microsoft Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Networking

Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware Beta 1
08 January 05 10:38 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Just in case you haven't heard it a billion times already (if you have - sorry, but I think this is worth covering again) - we just released the first beta of our upcoming Anti-Spyware product. The interface is pleasant enough, and it caught a bunch of Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, ISA Server