April 2005 - Posts

ISA 2004: CARP Exclusions (and a tip for 2000)
29 April 05 05:10 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

In ISA 2004 Enterprise Edition, one of the new features that was added based on user feedback was the ability to exclude certain sites from the CARP treatment. I've expounded CARP's virtues before in CARP and NLB . The problem with CARP - or more specifically, Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

x64: Windows XP x64 Edition Upgrade Offer
28 April 05 08:49 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

aka Double Your Bits For Free! That's right - if you bought a Win32 version of XP and you're ready to move to x64 on your AMD64 or Intel EM64T-based system, Microsoft are running an exchange program that lets you swap over . It's still early days for Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, x64 Early Adoption

Hitchhiker's Guide Movie: Four Stars
28 April 05 06:00 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   

As a fan of the trilogy-o-five and a bunch of Douglas Adams' other work, I was quietly skeptical about how good the Guide movie was likely to be. Douglas is gone - weirdly, a loss that still affects me personally, as if he'd been a lifelong friend - but Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

A Physics Accelerator?
23 April 05 03:44 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Idle speculation. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games

Learn VPN and Quarantine with Uncle Michael™
21 April 05 01:57 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Michael Kleef posts a short series of how-to Blogcasts on Quarantine. And Tristan links to them. And some tools. Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

Mental Note
20 April 05 07:47 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Next time, run the setup on a fast machine, then port the Additions-installed VHD over. Duh. There's a reason the screenshot is one of setup ! It's been running since about 8pm tonight (it's 10:30pm now, and it's been 13 minutes to completion for about Read More...

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My Email Solution for 0-2 users
20 April 05 07:25 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

From before - I decided that My Real Problem with Outlook having a single delivery location is the speed of that location vs the accessibility. A local PST is relatively quick, but it's inaccessible except via Remote Desktop (not terrible, but not Webby). Read More...

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Frustrated with Outlook
19 April 05 09:05 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

Rambling, and an Outlook wishlist of sorts. Read More...

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.Net 2.0 Beta 2 Install - It's not over 'til it's over
19 April 05 02:51 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

MSCORSVW chewing CPU for a few minutes after .Net 2.0 install... Read More...

Filed under: Developery, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, x64 Early Adoption

x64 Compatibility
13 April 05 06:57 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

The theme for this week is compatibility, brought to you by the letters W and O, and the number 64. In the PlanetAMD64 forums and on their Wiki , we've been thrashing out some terms for games that run or don't run under Windows x64 editions. My favourites Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, x64 Early Adoption

Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil under x64
09 April 05 01:52 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   

This doesn't work, as the MSI is coded to only allow "pure" Windows 2000 or XP installations. Faux XP-From-Windows-Server doesn't seem to cut it :) As I was researching the problem, I noticed that PlanetAMD64 have set up a new Wiki , so I thought it'd Read More...

Filed under: Games, x64 Early Adoption

Ooh, MSN Messenger 7.0 is out
07 April 05 08:54 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

Noticed on ActiveWin that MSN Messenger 7.0 is out now. IMO, the coolest feature is the MSN Spaces integration. I could live without Winks, and Nudges are politely but firmly disabled, but the Spaces-driven contact cards and gleams are a great feature. Read More...

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

x64: It's Lonely Out Here (But I Feel Powerful)
07 April 05 08:24 AM | tristank | 5 Comments   

No TV. Latest casualty: DVICO FusionHD DVB-T card. No XP64 drivers now (and not for a while , at least). So I'm taking it out and lending it to a friend indefinitely. I built a (32 bit) Media Center PC the other week, so it's not a total loss, I can still Read More...

Filed under: x64 Early Adoption

ISA 2004 SP1 and Windows Server 2003 SP1 (install in that order)
05 April 05 01:04 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   

Just a quick note - if you're planning on upgrading Windows Server 2003 to Service Pack 1, and you have ISA 2004 Standard Edition already installed, you should install ISA 2004 SE Service Pack 1 first - it copes with a few of the changes in WS2003SP1 Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server, Networking

x64 Gaming
04 April 05 03:35 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

Since my upgrade to XP x64, I've been looking for patches so that my favourite titles can benefit from the extra-spicy new registers, and other cunning tricks. So far, I've found I have one game that can actually do x64 - Chronicles of Riddick. Which Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games, x64 Early Adoption