May 2005 - Posts

More on the Support Lifecycle: Windows 2000 and IE
31 May 05 11:22 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

TristanK on the Windows 2000 Support Lifecycle. Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin

Avalon Experimentation: Sparklines
27 May 05 10:38 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

Basic experimentation with Avalon, part 1. Read More...

Filed under: Developery, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Watch for Competition and Convergence In The Physics Space
25 May 05 07:55 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

More on Physics accelerators. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games

The Unending Quest For Drivers
24 May 05 01:51 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Tristan contemplates providing RSS feeds Where There Are None, so you can give up searching websites and just wait to be told about a new driver. Read More...

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

SBS 2003 SP1 is available now (with ISA 2004!)
20 May 05 01:29 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

...as noticed over on Susan's Blog , avec some sage advice. Looks like the weekend's going to be fun. Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, ISA Server

Working Late with Microsoft Office Communicator 2005
19 May 05 02:11 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Tristan Likes the new LCS2005 client. Read More...

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

MSN Toolbar and Windows Desktop Search, Final Release
17 May 05 09:05 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

It's all over the blogosphere already, so on the off-chance you haven't seen it yet, I'll link to the best wrap-up I've seen so far: Dare's . To skip the commentary and jump right in: http://toolbar.msn.com/ , and if you're into PDFs (and others), the Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, x64 Early Adoption

Speaking of Xboxen: Neon
17 May 05 03:01 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Jeff Minter's back with the Llamas and a lightsynth. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games

Maybe Rory was Right? Missing my Xbox again.
17 May 05 11:13 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

Rory suggested a gaming OS. Well, WinXP 32-bit looks like the dedicated Gaming OS for me. Read More...

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

Anand Looks at the Athlon64 X2
15 May 05 09:11 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

I cannot *wait* to get my hands on an Athlon64 X2 . Multicore is my bag, baby. The Gaming performance page is here , keep in mind that the vast majority of games are currently single-threaded, and won't benefit directly from having two CPUs. While there's Read More...

Filed under: x64 Early Adoption

ISA 2004: Netstat vs Fwengmon and Server Publishing
14 May 05 02:09 AM | tristank | 5 Comments   

TristanK investigates Fwengmon after too many coffees at dinner. Read More...

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

XBox 360 Announced
14 May 05 01:09 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Pretty good coverage on the Xbox 360 launch so far, especially the blurb from TeamXBox . I was particularly interested in the new baby being liquid cooled from their tech-focused article. Nice. The wireless controllers were mentioned as using the infrared Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games

Haushaltung: Shameless SEO
12 May 05 11:12 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

OK, so it's not *that* shameless, just a quick request - if you currently have a static link to the old EBTDF URL (blogs. msdn .com/tristank and variants) on your site, please could I ask you update it to the newer Blogs. Technet .Com/Tristank url? I Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Noodling with the VS2005 Class Diagram Thing
12 May 05 12:22 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Tristan now likes Class Diagrams. Read More...

Filed under: Developery, Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

NLB Inter Host Comm Support: New Feature in Windows Server 2003 SP1
11 May 05 01:18 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 adds a useful workaround for an old Wibbles caveat: when in Unicast mode, cluster members can't use their NLB'd interfaces to talk to each other. In Unicast mode, the NLB-bound interfaces for all nodes in a cluster share Read More...

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

Games on X64 Update
10 May 05 10:58 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

Oo-arr, tha sitchooayshun soiems loike it be gettin baettar, oit does. Read More...

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

Haushaltung. (also: Hey, Nvidia!)
09 May 05 10:36 PM | tristank | 6 Comments   

Comments being eaten. Plus, TristanK Wishes That Online Stores Were More Online. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Aussie

How To Run A Soccer Team Site?
07 May 05 11:08 PM | tristank | 8 Comments   

Tristan Wants A Hosted Group Solution For His Girlfriend's Soccer Team. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Blog Facelift Twelve
07 May 05 10:48 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

Fifteen? Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Aussies! Job! Here! Fun**!
06 May 05 08:37 PM | tristank | 5 Comments   

TristanK works for small morsels of food. You may negotiate a better package, with larger morsels of food. Read More...

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

Doctor Who and Dirk Gently
04 May 05 09:54 AM | tristank | 7 Comments   

Tristan discovers that Douglas Adams was reusing ideas for Dirk Gently, and might have to reread it now. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature