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May 2005 - Posts

More on the Support Lifecycle: Windows 2000 and IE
TristanK on the Windows 2000 Support Lifecycle. Read More...
Avalon Experimentation: Sparklines
Basic experimentation with Avalon, part 1. Read More...
Watch for Competition and Convergence In The Physics Space
More on Physics accelerators. Read More...
The Unending Quest For Drivers
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...
SBS 2003 SP1 is available now (with ISA 2004!)
...as noticed over on Susan's Blog , avec some sage advice. Looks like the weekend's going to be fun. Read More...
Working Late with Microsoft Office Communicator 2005
Tristan Likes the new LCS2005 client. Read More...
MSN Toolbar and Windows Desktop Search, Final Release
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...
Speaking of Xboxen: Neon
Jeff Minter's back with the Llamas and a lightsynth. Read More...
Maybe Rory was Right? Missing my Xbox again.
Rory suggested a gaming OS. Well, WinXP 32-bit looks like the dedicated Gaming OS for me. Read More...
Anand Looks at the Athlon64 X2
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...
ISA 2004: Netstat vs Fwengmon and Server Publishing
TristanK investigates Fwengmon after too many coffees at dinner. Read More...
XBox 360 Announced
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...
Haushaltung: Shameless SEO
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...
Noodling with the VS2005 Class Diagram Thing
Tristan now likes Class Diagrams. Read More...
NLB Inter Host Comm Support: New Feature in Windows Server 2003 SP1
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...
Games on X64 Update
Oo-arr, tha sitchooayshun soiems loike it be gettin baettar, oit does. Read More...
Haushaltung. (also: Hey, Nvidia!)
Comments being eaten. Plus, TristanK Wishes That Online Stores Were More Online. Read More...
How To Run A Soccer Team Site?
Tristan Wants A Hosted Group Solution For His Girlfriend's Soccer Team. Read More...
Blog Facelift Twelve
Fifteen? Read More...
Aussies! Job! Here! Fun**!
TristanK works for small morsels of food. You may negotiate a better package, with larger morsels of food. Read More...
Doctor Who and Dirk Gently
Tristan discovers that Douglas Adams was reusing ideas for Dirk Gently, and might have to reread it now. Read More...
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