July 2005 - Posts

No Scanner and Camera Wizard? (And a little on Remote Assistance under x64)
30 July 05 01:41 PM | tristank | 3 Comments   

Tristank has an adventure with three mice and two relatives. Read More...

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

Aussie IT Pro Blogger OPML
26 July 05 05:40 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Aussie IT Bloggers Wanted For OPML Experiments. Low Pay, Good Conditions. Read More...

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

Susan: Two NICs. And Live Logging is Win!
24 July 05 06:08 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

I was really trying to work an Animal Farm joke in here, but I can't make it work. Susan brings up a couple of really good points (IMNSHO) - first, I'll tackle the NIC question: I always tend to come back to the two (plus)-NIC variant for any given ISA Read More...

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

On Vista
23 July 05 06:17 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Tristank is vaguely relieved it's not named after a popular Australian Mitsubishi 4WD. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Some Useful ISA Tools
22 July 05 05:42 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Susan 's really firing on all cylinders at the moment (I heartily recommend subscribing to her blog even if you're not an SBS'er, as she covers pretty much everything), and posted about a bunch of useful "big land" ISA tools , including the long-awaited Read More...

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

Stuff May Not Work This Week
22 July 05 12:52 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

My ISP is migrating servers this week; various bits of stuff may not work for a while. Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Longhorn Beta 1: Sweet!
22 July 05 12:01 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

As Beta 1 draws ever closer, it looks like excitement's building... Check this out . Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Technet Briefing Podcasts!
21 July 05 12:15 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Caught via Mick's blog . http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/events/briefings/default.mspx There are RSS feeds for both WMA and MP3 format recordings. I'll try 'em out on my Zen later on. Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin

Calling all Aussie IT Pro Bloggers
20 July 05 04:50 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

TristanK realizes that he can just ask where the Aussie IT Pro bloggers are, and they might actually tell him... Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Aussie

Tech.Ed 2005 AU: Win a T-Shirt!
20 July 05 02:26 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Handy with the Photoshop or the Paint Shop Pro? (or even the Paint .Net, Illustrator, Acrylic, DeluxePaint II, the GIMP, etc)? Make some cool flair for Tech.Ed 2005, and you can win a T-Shirt! Details at the link below: Yep, that's pretty much the go. Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Aussie

Tech.Ed 2005 AU: Sessions du Chuck
19 July 05 01:12 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Chuck posted the Tech.Ed 2005 session list, so you can start pencilling in your plans now. http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2005/07/11/437508.aspx Read More...

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

Terminal Server / Remote Desktop DoS Issue
19 July 05 11:26 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Via TonySo : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/904797.mspx Our initial investigation has revealed that a denial of service vulnerability exists that could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) request Read More...

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

Custom Password Filters
19 July 05 12:30 AM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Back from holiday now, and almost over the jetlag. Almost. A question came up today about Password Filter DLLs , and the documentation always seems to be hard to find, so I've popped up a quick summary of everything I know here. Back In The Day of NT4, Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin, Networking

My Holiday In Games
12 July 05 07:19 AM | tristank | 3 Comments   

I picked up GTA: San Andreas before leaving Sydney, despite the system requirements being above the specs of the Latitude D600 (only 32MB video, and I've been forcibly coaxing newer Radeon drivers on for a while). Other than being unable to get into the Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games