July 2006 - Posts

ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer v3 (ISABPA) Just Released...
26 July 06 08:57 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

The ISA team just released the latest version of the ISA BPA to the web - here's the list of enhancements from the mail announcing it internally. If you see bold in an odd place, that's my emphasis. The ISA Server Sustained Engineering team is excited Read More...

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

one-Line Iso-Ish-Date Format Thing For CMD
20 July 06 09:20 PM | tristank | 14 Comments   

I love CMD. I love batch files. I love FOR. I love being able to do things in one line, without resorting to VBScript or a custom EXE. Today's task: make a unique folder for each day of metabase collection. I figured that getting a folder-creation-capable Read More...

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

ASP.Net / .Net Framework 1.1 >4GB Memory Problem
19 July 06 12:34 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

Just a quick mention of the following article - it's not a virtual address space issue per se; this one's talking about problems when the amount of physical memory in the machine exceeds 2GB - particularly where greater than 4GB. 893360 FIX: Generation Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin

VPC is now Free!
15 July 06 02:34 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Late to the party as usual, but hey, that's alright! So all our virtualization solutions are now available at no cost. That's fantastic news for anyone that uses this stuff day-in, day-out and might have balked at the cost of acquisition previously and Read More...

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

Formula 1 Survey 2006
04 July 06 11:52 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Ah, if there's one thing that'll get me out of bed and onto the couch at 4:30 in the morning, it's Formula 1. 'course, that was before I had a Media Centre, but I still pretend I'm watching it live these days! Digression alert! Uh, there's another Formula Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature