October 2006 - Posts

I'm going to flee, I am.
28 October 06 06:51 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

To the beach, once more. Since going on holiday a couple of hours ago, I've: - bought Civ 4 and Psychonauts from Steam (played the Psychonauts demo a while back, absolutely loved it, but didn't buy it for a reason I can't remember right now) (they're Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Games

ISA Server 2006 - URL Redirection Made Easy
26 October 06 06:50 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Dr Tom calls out an excellent method of bouncing users from an "entry" URL to the right one (his example is bouncing someone from mail.example.com to mail.example.com/exchange, but it should work for others too). http://blogs.isaserver.org/shinder/2006/09/12/clev.. Read More...

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

Netmon 3, Now With Added Blogging!*
24 October 06 07:08 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Though it might technically be possible, it's probably quite difficult ("quite" in the "very" sense) to blog from Netmon. Doesn't stop us rolling out the most significant new version in, oh, years, and the Netmon team have started a blog with tips and Read More...

Filed under: IT Pro / Sysadmin, Networking, x64 Early Adoption, Security

We Are To Afflict Nuisance / We Are Impairment Praying Carrots
24 October 06 02:17 AM | tristank | 0 Comments   

A beauty of a dialog over at the always-lolfworthy Daily WTF : We are to afflict nuisance which you east cause, but the program met an error. We would like, for a support more effective than you send the report/ratio of error we will correct the program Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Why I Don't Win Awards For Intelligence Very Often*
22 October 06 01:51 AM | tristank | 2 Comments   

a) I always get the whole "sneaking" thing wrong in Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Ah tristank, you are so clever! A pun on Intelligence!) b) I just spent about, oh, two-and-a-bit hours on and off today working out how to get Outlook to look at the IE7 Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature, Windows Vista

My Windows Vista MCE
13 October 06 04:26 PM | tristank | 2 Comments   

I've had a mission critical Media Centre PC set up in the living room for the last - oh - dunno. Since MCE 2005 came out. It's had various interim builds of Windows Vista running on it for various lengths that were abandoned for various reasons (and she Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature

Edgier*.
05 October 06 12:57 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

Alriiight, CS 2.1 rolls on in and I think I'd better break the cycle of work, Armadillo Run and limited sleep to clock up a single post for ROCKtober. In the voice of a commercial DJaaaaaay. The logo's off centre now, because it's edgier. If it loads Read More...

Filed under: Extra Bits Of A Personal Nature