July 2007 - Posts

Netmon vs Chimney
23 July 07 02:22 PM | tristank | 1 Comments   

I recently encountered TCP Chimney for the first time in the wild. Short version: Chimney is an offload technology that allows the NIC to deal with up to X TCP connections, with any overflow being handled by Windows. All good: get the NIC dealing with Read More...

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

Fear The Hand Of Non-Selection
22 July 07 05:30 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

One of those "remember it for when you need it" posts: On Tiny, I've been unable to select text in the Outlook preview pane for about a month. When I tried to select things, I'd get a not-quite-looking-like-the-web-hand hand instead of a selection bar, Read More...

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

Generating a memory dump when a particular event log occurs
18 July 07 04:18 PM | tristank | 0 Comments   

Building from Paul Long's post on stopping a Netmon3 capture on a particular event , we're going to re-jig it so that we can run ADPLUS soon after a particular event is logged. This won't produce a dump at the exact moment of the event log (which more Read More...

Filed under: Developery, IT Pro / Sysadmin, IIS