Blog du Tristank
Migrating to https://blog.tristank.com/ . And still so terrific that 3 of 4 readers rated it "soporific"
Search Box Shortcuts Exist!
Dugie clued me up on the .lnk technique, which looks pretty cool, but I wondered if there was an...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/08/2006
End of FY06 Blog Post
The Financial Year might not have quite wrapped up just yet, but it looks like June's going to be...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/07/2006
Playing with Search Providers
As I spend seriously scary amounts of my life searching Microsoft.com and related properties, I...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/07/2006
Test post
I lost a long one trying to post last night... just checking...
Author: Tristan K Date: 06/03/2006
PAE and VMM... For Parky
Well Parky, you asked, so I'm going to try to answer! The way I think about PAE is that it kinda...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/26/2006
IE7 Beta 2 and Flickering Redrawing Desktop Stuff
Beta 2's been absolutely stunning for me, but suddenly today my desktop icons were going nuts (er,...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/25/2006
ISA Server Coding Corner
The ISA Server Coding Corner (so corner-y, I didn't know it was there)... Light on editorial, heavy...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/17/2006
Aussies: Mothers' Day is this Sunday!
Quick reminder that it's The Day Of The Mother for Australians this Sunday the 14th May. If you...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/09/2006
Signatures You Won't See In Customer-Facing Emails
Dagnabbit, there's just no room for humour when it comes to email signatures when you send stuff to...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/08/2006
3 Simple Rules to Kerberos Authentication/Delegation SPNs
aka: "Kerbie Goes Bananas " Before starting, go get the updated SetSPN if you're using Windows 2000...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/08/2006
Good with LCS, LiveMeeting, Office Communicator? Want Gainful Employment?*
We're hiring a TS for Unified Messaging in Melbourne - this popped up in the inbox: Technical...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/08/2006
Changing the Default Browser (back to IE!?)
I've been using Maxthon for a long time (after switching from Avant shortly after this post). I've...
Author: Tristan K Date: 05/04/2006
(Unwelcome) Realism in Games
Tycho (linked page contains harsh language) expands on something I've been unhappy about for years -...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/20/2006
Pfft, who needs CAPTCHA? We've got CATTCHA, you know.
I was just IM'd this - yes, human proof by kitten. Simple and brilliant, but might be susceptible to...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/10/2006
In The Company Of Heroes
My job supports my gaming habit. I got into the IT industry by playing games, and it's looking...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/07/2006
SyncToy 1.2 Out Now
Synctoy is an excellent Windows XP Powertoy that has loads of interesting synchronization modes. It...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/05/2006
Stupid Fixed-Width Blogs
There have been a couple of pleas on one of the blog discussion aliases internally about images that...
Author: Tristan K Date: 04/05/2006
Daylight Saving Time - Still On This Week
Note #1: This post links to discussion boards that use colourful language. If you don't like that...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/26/2006
Xbox 360 Night for the Aussie Contingent
Yes, after four months of waiting, the Xbox 360 is finally going to be available. (And there was...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/22/2006
It's an Origami for mi
Currently on couch, but perched in front of laptop. Tried blogging via Community Server from...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/10/2006
CoComment, eh? Phwoooaaaar, eh? Phwoooooaaaaaar, eh? Eh eh? Eh? (wink)
Right. Been busy. Forced myself to take 1/2 hour to do something other than type, whether it was...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/08/2006
Blog Chipolatas
So much to do, so little time. Moving RSS out of Outlook and into RssBandit means I spend less time...
Author: Tristan K Date: 03/03/2006
My PR is 4. What's Yours?
Let down mainly by my cheap (but serviceable for games) video card, I rate a 4 in the Windows Vista...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/25/2006
Windows Vista Feb CTP (5308) Nvidia Driver Update (fixes judderbug)
The new Forceware 87.15 release is available now from Nvidia, fixing 5308's rather annoying...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/24/2006
Perfwiz (!)
Yet another one minute blog post. That took four. Perfwiz is a tool that configures Perfmon...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/15/2006
Windows Defender Beta 2
(The Product Formerly Known As Windows Antispyware)...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/14/2006
ISA 2006 Beta now on the Web!
I have a juicy little VM waiting for this: https://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/2006/default.mspx So,...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/09/2006
Quickie: The ISA Team is Blogging!
Yes, the folks behind ISA Server have their own blog now. And have done for a month. Go subscribe!...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/07/2006
ISA 2004 SP2 Out Now
ISA Server 2004 Service Pack 2 is the latest collection of updates, fixes and enhancements to ISA...
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/01/2006
IE7 Preview 2: Out There Now
For the advanced users amongst us (and those that don't mind quirky software). Get it from here....
Author: Tristan K Date: 02/01/2006
The Client Certificate Problem
Holiday Question #2, from Mathieu: In Belgium we have a electronic identity card (eid) it contains a...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/13/2006
ISA 2004: Hosting a Joint Operations Server
Back from the beach now, and starting to wade through the email morass via OWA (1000s of messages......
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/11/2006
Token Post por Janvier
Dear Mater, I'm still at the beach. STOP. After a week of oppressive sunshine, sometimes over forty...
Author: Tristan K Date: 01/09/2006
At The Beach
I'll be without connectivity on and off for a while, so stone tablet production at this location is...
Author: Tristan K Date: 12/21/2005
ISA Server and RADIUS: Two Domains And No Trust, But This Time ISA's A Member Of One
Following on from yesterday's post where the ISA Server wasn't a member of either domain, this time...
Author: Tristan K Date: 12/15/2005
Dare Obasanjo: MetaWeblog API Now on MSN Spaces
From Dare: MSN or Windows Live Spaces is now postable from blogging tools, cunningly using the...
Author: Tristan K Date: 12/12/2005
ISABPA: The ISA Server Best Practices Analyzer
The ISA Server team released the ISA Server 2004 Best Practices Analyzer! There's an exclamation...
Author: Tristan K Date: 12/12/2005
Vocab Corner: Bing
Another wonderful word suggestion to add to your custom.dic, from the mind that brought you...
Author: Tristan K Date: 12/06/2005