Triggered by http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/06/15.html#a7770 . I normally don’t comment on Scoble’s posts – I just sponge from them – but this one really struck a chord, and it’s about time for a personal-ish blog (My content-to-personality quota feels about right). Try as I might, I just couldn’t stick to a topic, so it’s an autobiographical rambler. Sorry. Darren… Read more
If you’re someone that uses the pay-per-incident Professional Support in Australia (13 16 30), then you may be interested in Professional Support Advantage, a new support offering that we’re piloting at the moment, accepting signups until mid-October. What’s the Advantage? Once your PSA contract is set up, you can log support calls 24×7, and billing… Read more
…It’s just that it’s of no use to anyone outside the cluster – and I can’t think of a way of making anything useful happen using a crossover cable within an NLB cluster, so if anyone’s got a good usage scenario for Wibbles with a crossover cable, please leave a comment! In the course of a support issue… Read more
Various aspects of TS Licensing are often misunderstood, so I set myself the goal of explaining it relatively clearly in under 90 words. I cheated by using a picture, which is reputedly worth a thousand words, though I think that mainly applies to people with, what’s the word, skill. Words From The Picture Retyped: Clients… Read more
I admit it (as if it wasn’t already obvious) – I dropped out of Graphic Design at Uni. The sad truth is that I’m a much better design critic than creator. /me shrugs, I’m from the Scoble school of blog design – it’s all about the content! Still, a friend of mine (who might… Read more
More on Network Load Balancing… If you’re setting up a garden-variety NLB (WLBS / “Wibbles“) cluster, there are a couple of things that will possibly make life easier: For multi-NIC configurations where one adapter is for incoming cluster traffic and the other is for back-end stuff (say, Terminal Services/Website with a database connection or similar): configure the… Read more
So I decided one day that my rudimentary knowledge of C++ isn’t really up to par (after several half-hearted book purchases and first-three-chapter reads, as is my M.O.), and that I should really spend some time improving my skills. I’m fairly fluent in (safe) C# and VB.Net, and I’ve a reasonable background in VBScript and… Read more
There’s no real trick to it, apart from the good old Web Publishing authentication part. Short version: Treat the published website exactly as you would a real web server, don’t try to treat it like a proxy (submitting proxy authentication credentials is not the right way to authenticate when you’re outside). Longer but not exhaustive version:… Read more
ISA 2000 Service Pack 2 is available now, start testing your upgrades today! The readme file is linked from the above URL…. Read more
My token occasional “not actually related to my job” post, just typing to get my ideas down. I’m not employed as a programmer or PM, so expect questions, not policy statements! I’ve put together a couple of RSS aggregator test apps in the past year or so, mainly to muck around with XML programming with .Net. I… Read more