Archive for May, 2007

The Citrix Clipboard (Part II)

May 30, 2007

Last time I talked about the clipboard in connection with how it works with Citrix.  This time I am going to dive more into how certain aspects work and actually reveal a problem with how the clipboard virtual channel driver handles registered formats.
There are several types of clipboard data available.  The types basically fall into [...]

The Citrix Clipboard (Part I)

May 27, 2007

The Clipboard feature within CPS has existed in the earliest WinFrame going back to 1995.  I remember Marc Bloomfield working on this from even before this time.  It was one of the first virtual channel features that was new to WinFrame.  Many of the virtual channels were direct descendants of WinView.  I still remember seeing [...]

One String, One Path

May 13, 2007

Scientists say that many different realities exist. It is impossible to prove this however. If one path is chosen, how is it known another path concurrently exists? How can a length of string know about other strings?
Only from a view above many strings could one string see. This, of course, does [...]

Origins of Published Applications

May 6, 2007

Back in 1996, not long after our first release of WinFrame, Citrix received some feedback that there was a need for more security.  Specifically, it was considered dangerous to specify any executable from the client side to be run on the server.  It was not hard to see that if an administrator left open a [...]

Gotta Love That Openness

May 2, 2007

I have talked about mVisible before since it employees many people that have previously worked at Citrix.  Many of these people are old timers from the era of when I worked for Citrix in America.
I have been following Myk Willis’ blog over the last few months.  Given that he is the founder of mVisible, he [...]