Archive for July, 2007

The Personal Divide

July 27, 2007

I’ve done it.  I have decided to split out the personal posts off of this blog.  In other words, only expect Citrix related posts on this blog in the future.
For those of you that want to keep posted of my non-Citrix related posts, please tune to my blog on WordPress.
I heard the idea through the [...]

MAPPORT - Simple alternative to NET USE for Citrix COM and LPT Ports

July 14, 2007

I posted this internally first but have realized that it has value outside Citrix as well.
Surprise. Citrix could support more than COM9 for its COM port redirection.
Currently Citrix recommends using NET USE to map COM ports. The problem is that NET USE has a feature (bug?) that only allows up to COM9. [...]

Do Not Ask, Just Observe

July 6, 2007

Recently I attended a very compelling lecture by Michael Schrage in Sydney.  Michael has a very diverse experience within the world of computing but perhaps the most interesting (for me) is his observations about innovation.
He said something very important for me that has helped to clear up something that has baffled me for some time.  [...]

PowerPoint Abuse

July 5, 2007

Years and years ago at university, I was an engineering student taking classes I was not completely comfortable with. I did not mind the math, science, and engineering classes but had difficulty with ones classified as humanities or language. This really is not news to most engineering types. There seems to be [...]