For the last few days I have been trying to put together a post revolving around a magazine I’ve kept since 1991. The article is called “The Future of the PC” in Fortune Magazine from August 26, 1991. The article tries to sum up the first ten years of the PC (born 1981) [...]
I was researching an article recently and came across this gem. The bit I was searching for was an old IBM/Apple partnership. The outcome was unexpected.
I asked Gates what trend or development had occurred in the technology sector in the past 20 years that really caught him by surprise. His deadpan response: “Kaleida and Taligent [...]
Did you know that typeface with Terminal Services is usually downgraded from the usual local experience? Microsoft has the ClearType technology which normally improves the look of text by rounding the edges with different colors giving the characters more rounded effect.
Computer displays in which the positions of individual pixels are permanently fixed by the design [...]
It is a little known fact that there will be an Australian version of the Application Delivery Conference. Citrix employees in Australia/New Zealand have been asked to spread the word.
The official dates are May 27 for Sydney and June 3 for Melbourne.
The App Delivery Conference is a full day event being held in two locations [...]
Gus Pinto has announced that he is now going to work for Citrix. He and Rich Crusco from Frameworkx.com will officially start work with Citrix next week. Gus and Rich are Microsoft MVPs and Gus is also a Citrix CTP. They have ambitious plans to revamp the Citrix community. I talked with Gus last week [...]
When I first heard about the XenSource acquisition, I instantly thought it was spelled with a ‘Z’ instead of an ‘X’. The names are pronounced exactly the same.
I found an interesting XenSource presentation tonight. It is from a couple of years ago but the points are still strong and valid.
I was just dying to have [...]
Last year at the Citrix Solutions Conference in Europe, Brad Pedersen gave a presentation about “The User Experience“. If look at the slides, you will notice that the first several slides cover early Citrix product history. From experience, this kind of background is fairly rare and obviously important to people like Brad since [...]
Back in July 2006, Brian Madden made a number of recommendations to Citrix about how to make things better. One of the key recommendations was to allow employees to start blogging. Before this, Citrix effectively banned employees from blogging. Even though several people were interested, Citrix had a policy against it.
Brian summarized why it was [...]
Acronyms can sometimes be quite confusing. Even though I have been doing this for years and years, I always am surprised to find something new. Tonight I was looking for information on Citrix VideoFrame and found something else. Citrix has a web page for “Legacy Product Matrix Table“. This looks to [...]
When a Citrix ICA client connects to a Citrix Presentation Server, it either uses TCP/IP port 2598 or port 1494. Port 2598 is used with session reliability and internally it uses SSL with the Citrix CGP protocol. The communication over port 2598 is like a private network link for a small selection of information related [...]
