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The Citrix Clipboard (Part I)

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...

Published Sep 11 2007 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,123 views, 0 comments

One String, One Path

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...

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The Citrix Clipboard (Part II)

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...

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Citrix Com Port Mapping (Part II) Just the Old Way

In the last post I just talked about the differences between old and new Com Port Mapping. This time I’m just going to focus on the old stuff. First of all, the old Com Port Mapping only supports COM1 and COM2. This is accomplished by giving each...

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Citrix COM Port Mapping (Part I) Old and New Ways

Some features in Citrix Presentation Server are mostly unknown to large groups of people. COM Port Mapping is perhaps more the back water of the more traditional features. The concept is that it is possible to use COM ports on the client from server applications...

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Citrix Com Port Mapping (Part III) The Misunderstanding

This is where I have to come clean and admit that I did not fully understand the model of how Presentation Server works related to Com Ports. It turns out that doing a NET USE against a client COM port will automatically attempt to use the new way. NET...

Published Sep 11 2007 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,188 views, 0 comments

Citrix Time Zone Support

One of the most confusing things ever invented is time zones. Well, they aren’t inherently confusing by themselves but when you start talking about different time zones and daylight savings, then things get messy. Add in a factor of government zeal...

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Tradition versus Simplicity

If you work in the computer industry long enough, you realize that certain things are done more from tradition than from keeping things simple. Recently I helped one of my wife’s friends install an ADSL Broadband Internet connection. In theory this...

Published Sep 11 2007 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,133 views, 0 comments

PowerPoint Abuse

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...

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Do Not Ask, Just Observe

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...

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