Citrix Provisioning Services is very nice, but it does come with a slightly annoying quirk: All of your provisioned XenApp servers end up with the same STA ID! This will cause all sorts of problems for Citrix Access Gateway, Citrix Receiver, and anything else that may depend on having unique STA IDs. The good news is …

Your user is happily working in your published, seamless application via XenApp 6 running on Windows Server 2008 R2, and life is good.

Then one day, when your user goes to print something, he is looking at the print dialog and notices this “Microsoft XPS Document Writer” printer as an option.

“HMM I wonder what this …

Have you ever wondered how scientists calculate the age of dead plants and animals? This is a topic that has fascinated me for many years, because while it may sound very simple and straightforward on the surface, as you will see, it is really a rabbit hole that leads into all sorts of unexpected places. Come with me …

Prerequisite: XenApp6 PowerShell SDK

Let’s say you want to copy all currently published applications into a folder named “Test” in the console tree, while simultaneously modifying the new published apps with different permissions and client folder settings. Here’s how:

First, create the “Test” folder by hand (you can …

I ran into a little snag when executing some XenApp PowerShell commands. Certain commands like Get-XAFarm and Get-XAAdministrator would always give an “0x80060016” error. Here is an example and the fix:

`PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-XAFarm
Get-XAFarm : Error reading the current administrator data (0x80060016)
At …

A few days ago I booted up my rather old HP workstation which is running Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS (Hardy Heron) and Firefox 3.6. I wanted to see how it would perform playing music from last.fm, so I browsed to the site, logged in, and tried to launch a stream.

Well, nothing happened.

I pretty quickly realized that Flash was …

A common problem programmers have with CakePHP is saving related models with a many-to-many relationship, something Cake calls “hasAndBelongsToMany” or HABTM. One of the things that makes saving HABTM models so challenging is that when you go to save your models, Cake will act like everything saved fine when in fact …

If you have a lot of duplicate data sitting around on laptops, USB drives, and external hard drives, you probably would like to clean it up and get back some of that wasted free space. But you probably don’t have time to go through and delete all the duplicates, or you’re concerned if you do you will mis-identify a …

It’s not often you hear a totally rational, powerfully true and complete thought in, of all things, a rap song. But tonight while listening to “Truth” from Lecrae’s Rebel album, the following lyrics, which answer the above question, caught my attention:

Look, man, some people say that God ain’t real ’cause they don’t …

Nature magazine published what amounts to an evangelism tract for evolution called "15 Evolutionary Gems". The article claims to provide the best evidence that evolution is an "empirically validated principle." The article even states its purpose is to help Darwinian evolutionists be “secure in the …