If we start with the Biblical Creation account in the book of Genesis, then take everything we know from the various fields of science including biology, genetics, mathematics, and physics, and discard all our assumptions and theories, what we will find is that the facts line up perfectly with the view that God created …

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 …

If God were to restrain every person from doing anything evil, not only would He have to put everyone in a veritable strait jacket, He'd also have to lobotomize everyone and literally turn every human being on the planet into a robot.

If God miraculously provided food for every child, many parents would stop feeding …

As both major political parties in the US continue to look more and more like carbon copies of each other, there is a political movement that is picking up steam, especially among traditional Conservatives.

That movement is libertarianism, and it is essentially a hybrid of conservative and liberal politics. …

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 …