Using the Citrix web client with Fedora

Friday 27 February 2009 at 12:47 pm

Cuesta College, one of the places I (Greg Porter) teach, only allows you to access your cuesta.edu email 2 ways.  You can use their web based Outlook Web Access, which looks really lame and clunky if you're not using Internet Explorer.  (I use Firefox on Fedora.)  The other way you can access your mail is by using Cuesta's Citrix Presentation Server which uses the Citrix ICA Client plugin for your browser to get access to remote apps at Cuesta like Outlook or Office.  (No other access methods are allowed, no POP, no IMAP, my mail is "stuck" on campus.  I could launch into a rant about how silly that is, but I'll do that another day.)

There's a couple-three flaming hoops you have to jump through to get Firefox to use the ICA client...

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Vista bad. Windows 7 good.

Saturday 21 February 2009 at 11:15 pm

I (Greg Porter) recently dumped XP as my home machine operating system.  The main reason I had XP was to play games, and now that new games require DirectX 10, which requires Vista, I said goodbye.

So I went with Fedora 10.

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NetworkScripting.org!

Monday 16 February 2009 at 10:57 pm An associate and I (Greg Porter) have started a new web site, NetworkScripting.org, where we will chronicle all the fancy tricks we do with Unix/Linux/Active Directory integration, providing unified home directories to Unix/Linux/Windows clients using Solaris with ZFS, NFS and SAMBA, managing hundreds of Linux workstations withYUM, etc., etc.  Check it out!

It's Christmas in February

Tuesday 10 February 2009 at 11:55 pm At Cal Poly, we've needed more storage in the lab for a while.  We recently got a HP EVA 4100 disk array.  It's pretty sweet. (more)