mike hates software: Citrix.

• From: Mike Beattie
  Date: 12:27 on 18 Jul 2007
  Subject: Citrix.
  
  We use citrix at work. As if that's not hate enough.
  
  Citrix has its uses, and can be fairly sensible to use under certain
  circumstances. Sometimes. The client is 'OK', and well, does the job it was
  meant to do.
  
  EXCEPT when you run multiple display adapters on the client machine. Oh my
  good god the pain.
  
  1) the login window appears over the join in the displays. Half obscured by
  the 'blank' section of display where one of the displays has a different
  resolution to the other.
  
  2) The application when openned, opens maximised, across both displays
  (granted, this is the application, not citrix)
  
  2a) The lower bounds of the *maximised* window is somewhere seemingly
  randomly halfway up the height of the smaller resolution display.
  
  3) You cannot resize the lower bounds of a non-maximised window below the
  above point.
  
  3a) You *can* drag the window so that the lower bounds are below this
  imaginary line, but artifacts start to be left when the window moves, or has
  others appear over it, etc etc
  
  3b) if you resize the *top* of the window when the lower bounds are below
  this line, the lower bounds are automatically resized up to this line,
  leaving aforementioned artifacts.
  
  HATE. Pure, unadulterated hate.
  
  Also, BES. But not now. Not today.
  
  Mike.
  
  
  
  
  

• From: Michael G Schwern
  Date: 13:20 on 18 Jul 2007
  Subject: Re: Citrix.
  
  Mike Beattie wrote:
  > We use citrix at work. As if that's not hate enough.
  
  citrix.com says they're
  "Application Delivery Infrastructure For A Dynamic World"
  
  Does that mean they ship freight or what?
  
  Hate null marketing statements.
  
  
  
  

• From: Scott Francis
  Date: 16:51 on 26 Jul 2007
  Subject: Re: Citrix.
  
  
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  On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:20:54AM -0700, schwern@xxxxx.xxx said:
  > Mike Beattie wrote:
  > > We use citrix at work. As if that's not hate enough.
  >=20
  > citrix.com says they're
  > "Application Delivery Infrastructure For A Dynamic World"
  >=20
  > Does that mean they ship freight or what?
  >=20
  > Hate null marketing statements.
  
  they purchased my favorite load balancer vendor (NetScaler) a while
  back, more's the pity - although they so far appear to have left NS
  alone to continue making kickass load balancers.
  
  Good luck trying to actually locate any useful data on their
  website though.
  --=20
         Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527
                          Less and less is done
                       until non-action is achieved
               when nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
                                      -- the Tao of Sysadmin
  
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