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Did you know that Citrix was originally supposed to be Citrus? Well, the name was already taken but that didn’t hinder them from, eventually, turning into sour. Anyhow that’s not the topic here. Broken WMI is, and that overlay product on top of TS/RDS commonly referred to as Citrix. 

//Update
Found an official Citrix article (ctx119767)  So now I might just go ahead and WMI myself silly

Original reference from Citrix Forums, courtesy of all.

Here’s some sample code (totals)  –> CitrixLicenseStatus

So, my kid brother is in Sydney, down under, cuddling Koalas and boxing Kangaroos. Well, the saved money was running dry and he didn’t take my advice of taking a job carrying banana boxes back and forth in the Sydney harbor (gah! that’s a good job as any!), no siree, instead he ventured into doing some White Hat SEO stuff.

As the helpful brother I am, I decided to help him out so that he didn’t have to SEO stuff for others but have this entire planet desperately SEO his search engine instead.

Here’s a screenshot of the prototype version. Any resemblance to an actual search engine is entirely coincidental.

At home I’m still using my age-old Linksys WRT54GS router, it’s such a fantastic piece of hardware! Back when I bought the the router I tested various alternative firmware’s, but settled for OpenWrt/X-Wrt.   

Well, a few days ago when I felt  it was that upgrade time again I thought to have another try at the other firmware’s again. That’s when I instantly fell in love with (a) Tomato! I mean, just the name! Who the hell would call a router Tomato?! By that definition it had to be something extra special.  And, boy it certainly was!

Check out linksysinfo.org forums for more info, add-ons and mods. The picture above is from the latest Vicitec Mod of Tomato that I’m currently running.

The initial joy was severely taken down when I found out that Kimmo was the dog in the magazine. Damn!

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The reference was made to Jonas Birgersson, a classical figure in Swedish IT culture.

I’m not so much into music /your typical radio guy, but sometimes I’d like to listen to recent/way back tunes. Downloading gets tiresome as it’s now and here,  then – Gone!

Spotify provides a good alternative but how long will it last? Already are we seeing rights owners (quite  NOT…another topic) quietly disappearing. Are the revenues displeasing?

[Edit 09-01-29] Seems I beated Spotify blog on this with 11 days

Vista never was anything but the reincarnation of the Windows ME fiasco.

Windows 2008 (Vista ME, Server Edition) also took the hit, scarcely deployed and whenever possible discarded in favor of Windows 2003 R2.

That said. Again and again I find myself in the loosing minority, killer features never taking off, I killed a duck.

On the client side Seven beta is a no-brainer replacement of Vista ME (in corporate land – stay on XP, wait for 7). On the server side I wish that 2008 R2 can reinstate some trust so that we can move on.

ps. UAC is nowhere near reality. B1 sidebar replaced with pre-beta 6801 ditto, readily available elsewhere. x64 4801 backport is nowhere in the wild afaik.

Crumbling under the weight of this cruel season.
How I long to climb the stairway to the warmth of the sun…

I ran into this revisions annoyance in WordPress…It’s no problem to turn off the beast, but rather to clean out the existing revisions from the DB.

Luckily others also get annoyed.  Andrei Neculau cooked up a nice sql query that took care of the leftovers

So, I got tired of the old CMS and after having evaluated a few alternatives I decided to use WordPress. The feature set (over)matched the simple needs of this site. WordPress is simple yet powerfull.

First thing that strikes is that a theme is not the usual replaceable chrome – It’s more or less the actual (presenting) engine. This quite rapidly gets extremely enerving and limiting. Sooner than quick I retardate (sic) to merely removing annoyances instead of utilizing and empowering what’s there.

However, given the generic other options, or even by itself, the benefits way overmatches the limitations, for me, now.