Quit My Job Blowing Leaves
I started a new job this week and so far so good the Metro ride only takes about twenty minutes and so far everything seems cool. Plus I'll get use my PowerBook to do all of my work, which mean no more lugging around a heavy ass Dell (or worse yet both laptops) It also means that I should be able to keep my computer files a bit more organized.
Two tools I've been using at my new j-o-b which have impressed me are Eclipse and Citrix. I've used Eclipse before and I've been pretty impressed with how well every just works and that it makes a lot of smart choices for me and knows that if you make a change in one place where you'll have to make other updates.
Citrix is sweet fucking kick ass, the Java client works pretty well but it wouldn't let me share my hard drive, with the server but if I go the web access site with Firefox it launches the native Mac OS X client which works as expected. My home dir shows up as the C: drive and the speed and performance is great, I don't think I'd use it to play games, but for using Outlook and browsing with IE, it works great.
Two tools I've been using at my new j-o-b which have impressed me are Eclipse and Citrix. I've used Eclipse before and I've been pretty impressed with how well every just works and that it makes a lot of smart choices for me and knows that if you make a change in one place where you'll have to make other updates.
Citrix is sweet fucking kick ass, the Java client works pretty well but it wouldn't let me share my hard drive, with the server but if I go the web access site with Firefox it launches the native Mac OS X client which works as expected. My home dir shows up as the C: drive and the speed and performance is great, I don't think I'd use it to play games, but for using Outlook and browsing with IE, it works great.
posted by dan at Sunday, July 10, 2005
by C.S. Walton
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We use Citrix for a hosted Windows environment. I hate it. I hate Outlook. AHHH! I am doing pretty good integrating with the Windows users here, using iCal and Mail.
Yeah, I'm not an Outhouse fan either, but my client (who for my safety and the safety of others will remain nameless, but they piss off the American Family Ass so they are all good) uses exchange, plus it is my "gateway" to the other side of their firewall, I was really dreading having to deal with the Windows side of things, but Citrix is pretty damn usable and tolerable, better than VNC and is supported bytheir IT staff. The only problem is sometimes when the upload to the server crashes my companies cheap ass Netgear firewall, which will shortly be replacing with a Cisco of some kind.
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