Monday, February 21, 2005

Help with the English language

You can compute all day long, but eventually you will need to write or speak about it. Here is some great help:

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/index.html

Very common questions and mistakes, with easy to understand answers

Friday, February 11, 2005

Citrix "Error adding custom ICA connection"

So you load the latest Citrix client on three new identical laptops. You get the above error on the fourth when creating a new ICA connection from within Program Neighborhood:


  1. Change Windows Explorer to show hidden files.
  2. Search the hard disk for appsrv.ini.
  3. Right click each instance of the file to verify they are NOT flagged as Read Only.

I would concentrate on the {drive}:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Application Data\ICAClient folder.

Comments on why the installs reference different INI files are welcome.

Monday, February 07, 2005

Color blind explanation

Explaining to people what it's like to be color blind has proven to be a thirty some year long exercise in futility. An old school buddy of mine still brings up an episode in first grade. Our evil nun teacher yelled at me until I was in tears because I couldn't identify what color her finely crafted construction paper clothes hanging on her cleverly crafted blackboard straddling yarn clothes line were.

Check this out:

http://www.vischeck.com/examples/

Judging by the sad look my wife gave me when I showed her the site, I'm guessing the examples are accurate.

It turns out ignorance IS bliss.


Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Forwarding mail off premise through Exchange

Nice how-to by Mark Fugatt of Pentech Office Solutions Inc:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF015.html

Assuming you want an Exchange account that forwards mail off premises, you can create a "Contact" with an external address. Then, modify the Exchange delivery options of the AD account to forward mail to the "Contact".

You have the option to forward and retain in the Exchange box as well. See the check box low on the delivery options form.

Monday, January 10, 2005

Western Digital WD400 alternate jumper settings

Here's the real link.

If your old bios won't support the actual WD400 drive size you can short:

on single drive, pins 3-4 and 5-6
on dual master, pins 1-2 and 5-6
on dual slave, pins 3-4 and 1-2

Someday I'll part with my pile of PCChips M760Vs. Someday.