I work in a company which does mainly Application Server Providing, and we switched about 2 years ago from Citrix MetaFrame (1.8) to Windows 2003.
Printing works well enough, you just have to install all the necessary drivers on the server and make sure the clients use the same drivers (though universal printing engines like ThinPrint and others will work too).
Local drives work like a charm (although only since 2003), you can even copy files with Ctrl+C and then paste it in your local explorer with Ctrl+V (I don't know if the newest Citrix also supports this). Network drives work as expected.
We don't use published applications, and as far as I know Windows doesn't support this. You *can* specify an application to run in the client, but I never used it.
Our customers all connect over the internet, and the performance is pretty much the same as with Citrix. We did some tests with Presentation Server 4.0, and it performs a little better with images because it has a better caching mechanism, but the difference wasn't enough to warrant the (much) bigger licensing costs.
I also tested the NX server from NoMachine, which supports proxying RDP sessions. The site claimed speedups from 2-10 times, although in my experience it was between 1 to 2 times, and because printer and drive redirection needed additional setup, we didn't continue with this. But for X11 sessions NX is currently the best thing (IMHO better than UNIX Citrix).
So, if you only need to provide Windows applications, WTS is a good enough replacement for Citrix. There's also an official client for OS X and an Open Source client for UNIX (which supports RDP 5.1 as well as printer and drive redirection).
If you did either of these, you'd see that the text certainly can be highlighted, copied and pasted, and so on. It's even searchable and degrades gracefully since non-flash and non-javascript browsers simply get an unstyled version of the text.
The highlighting is broken. If you select text inside a flash, and then select other text inside the plain text, the flash selection stays. It's the same with text in other flash blocks.
Also, searching doesn't work here with Firefox and flash enabled. Seems like a stupid solution to a problem nobody really cares about.
Well, you know, the plugin could just report the *actual* link. It has to know the URL for the link to work in the first place, right? (I could be wrong, I've never actually done anything in Flash)
Just as Linux desktops, with the advent of the godawful dbus, are starting to require restarts with even minor updates.
Huh? What distro are you using? And can you name some applications which *required* you to reboot (instead of just restarting D-BUS and maybe the app)?
Simple.
Its taking off because firefox can do it without any extra plugins.
I guess the fact that it also happens to work in IE (which introduced the whole XmlHttpRequest stuff in the first place) as well as all other major browsers is more important.
Well, it certainly encourages you to just throw everything together in a single file, but it's a programming language like any other, so it's also possible to separate everything and build complete MVC-frameworks, for example there's Cake which looks like a clone of Ruby on Rails.
I've tried Firefox Deer Park, Opera 8.1, Konqueror 3.4.1 and the Safari version from Panther, and none of them passes the test. Firefox comes closest, but I heard that there's a patched Safari which actually passes the test (and it seems like these patches have also made it into KHTML CVS).
I also tried IE7 on the Vista beta, and it looks only slightly better than IE6.
You can turn it off permanently with gconf-editor, just change/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop to false. But yeah, this really should be in the preferences somewhere...
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I've experienced this problem too (frozen screen with pointer still moving), but since I disabled acceleration for the render extension it went away. All you have to do is add the following line (or change it if it's already there) in the device section of your nvidia card in xorg.conf:
Option "RenderAccel" "false"
Also make sure you've disabled the composite extension, as it's still unstable.
In Windows 95 through ME, you could just take out the floppy while Windows tries to access it and you got a BSOD (but you could just hit esc to cancel).
Check out Devilspie, it allows you to set the workspace and other settings (layer, tasklist/pager-visibility) per window. And it's a standalone-app, so it works with all WMs.
Huh? I've used Gnome since the 1.4 days, and haver never *ever* seen any "gconf" or "orbit" directories which weren't hidden. Maybe you're using shitty distros?
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For instance, unless they have some update I don't know about, MS Remote Desktop will not print to a printer working from a TCP/IP port.
Actually, it does, you just have to set a registry key first. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb; en-us;q302361 for details.
And for most USB printers, you can use driver redirection, already mentioned above.
I work in a company which does mainly Application Server Providing, and we switched about 2 years ago from Citrix MetaFrame (1.8) to Windows 2003.
Printing works well enough, you just have to install all the necessary drivers on the server and make sure the clients use the same drivers (though universal printing engines like ThinPrint and others will work too).
Local drives work like a charm (although only since 2003), you can even copy files with Ctrl+C and then paste it in your local explorer with Ctrl+V (I don't know if the newest Citrix also supports this). Network drives work as expected.
We don't use published applications, and as far as I know Windows doesn't support this. You *can* specify an application to run in the client, but I never used it.
Our customers all connect over the internet, and the performance is pretty much the same as with Citrix. We did some tests with Presentation Server 4.0, and it performs a little better with images because it has a better caching mechanism, but the difference wasn't enough to warrant the (much) bigger licensing costs.
I also tested the NX server from NoMachine, which supports proxying RDP sessions. The site claimed speedups from 2-10 times, although in my experience it was between 1 to 2 times, and because printer and drive redirection needed additional setup, we didn't continue with this. But for X11 sessions NX is currently the best thing (IMHO better than UNIX Citrix).
So, if you only need to provide Windows applications, WTS is a good enough replacement for Citrix. There's also an official client for OS X and an Open Source client for UNIX (which supports RDP 5.1 as well as printer and drive redirection).
But verbing weirds language!
If you've turned off all of Zonk's postings.
./ editors are all blocking each other!
CmdrTaco, do you want to admit something???
Hmm... I think you've solved the mystery behind all those dupes: the
1. Programming languages, and programs written in those languages, are data.
Just because A is part of B doesn't imply B = A.
2. Ad hominem attacks suck, and so do you.
*Very* funny
If you did either of these, you'd see that the text certainly can be highlighted, copied and pasted, and so on. It's even searchable and degrades gracefully since non-flash and non-javascript browsers simply get an unstyled version of the text.
The highlighting is broken. If you select text inside a flash, and then select other text inside the plain text, the flash selection stays. It's the same with text in other flash blocks.
Also, searching doesn't work here with Firefox and flash enabled. Seems like a stupid solution to a problem nobody really cares about.
The funny thing is, I have FlashBlock installed and don't see any play buttons (just the actual text). This is with Firefox 1.5rc3 and FlashBlock 1.5
Well, you know, the plugin could just report the *actual* link. It has to know the URL for the link to work in the first place, right? (I could be wrong, I've never actually done anything in Flash)
Just as Linux desktops, with the advent of the godawful dbus, are starting to require restarts with even minor updates.
Huh? What distro are you using? And can you name some applications which *required* you to reboot (instead of just restarting D-BUS and maybe the app)?
Which seems really silly to me, because a virus in an encrypted archive would have a pretty short lifespan.
There's a driver for CUPS which will enable this in all GNOME & KDE apps, and possibly others, too.
Simple.
I guess the fact that it also happens to work in IE (which introduced the whole XmlHttpRequest stuff in the first place) as well as all other major browsers is more important.Its taking off because firefox can do it without any extra plugins.
Well, it certainly encourages you to just throw everything together in a single file, but it's a programming language like any other, so it's also possible to separate everything and build complete MVC-frameworks, for example there's Cake which looks like a clone of Ruby on Rails.
I am personally very grateful for the US for web, Linux, IRC, MySQL, Python, etc.
LOL, not even 1 of those comes from the US:Web (as in World Wide Web): CERN, Switzerland
Linux, IRC: Finnland
MySQL: Sweden
Python: Netherlands
Nothing will ever top edit.com from the old MS-DOS days! Billy G and the crew should give it up. Long live edit.com!
You misspelled ed
I've tried Firefox Deer Park, Opera 8.1, Konqueror 3.4.1 and the Safari version from Panther, and none of them passes the test. Firefox comes closest, but I heard that there's a patched Safari which actually passes the test (and it seems like these patches have also made it into KHTML CVS).
I also tried IE7 on the Vista beta, and it looks only slightly better than IE6.
You can turn it off permanently with gconf-editor, just change /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop to false. But yeah, this really should be in the preferences somewhere...
I've experienced this problem too (frozen screen with pointer still moving), but since I disabled acceleration for the render extension it went away. All you have to do is add the following line (or change it if it's already there) in the device section of your nvidia card in xorg.conf:
Option "RenderAccel" "false"
Also make sure you've disabled the composite extension, as it's still unstable.
hth
The nice thing about reverse-engineering is that only one person has to do it: http://www.schleef.org/swfdec/
The funny thing is if you zoom in the names are correct ;)
In Windows 95 through ME, you could just take out the floppy while Windows tries to access it and you got a BSOD (but you could just hit esc to cancel).
You really have to be a nerd if you only have plutonic relationships with women.
Check out Devilspie, it allows you to set the workspace and other settings (layer, tasklist/pager-visibility) per window. And it's a standalone-app, so it works with all WMs.
Huh? I've used Gnome since the 1.4 days, and haver never *ever* seen any "gconf" or "orbit" directories which weren't hidden. Maybe you're using shitty distros?
> But one must admit that installing DEB packages
> without using some kind of apt-get is a bit of a
> pain.
Well, using rpm without any kind of frontend is painful, too.
And btw, in debian you can use 'alien -i' to install any package.
$ rpm --help | wc -l
139
$ dpkg --help | wc -l
56
hmm...