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Went and picked up MacOSX Leopard today… I decided to do a fresh install instead of trying to upgrade my current Tiger installation on my MacBook Pro. Well after backing up my entire hard drive to a external drive. I started the Installation. It took about an hour for it to install. The funny part is 30 minutes of it, was the installer verifying the integrity of of the DVD. First time I have seen an OS verify the entire disk before it started to even do an install to the hard drive. Anyways, 30 minutes after the verification was done, it was installed. The opening video is pretty cool basically flying through space. I then started the restoration of my files from the external USB Drive. Funny thing was as soon as I plugged the drive in to the MBP, time machine kicked in and asked if I wanted to use the external drive as a back up device. So I said yes and it started backing up what I had just installed while I was restoring files from the same drive.

Some little things I have noticed now:

1. If you leave iCal on the Doc, it now shows the current date, unlike Tiger only showing it if you had it actually running.
2. Everything seems a lot quicker than Tiger. But it could also be that I had not reinstalled Tiger since I had bought the MBP.
3. Coverflow in finder. It is cool for going through my documents folder.

I also picked up the new iLife 08. I like the new iPhoto. Now to just get everything set back up the way I had it before.. So far I like what I see, and like the new speed..

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Well I got tired of not having a good Citrix client for Solaris X86, and the one for MacOSX sucks because of the fixed window size. (The solaris sparc client lets you have seemless windows, but the MacOSX one doesn’t for some really stupid reason.)

Any ways, I decided to try and figure out how to get the JAVA Citrix Web client to run locally with out the need for a web server. Well tonight I figured it out, and it works so far for what I need. It does give one error on startup, but it does not affect the use of the client as far as I know.

So how do you do it? Pretty “easy”:

1. Download the Citrix JAVA client (I got 9.3) from Citrix’s web site, Note, it will say that you should not try to install it your self… well I can’t read that part
2. Unzip it in to a directory, I.E. /home/{userid}/citrix
3. Create an App script, for example this is what I use for accessing GroupWise (eck!) from Citrix:
   #!/bin/sh
   CLASSPATH="JICA-coreN.jar:JICA-browseN.jar:JICA-configN.jar:JICA-seamlessN.jar:JICA-clipboardN.jar:$CLASSPATH"
   export CLASSPATH
   /usr/bin/java  com.citrix.ConnectionCenter -address:CitrixICA.Server.Addrses -InitialProgram:"#GroupWise 65 SP4" \
   -HTTPBrowserAddress:CitrixICA.Server.Address -TWIMode:on -desiredcolor:4
4. The desiredcolor make is so that it uses the higher color palette, otherwise you get the nice 256 colors
5. TWIMode is for the Seamless windows
6. Initial Program is the name of the App that is published on the Citrix Server.

I tested this from my MacOSX 10.4.6 MacBookPro, and from my Solaris 10 x86 machine. Works fine on both. I will say though don’t tr to run it in TWM (I ran it through vnc), not fun to deal with right now. Hope this helps some other people who are missing a good client for each of these os’. I am going to see about drive mapping next.

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if you haven’t seen them on the tv already, there are 3 new Apple Mac tv ad’s. I was joking with a co-worker today that Apples new slogan should be:

An Apple a day keeps Dr. Watson away

For those who don’t know what Dr. Watson is, it is a program error debuger for Windows.

If Apple had a contest for new slogans I wish I could enter this to win something ..

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Apple finally released the patch yesterday as an update to MacOSX. 10.4.6 fixes the PEAP issue with the MacBook Pro. 160 meg download. Not “too” bad that it took a couple of weeks to get the official fix out.

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Well for the past 2 weeks we have been trying to get the MacBook Pro’s to connect to a Cisco Wireless access point. The only problem is the access points are configured to use PEAP for authenication. But for what ever reason PEAP does not work on the MacBook Pro. It works on all PowerPC based Macs, but none of the Intel ones.

There are several people with the same problem discussing it here in the MacBook Pro discussion forum on Apple’s website.

The University of Iowa has a page on it as well.

I have talked to Apple on the phone a couple of times, and they did now know anything, but I credit that with the fact that I think they were level 1 people. I did finally get something from a higher support level and they wanted some captures done and sent to them so I did that. Hopefully they will get it fixed soon, as this is a little annoying.

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