Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-20 Thread hantslug
On Friday 20 July 2012 12:05:20 Rob Malpass wrote: > > And I have found quoting to be very useful.  It concentrates people's > > minds wonderfully! > > Thanks Lisi.   I'm 99% sure it won't come to that. No - it rarely does. But it is useful to know what arrows one has at one's disposal!! And I

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-20 Thread Rob Malpass
> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of hants...@googlemail.com > Sent: 20 July 2012 11:39 > To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix > > No, I

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-20 Thread hantslug
On Friday 20 July 2012 10:39:19 Full Circle Podcast wrote: > Lisi: couldn't remember which Act precisely (hence 'disability rights > legislation' in lower case), but that would be the one. No, I realise that. My email wws aimed rather at Rob, who was being advised to quote it. As someone with s

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-20 Thread Full Circle Podcast
Lisi: couldn't remember which Act precisely (hence 'disability rights legislation' in lower case), but that would be the one. Not that I expect Rob will need to quote from it, since the merest hint of industrial tribunal tends to kick the management's backside into action, speaking as former membe

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 19 July 2012 09:20, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all > > > > For my own education please, I need someone to explain a potentially far > reaching decision made by our IT people at work > > > > At present, we're still stuck on Windows XP and MS Office 2003. The system > works quite well but is b

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Rob Malpass
> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alan Pope > Sent: 19 July 2012 10:20 > To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix > You've been asked t

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Freaky Clown
as others have said try it you might just like it... as for "locked down desktop" LOL we at work have yet to see a well locked down citrix environment, infact it has become a bit of a joke contest to see who can "break out" of the citrix environment the fastest, i believe the current record is ~3

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread hantslug
On Thursday 19 July 2012 10:46:48 Full Circle Podcast wrote: > a gentle reminder > about disability rights legislation around the coffee machine I assume you know (and apologise for mentioning it if you do) that the Disability Act 2000 has been superseded by the Equality Act 2010? Lisi -- Pleas

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Full Circle Podcast
> For my own education please, I need someone to explain a potentially far > reaching decision made by our IT people at work > This will be a budgetary thing. Somebody expecting a magic wand to save lots of IT support money; server software licensing presumed cheaper than individual desktop l

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Full Circle Podcast
Rob, * * *"The reason I ask is there's some specialist software for the visually impaired that I use which is never going to work over Citrix because it was never designed to do so. I have a nasty feeling that they're going to turn around and say my software can't be used - and that could have

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Michael Pavling
On 19 July 2012 09:20, Rob Malpass wrote: > So what is Citrix and can anyone see why they may have set things up in this > way? What do your IT people say about why they have set things up this way? I presume there could be all sorts of reasons... and all sorts of pros and cons. Have you discuss

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Leszek Kobiernicki 1
On 19/07/12 09:20, Rob Malpass wrote: > > Hi all > > > > For my own education please, I need someone to explain a potentially > far reaching decision made by our IT people at work > > > > ( snip ) So what is Citrix and can anyone see why they may have set > things up in this way? > > > >

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Simon Reap
On 19/07/12 09:20, Rob Malpass wrote: I freely admit to knowing next to nothing about Citrix but I thought this was something akin to remotely controlling another PC - except that the PC you're remotely controlling was virtual - is this wrong? If I'm right, surely it means that all this wonde

Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Pope
On 19/07/12 09:20, Rob Malpass wrote: I freely admit to knowing next to nothing about Citrix but I thought this was something akin to remotely controlling another PC - except that the PC you're remotely controlling was virtual - is this wrong? If I'm right, surely it means that all this wonderf

[Hampshire] [OT] Citrix

2012-07-19 Thread Rob Malpass
Hi all For my own education please, I need someone to explain a potentially far reaching decision made by our IT people at work At present, we're still stuck on Windows XP and MS Office 2003. The system works quite well but is beginning to struggle with the big datasets I have to hand