Matts Meanderings

Be warned – you should probably only continue if you’re having issues with Citrix crashing when attempting to launch the remote desktop client.

Been fighting trying to connect to work via Citrix (Metaframe Presentation Server) for the last 6 weeks or so, and I’ve finally figured it out, so I’m posting this in the hope that it will save someone else a whole heap of time.

The issue was that I’d be able to login and get to the applications folder, but wasn’t able to do anything past that. It would download the ica file, then show up with either:

“The ordinal 1191 could not be located in the dynamic link library MFC80.DLL”:

or “The ordinal 2468 could not be located in the dynamic link library MFC80.DLL”:

followed by the standard windows error handling “Citrix ICA Client Engine (Win32) has stopped working”:

The event log would come up with something like:

"Faulting application wfcrun32.exe, version 11.0.0.5357, time stamp 0x48a746f7, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e03821, exception code 0xc0000138, fault offset 0x00009eed"

with a few more irrelevant bits.

After finding out far too much about WinSxs and VC++ 2005 SP1 redistributables, turns out there’s an issue that can potentially occur when you install Visual Studio 2008, or SQL Server 2008 (and potentially something to do with uninstalling Visual Studio 2005?). There’s a hotfix that you can get from Microsoft (KB961894)  that resolves the issue: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961894.

Hope this helps someone!

Maybe I'm being facetious (moi?), but take a look at the safety booklet on the train the other day:

(just in case its just me – how are you supposed to read it, if you’re not allowed to remove it???)

For a Christmas present at the end of last year, I was given a penguin (promptly named “Bob”), which came with the opportunity to name a star^[1]… So, really, it didn’t take much thought to decide what to call it – almost goes without saying: “Bob”. And, I've even got the certificate to prove it:

(for some reason, they call the Southern Cross the “Crux”, who knows why)

Hmmm… Wonder if i can get the mining rights…

^[1] Yes, I know its not real, but hey, who cares…

Ran across a pretty cool video – based around photography, but still worth watching:

Transform by Zack Arias

Seeing I seem to just posting links lately, here’s another one – photography funnies.

(though some of them are probably more amusing to photographers…)

Brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=VQ3d3KigPQM

(and someone asked me if i was part of it… Not quite sure how to take that!)

Amusing.

This kinda freaks me out a bit…

Personally, would’ve thought that you really wouldn’t need a sign for this… Would’ve thought it would be quite obvious.

Though, that said, there isn’t actually a surfeit of green areas round here… Maybe some people don’t know what grass is?

What does this say about my local pub, when they put a sign on the door like this:

Poor Ron.

XKCD… I love it…

(Phones should go ‘ring’, damnit!)

Was out and about a while back, wandering around the Thames Barrier Park, and saw the following:

Was more than a bit disconcerting… What is the world coming to?

The urban dictionary defines blog as:

A meandering, blatantly uninteresting online diary that gives the author the illusion that people are interested in their stupid, pathetic life. Consists of such riveting entries as "homework sucks" and "I slept until noon today."

Not as true as it used to be, but still, very true.

And yet, here I am, inflicting it upon you. Still. (Queue evil laugh).

Something that’s been a pet hate of mine for a while, is resourcification. You are no longer a person, you are a resource.

Especially tied into that is the assumption that all resources are equal. Hello! People have different strengths and weaknesses.

Its all said much better over on the Forrester Research blog.

Gah.

Software development today is a race between programmers trying to create bigger, better, and more idiot proof programs, and the Universe trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

So true... Sigh.

(stolen from I dont know where...)