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While you try to play a DVD in an RDP session or a Citrix HDX session, you get the following error: The error message goes like this: Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because it is not possible to turn on analog copy protection on the output display. Synopsis This is a limitation currently… Continue reading Cannot play DVD in an RDP or Citrix HDX session
The other day at the lunch table, my colleague jokingly asked: "Arun, being a Malayalee, have you started buying Gold for your daughter's wedding?" For those of you who don't know the relationship between Gold and Malayalees, here it is: Malayalees love gold. Especially when it comes to their daughters' wedding. I guess it originated… Continue reading Buying Gold for my daughter
Today I complete 3 months of NOT using my BlackBerry. Here is my story. I have been a BlackBerry addict. The first thing I do in the morning is to half open an eyelid and skim through my BlackBerry emails. The last thing I do at night is to watch for red light blinking and… Continue reading 3 months without a smartphone
This is more of an annoyance than an actual issue. At the time of DNS reservation, I found this error when I am providing perfectly valid MAC address and IP address. It turns out this is nothing but Windows telling you that it doesn't like the colon (:) in the MAC address. Removing colons like… Continue reading DNS Reservation error: The Unique Identifier you have entered may not be correct. Do you want to use this Identifier anyway?
Unlike Linux which has lots of GNU utilities like 'maxdepth', 'depth' etc... Solaris(and perhaps other flavors of Unix) doesnt have a similar utility to specify the depth of the 'find' command. After some Googling I found a way to do this on Solaris. Find below - To find all in a directory(to just list you can… Continue reading Finding and deleting zero KB files from the current directory in Solaris
Re-posting this from my Citrix blog - http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/06/10/labmanager-3-9-troubleshooting-%E2%80%93-what-to-do-when-there-is-a-python-traceback/ Folks who have been using LabManager for a long time might have come across Python traceback on the LabManager Web UI which looks like this. Then you wonder what it is and what details to collect before contacting support. So here are the three things that you… Continue reading A technical post on LabManager
I am sad today when I realize how many things I have given up in my life. I am not talking about the great opportunities or the big lotteries that were to be won. I am talking about those brief moments in which I gave up those seemingly small things in a seemingly reasonable way.… Continue reading Giving up
I powered On my XenServer VM and was shocked to find that the VMs couldn't be powered On. This was the error message that I received. This could be because of numerous reasons but in my case it was because an ISO file was attached to the VM. Removing it had my XenServer VM powered… Continue reading XenServer VM fails to start with the error – “This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate”
I introduced XenServer Web Self Serve Portal on my Citrix blog. The video shows installing and configuring the whole appliance in less than 5 mins. Check it out here. http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2010/10/06/XenServer+Self+Service+Portal+up+and+running+in+5+mins! Thanks, Arun.P.C
One of my best friends who work for IBM Rational wanted to ‘try’ a start-up. After months of study and seeking different opinions he had his ideas which he shared with me. I realized that despite all the time and effort he spent, he had no clue about how it is to work for a… Continue reading Why should you join a startup?
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