I work with citrix a lot in my office and then one day, I started to have to save the .ICA file and then click on .ica file to run citrix.

What I wanted was for it to automatically run the .ica file without first asking me to save the file first.

I researched for a long time on how to run downloaded file automatically but did not find a solution.

Today, I found the solution.

Go to Internet Options and uncheck Do not Save Encrypted Pages To My Disk like in the screenshot.

Now my ICA files run automatically on clicking.

CLOSING ALL OTHER WINDOWS If you have opened a whole bunch of windows, but now want to concentrate on one of them, this command will be useful: :only This closes all windows, except for the current one. If any of the other windows has changes, you will get an error message and that window won’t be closed.

The Chome Package Firefox extension makes Firefox look almost exactly like Google Chrome

This package is difficult to undo. This is how my firefox looks like after I disabled and even uninstalled Chromifox.

Follow up note:

Uninstalling the Topper Extension (not Theme) restored my Firefox.

The Chome Package Firefox extension makes Firefox look almost exactly like Google Chrome for those of you who prefer Chrome’s tabs-on-top style. (Chromifox wasn’t quite there.) You’ve enabled the rest of Chrome’s best features in Firefox.

I put off downloading Google Chrome because I already had Flock, Safari, Avant. But as the blog posts ranting about Google Chrome came up, I gave in and installed it.
It looked very cool and I have been using it for several days and like it very much.
However today, I found the above package to make Firefox look like Chrome and I will revert to Firefox.
My main reason is I miss the add-ons in Firefox (scribefire, gmail checker etc). With the growing interest in Chrome, I am sure I will explore Chrome again later.

Regular updates are what blogging’s all about, but sometimes you want to keep hot topics or other static info at the top of your posts. This feature has existed as Sticky Topics in the forums, but hasn’t been available on blogs. Until now.

This feature might be a good reason to upgrade to Wordpress 2.6.2.

Executor is also very fast and lightweight, eating just over 10MB of RAM in Task Manager.

On my laptop, Executor used up 7x more memory than Launchy and it was indexing less directories than Launchy.

Launchy is more lightweight than Executor.

When I open the Daily Bread in the morning, it shows me the previous day’s devotion because Malaysia’s time zone is ahead of Daily Bread’s. However, Daily Bread allows me to read ‘ahead’ by clicking on any date on a calendar on the website.

Well, I don’t like to do anything manual repeatedly if I can help it and I wrote the script below.

import os

import datetime

import webbrowser

import urllib2

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup

def daily_bread(d):

    year = d.year

    month = d.month

    day = d.day

# refer http://my.php.net/manual/en/function.sprintf.php for sprintf format

    url = 'http://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/%04d/%02d/%02d/devotion.aspx' % (year, month, day)

    webbrowser.open(url)

    open_bible(url)

def open_bible(daily_page_url):

    page = urllib2.urlopen(daily_page_url)

    s = BeautifulSoup(page)

    bible_a = s.find('a', id = 'ctl00_cphPrimary_hlGatewayVerse')

    url = bible_a['href']

    webbrowser.open(url)

today = datetime.date.today()

daily_bread(today)

if today.weekday() == 5: # Saturday

    tomorrow = today + datetime.timedelta(1)

    daily_bread(tomorrow)

It will open the Daily Bread devotion for the correct day (the same day as my computer time).

As a bonus, it will also open the day’s Bible verse. (You will need to easy_install BeautifulSoup first).

On Saturdays, I read the Sunday’s devotion too because I go to church on Sunday. The script opens 2 days’ reading on Saturday.

In my scenario, my office has citrix which I can log in to.

Before this morning, I had to leave my PC on before I left work if I wanted to use it from home. At home, I would log on to citrix and then remote desktop to my office PC.

This wikipedia article provided good resource to find scripts to switch on my PC from home. I used one of the scripts provided and tested it to wake up my computer via citrix. It worked. Once that was accomplished, I could then remote just as if I had left the computer on.

Now I don’t have to leave my computer on if I want to work from home.

Windows XP/Vista only: SteadyState, a free Windows utility offered by Microsoft, is a handy tool to have if you’ve got kids, friends, or just a program or two that could possibly wreak havoc on your system

It did not work so well in my experiment. I turned on Protect Hard Disk and Preserve Changes Permanently. The PC froze 2 times during restart when it was committing the changes ie making the changes permanent.

My PC also ran significantly slower with Steadystate.

With the above problems, I uninstalled Steadystate.

Sudden Loss of Internet Access Problem

Date Published : 8 July 2008

Date Last Revised : 9 July 2008

Overview : Microsoft Update KB951748 is known to cause loss of internet access for ZoneAlarm users on Windows XP/2000. Windows Vista users are not affected.

Impact : Sudden loss of internet access

Platforms Affected : ZoneAlarm Free, ZoneAlarm Pro, ZoneAlarm AntiVirus, ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware, and ZoneAlarm Security Suite

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Go to ZoneAlarm SmartDefense Research Center for the recommended actions or to download the fixes.