Thoughts on the Way Home

Thursday, October 11, 2007

A Tribute to John Dees or "He Does This All The Time"

Since we deal mostly with theology-related issues, I thought it would be good to give a sneak-peak into the life of John Dees. John and I work together. We are both employed at A.T. Still University. John works on tech sides of things. I work in Financial Aid.

Well, I've been having some issues lately - a electronic processing struggle of sorts. The details aren't necessary. Suffice it to say I made my abode beneath the crushing cloud of faulty applications. Nevertheless, when darkness shrouded all hope of technological triumph, John Dees remoted into my system. He valiantly held my oppressors at bay while my weary mind collapsed under the weight of cyber-sickness. I awoke to a new hope and new day. My strength is returning.

John has recently located my Achilles' heal - computer knowledge. Fostering Webster's command of the English language and Hemingway's knowledge of prose, he recently wrote...
Citrix is an "Application Delivery" software solution. It allows the user to make a remote connection to Microsoft Terminal Servers to access applications, files, and network resources. This means that user is technically not actually running any of the software processes on their local computer; rather, they are only being sent synchronous screenshots of what is happening on the server. Thus, any loss of functionality that is specific to a certain application (such as not seeing the correct results from a CV report) is that application's problem; but any loss of functionality that is common to all applications (such as printers not working, or Citrix connections closing spontaneously, or screen size being too small) would be categorized as a Citrix issue because it is a part of "Application Delivery."
Amazing. That's John Dees folks. He does this all the time.