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Last Updated: 11 March 2016

PROBLEM
You install the Citrix Receiver, and you get this annoying setup window each time you start your PC.  You never really configure the client because you only use the web client.

SOLUTION
Open "Command Prompt" as Administrator (right-click, run as Administrator) and run this command:

REG ADD "HKLM\Software\Policies\Citrix" /f /v "EnableX1FTU" /t REG_DWORD /d "0"

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Last Updated: 12 May 2022

If IT geek-dom were a crime, I'd be on death row by now.  Fortunately, it is not; so I continue my dorky IT pursuits--the latest of which is finding a VPS cloud server provider that offers a Japan datacenter location.  Let's see what we come up with...

Read more: The Hunt for the Ultimate VPS Cloud Servers in Japan

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Last Updated: 23 February 2016

PROBLEM
You open Outlook and find that your categories are missing.

SOLUTION
1) Drop to a command line.
2) Run outlook.exe with the "remigratecategories" option.

outlook.exe /remigratecategories

This Outlook startup option will re-pull your categories from your master category list.

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Last Updated: 05 February 2016

I upgraded to MacOS El Capitan and to my chagrin my Kingston USB drive no longer works.  I get some stupid "Unable to start DTXX application" or "ERR_COULD_NOT_START" error.  Luckily, there's a solution--you simply have to upgrade the USB drive firmware using a Windows PC.  Please see this and look closely at the FAQ section: http://www.kingston.com/us/support/technical/products?model=DTLPG3

Unfortunately, one my my older Kingston USB stick models is not listed, so now I have a useless brick on my hands.  I contacted Kingston support, but they ignored me.  Great.  (That was sarcasm by the way).

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Last Updated: 15 January 2016

I propose blocking all access to Joomla's administrator login page and front-end user login (if you don't use it) because I constantly see a-hole bots in my logs trying to hack my site.  Add these lines to the Nginx site configuration.

# DENY ACCESS TO JOOMLA ADMIN
       location ~* /administrator.* {
       deny all;
       }

# DENY ACCESS TO JOOMLA USER LOGIN
       location ~* /component/user.* {
       deny all;
       }

Now how do you access the Joomla administrator login page??  Serve your site on another port using a simpler configuration, then setup your firewall to only allow your IP to access that port.