[AccessD] Citrix

I got a contract for IBM over in Research Triangle Park Durham NC. They assigned me a desktop 
computer for now which I am given admin rights on.  It run Windows XP Professional x32 and has 3 
gigs of RAM.

Many of the developers install everything on their desktop and work from there however the official 
mantra is that we are supposed to use a Citrix machine provided to us.  I have never used Citrix 
before.  Assuming it would also be Windows XP I checked this morning and imagine my surprise when it 
claims to be Windows 2003 R2 X64 with 4 cores and 16 gigs RAM.

My question then is what does this really mean, i.e.how does Citrix work?  It is it an emulation of 
the real machine behind it?  Is the actual server a quad core with 16 gigs running Server 2003 R2 
X64? Or is it a virtual machine with N cores and X gigs emulated?

In any case I do not have admin rights on that machine so every time I make any change in Access 
which would go to the registry it holds the changes until I log off Citrix and then the next time in 
things are back to the original configuration.  Likewise I cannot install anything myself, and 
getting anything installed is not a trivial task.  I like to use MZ-Tools with Access, and I can 
install it local, but it is not on IBM's "approved vendor list" so it will never be used on the 
Citrix machine.

Oh the joy.

-- 
John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it