I had some trouble getting the ICA client to connect to a site in Ubuntu today. Actually, it’s been for a few days. I’m not entirely sure if I’ve used Ubuntu for Citrix stuff.
Anyway, whenever clicking on a connection on the Citrix web interface, the webica application would fail with this error: “Proxy connection failed: [...]

Installing Citrix correctly, and with confidence is generally an important issue. Some bad choices early can cause you a lot of headaches later on.
Today, I found a good site a Methodology in a Box, which outlines good practices for deploying various versions of Citrix and TS.
Even better, the guides can be downloaded in PDF format!

When dropping Windows Vista into an existing network, you may notice some unusual issues that weren’t apparent in Windows 2000 or Windows XP. One such setting, is the disappearance of the Start Menu folders. John goes on a quest to track them down…

I had a bit of a problem with a restored computer where the CD drives would not appear in My Computer in Windows XP.
After a little bit of grief, I found that the problem was a simple registry setting: http://www.siliconguide.com/qa/forum/messages/71.shtml
To resolve the issue

Open up the registry editor (Start > Run > regedit and click ‘OK’)
Navigate [...]

As I’m using network manager to control wireless access on my laptop and a desktop computer in my home, I’ve decided that the keyring manager is a nuisance.
I couldn’t bear for it to constantly ask for a password every time that I needed to log on to a wireless network to retrieve the stored password. [...]