How to get Citrix Dev license

http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2009/02/23/How+to+get+an+eval+or+a+developer+license+for+Citrix+XenApp

FTP Error Codes Explained

This is very very handy:
http://www.the-eggman.com/seminars/ftp_error_codes.html

use your NTFS drives with ESX

If you still want to use your NTFS drives and do not covert all disks to VMFS, e.g. dual boot system, just raw map them using vmkfstools -r.

ESX 4.0 USB install

Found quite a few posts on different things but not precisely pure USB install.
so we follow instructions from here: http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/creating-usb-based-boot-media-for-esx-4-installs

but contents of syslinux.cfg will be following:

default menu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 9000
menu title ESX 4 USB Install

label Default
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img vmkopts=debugLogToSerial:1 mem=512M quiet askmedia

Start VM from ESX console

vmware-cmd /vmfs/volumes/DATASTORE/name_of_vm/name_of_vm.vmx start