Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

The last few weeks have been busy at Largo. The week is ending and I thought I would blog about what's happening. Firefox 2.0 We upgrad...

One of the things that has changed since our first thin clients were deployed 10 years ago is the desire to plug in USB memory devices and g...

Between work and buying a new house, I have been very busy the last few months. It was nice to get out of town for a few days and head up ...

Concurrently with all of my other projects I still am working on building a working prototype of a SLES based thin client. We are going to ...

One of the misconceptions about deploying multiple people on a server is this thought process: "If I am on a computer by myself and som...

The City of Largo is doing some experimental work with testing SLED/SLES on thin clients. Our 10 year old devices are at the end of their ...

Dave Neary (bolsh) posted an interesting blog about the RBL and blocked addresses. We are a site that blocks all of France, but not because...

Federico mentioned in one of his blogs about the high number of users of GNOME from thin clients and on multi-user systems. As software deve...

I have had the pleasure of meeting Nat and Harish in person, and they were given a quick tour of our network and design. Since I have conta...

I showed a few people this issue, and wanted to get a few more eyes and thoughts. We are testing 3 models of thin clients from HP. One of ...

I have had conversations with many of you in regards to thin clients. This fall will be the 10th year of deployment of our current devices....

All of our city-wide software is run on large dedicated application servers. We all share the same code and fonts and all I have to do is u...

I continue to build scripts to automatically bring down calendar information from various web sites. I'm looking for someone that lives...

I wanted to try and find a project that I could work on in my free time that would help the community, along with helping solve some of my o...

I have been doing some testing for Harish, Sankar and Chen in regards to the time it takes for headers to display in Evolution using SOAP/Gr...

The hurricane season started on June 1st, and Alberto already went right past us. I wrote a program last year to downoad images from Weathe...

Harish has been so kind as to put in some experimental Evolution code for testing purposes to resolve one of our issues. We have some user...

This widget problem has been around forever, and falls under "GNOME Polish". For years now many applications have had option men...

Linux powers our desktop (GNOME), email (Evolution) and email backend (Groupwise). An ongoing project to allow our users to use handheld de...

After working with Rodo from Novell for about a week, he was able to resolve the issue where GTK applications would appear in the wrong colo...