Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I was on vacation for almost 3 weeks, and have started to poke again at my various projects. Over the last 4-5 years, every time that we upg...

Lots of talk about GNOME Of The Future. So I took some time to think about Evolution and reviewed our support calls and came up with my des...

This week started out on a sour note with messing around with some daylight savings issues. Apparently some fully patched Suse operating sy...

Thank you to everyone that responded to my blog about experimenting with creating MIME bars to help users with files. I have made some chan...

I am still working on our next-gen desktop server and have been thinking about problems areas, based on observations and reviewing the suppo...

Clicking I'm testing new ideas on our new desktop deployment to resolve problems that I have noticed in the last few years of being live...

I continue to work on the next-gen desktop for deployment. Now that the hardware issues are finished I have started to move 3D thin clients...

We are moving ahead with our new thin client deployment and upgrade. I have started to make changes to OpenSuse to better interact with our...

The pieces of our next generation thin client solution are finally coming together. Today was the first time that I have had all of the req...

The guys at OpenGL and on #beryl-dev were very helpful in increasing my understanding of how Beryl works. There hasn't been a lot of te...

Sometimes things that you think will never work....DO. I have been testing remote displayed 3D presentation from a Fedora Core 6 server, t...

We contacted two of the big Linux operating system companies and requested some minor technical help in attempting to deploy our next genera...

Two things in the last few days reminded me about how important desktop bling is to the user community. I tend to focus on the technical an...

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...