Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I took a day off yesterday to avoid the weekend crowds and visit Busch Gardens Tampa. It's about a 30 minute drive from my house. The...

Yesterday we had a conference call with HP and worked out a plan to have Pulseaudio built and installed on our HP t5725 thin clients. This ...

As of today I have checked in and approved the Evolution build that we will used to upgrade the whole City on September 4th. We have been r...

Once again I synced with the latest version of Compiz-Fusion and things have never looked or worked better. My notes: - Previously the tran...

I took off a week and used the time to do some traveling. There were a few things that I wanted to do in the New York and New Jersey area....

With a few tips from the IRC guys and some general poking, I was able to get Compiz-Fusion to run concurrently with Beryl on the same server...

A quad processor server with 16GB of memory is able to run 200-300 Evolution sessions very easily. No tuning or changes are required to Lin...

IT staff has been installing the new HP thin clients, and we haven't had any serious technical issues. Normally something happens duri...

Trucks pulled up to Largo on Thursday and Friday with multiple pallets of HP 5725 thin clients. We pulled 10 out of the pile and tested the...

Everyone that knows me, knows that when I mention improvement areas I do so only to alert people about the things that make my job more diff...

There are a lot of developers out there, and I certainly understand that everyone is busy. I'm sure that everyone perceives that thei...

My blogs over the last year have been mostly technical, and *my* thoughts and usage of technology. But in a way, it doesn't matter if ...

We have a weekly publication called the Monday Morning Briefing that is pushed to desktops each Monday. When you log in after a new one ha...

I would never blog about something in order to make money. You get enough SPAM already. :) This is an issue of trying to find a good home ...

I have been keeping very busy lately. I have been working closely with the Evolution developers to get the last of our Evolution/GroupWis...

One of the things that amazes me about other Governmental agencies is the huge disconnect they seem to have in regards to where the money is...

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...