Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

The replacement desktop server for our thin clients is nearly ready, but unfortunately vacations and Christmas have pushed the go live date ...

I know there have been some blogs about the future design of bug-buddy. The current design has not been effective: When a program crashes ...

I live very close to downtown Safety Harbor Florida . It has a very small town feel, and lots of people walk around at night and window sh...

I'm prepping the Compiz-Fusion machine for city wide deployment and working on feature requests that we had on the older GNOME desktop. ...

I was on vacation last week, and got right back into my projects this week. I had movement on many fronts, most of it good. Evolution: Now ...

After doing some R&D on a laptop, I got pulse audio working as desired and sent it to HP. Their engineer built from source and compiled...

I finished moving over the 750 users to Evolution on SLED and last week was spent tuning the server. We have been using the GroupWise backe...

A year ago I was approached to write a book about Thin Clients, and it's finally been released. I received my physical books yesterday ...

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 ...