Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

We have been incrementally adding features to our new HP thin clients. The initial install gave the users their previous functionality, wi...

One of the biggest misconceptions about running software on servers is that it will be slower than having a local personal computer. My exp...

In March we will be putting the new OpenSuse 10.2 server live to our thin clients, with support for 3D/Compiz. Federico is always very cool ...

I have loaded Firefox 3.0 (Beta 3) on our production server for testing. I also am testing the newer version of Flash that was released in ...

One of the things that I am tasked with this year is improving relations between OpenOffice and our users. From a technical perspective i...

Many thanks for "wodor" for updating the anaglyph plugin to compile with the latest version of Compiz. While certainly one could ...

Things have been busy for me in the new year, and I thought I would relay my current projects: Evolution Debugging I have been working with ...

Over the last few months, we have had an increase in number of concurrent Evolution users, and also have had an increase in calendar and ema...

I have recorded my first video to show everyone the new Compiz-Fusion desktop on our thin clients. The speeds that you are see are under no...

Bliss is your first 4-way Quad Core server. :)

We use Beagle extensively at Largo for searching historical documents. We have hundreds of thousands of documents going back 20 years. Each...

Sometimes you do fun/stupid things on a Friday afternoon, especially after a week of troubleshooting and debugging. I can now confirm that S...

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 ...