Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

While waiting for our Fedora ISO to download, I have been tinkering with some small-ish projects. There have been some calls about the font...

There are always multiple projects moving ahead concurrently. OpenOffice 3.1 is almost done, so this afternoon I have been prepping the dia...

I continue to test Firefox 3.1 with Flash 10 and have found it to *extremely* unstable: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault....

I think that I have gotten Flash working with pulse now to our thin clients. Here are my work notes in case this helps anyone. From our old...

The last few weeks have certainly kept me busy. I have been prepping and testing Evolution 2.24 and OpenOffice 3.1 for deployment here at t...

Being a Governmental agency, everything that we do is about record retention and long term storage. Citizens can request email messages at ...

If you have started using Acrobat Reader 9.1 on Linux, there is a nasty little bug that took me a while to locate. It's leaking files i...

Some of my coworkers have been busy testing new features and updating artwork for our development tool for custom applications. To this da...

A while back I put out a blog entry about some bounty work with OpenOffice. I was contacted my new favorite hacker, and his name is Pierre...

Shuttles have been going up almost 30 years, and it's still amazing to me. It's even better now that I live in Florida and can se...

Since we went live on the new desktop we have had a nagging issue with screendumps. From time to time the "import" command once a...

A few months ago, I built a little prototype script that generated .ics files from .recently-used files generated by OpenOffice. Very freq...

I am always one to try new things, and certainly enjoy saving money. I have a NetFlix account that I use to rent Blu-Ray movies, and for a ...

Please contact me email drichard at largo.com or dave_largo on the IRC if you might be interested in a minor bounty project. Apparently the...

One if the hardest things about working with users is translating theircomplaints about using open source software into something actionable...

I feel like it would be easy to get into a rut of using a blog to vent about problems. I wanted to send out some kudos. I'm involved w...

I'm not going to jump on the Pulse Audio bashing bandwagon, but have a real question for those with knowledge of the current status on O...

Recently we had a technology planning meeting to talk about future projects that will be coming in the next 3-4 years. I expressed my views...

One of my coworkers built the fastest machine he could, and then tried to set a 'world record' Compiz benchmark. :) The specs: Hard...

We are still using Firefox 2.0 organizationally and it's very stable. We still have some sites that are not certified for 3.X, which I ...