Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I haven't blogged in a while, but have certainly been busy. I did take off a week for vacation and had a nice time with friends and fam...

Stormy has been so kind as to drop me a few lines concerning having a Largo Hack Fest. There are issues related to enterprise and thin clie...

Now that the Firefox upgrade process is nearly complete and going live tomorrow, I have begun working on another long term R&D project. ...

My thanks to the people that clarified for me where Qt and GL (Mesa) are used in Google Earth. The earth canvas itself is coming from GL. ...

We just got a support call from a user at a remote site running NX at 20Mb. He reported that ever since OpenOffice 3.1 was installed, image...

I'm prepping Google Earth 5 for deployment, and found an issue that appears to be a bug/peculiarity in the QT libraries. When you first...

Normally when I am staging an upgrade, I will use the latest release -- even if it's only in beta. I spent time off and on testing Fire...

During the 2008 UI Summit, one of the things that I mentioned is that once people get a file manager in software, you lose them. They don...

Our bountied OpenOffice change to add two new layout types landed in milestone 49. My thanks for Sun for accepting the patch and getting it...

Now that SLED 11 has been released and our server has arrived, I am in the process of prepping Evolution 2.24 for citywide deployment. The ...

No offense to my other heros, but the award this week goes to Chen. :) He just merged into Evolution the first set of patches to allow user...

My thanks for the comment that pointed me to PDF Shuffler. What an awesome piece of software, and a big help for us. When I first tested i...

On Monday night I installed and configured OpenOffice 3.1 for the whole City. Once again it was painless and I just had to make the change ...

As a very "back burner" project I have been experimenting with some ideas to assist our users. It has not been successful to expl...

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...

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