Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I'm just about done with our thin client updated operating system, and am *very* impressed with the HP 4410t laptop form factor. It boo...

We were having some slowness with OpenProj over remote display. In the area marked in black, scrolling was sluggish with certain types of c...

One of the things that people mentioned on Amazon concerning the thin client book that I wrote was they wanted to have detailed information ...

We have 2 servers that allow users to get GNOME desktops from our thin clients. I wrote a little script to display usage stats just for my ...

I continue to work on staging a common functionality build for the HP 5725, 5735 and 4410 thin clients. I'm making good progress, and ...

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...