Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Monday, December 14, 2009

Etch Becomes Lenny

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HP recently released a new thin client operating system based on Debian Lenny for the soon to be released 5745 model. They support the olde...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Lots Of QA Work And Testing

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As December begins I have been reviewing my workload and the next 30 days is going to be busy with QA and software testing of several softwa...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

DVD/CD Readers And Thin Clients

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When we went live with our HP thin clients 2 years ago, one new feature we added was the ability to use USB sticks and transfer files. I kn...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Groupwise 8 Upgrade + Client

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The City uses Groupwise as our post office to house all of our email and calendar data. There were some mandatory calendaring requirements ...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

HP 5735, Disappoints

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I get email and know that some of you are thinking about thin clients in your organization. I have always tried to be honest and describe w...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

gnome-shell Over Remote Display

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It's been my pleasure to see gnome-shell mature over the last few months. I was in Boston last year when it started on the white boards...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Acrobat 9.2 Is Out

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I normally don't blog about software updates. But from the Acrobat site when you attempt to download Reader, they are still pushing 9.1...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Evolution 2.24 Going Live, HP 5735 Work Continues

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After a one year and not always pleasant process we have reached a milestone with Evolution on SLED 11 that has the features and stability w...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Detailed Specs: Thin Client Hardware

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I finally had a few moments to start creating blog entries about our last thin client operating system upgrade. This blog will review the...
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Low Level Linux Idea

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I don't know if anyone that works in these areas of Linux will see this, but here goes: What would be really helpful to me is adding a f...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Gotta Love the HP 4410t

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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...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

OpenProj Performance Issue Fixed

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We were having some slowness with OpenProj over remote display. In the area marked in black, scrolling was sluggish with certain types of c...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

Detailed Thin Client Specs & Designs Coming

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One of the things that people mentioned on Amazon concerning the thin client book that I wrote was they wanted to have detailed information ...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Interesting Usage Stats

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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 ...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Thin Client Laptop Making Progress

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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 ...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Thin Client Upgrade R&D Continues

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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...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Largo Hack Fest Wiki Page

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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...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Starting To Prep HP 5735 and 5725 Upgrade

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Now that the Firefox upgrade process is nearly complete and going live tomorrow, I have begun working on another long term R&D project. ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Mesa To The Rescue

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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. ...
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Monday, June 08, 2009

Anti-Aliased Images In OpenOffice 3.1 Over NX

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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...
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