Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I haven't posted any new information for a while, but the City has been keeping me busy. Here are the things that I have been working i...

Of course one is always tempted to take apart something that is working fine and see what makes it tick. I have been running the new HP t57...

Yesterday we received our first HP 5745 thin client, and I'm pleased to say that it's working well so far. The onboard Intel video ...

This issue apparently is well documented on the Internet, but it was new to me. Quoted from Wikipedia: XRandR 1.2 XRandR 1.2 only permits ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...