Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Yup, I now it's old. We have NFS server running on OpenSuse 10.3 and everything is working great. We now have a circumstance where we ...

People are pretty passionate about their development tools, we found something that works for us based on our needs. Maybe if you are in th...

I have been working in between things on the hp 4410t thin client laptop based on ideas from some of users and IT staff. One thing that was...

Some things make the life of an Admin absolutely miserable when you are trying to keep hundreds of users working with adequate performance. ...

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...