Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Friday, May 28, 2010

XDMCP & OpenSuse 11.3 Anyone?

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I have been poking at getting indirect XDMCP working on OpenSuse 11.3 with gdm with no success. Has anyone gotten this working? I did see...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Ideas Welcome, Low Level Mouse Events

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My current project is related to Accessibility. Certain parts of the accessibility modules will help me and are being tested. One request...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Client Based RDP & GNOME Icon Launching

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RDP Architecture Change For many years we have integrated MS Windows applications into our GNOME desktop and delivered them to our thin clie...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

User Presentation Available

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Today I'm having a quick meeting with interested users as I begin to look at using OpenSuse 11.3 to replace 10.2 as our desktop server. ...
Thursday, April 22, 2010

What I'm Working On...

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I haven't posted in a while, guess it's time. The days seem to go quickly and blend together. I sit in a cubicle listening to XM ...
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Thursday, April 01, 2010

Thanks Pepp!

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When you have an idea for a feature and do a bounty and finally get it back it's a wonderful thing. Today we finally received just such ...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Calling OpenSuse 10.3 Gurus

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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 ...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Why We Develop With Panther

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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...
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Thursday, March 04, 2010

18 Second Boot

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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...
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Monday, March 01, 2010

Miserable Admin Things

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Some things make the life of an Admin absolutely miserable when you are trying to keep hundreds of users working with adequate performance. ...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Various Updates

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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...
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Thursday, February 04, 2010

HP t5745 Externals And Internals

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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...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

HP 5745 Thin Client Arrived

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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 ...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010

XrandR, No More Xinerama

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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 ...
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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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