Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

The week has been busy and it's only Tuesday. Here are updates on my current projects. OpenOffice Migration to 64bit Linux is complete ...

So this week we deployed OpenOffice on 64bit Linux for the first time. It's smoking fast and works great especially under user loads; h...

Evolution 2.28 Those of you that have met me and communicate with me know that I'm pretty fair in describing good & bad experiences ...

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...

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

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

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...