Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I have to join the voices today that are complaining about Adobe. I'm building a multi-year 64 bit server to run our Firefox sessions...

What is interesting to me whenever we look at software and hardware to solve problems is the needless level of complexity and cost. Let me ...

Life at Largo never slows down. When you push new technology live, there is always more waiting in the wings. Here is what is going on: E...

A few years ago I was asked to write a book and some of you have purchased it. Obviously one hopes that a book always meets the expectation...

Centralized computing makes it so difficult to upgrade hundreds of users to the latest release of the ever exploited Adobe Acrobat Reader. :...

After that small hiccup with running Evolution on 32bit Linux and the memory limitations, we are now live on 64bit SLED 11 and the differenc...

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...