Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

As I mentioned yesterday we are testing an idea to make it easier for those users that need IE to just click on links in Evolution and have ...

One of the things that has improved greatly over the last 5 years is the number of web sites that are now more compliant to standards. We u...

Time has allowed me to put in some code to the new support portal for tracking software usage. We'll easily recoup this time in three a...

The picture above is how I feel lately concerning the user community and using iPads. If you support end users, I'm sure you know what...

After the technical issues of the last few months, the GNOME desktop upgrade is finally on the home stretch. We're very excited about t...

Sometimes one creates a post just as a way to document something that they do not do that often. In a few months when I have to do this aga...

This week we scheduled, installed and rebooted OpenSuse 11.4 with the 3.0.4 kernel. We broke the infamous rule of technology and also chang...

The OpenSuse guys have been helpful in testing ideas to find the server bottleneck. I really don't stress over these things. Our older...

Tuesday we moved our OpenSuse 11.4 users to a VM copy of the new GNOME desktop and we wiped the physical machine completely. We pulled the ...

Server Reload I have mentioned in previous posts some problems with our OpenSuse 11.4 server which is going to be used for running GNOME...

One returns from vacation with a new sense of energy, so I am working again on the various issues and projects. OpenSuse 11.4 Kernel Prob...

I'm leaving for a vacation tomorrow so I thought I'd post a blog concerning the status of our OpenSuse 11.4 GNOME server. We are i...

It's been a while since my last blog, but as always projects continue to evolve and mature. Sandboxed/Jailed Firefox Sessions My last fe...

I mentioned that I had a project assigned to try and get multiple browsers running to the same user at the same time so that we could run th...

For those interested, many concurrent projects continue here at Largo. FOG & Host Stored Configurations & Portal We have continued w...

Now that the NX pre-release is working well enough for testing, I have been spending time asking questions and understanding how it works. ...

Sometimes your plans for the day are altered greatly because of external circumstances. Nomachine released the latest NX 4 preview last ni...

It's wonderful to have ideas in your head and be able to quickly get them prototyped and running. Using Glade and Python, I was able to...

Usually when there are improvement areas in IT, we already know about them and have them in our heads. The roadblock is almost always the n...

As I continue to close up the last of the minor issues with the new GNOME desktop, I decided to quickly implement a dialog that appears afte...