Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

I took vacation days around Thanksgiving and am back in the office and once again working on projects. Over the last few weeks I have been ...

We have been adding more groups of users to the new GNOME desktop and have gotten loads around 80 concurrent and besides a few bumps things ...

We have been slowly moving users to the new GNOME desktop and the results have been excellent. The server is a 4 processor, quad core HP an...

Seemingly unannounced a new version of Adobe Reader was released in the last few days and it's here. We have been very disappointed tha...

I haven't blogged in a while, but things here have been busy. The new GNOME desktop has passed all tests and with the 3.0 kernel on has...

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...