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Friday, December 16, 2011

Thank You For All You Do!

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I only have two work days until an extended Christmas vacation and when I return it will nearly be the New Year.  I have received many very ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

GNOME Server Load, Project Updates

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The new GNOME server project has continued since the last blog. We had a slight setback in that the server was reporting ECC errors, which ...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

86 Users With Difficulties

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In the last few weeks we have been adding more and more users to the new GNOME desktop server and hit a tuning issue where it would stop all...
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Thursday, December 01, 2011

Easier Photo Management

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I have previously blogged about the fact that we implemented a simple photo management tool on our thin clients so that users could easily g...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Support Portal Updates, Groupwise 2012

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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 ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011

New Desktop Progress Continues

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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 ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Excellent Scaling Numbers

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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...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Get It While It's Hot

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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...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

Desktop, Portal & NX 4

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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...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

IE Deployed For Testing

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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 ...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Integrating IE Into GNOME & Firefox

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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...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Software Usage Tracking

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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...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

The iPad Villagers At The Gate

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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...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Desktop Home Stretch

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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...
Monday, September 12, 2011

And There Is Java Sound

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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...
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Friday, September 09, 2011

Happier OpenSuse Days

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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...
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Friday, September 02, 2011

OpenSuse + Support Portal Code Deployed

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The OpenSuse guys have been helpful in testing ideas to find the server bottleneck. I really don't stress over these things. Our older...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

OpenSuse 11.4 Reload & Problem Is Back

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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 ...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Server Reload & NX Testing

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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...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Post Vacation Projects Continue

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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...
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