Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

After many months of prep work, QA and testing we are finally going live with LibreOffice next week.  There were a few bugs and nuances duri...

When I was working on the new GNOME desktop servers, I wrote all of the launch scripts to go through a central set of calls so that we could...

Things have been so busy, I have been getting a lot done and been meaning to blog about what's happening. Perhaps some of what we are d...

When we work with outside vendors, it's always interesting to find out their misconceptions about what is a "thin client" and ...

With increasing workloads, I have been doing everything possible to increase what we can do remotely to eliminate having to send IT staff to...

As I have mentioned previously, the new GNOME servers are live and are considered "in production". I have been doing a small amou...

I'm back in the office after an extended weekend and right back into projects. All of the new GNOME servers ran great while I was gone....

I have been testing LibreOffice 3.5.1 on our server with anticipation of a migration from OpenOffice in the next 30 days. The users are goi...

Over the last week the server loads have grown and it's interesting to see how well it's running GNOME and all of those sessions. T...

It's been a busy, but productive few weeks. We have slowly been flashing more and more thin clients with the latest release of customiz...

So we're into the migration process to the new GNOME server and are hitting concurrent users loads of around 135. We pushed the thin cl...

This is really a small change, but thought I'd publish it in case it's useful to anyone else for deployments. Users really, really ...

After prepping and testing the new GNOME desktop, we have closed up all of the beta code and it's being moved into production. The new ...

Looks like I'll be losing my Planet GNOME feed in the next few weeks based on the new policy changes. I'll still be blogging at the...

Now that the tuning issues have been resolved, we have started to move more and more users over to the GNOME server. Just now we hit a new ...

After a lengthy process, finally there was a solution in the issue of dbus not allowing more than about 95 users into our new GNOME server. ...

In my last blog, I mentioned that I had gone in and made changes to our thin client build to accommodate running NX sessions along with loca...

After waiting many months for the release of NX 4 we reached a point where we could not wait any longer to use compression technology with t...

In my last blog I mentioned we were having dbus problems. Right around 96-98 users it would stop allowing additional people into the server...