Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

It's already been a busy week, but productive.  I have been hacking on the support portal to add more "actionable" events and ...

The topic of desktop customizations has always come up here at Largo.  I do spend time making changes to how the desktop works, but it's...

Our "support portal" and any thin client updates go hand in hand.  We control features centrally and then they are pushed to thin ...

We have been live on LibreOffice now for a few days and things are going well.  In conversations with our support group, the biggest issue t...

Today was the big day, LibreOffice went live.  We had been testing it for many months, and it fits so well into our architecture that I was ...

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...