Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Happy 5th, Firefox And USB Progress

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We were working on future budgets and were reminded again about the great savings obtained with running thin clients.  It was just about 5 y...
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Support Portal Updates, Pictures Options And Other Updates

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It's already been a busy week, but productive.  I have been hacking on the support portal to add more "actionable" events and ...
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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Project Updates & Why Customize?

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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...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Support Portal, Thin Client Updates & UI Updates

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Our "support portal" and any thin client updates go hand in hand.  We control features centrally and then they are pushed to thin ...
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Thursday, May 03, 2012

LibreOffice Data And Notes, Let The Computer Do The Tedious

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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...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

LibreOffice Live, Better Crash Experience

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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 ...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

LibreOffice, You're On Deck

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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...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Trapping User Crashes And Eliminating False Positives

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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...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Improving Window Resolutions

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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...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Offloading To Thin Clients

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When we work with outside vendors, it's always interesting to find out their misconceptions about what is a "thin client" and ...
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Friday, March 23, 2012

Software Portal Changes Pushed Live

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With increasing workloads, I have been doing everything possible to increase what we can do remotely to eliminate having to send IT staff to...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

Infrastructure Upgrades

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As I have mentioned previously, the new GNOME servers are live and are considered "in production". I have been doing a small amou...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Projects And Starting New Thin Client Release

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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....
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