Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Lots of projects, and progress on them. Our next thin client release was pushed out a wider group of users and they have been testing the ...

It's hard to believe that it's Friday; the days go so quickly.  I have been putting the final touches on our next thin client releas...

User Instructions:  If you support a large number of users, one of the hardest parts of any project is creating documentation.  If it's ...

In the last thin client upgrade, the first UI to assist users with USB sticks was released.  There were some issues in the design and people...

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...

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...