Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Just a quick update that I pushed live new code for our support portal which is polling a lot more servers now and displaying information in...

No pretty screenshots this time around, but lots of news on projects.  LibreOffice I installed LibreOffice 3.6.0 on the server and it di...

I'm back in the office after a one week vacation in the midwest US.  It always helps to recharge the batteries and already there are man...

The new thin client update has now been deployed to nearly all of our 500-ish devices and I'm happy to report that we had no major probl...

We're about halfway through updating all City workstations to the new release mentioned in previous blogs.  Some changes were merged int...

I want to clarify that some of the items posted in this blog are done in sole capacity of evaluation.  There are many procedures in place to...

After a lengthy process, we finally have been able to resolve some problems with NX connecting to our GNOME server running OpenSuse 11.4.  G...

It's been a busy week again.  I've been testing Alfresco in Firefox and on iPads.  I also installed all of the latest patches for ou...

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...