Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Sometimes there are circumstances where we know that certain technologies will make us more effective, but we don't have people on staff...

It's an aspect of my personality -- I love data and finding new ways to analyze it.  In the case of our GNOME implementation I want to s...

Things have been busy since my last blog.  Along with normal day to day support items, I have been advancing several projects.  I have had s...

Things have been very busy since the last blog.  Lots of concurrent projects happening and some long term design elements falling into place...

Over a year ago I took a screenshot with an iPad running GNOME remotely .  This preview test with NX 4 connected but was far too slow to use...

I have been making progress on the next thin client release.  Right now I'm tinkering with Xorg.conf and deciding on the best way to dep...

Advances on the thin client work are promising.  Running the software with a much newer version of Linux and X drivers is going to reap some...

There are times when working on thin client updates that you feel like pounding your head on the table, and then with a steady work approach...

I took a few days off last week and this week I'm once again working on customizing the Ubuntu 10.04 build that hp released for our newe...

I've moved to my next major project:  Merging the HP updates into our thin client infrastructure.  We have been running the Debian Lenny...

I got back from Orlando last night after 4 days and it was a rewarding experience.  SuseCon had some great sessions that I enjoyed and I was...

It's been a busy few weeks, and I wanted to blog about our projects before another week slips.  SuseCon/OpenSuseCon I'll be head...

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...