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Looking Over Zimbra, LibreOffice 3.6 Prep Work
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 make changes to our infrastructure, and I'm just doing the...
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Thin Client Updates Are Live, Other Projects
We're about halfway through updating all City workstations to the new release mentioned in previous blogs. Some changes were merged into this build which made self configuration work in some cases...
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Thin Clients Updated, Support Portal New Features
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 problems. In the past when moving code out to a larger group of...
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Back To Projects, Firefox 15
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 many projects and tasks for me to work.LibreOffice 3.6 has been...
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No pretty screenshots this time around, but lots of news on projects. LibreOfficeI installed LibreOffice 3.6.0 on the server and it didn't go perfectly. There were some issues it seems with the...
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Support Portal Bar Graph Widgets Done
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 the UI. We're tracking number of users, current load,...
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Many Projects Continue
It's been a busy few weeks, and I wanted to blog about our projects before another week slips. SuseCon/OpenSuseConI'll be heading over to Orlando next week Tuesday for SuseCon. If you are attending...
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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 was able to meet some people that I have chatted with...
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Thinning A Thin Client
I've moved to my next major project: Merging the HP updates into our thin client infrastructure. We have been running the Debian Lenny based OS now for a few years and in the last few months they...
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Ubuntu Thin Client Work Continues
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 newer 5745 thin clients . I hadn't really worked with Ubuntu that...
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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 you start to see that a lot of items are being crossed off...
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Ubuntu Work Advances
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 big benefits for us.Initially the new image would not upload...
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Thin Clients & iPads
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 deploy. The 5725 model is a combination of SiS and ATI, and the...
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Finally For Real, Lunch With A Side Of GNOME
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 for work. It was a milestone, but not really anything that...
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GNOME/Exceed, LibreOffice, Portal, Zimbra
Things have been very busy since the last blog. Lots of concurrent projects happening and some long term design elements falling into place.GNOME/ExceedThe software that allows iPad tablets to connect...
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Support Portal, Licenses, LibreOffice & Zimbra
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 some time to multi-task in making changes to our support...
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Changes To Portal, And Data Mining
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 see exactly what software packages are being used and by whom....
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Infrastructure Readied For LDAP
Sometimes there are circumstances where we know that certain technologies will make us more effective, but we don't have people on staff to implement. This was the case with LDAP publishing of user...
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Keeping Busy With Projects
I just looked and it's been over a month since my last post. Christmas and some vacation consumed some of that time, along with various projects.Upgrades, PatchingA lot of software had security...
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LDAP Finished, Zimbra Just About Ready And More
I haven't blogged in a good while, but all projects are advancing nicely. Open LDAPAll records and data have been loaded and are working. After reviewing Alfresco, Zimbra, WiFi and proxy device, I...
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