iXsystems Comic Issue #3

March 4th, 2010

Here’s the new Issue  of “Master McGrep and the  League of Open Source Gentlemen”

Master McGrep Issue #3

Follow iXsystems on Twitter for more updates: http://twitter.com/iXsystems

New Issue of BSD Magazine

March 4th, 2010

Just wanted to let you guys know that the new issue of BSD Magazine “BSD as a Desktop” is now available for download. You can download it at the BSD Magazine website http://bsdmag.org/

BSD as a Desktop

Enjoy!

PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition

February 24th, 2010

I can’t believe we’re already on 8.0! seems like yesterday when i was on 1.3 lol

The latest version of PC-BSD, Version 8.0 was released on February 22, 2010.

PC-BSD 8.0 Hubble Edition will offer fixes and enhancements to the desktop and system including:

  • The addition of the FreeBSD 8.0 install option
  • KDE 4.3.5 with a new desktop theme and visual improvements
  • nVidia 195.22 drivers for both i386 &AMD64
  • Installation logging and error reporting
  • Improved USB device support
  • nVIDIA drivers now support 3D acceleration and SLI(Scalable Link Interface) on AMD64
  • Support for installing and running 32bit PBIs on 64bit Operating Systems, such as Wine
  • Life-Preserver utility, allows backup of systems to remote rsync+ssh server.

pcbsd hubble 8.0

Click here for more info!

Updates

February 24th, 2010

FYI, I’ve updated my “About Me” and “2010 Trade Shows” Pages.

iXsystems Comic

February 23rd, 2010

Hey guys,

iXsystems recently released a 4-panel comic. The comics name is “Master McGrep and the League of Open Source Gentlemen”

There will be an issue release every Friday. Follow iXsystems on Twitter for all the updates! http://twitter.com/iXsystems

Here’s the 1st issue:

iXcomicbook

and the 2nd:

iXcomic2

Oakland Raiderette!

February 23rd, 2010

Hey guys,

I’ve been meaning to tell you guys about our new receptionist!! Her name is Jordan, she’s a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders, my favorite football team of all time! She started working for us when our old receptionist Lindsey (Muay Thai fighter) had to leave us :( We still miss her and wish she could still be with us but you gotta do what you gotta do. I still can’t believe i work with a Raiderette haha.. it’s crazy cause i go to a lot of their games, im a huge fan of them and the team it self so i NEVER thought we’d  have a Raiderette working for us. To tell you the truth, i always thought most cheerleaders were stuck up and maybe that’s because i’ve only really known high school cheerleaders.. but it makes sense, these are the real deal, they are grown ups and know what they’re doing, they arent stuck up at all. Jordan is totally down to earth and im so happy that she’s here! = )

Here she is:

Jordan

Take Care!

Random Photos

February 19th, 2010

Hey There!

A lot has been going on lately, our new office is about 70% done. We are still waiting on our conference table which we ordered about 3 – 4 months ago I believe. There’s lots of decorations that need to be put up as well. One of my favorites so far is this BSD abstract trio we had custom made for our conference room:

Pretty nice huh?

BSD Abstract Trio

This is another custom made poster of a Daemonette that we put up in our lounge room, isn’t she cute?

Daemonette

Bobble head

BSDi

Front office sign

iXsystems Front Office

Our company van

iXsystems Van

iXsystems Production Team (a few are missing)

iXsystems Production Team

iXsystems Halloween (I was trying to be Alex from Clockwork Orange but didn’t have the fedora or the cane :/)

iXsystems Halloween 2009

Our Beastie! = )

Beastie

iXsystems Xmas Party 2009. One of six tables full of people.

iXsystems Xmas 2009

iXsystems Sales Team

iXsystems Sales Team

and there you have it. Just wanted to show you guys a little bit of what we’ve been up to!

Take Care!

Catchin’ up

November 19th, 2009

I totally just realized i have pretty much abandoned my blog :( The thing is, im always full of excuses, and my excuse for not blogging would have to be no time really.. Work has been pretty busy lately, with all my huge stacks of papers to enter it’s pretty hard to get a moment to do anything else besides work and when i finally get home, i dread getting near the computer! I spend 8+ hours a day on it, anything more than that is way too much for me! and that’s why i wanna get a MacBook Pro!! well that’s not why but it would be REALLY nice to have one! Believe it or not, i have NEVER had a computer i can call my own. It makes me feel shitty in a way because everyone and their mothers has one nowadays except for me.. but that is all about to change here pretty soon… I have been looking at MacBooks recently and decided that’s it’s about time for me to get one, the thing is they are ridiculously expensive so now i either have to work OT and save for one or quit buying food LOL.

Anywayz… like i was saying, these past few months have been pretty crazy over here on this side of town, we moved to our new office building at the beginning of October and it has been non-stop work since. Our new office is coming along pretty nicely! We now have two lounge rooms! one has a 55″ tv, leather recliners, wii, ps3, xbox (i think), rockband set and other things. We also have an official break room, official conference room, officical females restroom!! (the males used to always use ours) two males restrooms, a shower, photography room for storage devices, gym (work in progress), huge production facility and more.

Below are some pictures of our production facility from the first week we moved into our new building. I will upload more as soon as i take more, its looking quite busy right now!

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Guys working hard

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Beastie twinsies! LOL

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Chris is thinking hard lol

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our new receptionist, she’s a muay thai fighter and she will kick your butt! haha

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our first full rack at the new place

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I will try and post some more updates soon!

Take care everyone!

<3

OSCON 2009

September 4th, 2009

Wow, it’s been a long time!

I’ve been meaning to post some of the pictures i took at oscon this year but i’ve just been so busy… well, more like lazy and busy at the same time :p Anyway, we had a really good time, i had never attended oscon before, this was my first time and i hear that it was  A LOT bigger than it used to be, it almost seemed like linux world last year minus all the costumes. I was only there for half a day the first day and half the next day. There were less people than i expected but it was still a good show.

Here are some of the pix!

This is me, Raquel (Marketing Assitant @ iXsystems and Denise (Marketing Director @ iXsystems)

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Looking goooood…. = )

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Nice friendly guy from KDE booth

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The guy to the right should’ve been in the picture with us!

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James and Matt Olander

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Friendly Google people

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They had a massage booth! how awesome is that?? i had never seen that at a show before

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James Nixon doing what he does

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Matt Finney (Sales @ iXsystems) and Matt Olander (CTO of iXsystems)

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Facebook recruiter booth

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John in front of our booth

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POPCORN!!!!

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This little guy really talked to us! he was a flirt!

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Guys playing guitar hero

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Some of the schwag at our booth

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HAHA bunny going to the ladies room

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If you want to see more here’s a link to my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/41911572@N06/

<3,

Me

OSCON 2009 in my hometown!! = )

July 21st, 2009

Im going to be attending OSCON for the very first time! This year it will take place at the Convention Center in San Jose, California. Im very excited and can’t wait!! I will be there tomorrow from around 1pm to 430pm and Thursday from 9am to 1pm. We have TONS of schwag to give away, we will be bringing 7.2 CD’s and DVD’s, new Galileo PC-BSD T-Shirts, Box Sets, 7.1.1 Galileo Sleeves, Horns, Beanie Beasties, Beastie Boxers, Stickers, CD Holders and more! We are going to have two booths set up, a freeBSD and an iXsystems booth, i will most likely be going back and forth so stop by and say Hi if you’re there :)

Here’s a link to OSCON in case you need more info  http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009

PS

Thursday night there is also going to be an after party for people who attended the tradeshow. Hopefully i will see some of you there! : )