PLEASE HELP SAVE BSD MAG!!

June 30th, 2009

Hey guys,

So i just found out that BSD Magazine might not be cancelled if the sales increase significantly till the end of this week…

The publishers are questioning whether the sales dropped due to the economy or due the lack of interest in the magazine. Please help by purchasing any of the latest three issues at freebsdmall.com, this would be VERY helpful and it might help keep the magazine around!

Thanks!! = )

BSD Magazine has been cancelled :(

June 26th, 2009

The publisher of BSD Magazine has decided to cancel the magazine due to lower profits than expected. This is very sad news :( We had actually just started to send out letters and magazines to companies we thought would benefit from readers of BSD Mag. but unfortunately, it was a little too late. Oh well.. at least we tried saving it! Who knows though, maybe it’ll come back eventually.


R.I.P. BSD Mag.

If you’d like to make a purchase of the magazine, freebsdmall.com has them available. The last issue that will appear in stores will be the 04/2009 issue.

iXsystems Picnic!

June 25th, 2009

I LOVE picnics! Picnics are a must, specially in the summer time. We’ve been having company picnic’s for the past 3 years now. The first one was definitely the least wild out of all, the second one has got to be the wildest we’ve had, this years picnic was in between. I must say that last years was a lot of fun, one of my co-workers came up with the idea of making a beer bong out of supplies he purchased at home depot. The result was this:

The Excommunicator!


As you can see, everyone had a blast haha… Believe it or not, ive NEVER done a beer bong! wait a min… maybe i did once but i cant really remember so i guess i’ll say i havent.. I dunno what’s worse, a beer bong or a keg stand, ive done a keg stand before so i guess i’ll have to try out the beer bong soon haha! Although, i have not been shit faced in a really LONG time. I rather wake up early on my days off and go out for a nice hike or something ; )

Anywayz… Here are some pictures from this year’s picnic:

As you can see, this one was a lot mellower. We still got two kegs, one of hefeweizen which is one of my absolute favorites and some other dark ale. The Excommunicator was definitely missed.. maybe it will come back for the next one! We still had a good time, it wasn’t as sunny or warm as last year but it was still nice.

PS

We did have food, not just beer haha.. in case you’re wondering.

Finally upgraded to Galileo 7.1

June 23rd, 2009

I know im a little late hehe.. but i finally upgraded to 7.1! I’ve been trying it out for about 3 weeks now and i ABSOLUTELY LOVE it!  I was previously on Edison 1.5.1 which was cool but NEVER like 7.1

This has been a big change for me, I went from not being able to watch videos unless i was using Firefox (Win) which still looked kindda crappy  to being  able to watch anything i want or view any page that requires flash!! =D  I love the fact that now i can use Amarok and last.fm without having any issues like i did before when i was on 1.5. One of my favorites so far is being able to use the “street view” option on google maps hahaha… I know its silly but it is quite entertaining. The only thing that would make pc-bsd absolutely perfect would be if i could install the itunes app., that’s really the only reason i keep going back to windows, i have an iphone so i kindda need it for that.

Here’s a quick snap shot of how i customized my colors:

You like?? =P

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland!

June 23rd, 2009

So i dunno if you guys already know this but Tim Burton is doing a remake of Alice in Wonderland!!! Im so EXCITED and can’t wait for it to come out! I have always loved that movie, im actually having my tattoo artist working on an Alice in Wonderland half sleeve for me = )  Hopefully i have it done within the next 5 months.

Also, guess who’s gonna be playing the Mad Hatter??

Johnny Depp!!!

I know im not the only one who totally <3’s him haha… but they couldn’t have picked anyone better for this movie. This movie is totally gonna rule!!!

Open Source Conference 2009 in Malaysia

May 27th, 2009

Im sure some of you have already heard of this but i just wanted to say that Matt Olander, CTO of iXsystems is going to be attending MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference this year. He is going to be giving a talk about surviving the economy downturn with PC-BSD and open source applications.  The conference will be from May 31st to June 3rd at the Berjaya times square hotel and covention center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Here’s a link for more info about this conference: http://www.mscmalaysia.my/article/open+Source+Conference/open+Source+Conference

He will also be showing a little video he recorded of us using PC-BSD in our office. I’ll try to upload it if i can permission to do so, or maybe some pictures too!

New BSD Magazine and PC-BSD T-Shirts!

May 26th, 2009

Hey guys,

Ive been meaning to post a few pictures of the new Galileo t-shirts so here they are:

This time we had them made in both white and black, I personally don’t care too much for how the design turned out but to each its own.

There’s also a new BSD Magazine that came out about a month ago i believe, Here’s the cover:

in it you will find articles about:

  • BUILDING A FREEBSD WIRELESS ROUTER
  • A JABBER DATA TRANSFER COMPONENT
  • GETTING A GNOME DESKTOP ON FREEBSD
  • PACKAGING SOFTWARE FOR OPENBSD -PART 2
  • INSTALLING FREEBSD 7.1 WITH ENHANCED SECURITY
  • FREEBSD AND SNORT INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM
  • BUILD AN EMBEDDED VIDEO WEB SERVER WITH NETBSD

Galileo Edition out today!

April 10th, 2009

Hey guys,
It’s been a REALLY long time.. hope everyone is doing great!

I’m sure most of you already know this but i just wanted to mention that.. PC-BSD Version 7.1, Galileo Edition has been released today!

I can’t wait to get this installed on my computer, im still stuck on version 1.5 :( Hopefully i can update this week! :D

Here’s a link to the press release:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/04/prweb2307464.htm

and here’s the link to PC-BSD’s home page:

http://www.pcbsd.org/

It’s been a long time..

December 9th, 2008

Since i posted anything.. but i do have my reasons. We actually just had our company’s xmas party and it was awesome! = ) all i can say is that i had way more fun then i shouldve haha.. but its ok to do that every once in a while ;) Besides that, i also attended MeetBSD which was also A LOT of fun! I wasn’t expecting that many people to actually show up but they did and we all partied like “rockstars” haha.. Im sure you’ve all seen the pictures, if not you can view them here: http://meetbsd.com/gallery

Oh and… i had been meaning to post a few pictures from Halloween (my Birthday!!), so here are a few:

pS

notice the dates are wrong haha

oh AND i did a slight change to my hair, im not half blonde anymore, im all brunette again = )

PSS

pcbsdbabe and i need help making a new layout!!!! Someone help us please!! i already have some ideas.

<3,

Me

Track your partner now!!!

October 14th, 2008

Have you ever wished you could track your wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend or just anyone in general? well now there is a way to do it and that is through satellite tracking!!! just click on this link and start tracking away = ) http://www.trackapartner.com

I actually just tracked my boyfriend and was shocked to see where he was at!!!

Enjoy :D

<3,

Me