Re: Surviving yahoo's frontage and App Store featured listing

2014-08-14 Thread Matt Olander
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Seo Townsend wrote: > I am a developer at fittr, we make a fitness app that was recently featured > on the yahoo homepage and app store top featured listings. > > We are a very small company with a small budget. We were not prepared for > the onslaught of traffi

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-02 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Matt Olander wrote: > >> This is like trying to predict automobile technology and dominant >> car-makers by 1905. There's always room for competition. Take a look >> at what&#

Re: Leaving the Desktop Market

2014-04-01 Thread Matt Olander
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> That is why on this date I propose that we cease competing on the >> desktop market. FreeBSD should declare 2014 to be "year of the Linux >> desktop" and start to rip out the pieces of

FreeBSD Wallpaper with widescreen resolutions

2011-11-21 Thread Matt Olander
Hey folks, We ended up making a few new wallpapers here at work for the next release for resolutions that are a bit more modern. Here's a link: http://pcbsd.org/get-it/artwork/freebsd/wallpaper Feel free to spread the word, host the files elsewhere, etc. Cheers, -matt ___

Re: FreeBSD gear (Clothes, machines)

2009-09-25 Thread Matt Olander
Sorry for the top post but I only have some quick comments ;-) Great post, Allen. I'm glad you had a good experience with the mall, Allen. In fact, you are correct, we also host the Slackware site/store for Patrick and handle all the production details and shipping logistics. It's better for every

SAVED!! (was Re: Save BSD magazine)

2009-07-07 Thread Matt Olander
2009/7/1 Matt Olander : > We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine. Not > having the ability to order and pay for a subscription online really > hurt them, I think. This is why we started offering it through the > FreeBSD Mall. > > The BSD magazine is availa

Re: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-02 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Dru Lavigne wrote: > >> > Does FreeBSD Mall ship internationally? If so, should we suggest that >> > people >> > interested in saving the mag can order there? >> >> Absolutely. If you can't find the mag locally, order from the Mall and >> we'll report final sales fi

Re: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-01 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Dru Lavigne wrote: > >> >> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:39:34AM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: >> >> > We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine. Not >> >> > having the ability to order and pay for a su

Re: Fwd: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-01 Thread Matt Olander
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Randi Harper wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:39:34AM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: >> > We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine.

Fwd: Save BSD magazine

2009-07-01 Thread Matt Olander
We are in contact with them in an attempt to save the magazine. Not having the ability to order and pay for a subscription online really hurt them, I think. This is why we started offering it through the FreeBSD Mall. The BSD magazine is available at Borders and Barnes & Noble. We'll be doing our

Re: FreeBSD boot camp @ Fosdem 2009

2009-03-04 Thread Matt Olander
On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Rodrigo OSORIO (ros) wrote: Hi everyone, You can found here some of the pictures I took during the fosdem 2009 event it may illustrate all the fantastic work done by Daniel and his crew during this looong weekend Regards The pictures : http://www.bebik.net/p

Re: questions on freebsdmall promo Items

2009-01-09 Thread Matt Olander
On Jan 9, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Julian Stacey wrote: If pictures on commercial vendor site http://www.freebsdmall.com are not big enough, tell them not us, (well maybe copy us, but primarily: Tell them ! Their address was not on your posting. Nothing we can do, Unless you are lucky & a freebsdmall.c

Re: LWE - booth?

2008-08-04 Thread Matt Olander
On Aug 4, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On Aug 4, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Matt Olander wrote: On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Dan Langille wrote: Anyone doing the booth thing at LWE? Hey Dan, Is that LinuxWorld Expo in SF? We'll have a pretty big presence there this year. Be

Re: LWE - booth?

2008-08-04 Thread Matt Olander
On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Dan Langille wrote: Anyone doing the booth thing at LWE? Hey Dan, Is that LinuxWorld Expo in SF? We'll have a pretty big presence there this year. Besides having about 7 people at the booth, we arranged to give out a PC-BSD CD to every attendee to LinuxWorld i

Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-19 Thread Matt Olander
the next couple of months. In the meantime, just in case, it could be worthwhile to further our support of linux-flash9 under FreeBSD. best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project htt

Re: BSD Magazine Electronic and Printed versions Subscription

2008-05-08 Thread Matt Olander
ther or not I'll be spending my money on it ;) .. or > who's gonna be writting the articles? Lucas? Lavigne?, De Raadt?, Dillon? > etc?, etc?). > > Thanks in advance > Your customer wannabe Hey Gonzalo! I can attest that it's real. I've got a copy on my

Re: FreeBSD Presence at NYCBSDCon

2008-03-20 Thread Matt Olander
On Mar 20, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Steven Kreuzer wrote: Greetings- I am writing on behalf of the admin team that is currently organizing NYCBSDCon 2008. We currently have Columbia University booked for October 11th and 12th of this year and among everything else going on, I would like to get the

Re: [OT] Helpful Advocacy...

2007-12-29 Thread Matt Olander
neat. What I'm curious about is why this would be the number one question for him. Does anybody know if the Ukrainian government is using KDE/FreeBSD heavily? best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The Fr

Re: [OT] Helpful Advocacy...

2007-12-29 Thread Matt Olander
On Dec 29, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Matt Olander wrote: On Dec 29, 2007, at 4:53 AM, TooMany Secrets wrote: Ucranian President making a note about KDE and FreeBSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOWzKr0GRU Great! Can anybody translate this? Nevermind, I see a synopsis under About This Video

Re: [OT] Helpful Advocacy...

2007-12-29 Thread Matt Olander
On Dec 29, 2007, at 4:53 AM, TooMany Secrets wrote: Ucranian President making a note about KDE and FreeBSD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyOWzKr0GRU Great! Can anybody translate this? best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.

MeetBSD in Poland!

2007-11-09 Thread Matt Olander
Just a reminder, MeetBSD starts next week November 17-18 in Warsaw, Poland. There is still time to register :-) http://2007.meetbsd.org/en/ best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source"  http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project  

Processor Magazine Server Downtime Article

2007-08-30 Thread Matt Olander
21p35.asp&guid= www@, can we get this posted in the "In the Media" section on the freebsd.org website? Thanks! -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source"  http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project         http://www.F

Hitting the Streets

2007-08-13 Thread Matt Olander
-matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source"  http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project         http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop!                             http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113                     Fax

Re: FreeBSD user statistics

2007-08-01 Thread Matt Olander
is just me though... Haha, keep letting them know about it! -matt > > 2007/8/1, Matt Olander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:21 pm, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > Are there any projects out there collecting data on numbers of FreeBSD > > > users? I&#

Re: FreeBSD user statistics

2007-07-31 Thread Matt Olander
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:21 pm, Chad Perrin wrote: > Are there any projects out there collecting data on numbers of FreeBSD > users? I'm interested in pretty much anything along those lines, > including analogs to Fedora's "smolt" reporting software, the Linux > Counter ,

Re: The sorry state of open source today

2007-04-19 Thread Matt Olander
way the system currently works. best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop! http://www.pcbsd.org Phon

Re: BSD + Adobe Flash News Item

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Olander
Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 08:59:45AM -0700, Matt Olander wrote: While Adobe hasn't agreed to port Flash to FreeBSD (yet!), they have agreed to re-distribution of the Flash player. I obtained 2 separate re-distribution agreements, one for PC-BSD and one for the Fr

BSD + Adobe Flash News Item

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Olander
t holding my breathe either. Hopefully, now that we've got the right contacts at Adobe, it will be easier to pursue the port. The more people that can pick this news up in their blogs, the better. Also, if someone can post it to the News section of the FreeBSD site, great! -matt -- Ma

Re: allBSD's "Stop the Blob" Campaign

2007-03-21 Thread Matt Olander
#x27;t agree to the firmware lincense, don't use it. This *is* redistribution of the firmware, exactly as you suggested, and it will have no detrimental impact in ou attempts to negotiate further. You are doing the world a disservice by spreading FUD. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Matt Olander
d and I missed it ;-) -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Projecthttp://www.FreeBSD.org BSD on the Desktop!http://www.pcbsd.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113

[Fwd: porting the RealPlayer]

2006-08-20 Thread Matt Olander
p and any thoughts you have would be greatly appreciated. -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax: (408)943-4101 --

Re: concerns about linux

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Olander
ustomers as well. They must be doing something right ;-) Cheers, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 11

LinuxWorld Boston 2006 Pics

2006-04-10 Thread Matt Olander
more and more requests for FreeBSD support. Cheers, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project http://www.FreeBSD.org Phone: (408)943-4100 ext. 113 Fax

LinuxWorld Boston

2006-02-21 Thread Matt Olander
show can be found at http://www.linuxworldexpo.com We will also have a booth for FreeBSD at the LinuxWorld show in San Francisco this year. As that show draws near, I will post more information. Cheers, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - "Servers for Open Source" http://www.iXs

Re: Linuxworld Boston

2006-01-21 Thread Matt Olander
the FreeBSD project. I'll update as soon as we hear back. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Projecthttp://www.FreeBSD.org (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax -- "Those who don't read have n

Re: does bsdmall really sells freebsd cd ?

2006-01-15 Thread Matt Olander
s anyone ordered and received > freebsd 6 cds from them ? I've had a similar experience with their magazine. We order all our FreeBSD CD's through freebsdmall.com and I've never had a problem. FreeBSD Mall is formerly the Walnut Creek CD-ROM operation. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO,

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 outperforms Linux in raw data throughput

2005-11-07 Thread Matt Olander
testing data that we do in production and make an attempt to correlate it. -matt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com ww

Sun Cobalt ported to FreeBSD

2005-09-09 Thread Matt Olander
Hello, Here is the press release announcing the port of the Sun Cobalt to FreeBSD. I'd love to see this get as much exposure as possible so please foward it to any interested media outlets that you may know of ;-) http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb282859.htm Cheers, -matt --

Re: BSDLive: FreeBSD Mini CD

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Olander
llion places to buy them from. Cheers, -matt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com www.freebsd.org ___ freebsd-advocacy@

BSDLive: FreeBSD Mini CD

2005-08-30 Thread Matt Olander
or to carry in your wallet/purse. http://www.offmyserver.com/bsdlive Cheers, -matt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver.com www.freebsd.org ___

FreeBSD article on c/net's main news page!

2005-08-19 Thread Matt Olander
If you haven't seen it already, there's a great FreeBSD 6 article on news.com's main page: http://news.com.com/ A direct link to the article: http://news.com.com/FreeBSD+6.0+to+target+wireless+devices/ 2100-7344_3-5839526.html?tag=nefd.top -mattt ---- Matt Olander Chief Tec

Re: LWCE

2005-07-07 Thread Matt Olander
back from the Show Manager at IDG. If not, maybe we'll just bring beastie to walk the floor and pass out some CDs ;-) Cheers, -matt Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project (408)943-4100 Phone (408)943-4101 Fax www.offmyserver

Re: Negative Review of FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Olander
ntegrator and manufacturer. Frequently, we see FreeBSD supporting server hardware that has trouble running CentOS, RedHat Enterprise, etc. Give him a few days and we'll submit this to BSDNews, DaemonNews, etc. -matt ---- Matt Olander Chief Technology Officer, OffMyServer, Inc. Public

Re: Main site makeover

2005-05-29 Thread Matt Olander
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 08:51:51AM +0200, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > It evolved into this: > > http://czv.com/zones/beastie/freebsd/freebsdweb1j.gif Ah. Thanks Chris, that's what I was looking for. I think that's a pretty nice looking frontpage design! -matt -- Matt Olander

Re: Main site makeover

2005-05-28 Thread Matt Olander
t & remote administration http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/ ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy- [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: BSD Certification Group press release

2005-03-15 Thread Matt Olander
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