FreeBSD and Astronomy

2009-03-24 Thread Matt Olander
Hi! Is anybody into astronomy on FreeBSD? I'd love to hook up a telescope to my FreeBSD laptop and use some software to control it while we look at stars on the monitor, zoom in, and the scope moves. This would be fun taking to local astronomy groups as well as conferences :-) Any advice

Flash on FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD Bounties)

2009-03-06 Thread Matt Olander
On Mar 6, 2009, at 4:56 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: I definitely prefer Opera for normal browsing because it's faster and has more useful features, so I use it most of the time. I only start up Firefox when I need to visit a site that requires Flash, which doesn't happen too

Re: Announcing FreeBSD Bounties!

2009-03-05 Thread Matt Olander
On Mar 5, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Hywel Mallett wrote: A few times in the past some people (notably the guys from rsync.net) have offered bounties to encourage FreeBSD development. These have usually been announced on the mailing lists, and if others want to offer their support, then they can,

Re: Production Engineer Position at Yahoo. -- Not FreeBSD Anymore?

2008-09-08 Thread Matt Olander
On Sep 8, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Nicole wrote: So much for Yahoo being mostly FreeBSD based? :( Waaah They still have many FreeBSD servers but have ended up with quite a mix of operating systems, including Linux and Solaris. Much of that is through company acquisitions with infrastructures

Re: OSCON anyone?

2008-07-21 Thread Matt Olander
On Jul 20, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Who is in town for OSCON? I'm here until Saturday. Hey Dan! I'm flying in on Tuesday. I'll drop you a note when I get in. -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations

Re: where is a lightweight, simple word processor?

2008-05-06 Thread Matt Olander
On Tuesday 06 May 2008 4:09 pm, Murray Stokely wrote: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jeremy C. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking for a simple word processor that supports formatted text, different fonts and maybe bullet lists. And is close to WYSIWYG. I don't care about

Re: Mountain biking in the San Jose area

2007-10-11 Thread Matt Olander
pavement and I can come along with the recumbent! -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

Re: freebsdmall.com prices

2007-09-03 Thread Matt Olander
for a little piece of internet history for each FreeBSD release, but it is also a tremendous help offsetting a portion of the costs for our advocacy and hardware support efforts for the FreeBSD Project. best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source http://www.iXsystems.com

Re: FreeBSD t-shirt

2007-05-24 Thread Matt Olander
www.freebsdmall.com. Some of the new shirts (that I took to BSDCan) are up there now and if the new logo FreeBSD t-shirt isn't up yet, it should be soon :-) best, -matt -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open Source  http://www.iXsystems.com Public Relations, The FreeBSD Project         http

Re: Hardware support

2007-05-12 Thread Matt Olander
case is 8. I'm partial to our solutions. Here's a 2U with 12 bays that takes 750GB SATA: http://www.ixsystems.com/storageNAS.php* *Dan, I'm sure we sell the system as a stand-alone solution, without the management software. -matt * * -- Matt Olander CTO, iXsystems - Servers for Open

Re: A Testament to Stability and FreeBSD

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Olander
has got to be one of the most upgradeable operating systems ever. Good story :-) 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

Re: greetings

2006-11-06 Thread Matt Olander
not pretty, but it does the job. Hopefully, we'll be using Zimbra on FreeBSD soon though. Cheers, -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

Re: So what's FreeBSD doing at Linux World...?

2006-08-18 Thread Matt Olander
wrote and we also handed out many many BSDCan and FreeBSD Foundation flyers. I was even making people wait for their BSD cd to get burned on the spot in order to separate the bizarre freebie moochers that wander these things like linux zombies. A good time was had by all. -matt -- Matt

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 -- Matt