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An Arcade game? Really?!
So, you may be asking yourself what's all this about this arcade cabinet that we've been working on? We're going to be at the #VTExpo Vermont Chamber of Commerce Business Expo at the Sheraton Burlington next Wednesday and Thursday, May 22-23rd, and we thought that bringing an arcade game would be nerdy and cool. But we didn't just go get an arcade game and bring it to the show, oh no...
Instead, we got an old Crystal Castles arcade game, and proceeded to completely gut it, replace all it's internals with current locally built components (thanks, Logic Supply!), built a new control panel and rebuild all the controllers, painted it, stickered, and loaded it up with Linux. Just because we can.
So, we'll be at the expo with this kick-ass toy. But, in keeping with our mission to do good work, and do our part to make the world a better place, we'll be there with a purpose. We'll be there collecting funds for our friends at the #VTNetwork Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Every quarter put in the machine will be donated, and matched by rbTech, to support the great work they do there.
So come up to #BTV and check us out, play a couple games of Tuxracer, and hang with the coolest bunch of nerds anywhere!
Come see us at the VTExpo!
Come see rbTech at the Vermont Chamber Business and Industry Expo at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in Burlington! We're gearing up for our booth at the Vt Business Expo in Burlington on May 23rd and 24th! We'll be there in force, showing off awesome gear like the Intel MFSYSv2. We're also going to be there with our awesome Open Source, Linux based Arcade machine running TuxRacer and collecting donations for the VT Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and supporting the amazing and important work they do throughout the state.
MIT Green Building Tetris hack
Today's bit of nerdy goodness... you have to love MIT! They've built a controller that runs the lights in the building, and in real time can be used to play a game of Tetris. Way cool, and way to go MIT! Check out the official page here...
Why are my favorite websites down today?
You've probably noticed that a number of high profile websites are offline today. Wikipedia, Craigslist, WordPress, Reddit, The Mozilla Foundation and others elected to take their enormously popular websites offline for up to 24 hours, and replace their front pages with information about this horrible legislation. Google has put the doodle on the right up as their homepage logo today as their contribution to the day of action.
rbTech announces partnership with Zimbra
The rbTech team is excited to announce our partnership with VMWare's Zimbra collaboration suite. In following with our long committment to giving our clients a wide variety of best-of-breed technology choices, we've done a long and thorough evaluation of the Groupware suites available, and after our exhaustive testing, are very pleased to announce that the Zimbra Collaboration Suite is our top pick for companies that desire the stability, security and flexibility of running Linux on their servers, while providing full Outlook functionality to their users.
Growing again?!
It's true, we're growing again! We've added a Service manager and 2 full time technicians to our roster, so that we can continue to provide the fantastic support you're all used to, bringing our full time staff up to 6 people. We are happy to welcome Steve, Jessica and Kyle to the rbTech family!
rbTech is growing again!
rbTechnologies, LLC is pleased to announce the addition of a new member of our technical team, and our move in to our new headquarters in East Montpelier!
Moving day!
It's official! We're moving! We have a purchase and sales agreement, and are closing on our new building on January 11th! The new space is at 1970 Route 14 South in East Montpelier (literally around the corner from the existing office), and we're all SUPER excited! Renovations start the day we close and we hope they'll take 2-4 weeks, and then we'll be announcing an open house/ office warming! Thanks to all of our customers for helping to make this growth in a down economy possible, we are truly grateful for your continued support, and we know that the new space will allow us to work better and more efficiently for you!
Fall update
Summer has turned into fall, and we're still up to our ears in projects! We're doing some really exciting things for a local school, and have polished our firewall code into a thing of beauty. We've beein installing new gear all over the state, and are looking forward to a busy winter season!
A busy summer at rbTech
If you haven't seen a lot of the rbTech staff lately, it's likely because we're buckling down in preparation for our annual session of drinking from the firehose, also known as August. For whatever reason, August seems to be the month of choice for our clients to take on large I.T projects. Of course, when our Clients take on large I.T. projects, it invariably means that *we* take them on! We're staying abreast of the tsunami and will continue to do so of course, delivering on our ongoing commitment to responsible, proactive information systems management. We hope you are all having a great summer as well!
