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Live Blogging Day 2 at Government 2.0 Camp

Written by: Mahdi Gharavi

It has been another hazy morning in Georgetown, we could have used better wheater & less humidity.  Today has been a smaller crowd with a few different faces (some people could not make it on Friday) which is typical of the second days at Barcamps.  Many people fall off cause of weekend enguagements, family responsibilities

Live Blogging Day 1 at Government 2.0 Camp

Written by: Mahdi Gharavi

The MetroStar Team is down in Georgetown at Government 2.0 Camp conversing with the Gov 2.0 tribe.  We have been running into people we have been virtual peers with for awhile, and getting a chance to talk about important leading issues of concern for our government.  The opportunities are here, there are many problems that

Gearing Up For Government 2.0 Camp

Written by: Mahdi Gharavi

It has been a busy week getting everything prepared of for Government 2.0 Camp.  I know a lot of the team is excited to go and many people have not been to barcamp style events before, so I am sure it will be fun. Thanks to everybody who helped get everything behind the scenes together.

We Are Small But We Are Strong!

Written by: Ali Manouchehri

It’s funny when you have to worry about growing pains in business.  I compare this phenomenon to a ten year old kid, where it has learned to walk and talk.  Yet, it is still vulnerable to its surroundings = the economy, friends = partnerships, and neighbors = other businesses or competition. The other day I

Blog Migration

Written by: Daniel Nguyen

I am in the process of migrating & centralizing all of the company blog’s into one united multiauthor blog.  Thanks everyone for you cooperation & patience through the process, everything should be good to go later this week.   Keep in mind that everything here is under-construction, but if you have any feedback I am happy

SUPERNOVA is Mobile

Written by: Michael Robucci

We just logged in to WordPress for the first time from the outside & did so effortlessly with a blackberry. The page appears very clean and well organized even from this 2.5 inch screen.

Hello Stars!

Written by: Daniel Nguyen

MetroStar Systems has it’s first multi-author company blog! SuperNOVA is alive & socializing…

Blackberry Enterprise Server Install

Written by: Michael Robucci

Proper Installation of a Blackberry Enterprise wen’t fairly smooth in our organization.   One flag that came up wast he fact that the BES software should not be installed on a 64 bit windows environment.   The latest version 4.1 is a x86 (32bit) build only.   If installed on a 64 bit environment BES will disable any

Spiceworks

Written by: Michael Robucci

I recently came across a handy tool for the network admin called Spiceworks.   It can be found on their main page, Spiceworks.com.  This handy tool is completely free, with a not-so-annoying ad section on the upper right.   It is a web based tool that installs an instance of SQL Server Express to store data.