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Recorded Friday, November 20, 2009 as part of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce [...]

Although email may still be one of the greatest productivity tools we have, it hasn’t advanced much since its introduction in the early 70s. Sure, we can now add little smileys and distracting animations, but when it comes to sharing business documents and other files, we often run into a number of snags–from overzealous virus [...]

Sounds like a Scooby-Doo episode written especially for us network nerds, no?
We recently noticed that Windows 2003 SBS servers on Hyper-V were routinely throwing 1054 errors (Source: Userenv) in the Application log, indicating that they could not find a Domain Controller on the network.  Very interesting, seeing as they are the Domain Controllers for these [...]

We’re hiring! We’re looking for somebody with strong communication and organization skills to provide administrative support to a number of key areas, including sales and marketing, bookkeeping, and office operations. Check out the job description and please pass this along to anybody you think might be a good fit.

Benson Shavey is the most recent addition to X-BAR– joining the team in December as a System and Network Engineer.
Benson has an unusual trait for a system and network engineer: he likes to talk about technology in a way that people actually comprehend. “I always try to have conversations that anyone from a beginner to [...]

Waiting for the bus isn’t the most enjoyable way to spend your time. In fact, it seems like this is one of the main reason for not taking the bus, which is too bad because using mass transit one of the most effective ways of reducing our individual contributions to global climate change.
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Amanda Rankin joined our team in the fall of 2008 as a part-time project manager. We quickly learned that project management was just one of her many strengths that the she’s a joiner at heart – so we quickly put her to work in a number of other capacities. This past fall we promoted her [...]