Posts from ‘March, 2010’

April, 1st 2010 Update: Booted from the FreeNAS embed USB image (0.71.5094 nightly build). I only have 2 drives in the box due to the lack of a PCI riser card for my SATA controller. I made a RAIDZ1 ZFS pool (pretty much a mirror right now since it’s only 2 drives, exactly what the [...]

That Katy Perry song sounds so appropriate for what’s happening with Google’s operation in China. It has finally made a statement this Monday to retract from its agreement to censor Chinese search results. Google will start redirecting Google.cn to Google’s servers in Hong Kong which deliver uncensored results. (Ever since, Hong Kong was returned back to the [...]

After a few months work with the drobo and trying to give it NAS capabilities via TonidoPlug. I got it to work, and I’m getting same performance as the droboshare for half  the cost. HOWEVER… I’m getting 3-5mb/s Write, and 3-20mb/s Read. The speed fluctuation is related to the limited CPU and I/O resource on [...]

I find it hard to believe that just a few months ago I didn’t even like Twitter… or any of the micro-blogging sites out there. However, that really did change once I got Tweetdeck installed on my iPhone… and since I’m super bored at work… there was little reason not to tweet. Today I realized [...]

Many iPhone, Windows Mobile, and S60 users are enjoying the free Exchange sync service Google is providing. It is basically an Exchange layer for Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar. Sounds sweet right? Think again, Google Sync has been having a lot of technical problems lately. Just today, the service was complete offline for hours. The [...]