Posts from ‘November, 2010’

“Too Asian”? – MacLeans.ca on Canadian Universities

The article was removed shortly from MacLeans due to “controversies”. I personally think it is an interesting and insightful read. The article is rather lengthy, but it addresses many real issues in universities in Canada and the US. (esp. University of Waterloo, which is my school.. and I am Asian.)  =p Update: the article has [...]

Update on ZFS, OpenSolaris and our NAS build.

A few months ago I wrote a post detailing my most recent NAS build, running FreeNAS powered by ZFS. Since then the post has gather a fair bit of attention from curious readers and people who are looking to finally DIY an alternative to commercial NAS products, especially the Drobo. So what has happened in [...]