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First all, Happy New Year to all! This is the first post of 2012, and I want to give my 2 cents on why tech stock, especially new IPOs aren’t doing so hot. Market not understanding value of tech? This is a common excuse tech companies use to explain their lukewarm stock performance. Just look [...]

This was an insanely well-written biography for Steve Jobs that covered everything from the history of his adoptive parents, his early days at school to the eventual success he had with the companies he built. Walter Isaacson did a great job to recreate the past events and more importantly the emotions and struggles of the person – [...]

iOS 4 Apple recently released its latest build of iOS (formerly iPhoneOS) version 4. This is perhaps the most significantly improved iOS version to date. It adds multi-tasking, Folders, Spell check, enhanced Spotlight search, enhanced Mail app (multiple Exchange accounts and unified inbox), enhanced Contacts app and the ability to edit Playlists in iPod. Here [...]

I apologize to everyone for the looooonnnggg wait for this post. I have swapped out a few hardware components as well as OS for this NAS build. It wasn’t all pretty… and at times it felt frustrating… However, my NAS box and I have lived to tell the story. In this post I will walk [...]

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 [...]