Sayan's BlogWorld » content distribution http://sayanc.net/blog highlighting the future's bizzare as it transforms into the present's mundane Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:16:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 I don’t think that on the deck of the Enterprise we’ll have rotating rust http://sayanc.net/blog/2010/11/27/i-don%e2%80%99t-think-that-on-the-deck-of-the-enterprise-we%e2%80%99ll-have-rotating-rust/ http://sayanc.net/blog/2010/11/27/i-don%e2%80%99t-think-that-on-the-deck-of-the-enterprise-we%e2%80%99ll-have-rotating-rust/#comments Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:10:21 +0000 Sayan http://sayanc.net/blog/?p=1085 I have been thinking about making my own ZFS-based mini-NAS using FreeNAS for while.

ZFS has often been called one of the best innovations to come out of Sun Microsystems.

During the course of my reading about ZFS I came across this interesting interview of the developers of the ZFS filesystem where they mention “I don’t think that on the deck of the Enterprise we’ll have rotating rust”.

This interview from 2007 mentions how ZFS can be leveraged for high-performance database systems- this is distinct possibility now with the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.

A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore – ACM Queue

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]]> http://sayanc.net/blog/2009/02/09/google-calendar-and-contact-syncing-for-iphone-and-windows-mobile-devices/feed/ 0 TED | Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight http://sayanc.net/blog/2008/03/14/ted-dr-jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight/ http://sayanc.net/blog/2008/03/14/ted-dr-jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:57:35 +0000 Sayan http://sayanc.net/blog/2008/03/14/ted-dr-jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight/ This is a spectacular talk… one of the best yet on TED so far.

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

]]> http://sayanc.net/blog/2008/03/14/ted-dr-jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight/feed/ 5 Bill Clinton talks about conflicts, climate change and more… http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/11/05/bill-clinton-talks-about-conflicts-climate-change-and-more/ http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/11/05/bill-clinton-talks-about-conflicts-climate-change-and-more/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:20:00 +0000 Sayan http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/11/05/bill-clinton-talks-about-conflicts-climate-change-and-more/ Check out this very engaging talk (embedded below) by former President Bill Clinton. He was a keynote speaker at the 2007 U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Summit hosted by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels. Worldchanging.org has good overview of his speech here.

UPDATE: Removed embedded video due to broken link.

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]]> http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/10/06/open-source-hardware/feed/ 0 Amazing image resizing http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/29/amazing-image-resizing/ http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/29/amazing-image-resizing/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:36:47 +0000 Sayan http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/29/amazing-image-resizing/ TechCrunch reports that this technology is so revolutionary that Adobe snapped up co-inventor Shai Avidan on a moments notice. Check out the video to see how neat this is…

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]]> http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/27/836/feed/ 2 Hans Rosling’s jaw-dropping demo, on TED.com http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/05/hans-roslings-jaw-dropping-demo-on-tedcom/ http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/05/hans-roslings-jaw-dropping-demo-on-tedcom/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:34:41 +0000 Sayan http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/05/hans-roslings-jaw-dropping-demo-on-tedcom/ I am a big fan of TED and it never fails to wow. In this presentation Hans Rosling demonstrates visually a myriad of development indicators and at one point argues that Africa is not a basket case but has made tremendous strides in social development.

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]]> http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/08/05/art-of-innovation-guy-kawasaki/feed/ 0 Leveraging Google Maps to control epidemics http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/05/02/leveraging-google-maps-to-control-epidemics/ http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/05/02/leveraging-google-maps-to-control-epidemics/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 04:13:46 +0000 Sayan http://sayanc.net/blog/2007/05/02/leveraging-google-maps-to-control-epidemics/ Came across this neat idea of laying disease location data over google maps. ArsTechnica covers it in its article titled, “The wisdom of unhealthy crowds: Web 2.0 takes on the flu“

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Osprey- an ibiblio project has been slashdotted.
My work at ibiblio is not connected to Osprey but I very much feel and believe in the open spirit of ibiblio.

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