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Steve Woz on our closed source education system
May 14th
A very succinct message from Steve Woz on how our education system(s) kills creativity in its quest for a one size fits all approach to education…
This is so true all over the world… the waste of human potential is the greatest waste
Via EEtimes and DangerousPrototypes
I don’t think that on the deck of the Enterprise we’ll have rotating rust
Nov 27th
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.
Open source hardware
Oct 6th
Interesting conversation from the 2007 O’Reilly Open Source Convention between Phillip Torrone (Senior Editor, Make magazine) and Limor Fried (Owner, Adafruit Industries)
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