Ethan’s blog
This blog contains a mix of personal news, thoughts, and interesting photos. I’ll try to categorize posts so that you can only see the stuff in which you’re interested. Use tags to find blog posts of particular interest.
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Using TrueNAS for a home storage server
Feb. 12, 2022 • Ethan Miller
I just purchased an iXsystems TrueNAS Mini X to replace my 5 year old Synology RAID box. There were a lot of reasons for this; here are the biggest ones. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD; Synology i...
Why I left Facebook
Jan. 25, 2022 • Ethan Miller
My biggest New Year's resolution was to leave Facebook, permanently. Like many people, a lot of my social contact was run through Facebook, so why quit it cold turkey? Here are the primary reasons ...
I'm retiring from UCSC!
Jan. 12, 2022 • Ethan Miller
I will retire from my position as a tenured full professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz at the end of June 2023, at ...