Welcome to Ethan Miller’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. Comments are welcome on all of the posts . You’ll need to create an account to post
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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 is based on Linux. FreeBSD is a more stable OS, and is better designed. TrueNAS supports the ZFS file system; Synology doesn’t. ZFS is
I will retire from my position as a tenured full professor at UC Santa Cruz at the end of June 2023, at which time I will become an emeritus faculty member. By waiting until the end of the 2022–23 academic year, I’ll have time to graduate several PhD students this year, and to wrap up several UCSC internal projects. I
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 for doing so. First, Facebook is a massive invasion of privacy—mine, and everyone else’s. I’m giving my thoughts, social connections, photos, and more to a multi-billion
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Lisa and I purchased three acres of land in southern Oregon on the Rogue River, and are building a vacation house there. We’d love to have friends, new and old, visit us at the new home, once it’s completed. The next blog post gives more details on the house, but is password protected. I’d be happy to email the password to