I have been thinking about getting a NAS device for home use for quite some time, I even bought 2 500GB hard drives a few weeks back during a NCIX weekly sale. Originally I wanted to build a DIY NAS with unused equipment using either FreeNAS, OpenSolaris (with ZFS) or plain Linux. However at the [...]

Found this online, after reading it I feel I will be a much better father.

I’ve suffered my first legitimate sport injury, first broken bone(s) ever, during the last indoor soccer game of the season.
I heard 2 pops when I went down so I knew I wasn’t going to get away with a simple ankle sprain, but the X-ray showed a much more chilling story. I had to have surgery [...]

For our annual getaway we decided to visit Las Vegas for the first time. We stayed at the mirage and overall the trip was good, nothing spectacular. However armed with lessons we learned this time, next time will definitely be better.
Mostly, we did some shopping at the outlets as the malls on the strip are [...]

I never liked soccer, always felt it’s slow and boring, a bit odd consider I like baseball. However I’ve signed up for a season of indoor soccer from Fusion Co-ed Soccer. This is my second try at indoor soccer, last time was at Mount Royal intramural several years ago and it was PHYSICAL, people killing [...]

…to Confederation Park/Kensington, unfortunately we are saving money for Las Vegas therefore Confederation Park and Kensington will have to do, for now.
Not much to do in Confederation Park, I did taste some mushrooms ;)

Once we had our fun at the park, we moved on to Kensington. Most shops there are too expensive for us anyway, [...]

After several weekends of sweat and tear, the deck is near completion!

Wait, this is the new BBQ we bought BEFORE our deck is 100% done.

Recently upgrade to Shaw Extreme-I

Before - Shaw regular high-speed

We bought a place in Tuscany, NW corner in Calgary. Potentially a lot of DIY project opportunities will be available. Busy summer!

A daemon is a program that runs in the background, enabling you to do other work in the foreground, and is independent of control from a terminal. Which daemons can you safely play with? Which should you leave running? A nice introduction to daemons.
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