Jason Eckert's Website and Blog

Microsoft ReFS vs Oracle ZFS - FIGHT!

2014-02-25 +

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Section: Blog Posts

Last night, I gave a presentation at WWITPRO (Waterloo Wellington IT Professional Users Group) that demonstrated the differences between ReFS and ZFS. This blog summarizes the key details.

The evolution of Information Technology

2013-08-07 +

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Section: Blog Posts

The names we've used have change a lot over the years...

Marshall McLuhan was right

2013-04-13 +

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Section: Blog Posts

The medium is the message.

Mocap in action

2012-09-13 +

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Section: Blog Posts

I was one of 50 people invited to Ubisoft’s unveiling of their new state-of-the-art motion capture (mocap) studio in Toronto.

A successful hackathon at our Kitchener campus!

2012-09-10 +

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Section: Blog Posts

An amazing 3-day event sponsored by Microsoft.

Arcade game CPUs

2012-09-02 +

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Section: Blog Posts

Being in tech, I ALWAYS want to know what's driving my tech.

How the term 'cloud' was invented

2012-07-26 +

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Section: Blog Posts

To us IT folks, it was quite obvious...

QNX on a moon rover

2012-04-02 +

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Section: Blog Posts

A new project - we'll see where it goes...

SOPA and PIPA

2012-01-21 +

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Section: Blog Posts

This week has been an amazing week for digital free speech - it was the first time that copyright abuse by organizations/lobbyists has been brought to the attention of the general population en mass.

2011 in review

2011-12-30 +

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Section: Blog Posts

This has been one heck of a year, that’s for sure! So, I’ll spend this post reflecting on some of the key events that have happened to me personally, within the tech industry, and around the world in general (with my cheeky perspectives of course).