Thursday - August 30, 2007

 Testing Mac OS X audio playback during heavy network load.


 A ZDnet blogger asks whether Apple's Mac OS X throttles network bandwidth during multimedia playback.  I create and execute an experiment in an attempt to answer his question.



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Thursday - January 25, 2007

Experiment: Microsoft Windows Vista on an old PC


A re-post of a recent /. journal entry of mine (for those of you who don't pay attention to my /. journal!).

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Sunday - January 01, 2006

The end of an era.


Brad laments the end of his use of IBM's OS/2.

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Tuesday - July 19, 2005

Brad to attend University of Victoria (British Columbia) in September. 


Brad is starting his M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Victoria in September. 

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Sunday - July 17, 2005

The tribulations of hard disk failure. 


Brad's PowerBook hard drive decided it had worked long enough. Here' an account of the tribulations Brad had in getting back up and running.  

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Sunday - June 05, 2005

On Apple and Intel 


Apple Computer announced today that it is switching from Freescale and IBM G4 and G5 CPUs to Intel CPUs. Is the end of the world nigh? 

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Sunday - May 29, 2005

In defence of Cocoa-Java. 


The Cocoa-Java bindings get a rough ride in some circles, and for good reason. Still, there are times when it makes sense to take advantage of this technology. 

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Tuesday - May 03, 2005

eHealth 2005 Conference Report: "Doers" don't get Open Source. 


There are billions of dollars available in Canada to implement IT solutions for health care, but it could all be wasted because the "doers" don't understand the concept of Open Source. 

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Tuesday - April 19, 2005

LinuxWorld Canada Report. 


Brad spent the day on the LinuxWorld Canada conference floor today, talking up the jSyncManager and seeing what's interesting and new. Here's a report and what he saw. 

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Tuesday - April 05, 2005

Brad to attend LinuxWorld in Toronto April 19th/20th 2005. 


I'm going to be at LinuxWorld in Toronto on either April 19th or 20th. Are you? 

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Friday - April 01, 2005

Welcome! 


Welcome to my new web log (aka "blog"). Read up on some of my Open Source projects and contributions, and some of the things I'm currently working on and thinking about. An introduction. 

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