Thursday - August 30, 2007

Category Image  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

Category Image 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

Category Image The end of an era.


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

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Wednesday - August 31, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure, Day 7 (Lake Louise to Victoria) 


A rough start, more mountains, and the final destination. 

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Monday - August 29, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure, Day 6 (Drumheller to Lake Louise) 


Terrible lizards, ancient finds, a milkshake, and tea at the top of the world. 

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Monday - August 29, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure, Day 5 (Brandon, MB to Drumheller, AB) 


Brad crosses another time zone, runs out of gas, enters two Provinces, and encounters dinosaurs! 

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Monday - August 29, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure, Day 4 (Winnipeg to Brandon) 


Brad makes a relatively short trip today to visit an old friend. 

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Saturday - August 27, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure, Day 3 (Thunder Bay to Winnipeg) 


A near miss, the next Province, and some Native culture, and some splurging are all on tap for today. 

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Friday - August 26, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure, Day 2: Sault Ste. Marie to Thunder Bay. 


It's the second day of driving, and Brad is about to trek through some of the prettiest parts of Ontario. 

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Thursday - August 25, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure, Day 1 (Bolton to Sault Ste. Marie) 


Brad's 4500km trek begins! 

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Wednesday - August 24, 2005

Category Image Cross Canada Adventure -- Prologue 


Brad is leaving Ontario and is moving to Victoria, British Columbia -- by car. It's a roughly 4500km trek, and Brad will be blogging his travels along the way.  

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Tuesday - July 19, 2005

Category Image 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

Category Image 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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Thursday - July 07, 2005

Category Image Sudoku Solver v0.7 


Brad adds triplet-set detection, adds an icon, and fixes a bug that caused the number 9 to be ignored. 

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Monday - June 27, 2005

Category Image jSyncManager OS X Transport now in CVS 


Brad has been busy weekends trying to code his own jSyncManager USB transport plug-in for Mac OS X using JNI and Apple's IOKit. Here is a quick status report. 

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