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I recently had the pleasure of being invited to give a talk about Backup Bouncer to the University of Utah Mac Managers Meeting. I spoke a bit about Backup Bouncer’s history, gave a brief tour of the HFS+ filesystem, and gave a demo. If you’re interested in the topic you can download the slides, audio, and video from iTunes U:

Slides

Audio

Video

Or you can just search the iTunes Store for “Backup Bouncer”. Surprisingly enough, my talk is the only hit. ;-)

It was nice to get a chance to talk about my work, but a bit strange to give a talk over Skype. I was expecting a video feed from the other end but there wasn’t any, so for all I know I was giving the talk to an empty room. This had the beneficial side effect of totally eliminating any stage fright I might have felt, so maybe it was a net win.

Skype doesn’t support screen sharing and webcam video simultaneously, so the poor attendees were stuck looking at my (very static) slides while listening to my disembodied voice. Furthermore, judging by the stuff on iTunes the sound quality of my bluetooth headset let a bit to be desired. (Geez, you sink a whole $5 into a bluetooth headset and you get junk! Where is the love?)

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