Control Structure

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Control Structure is a podcast about computer science, IT news, stories, opinions, tips, and tricks for programmers, testers, administrators of all types and more, for fun or for profit hosted by Andr... more

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January 03, 2013Control Structure #7: A Sexy Font
Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl talk about the New Year, progressive JPEGs, user interfaces, Postgres, Guild Wars, Fonts, and more.

Things:
It’s official: U.S. hits debt ceiling – Dec. 31, 2012
Performance Calendar » Progressive jpegs: a new best practice
The Perception of Speed | High Performance Web Sites
Max Themes Blog – ✎ If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it
The Technology Problem – notes.unwieldy
Solve your first-world problem
How multi-disk failures happen – SysAdmin1138 Expounds
MicroSD card FAQ « bunnie’s blog
Ost — Rethinking the value of Scrabble tiles
Summary of the December 24, 2012 Amazon ELB Service Event in the US-East Region
This Mom Gave her Teenage Son an 18-point Contract with his iPhone.
How the Queen of England Beat Everyone to the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
The comet of the century in 2013 | TIME.com
VP-Elect Joe Biden is Responsible for Open Sourcing Email Encryption? « :-Dustin
The Long Strange Trip to Java
A Tale of Two Bridges – Unprotocols
Scaling Guild Wars for massive concurrency – Code Of Honor
Whose bug is this anyway?!? – Code Of Honor
How 3.6 nearly broke PostgreSQL [LWN.net]
Scaling PostgreSQL at Braintree: Four Years of Evolution
Lanyrd’s Big Move | The Lanyrd Blog
Rob Conery – Five Things You Didn’t Know About PostGresSQL on Vimeo
Is JavaScript the Future of Programming?
PostgreSQL: The world’s most advanced open source database
GAMEFACE : Developing Typefaces for the Xbox 360 and Other Devices – YouTube
Google Web Fonts Open Sans
Google Web Fonts Droid Sans
Segoe UI
DejaVu
Google Web Fonts Cousine
Google Web Fonts
New form features in HTML5 – Dev.Opera
Music:
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Kyle Gabler – Years of Work*
Kyle Gabler – Just Like You*
Dma-sc – Hail to Sunny Days*
* used with permission of the respective musicians
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #29: CS #7 — Corn Juice!
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53min
December 27, 2012Control Structure #6: Stuffed My Face
Hear Andrew Bailey musing about CPU architectures, fonts, visual design, minimalism, Linux, games, technicolor rabbits, and how to delete your enemy's dropbox.

Things:
Installation Anxiety – YouTube
China tightens ‘Great Firewall’ internet control with new technology | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Steam under Linux – Valve Developer Community
How to terminate your worst enemy’s Dropbox account for only $795
VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience (“Metro”) by VideoLAN » Updates — Kickstarter
Update on turning off 64-bit Windows builds – Google Groups
My collection of Intel 8080 microprocessors
AnandTech – The x86 Power Myth Busted: In-Depth Clover Trail Power Analysis
Page Weight Matters | Chris Zacharias
You said the game was rejected by the UbuntuSC guys… | Formspring
2012 in Reivew: First Sale Under Siege — If You Bought It, You Should Own It | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Flat Sink | SachaGreif.com
The best web and mobile fonts of 2012 are … | VentureBeat
Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Ubuntu in 2013
30+ Cool Ideas for your Raspberry PI Project | PingBin
Xiph.org :: daala video
Steve Jobs’ yacht impounded over pay dispute – CNN.com
What Killed the Linux Desktop – Miguel de Icaza
How Would You Design a Chicken? | Hubbub Developers
Errata Security: You are committing a crime right now
Logo design contest | logo for stackoverflow.com | Entries | 99designs
Sharp Suits (Client Feedback)
How to Detect a Toxic Customer | Software by Rob
LoadingReadyRun – New hilarious sketch comedy every Monday
Halo: The Future of Gaming – YouTube
Rejected WiiPlay Games – YouTube
Music:
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
mindthings – Artificial World
mindthings – Life’s Things
dma-sc – Manical Drop 2 Players music #4
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36min
December 21, 2012Control Structure #5: Not A Lawn Ornament
This week, Andrew and Ryan discuss varied topics like the apocalypse, HTML, encryption, gaming, VoIP, databases, and Andrew's blog.

Things:
Off World Backup – We can save your data, but we can’t save you
Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome Guido!
Microsoft pulls the plug on its Silverlight.Net site | ZDNet
HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to InteroperabilityTesting and Performance
HTML5
HTML 5.1
H.264 Support Lands in Firefox 20 Nightly on Windows
Introducing Qt 5.0 | Qt Blog
The UN’s telecom conference is finally over. Who won? Nobody knows. | Ars Technica
How To Communicate If The Government Obliterates The Internet | Mobile
cryptography – Why not use larger cipher keys? – IT Security
The Internet Archive Needs 3 Petabytes of Storage
How Big Is Amazon? | 500friends Lifetime Value Blog
THQ looking to Linux after Humble Bundle success – GameSpot.com
THQ weighing ‘costs and benefits’ of Linux for upcoming releases | Polygon
THQ Inc. Secures Asset Purchase Agreement with Affiliates of Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. – Yahoo! Finance
The long, frustrating road to recovering my Wii downloads | Ars Technica
Pi Store
The Fast Fourier Transform | Math Programming
24 ways: How to Make Your Site Look Half-Decent in Half an Hour
Foundation: The Most Advanced Responsive Front-end Framework from ZURB
Wikipedia moving from MySQL to MariaDB | ZDNet
ISP Walks Out of Piracy Talks: “We’re Not The Internet Police” | TorrentFreak
I hate comments
10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You – Forbes
Computer Architecture of the 1960’s
The Gates-Funded Toilet Of The Future | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation
Peter Nixey – My beautiful wife, Apple
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Cross-site request forgery – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Music:
Kyle Gabler – Are You Coming Home, Love MOM*
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Kyle Gabler – Productivity Tango*
Kyle Gabler – My Virtual World of Goo Corporation*
dma-sc – The First Blip Noel*
* used with permission of the respective musician
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #22: CS# 5 — A Ryan Voice!
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1h 35min
December 12, 2012Control Structure #4: A Public Hazard
In this episode, Chris and Andrew talk about monitors, Linux, efficient vs performant CPUs, an old hard drive, network connections, and room mates.

Things:
So Many Monitors
Screens | Ryan Rampersad
VideoLAN – VideoLAN – Press Release – Windows 8 Fundraiser
VideoLAN – VLC media player for iOS
25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in
Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu “spyware” because it tracks searches | Ars Technica
Coming in Ubuntu Linux 13.04: instant purchases from the desktop | PCWorld
Linux 3.7 – Linux Kernel Newbies
Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0
Keywords for Unprotocols – Unprotocols
AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES
ARM CEO Warren East Says Mobile Chips Will Move into Energy-Efficient Desktops, Laptops, and Servers. | MIT Technology Review
Intel pitches ARM alternative to data centers—including Facebook’s | Ars Technica
Authoritarian regimes push for larger ITU role in DNS system | Ars Technica
The Raspberry Pi Web Server Speed Test – Jeremy’s .NET Blog
IBM 3390: The world’s largest and most expensive hard drive teardown | ExtremeTech
IBM manufactures light-based ‘nanophotonic’ chips to let the terabytes flow
Australian travelers stranded in wilderness because of iOS 6 maps | Ars Technica
Victoria Police Online News Centre – Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system
Music:
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Jeremy Williams – Game Theory
dma-sc – 1st Sidsound
Frozen Silence – F
dma-sc – pooz – The Lab
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #19: CS #4!
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48min
December 07, 2012Control Structure #3: An Oreo Cream Cheese Suspension
Andrew Bailey and Matthew Petschl discuss the UN taking over the Internet, people dropping off it, copyright gone amok, Microsoft's woes, Apple's woes, data URIs, Fourier Transforms, and more.

Things:
Crovitz: The U.N.’s Internet Sneak Attack – WSJ.com
EU set to fight Internet tax and spying at global summit| Reuters
Why is ITU Governance of the Internet a Bad Idea? | The Mozilla Blog
Official Google Blog: Keep the Internet free and open
How Syria Turned Off the Internet – CloudFlare blog
Syrian Internet appears to be largely restored | PCWorld
The 61 Countries a Mad Despot Could Instantly Unplug From the Internet | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com
Opinion: Is Ad blocking the next legal battleground? | Computerworld New Zealand
BBC News – Kickstarter sued over 3D Systems’ printer patent
TorrentFreak Trolls a Copyright Troll | TorrentFreak
Police Raid 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl, Confiscate Winnie The Pooh Laptop | TorrentFreak
Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All | TorrentFreak
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia | TorrentFreak
Daily Report: First Step in Overhaul of E-Mail Privacy Law – NYTimes.com
HTTP/2.0 Draft IETF SPDY Protocol
Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting — Varnish version trunk documentation
Julian Assange: A Call to Cryptographic Arms
ongoing by Tim Bray · Private By Default
pipress.vo3.net | WordPress running on Raspberry Pi server
NAND flash gets baked, lives longer | Ars Technica
Editorial: How piracy changed my life
Valve: Piracy is not related to price | VG247
News – Xsolla And Valve Announce Cash Payments to Steam in Russia
Charles Fishman – The Insourcing Boom – The Atlantic
LEGO Finds Spare Discontinued Set So Boy Who Saved Up For 2 Years Wouldn’t Be Disappointed – The Consumerist
The Autism Advantage – NYTimes.com
#AltDevBlogADay » Understanding the Fourier transform
lloyd.io – lloyd’s blog.
How the Tumblr worm spread so quickly | Naked Security
Data URI scheme – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Answers and Questions » Blog Archive » Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript
Technology giants at war: Another game of thrones | The Economist
Steve Ballmer’s Nightmare Is Coming True – Yahoo! Finance
Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share, Windows 8 Passes 1%
IE10 Grabs 0.51%, Firefox Above 20% Again, Chrome Loses More Users
The Browser You Loved To Hate
Intel’s Tiny NUC “Next Unit of Computing” PC – HotHardware
Why C++ is back. – devbug
Why C++ Is Not “Back” « Making the Complex Simple
D Programming Language – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AMD Committed to Upgradeable CPUs / APUs – Legit Reviews
Intel Says Company Committed to Sockets | Maximum PC
Guardians of Middle-Earth balance updates are cloud-based to avoid PSN & XBLA certification | VG247
Portal’s physics engine rebuilt in 25KB—on a graphing calculator | Ars Technica
The n Bells: Apple – Think Twice.
Taking the new iMac out of its weird-shaped box | Ars Technica
New Scientist TV: Invisible Wi-Fi signals caught on camera
Dirt cake – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Music:
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Younnat – Welcome to the Land of Cookies!
Jeremy Williams – Game Theory
Younnat – The Day After Tomorrow
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #16: CS #3!
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1h 1min
November 29, 2012Control Structure #2: One Is The Loneliest Number
In this episode, Andrew talks about security, wars, file transfers, web servers, Raspberry Pis, and blog themes.

Links:
When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Windows XP: 500 Days Left
Bitcoin Block Reward Halving Successful – Coding In My Sleep
BBC News – WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders
Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online | Danger Room | Wired.com
Woz: Microsoft might be more creative than Apple | Technically Incorrect – CNET News
A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript
Asher Langton – Google+ – I bought a digital video download today that required a…
Ars asks: Help us max out Google Fiber | Ars Technica
Official Gmail Blog: Gmail and Drive – a new way to send files
How to set up a safe and secure Web server | Ars Technica
Tutorial: How to Set Up a Raspberry Pi Web Server – Jeremy Morgan
Does it run Minecraft? Well, since you ask… | Raspberry Pi
.net – If i = 0, why is i += i++ 0 in C#? – Stack Overflow
id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG – GitHub
NASA – 3D Models
Intel kills off the desktop, PCs go with it
NVIDIA denies rumors of faulty chips, mass GPU failures
Scientist Envisions Self-Filling Water Bottle
Give And Take: How The Rule Of Reciprocation Binds Us : Shots – Health News : NPR
Person:
http://theandrewbailey.com/
linkedin.com/in/theandrewbailey
Music:
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Younnat – Magician’s Weekend
Matthew Tyas – Intellectuel
Dma-sc – Hail to Sunny Days
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23min
November 22, 2012Control Structure #1: What’s For Dinner?
Andrew Bailey and guest Ryan Rampersad discuss hard computer science topics like discrete cosine transforms and mapping real things to 3d models, along with backups, Bitcoin, bad things, old things, fiber optics, open source, and more.

Topics:
Neumont University – Neumont University
WebGL
The Computer Backup Rule of Three – Scott Hanselman
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day
Microsoft SkyDrive users: claim your free 25GB | ZDNet
Google Fiber is live in Kansas City, real-world speeds at 700Mbps | Ars Technica
Into the vault: the operation to rescue Manhattan’s drowned internet | The Verge
Single-mode Fiber Solution – Corning ClearCurve – YouTube
Actually, the GIF is dying – Quartz
JPEG Discrete Cosine Transformations
Interview: Linus Torvalds – I don’t read code any more – The H Open: News and Features
Why Linus Torvalds would rather code than make money | News | TechRadar
“Your criticisms are completely wrong”: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in | Ars Technica
Intel’s 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensive Supercomputing | Dr Dobb’s
Facebook Could Slow Down A Tiny Bit As It Starts Switching All Users To Secure HTTPS Connections | TechCrunch
Facebook Asks Users If It Can Abolish Their Right To Vote On Future Site Governance Changes | TechCrunch
CodeWars
The Ten Year Decline of Sony
Microsoft Has Failed
FizzBuzz Still Works — Global Nerdy
Coding Horror: Why Can’t Programmers.. Program?
Pay Another Way: Bitcoin — Blog — WordPress.com
Miner problem: big changes are coming for Bitcoin’s working class | The Verge
A minor Bitcoin miner injury? | ZDNet
Report: Police Confuse Bitcoin Miner’s Power Use for Growing Weed | TIME.com
Netflix on Ubuntu Is Here | iheartubuntu
PPA for Netflix Desktop App | iheartubuntu
How Nintendo DRM trapped $400 of downloaded games on my failing Wii (updated) | Ars Technica
A Tale of Two Lock-ins – Open Enterprise
Crowding out OpenBSD [LWN.net]
Official Gmail Blog: ᎭᎴᎾ ᏗᏓᏴᎳᏛᏍᎩ ᎬᏗ Gmail ᏣᎳᎩ (Get started with Gmail in Cherokee)
Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6 | Ars Technica
Internet Explorer 10 finally comes to Windows 7 | Ars Technica
BBC News – Two-tonne Witch computer gets a reboot
The fastest web server in the world? » Seravo
Faceshift uses Kinect to animate faces in real time | Polygon
Software Release (and a little surprise) – YouTube
People:
http://theandrewbailey.com/
linkedin.com/in/theandrewbailey
http://ryanrampersad.com/
http://twitter.com/ryanmr
Music:
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
Jeremy Williams – Game Theory
Younnat – Magician’s Weekend
tryad – this (instrumental)
Frozen Silence – Christmas Carols (several)
Jennifer Avalon – Snows Of December
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #11: CS #1!
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1h 46min
November 14, 2012Control Structure #0: Birth of a Podcast
On the premier episode, Andrew and Ian talk about Firefox, WebGL, page load times, regex, Java, C++, hardware failures, and more.

Links
Firefox turns 8
Wired has a series about fixing software patents (and patents in general)
Microsoft patents head counting software for kinect, and charge more for more people in the room
WebGL podcast starts
Andrew’s blog post about WebGL
Ransomware is an effective scam, it is on the rise
The biggest 2000 websites are slower this year than last;top 100 are slower than the rest
Foxconn is looking for a source of cheap labor. Where do they find it? USA
Is this a post peak apple world?
Qt Creator 2.6 released
Three SOPA supporters were not reelected
Intel “Itanic” keeps going; Itanium and Xeon will share chipsets, motherboards, sockets
best. regex. ever. [ -~]
The 99% bails themselves (AKA ourselves) out. The ultimate in paying it forward.
C++ got updated, take a look. It actually resembles syntax of newer languages.
MS updates their C++ compiler
People
the Andrew Bailey
Andrew’s LinkedIn
Ian Buck
Ian on Google Plus
Music
Younnat – Radar – His Name is Radar
dma-sc – clean closet
paniq – Randomness Decides
dma-sc – pooz the lab
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31min

FAQs about Control Structure:

How many episodes does Control Structure have?

The podcast currently has 158 episodes available.