Control Structure

Andrew finally has his car; then him and Chris talk about solar cells, Google, Mozilla, Valve, Ubuntu, PNGs, SSDs, Wolfram Alpha, and plenty of other juicy little tidbits!

Links

Music

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #73: CS #21 — Eleven Pairs of Shoes!

Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.

Links

Folding USB Solar Cell by Brown Dog Gadgets — Kickstarter

Anonymous hackers take control of North Korean propaganda accounts | Ars Technica

Exclusive: Ongoing malware attack targeting Apache hijacks 20,000 sites | Ars Technica

Google Fiber is coming to Austin, Texas - YouTube

AUSTIN, Texas, April 9, 2013: AT&T Announces Intent to Build 1 Gigabit Fiber Network in Austin | PRNewswire | Rock Hill Herald Online

Google Fights U.S. National Security Probe Data Demand - Bloomberg

Chromium Blog: Blink: A rendering engine for the Chromium project

Bruce Lawson’s personal site : Hello Blink

Chrome Blink FAQ

Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine | The Mozilla Blog

Mozilla Firefox Web Browser — Get More From Your Firefox — Mobile, Add-ons & Other Stuff — mozilla.org

What can I do for Mozilla

Possible security disasters loom with rollout of new top-level domains | Ars Technica

PythonMonk- Interactive Python tutorials

Porting Source to Linux: Valve’s Lessons Learned

Ubuntu “Raring Ringtail” hits beta, disables Windows dual-boot tool | Ars Technica

URLs are for People, not Computers | Not Implemented

Until Today, If You Were 17, It Could Have Been Illegal To Read Seventeen.com Under the CFAA | Electronic Frontier Foundation

gamma - Why does this PNG image display differently in Chrome & Firefox than in Safari and IE? - Super User

IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

Great Scientist ≠ Good at Math - Wall Street Journal - WSJ.com

AnandTech | The Crucial/Micron M500 Review (960GB, 480GB, 240GB, 120GB)

EA Makes Worst Company In America History, Wins Title For Second Year In A Row! – Consumerist

The Escapist : Critical Miss

Two-factor authentication finally heading to Microsoft Accounts | Ars Technica

person curve - Wolfram|Alpha

thenexustv/tntv-backup · GitHub

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

Bump Foot - Releases - foot132

Younnat - Magician's Weekend by younnat on SoundCloud - Hear the world'€™s sounds

Jetstream by Celestial Aeon Project

Kyle Gabler's Portfolio: World of Goo Soundtrack

Chris invites newly-minted Apple acolyte Andrew Bailey to the podcast to discuss RASPBERRY!, Java, Linux, supercomputers, code that sucks, code thats beautiful, password storage (again), and long uptimes.

Links

Music

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #70: AS #20 — Undocumented APIs!

Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.

Links

raskalov_vit: Cairo, Egypt

CONSORTIUM by Interdimensional Games Inc — Kickstarter

Hall of Fame | Classic FM

Net Gain: Corporate Espionage by Level Zero Games — Kickstarter

Raspberry Pi Model A (you know, the $25 one) finally on sale in US | Ars Technica

Mozilla is Unlocking the Power of the Web as a Platform for Gaming | The Mozilla Blog

Everything about Java 8 - TechEmpower Blog

Meet Gabe Newell, Microsoft’s next CEO | Whilst in Arrakis

Linux game database | Database for native Linux games

Linux Foundation Training Prepares the International Space Station for Linux Migration | Linux.com

End of the road for Roadrunner

ZFS | Google Groups

Your Code May Work, But It Still Might Suck

What Makes Beautiful Software?

Home - schema.org

Shoutt â€| Why you should never ever ever have Managers in your class name

praetoralpha/toilet · GitHub

What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths? - IT Security Stack Exchange

YouTube's ready to select a winner - YouTube

Google Maps

Google Nose BETA

hash - Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? - IT Security Stack Exchange

http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~carlesfe/unix/tricks.txt

linuxgems/cheat_sheet.org.sh at master · WilliamHackmore/linuxgems · GitHub

TIOBE Software: The Coding Standards Company

How to «open» microchip and what's inside? : ZeptoBARS

So long to a valiant companion - Ars Technica OpenForum

6030 days before march 28, 2013 - Wolfram|Alpha

3737 days of uptime - YouTube

Home | World Backup Day — March 31st

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Food Service Distribution, Restaurant Supply | Gordon Food Service

Music

Jamendo - Gun River by Midoriiro

Jamendo - FreeFall by Oleg Serkov

Jamendo - Morphing by Matti Paalanen

Bump Foot - Releases - foot132

Links

Music

Links

Blizzard Entertainment:StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

At The Nexus #67: Mr. Bycicle » The Nexus | The Nexus

From the Composer of Skyrim - Soule Symphony No. 1 by Max Steiner Agency Inc. — Kickstarter

Jeremy Soule Interview & PLAY!

Valve Predicts Fan-Funded Game Development Future | Kotaku Australia

Release of Steve Jobs biopic reportedly delayed for more marketing | Ars Technica

Official Blog: A second spring of cleaning

Issue 33181 - chromium - Implement RSS detection natively in Chrome - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Google Project Hosting

Google Reader joins graveyard of dead Google products - Slate Magazine

When Google kills Gmail

Supreme Court upholds first-sale doctrine in textbook resale case | Ars Technica

EU fines Microsoft €561 million for not giving users a browser choice | Ars Technica

zegenie Studios Linux Distribution Chooser

Results of the 2013 /r/Linux Distro Survey

HP Communities - Pwn2Own 2013 - Enterprise Business Community

All Chrome OS hack attempts fail at Pwnium 3 | Geek Pick | Geek.com

IT Talent Shortage Or Purple Squirrel Hunt? - Global-cio - H-1B -

The inside story of how 382 recruiters pursued an imaginary engineer

CS in Vietnam

Nerds

xkcd: Devotion to Duty

A Whole Lotta Nothing: LinkedIn is a Virus

Why I'm Switching (Back) to Firefox - campaul [dot] net

Publishers not happy with Amazon’s efforts to claim .book domain name | Ars Technica

New gTLDs: first ICANN approvals for end of April! | NetNames Blog

.xxx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Someone Calculated How Many Calories A Mouse Click Burns | TechCrunch

Zephyros Anemos - JavaScript and WebGL

On WebGL — Acko.net

WebGL | the Andrew Bailey

Electronic Arts Announces Change in Executive Leadership | EA Press Room

Ctrl+Alt+Del - Sillies - (2013-03-12)

Please, Stop Helping the Hackers Guess My Passwords | Andrew Munsell

Cisco switches to weaker hashing scheme, passwords cracked wide open | Ars Technica

YouTube

Strip Search - New Episodes Every Tuesday & Friday!

Words of Contradictory Wisdom | the Andrew Bailey

Weak security in our daily lives

Hacking the tag in 100 characters

Checkboxes that kill your product — Alex Limi

IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

The World Has No Room For Cowards — Krebs on Security

Security reporter tells Ars about hacked 911 call that sent SWAT team to his house (Updated) | Ars Technica

Details on the denial of service attack that targeted Ars Technica | Ars Technica

The Obscurest Epoch is Today — Krebs on Security

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Jeremy Williams - Eighty-eight

Josh Woodward - Let It In (instrumental)

tryad - The Rising (instrumental)

Links

Net Gain: Corporate Espionage by Level Zero Games — Kickstarter

Covert Action - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Introversion Software

Europa Universalis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unity Technologies Blog » Blog Archive » 7DFPS – 7 Day First Person Shooter

Minecraft: Pi Edition | Minecraft: Pi Edition updates and downloads

Bright-Green.com: Naming Java Classes Without a 'Manager'

design patterns - Naming Classes - How to avoid calling everything a "Manager"? - Stack Overflow

How two volunteers built the Raspberry Pi’s operating system | Ars Technica

Coding Horror: I Shall Call It.. SomethingManager

Best Games Of 7 Day FPS.. That Don’t Have Any Shooting | Rock, Paper, Shotgun

The Raspberry Pi: One year since launch, one million sold | Ars Technica

Fan Art - Media - StarCraft II

GOG.com

Google called the MPEG-LA's bluff, and won

MPEG LA’s AVC License Will Continue Not to Charge Royalties for Internet Video that is Free to End Users

PETA says whaling in Assassin's Creed 4 glorifies hurting and killing, Ubisoft responds | Polygon

5 video game patents you didn't know existed | Multiformat | Pocket Gamer

Jamendo - Traffic Life by Anitek

Watir.com | Web Application Testing in Ruby

Google and MPEG LA Announce Agreement Covering VP8 Video Format | Business Wire

PETA Reminds StarCraft Players That Zerglings Have Feelings, Too | PETA.org

SimCity Burning: A Warning to Microsoft, Sony, and All Publishers on The Dangers of Always-Online DRM - IGN

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

News - Xsolla And Valve Announce Cash Payments to Steam in Russia

I broke my leg - The Meta Picture

MakerBot's Desktop 3D Scanner Is a Real-Life Star Trek Replicator

LoadingReadyRun - Installation Anxiety

WarGame 2

How Newegg crushed the “shopping cart” patent and saved online retail | Ars Technica

BBC News - EA apologises over 'dumb' SimCity launch

Valve Enables Russian Population To Buy More Steam Games - News - www.GameInformer.com

WarGame 2

MakerBot's Desktop 3D Scanner Is a Real-Life Star Trek Replicator

The Raspberry Pi: One year since launch, one million sold | Ars Technica

LoadingReadyRun - Installation Anxiety

I broke my leg - The Meta Picture

Watir.com | Web Application Testing in Ruby

Level Zero Games

Music

Bump Foot - Releases - foot132

Podcast Fantastic

Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Net Gain: Corporate Espionage by Level Zero Games — Kickstarter

Jamendo - Traffic Life by Anitek

[Kahvi Collective Audio Sculptors - fa8 V3]

In between discussing browsers, security, compression, famous people, and pretty benchmarks, Chris crashes his browser as he seeks to download the internet, and Andrew talks about RASPBERRY!

Links

Music

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #58: CS #16 — Nobody Expects The Nil Inquisition!

Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.

Links

Japanese carrier debuts 'the world's smallest and lightest phone' | The Verge

Bartendro - A Cocktail Dispensing Robot by Party Robotics — Kickstarter

Happy birthday to us! | Raspberry Pi

Oleg Romashin | Raspberry Pi

Writing efficient CSS selectors – CSS Wizardry – CSS, OOCSS, front-end architecture, performance and more, by Harry Roberts

Why Are There Not More Freelance Testers Out There? – Test Ninjas - Freelance Software Testers

Introducing the HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API » Feross.org

Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward | Ars Technica

Accidental layer creation

The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient bittorrent site

Fake headline of the day: The Pirate Bay “moves” to North Korea | Ars Technica

My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers | Bryan Kennedy

A brief XML rant - another techie’s log

Google compression algorithm Zopfli may lead to faster Internet | Internet & Media - CNET News

Monads, part one | Fabulous Adventures In Coding

A new fabulous adventure - Fabulous Adventures In Coding - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

c++ - Can a local variable's memory be accessed outside its scope? - Stack Overflow

Google services should not require real names: Vint Cerf| Reuters

Exceptions for control flow considered perfectly acceptable, thanks very much | David R. MacIver

LCA: The ways of Wayland [LWN.net]

Mir – An outpost envisioned as a new home

Updated: How Verizon found child pornography in its cloud | Ars Technica

Secretive Copyright Negotiations Continue at the 16th Round of TPP Talks | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Polish Politicians Don Guy Fawkes/Anonymous Masks To Protest ACTA Signing | Techdirt

Preventing Hangs in Windows Applications (Windows)

Heaven Benchmark | Unigine: real-time 3D engine (game, simulation, visualization and VR)

Unigine Heaven Benchmark | the Andrew Bailey

Why does automated testing keep failing at my company? | Ars Technica

Watir.com | Web Application Testing in Ruby

Coding Horror: The PHP Singularity

Net Gain: Corporate Espionage by Level Zero Games — Kickstarter

Music

Younnat - Radar - His Name is Radar

Fenrir - Metal Jig

Matthew Tyas - David's day

Matthew Tyas - Intellectuel

Raphael D. Hardy - The House Of Candy

Anitek - Amanditek

Andrew and Chris talk about new browsers, new hardware, working from home, programming tools, programming culture, websites not working, and how our perspectives are weird.

Links:

Music:

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #55: CS #15 — I Find It Easier Being A Girl!

Listen to more at The Nexus and follow us on Twitter and Google+ for our latest episodes and news.