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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May 12, 2017Control Structure #127: Hold The Light Still
Andrew buys parts for a new PC, and builds it, while Steven hangs around.

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AMD RYZEN 7 1800X 8-Core 3.6 GHz (4.0 GHz Turbo) Socket AM4 95W YD180XBCAEWOF Desktop Processor
Thermaltake Contac Silent 12 Universal CPU Cooler with 4 Direct Contact Heatpipes and 120 mm PWM Fan
ASUS Prime X370-Pro AM4 AMD X370 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 HDMI ATX Motherboards – AMD – Retail
G.SKILL TridentZ Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C14D-32GTZ
SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 2280 1TB PCI-Express 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-V6E1T0BW
Seagate Desktop HDD ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive
Thermaltake TR2 Bronze 700W SLI / CrossFire Ready Continuous Power ATX12V v2.31 / EPS v2.92 80 PLUS BRONZE CertifiedActive PFC Power Supply Haswell Ready TR-700
Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl w/ USB 3.0 ATX Mid Tower Silent PC Computer Case
CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD UPS 1500VA / 900W PFC compatible Pure sine wave
Benchmarks
Futuremark – Legacy Benchmarks
Manual:Speed(1) – OpenSSLWiki
3DMark cross-platform benchmark for Windows, Android and iOS
7-Zip LZMA Benchmark
Cura 3D Printing Slicing Software
UNIGINE Benchmarks
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The on GOG.com
Fallout 4 on Steam
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
THE OTHER SIDE | LukHash
XML file:
D:\Users
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April 19, 2017Control Structure #126: GPS Hat, Where’s My Cat?
The same old guys (Andrew and Steve) go at it again with RASPBERRY!, Ubuntu, Electron, bash, Steam, and some other things they forgot.

News
Add GPS Time and Location to a Raspberry Pi Project
From the Canyon Edge: ThankHN: A Thank-You Note to the HackerNews Community, from Ubuntu
Growing Ubuntu for cloud and IoT, rather than phone and convergence | Ubuntu Insights
Electron is flash for the desktop
GitHub – dlang/dmd: dmd D Programming Language compiler
D (programming language) – Wikipedia
MathJax CDN shutting down on April 30, 2017. Alternatives available.
Writing Robust Bash Shell Scripts – David Pashley.comDavid Pashley.com
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware – Motherboard
Portugal Pushes Law To Partially Ban DRM, Allow Circumvention | Techdirt
Valve admits Steam has a ‘fake games’ problem – The Verge
Jim Sterling – YouTube
UnitZ – Asset Store
Appreciate Deprecate
HWBench
t (Test integrity of archive) command
Feats
Linux Unified Key Setup – Wikipedia
dm-crypt – Wikipedia
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
[dma-sc music factory] welcome
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April 06, 2017Control Structure #125: Hey, I Need Some Batteries
Andrew talks about how he got fired, then Steve jumps in, and they talk about XFCE, Orange Pi, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, Google, Ubuntu, and so much more. It's been a while!

Banter
Fallout 4 | the Andrew Bailey
This Xfce Bug Is Wrecking Users’ Monitors – OMG! Ubuntu!
News
Raspberry Pi Zero W rival: New $10 Orange Pi 2G-IoT hooks into mobile networks | ZDNet
Daring Fireball: The Mac Pro Lives
Shutting down CodePlex | Brian Harry’s blog
Microsoft · GitHub
Windows Vista Support is ending – Windows Help
Trump move to kill privacy rules opposed by 72% of Republicans, survey says | Ars Technica
Sousveillance – GovTrack.us
Amazon.com: R. Martin’s review of Garadget – Remotely Control and Monitor Yo…
iPhone App will not stay open – just flashes when trying to launch – Device Setup – Garadget Community
AMD confirms Ryzen screen freeze fix
New game and BIOS updates promise to boost Ryzen performance – The Tech Report
Research Blog: Announcing Guetzli: A New Open Source JPEG Encoder
GitHub – mozilla/mozjpeg: Improved JPEG encoder.
Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank
Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10? | Hacker News
Ubuntu Manpage: purge-old-kernels – remove old kernel and header packages from the
5.106-0ubuntu1 : byobu package : Ubuntu
Hacker News feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it | Christian Schaller
Appreciate Deprecate
FLAC – changelog
Notepad++ v7.3.3 – Current Version
Notepad++ DLL Hijack
GitHub – markdown-it/markdown-it: Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Save 10% on Road Redemption on Steam
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
big giant circles (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
Music | Big Giant Circles
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #422: CS #125 — The Cat Bug!
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57min
March 15, 2017Control Structure #124: Mean People Screaming
After talking about Chris' scheduling, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, the tinker board, Amazon, Firefox, Cloudflare, Windows, AMD Ryzen, emoji, and MediaWiki.

News
New product! Raspberry Pi Zero W joins the family – Raspberry Pi
Asus Tinker Board – YouTube
Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
AWS Service Health Dashboard – Mar 14, 2017 PDT
Amazon Web Services on Twitter: “The dashboard not changing color is related to S3 issue. See the banner at the top of the dashboard for updates.”
Ask HN: Is S3 down? | Hacker News
Mozilla Acquires Pocket – The Mozilla Blog
Firefox — Notes (52.0) — Mozilla
WebAssembly | MDN
Serious Cloudflare bug exposed a potpourri of secret customer data | Ars Technica
Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising – Thurrott.com
The AMD Zen and Ryzen 7 Review: A Deep Dive on 1800X, 1700X and 1700
Ryzen – The Tech Press Loses The Plot – YouTube
Appreciate Deprecate
Plane (Unicode) – Wikipedia
xkcd: Exploits of a Mom
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Meat Madness Competition | Traeger Wood Fired Grills, Bracket Two, East Division
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
[dma-sc music factory] works
Younnat – Radiovision [kahvi256] : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
instrumentals | tryad
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February 24, 2017Control Structure #123: Jinxed The Next Day
After mentioning what Trump is doing, Andrew and Steve talk about AMD Ryzen, benchmarks, web bloat, hardware extravagence, neural net colors, and PuTTY.

Banter
Trump Tracker
Track Trump. The First 100 Days
News
AMD Ryzen 7 Launch Event!!! – YouTube
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 8 Core CPU Benchmarks Leaked – Giving Intel’s $1000+ 8-Cores A Run For Their Money
AMD Ryzen CPUs, New Wraith RGB Coolers & Box Design Pictured
Phoronix Test Suite – Linux Testing & Benchmarking Platform, Automated Testing, Open-Source Benchmarking
Most of the web really sucks if you have a slow connection
Note to Tesla owners: Don’t forget your car keys – Recode
Gaming hardware needs to grow up | PC Gamer
Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard
Automatic Colorization
Untitled: http://www.whatimade.toda
Appreciate Deprecate
Download PuTTY: release 0.68
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
Jimmy (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
THE OTHER SIDE | LukHash
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33min
February 08, 2017Control Structure #122: Cat Sleeping on the Keyboard
After reminiscing about the cookout a fortnight ago, Steve and Andrew talk about how kids can't use computers, RASPBERRY!, Samsung, PC hardware, Mozilla, Linux, Google, and Microsoft.

Banter
Ringing in 2017 with updates to our Google Voice apps
Kids can’t use computers… and this is why it should worry you
Image: thinkdiffernt.jpg
News
Compute Module 3 out now! – The MagPi MagazineThe MagPi Magazine
Asus takes on Raspberry Pi with 4K-capable Tinker Board | Ars Technica
[Infographic] Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered – Samsung Global Newsroom
Galaxy Note7: What We Discovered | Hacker News
PC Gaming Hardware Market Minting Billions – Comments – Press Releases
Firefox — Notes (51.0) — Mozilla
Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites | The Mozilla Blog
Google Online Security Blog: Moving towards a more secure web
Troy Hunt: HTTPS adoption has reached the tipping point
Arch Linux – News: Phasing out i686 support
Google fixes a big problem with AMP, now lets you view and share a publisher’s own links | TechCrunch
Olds
Page Visibility API – Web APIs | MDN
Appreciate Deprecate
Microsoft Applied Sciences Group
O&O ShutUp10: download free antispy tool for Windows 10
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
2016 Hard Drive Reliabilty Benchmark Stats
Petabyte – Wikipedia
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Beyond Good and Evil | paniq
Anitek – Unconscious | Jamendo Music – Free music downloads
Impostor Nostalgia | Big Giant Circles
Jimmy (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
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56min
January 12, 2017Control Structure #121: They Had Stack Overflow In ’91?
People got things for Christmas! Well, probably. Andrew and Steve talk about annoying recruiters, LG, IoT, routers, Firefox, cameras, Microsoft, golang, Cyanogen, old kernels, and compiling (stand by).

Banter
Lockheed P-38 Lightning – 3DLabPrint
Things I Send to Recruiters
News
Darren Cauthon on Twitter: “Family member’s tv is bricked by Android malware. #lg wont disclose factory reset. Avoid these “smart tvs” like the plague. https://t.co/kNz9T1kA0p”
LG 50GA6400 Google TV unbricked! How to perform a factory reset on a LG Google TV. – YouTube
The Joy of Tech comic… The Internet of ransomware things! – IoT Newsletter
FTC sues D-Link over router and camera security flaws | Consumer Information
[LEDE-DEV] Talks between OpenWrt and LEDE
Firebug lives on in Firefox DevTools ★ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
Freedom of Press Foundation Asks Canon, Nikon, and Other Camera Manufacturers to Sell Encrypted Cameras | WIRED
Design rule for Camera File system – Wikipedia
Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code | Computer History Museum
Google Open Source Blog: Grumpy: Go running Python!
Servo (layout engine) – Wikipedia
Rob Pike – Wikipedia
Plan 9 from Bell Labs – Wikipedia
Yes, this is us. – Lineage OS – Lineage OS Android Distribution
Appreciate
purge-old-kernels – Ubuntu manpages
Feats
GitHub – sorvis/C.h.i.p.-Garage-Door
Don’t forget
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
[CP066] Andrea the Android | Chippanze
Beyond Good and Evil | paniq
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December 15, 2016Control Structure #120: I Drove Over The Cat
In the middle of a snowstorm, Steve and Andrew discuss RASPBERRY!, AMD, Bitcoin, storage, Microsoft, web fonts, and a few more tidbits, like designing a rather graphic lawn mowing simulator.

News
How to Convert Old Film Reels With a Raspberry Pi – IEEE Spectrum
AMD introduces Radeon Instinct: Accelerating Machine Intelligence
AMD Ryzen news | PC Gamer
New Horizon
SSD Prices Skyrocket As NAND Shortage Deepens, HDD Shortage Looms As Components Become Scarce
Insanity: BitCoin | the Andrew Bailey
Microsoft’s surprise hardware hit: The Surface Hub | Ars Technica
PIN number analysis
PostgreSQL Primer for Busy People | zaiste.net
Appreciate Deprecate
Create Your Own @font-face Kits | Font Squirrel
Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Frozen Silence – Christmas Merry Christmas | Jamendo Music – Free music downloads
Beyond Good and Evil | paniq
Immerse | Lifeformed
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #411: CS #120 — Drift Really Well!
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December 01, 2016Control Structure #119: Build Them and Bill Them
After a while of not podcasting, Andrew and Steve get back into action. They talk about building features, RASPBERRY!, Backblaze, AMD, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and the new Andrew Bailey.

Banter
12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory – Hacker Noon
Uploading to testpypi · Issue #153 · pypa/twine · GitHub
News
Raspberry Pi 3 snags LTE support with help of new add-on chip | PCWorld
2016 Hard Drive Failure Rates for 2TB – 8TB Drives
AMD Zen 8 Core SR7 Flagship To Sell For $499, Boost To 3.5Ghz & Outperform Intel’s $999 i7 5960X
DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment | DeepMind
DansDeals.com » Blog Archive » PSA: Don’t Mess With The Google!
Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers | TechCrunch
International Backup Awareness Day
Google Cloud Platform Blog: Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group
Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member | The Linux Foundation
Open source has won, and Microsoft has surrendered | Computerworld
Install SQL Server on Ubuntu – SQL Server vNext CTP1 | Microsoft Docs
Untitled: http://www.streeturbotinsider.com/Corporate+News/Oracle+(ORCL)+Enters+Agreement+to+Acquire+DNS+Provider+Dyn/12270020.html
Feats
Welcome to the New Andrew Bailey | the Andrew Bailey
Object-Role Modeling download | SourceForge.net
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
A Cobblers Tee Thug | C418
little things | C418
Beyond Good and Evil | paniq
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November 03, 2016Control Structure #118: Shot Within Wi-Fi Range
Steve and Andrew catch up on Apple dissappoint, Microsoft, insecurity, HTML, Let's Encrypt, another Google fatality, blog plans, turkeys, and some other little things.

News
All the disappointments from Apple’s MacBook Pro event
Requiem for the Mac Pro
Microsoft Surface Studio | Powerful workstation designed for the creative process
Untitled: http://hub.dyn.com/dyn-blog/dyn-analysis-summary-of-friday-october-21-attack
DoS attack on major DNS provider brings Internet to morning crawl [Updated] | Ars Technica
IP Cameras Default Passwords Directory
Trick or Treat! Google issues warning of critical Windows vulnerability in wild | Ars Technica
Patch Tuesday – Wikipedia
Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195)
PoCs · dirtycow/dirtycow.github.io Wiki · GitHub
xkcd: Authorization
HTML 5.1 is a W3C Recommendation | W3C News
W3C vs. WhatWG HTML5 Specs – Differences Documented -Telerik Developer Network
Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign – Let’s Encrypt – Free SSL/TLS Certificates
Panoramio – Help – Copy Photos to Google Maps
Permanently Disable & Prevent Automatic Restart of Windows Update in Windows 10 – Tech Journey
We Got Phished | Exploratorium
Olds
Postgres full-text search is Good Enough!
Text over image with CSS – Design Lab Themes
Feats
Image: lol.jpg
Don’t forget
Desert Bus for Hope :: Welcome to Desert Bus for Hope
International Backup Awareness Day
Music
Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
instrumentals | tryad
Neurons: Fire At Will | paniq
little things | C418
This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #406: CS #118 — Air Hockey On Windows!
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44min

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