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- TL0033 - 2011, Week 21
5/22/11 - Skype takes up a lot more bandwidth than I originally thought.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110430074127/https://www.dpacket.org/articles/revealing-skype-traffic-when-randomness-plays-you
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-the-conspiracy-theories-skypes-supernodes-belong-in-the-cloud/
5/23/11 - The accounting equation
- https://youtu.be/56xscQ4viWE
5/24/11 - More accounting equations
5/25/11 - An open directory glitch with DHCP in Mac OSX Server.
5/26/11 - Recovering an SD card takes multiple computers.
- https://www.howtogeek.com/184640/ask-htg-windows-always-wants-to-scan-and-fix-my-usb-drive-should-i-let-it/
- https://appuals.com/how-to-recover-a-damaged-memory-card-in-ubuntu/
5/27/11 - Location profiles - Mac OS X
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202480
5/28/11 - Bowling left handed
Extras:
Chris Sargent's world record/NHCBA records/Paul Berger's 500:
- https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/what-a-string-bowler-ties-world-record-with-a-245-at-peabody-lanes/article_499ad11b-95f7-554b-9f78-792ae0755397.html
- https://www.candlepin.org/nhcba-records
- https://youtu.be/mA9qhS4Lxws
HP battery recall
- https://www.engadget.com/2011-05-28-hp-expands-laptop-battery-recall-doesnt-want-you-to-feel-the-b.html
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Siddhartha Corsus - Pure of Heart
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Kevin MacLeod - Soporific
Kevin MacLeod - Tikopia
Kevin MacLeod - Quasi Motion
Kevin MacLeod - Meditation Impromptu 02
Kevin MacLeod - Winner Winner
25 min - TL0032 - 2011, Week 20
5/15/11 - How to slice images and export them to HTML in Photoshop
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110720092936/http://scanvideoserver.unh.edu/
- https://planetphotoshop.com/turning-a-sliced-image-into-an-html-webpage-in-photoshop-7s-save-for-web.html
- https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/photoshop/images.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/html-options-slices.html
5/16/11 - A lot more CSS stuff.
- https://validator.w3.org/
- https://blog.hubspot.com/website/what-is-css-class
5/17/11 - Press Command-Tab for the Application Switcher and then, keeping Command down, press Q to quit apps.
- https://www.parallels.com/blogs/alt-key-on-a-mac/
- https://www.howtogeek.com/322054/quit-and-hide-macos-apps-from-the-commandtab-interface/
5/18/11 - Rubber can be fabricated naturally.
- https://pediaa.com/difference-between-natural-rubber-and-synthetic-rubber/
- https://www.pslc.ws/macrog/exp/rubber/synth/methyl.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber
- https://www.earthlypassion.com/post/2016/10/19/your-using-rubber-but-that-is-not-environmentally-friendly-or-is-it
- https://youtu.be/lUg7r7fu_eo
5/19/11 - You can drag files into the finder toolbar.
- https://osxdaily.com/2014/08/15/customize-mac-finder-toolbar-drag-drop/
5/20/11 - Margin versus Padding for CSS
- https://blog.hubspot.com/website/css-margin-vs-padding
5/21/11 - Sibelius 6.2 on the mac and installing it
- https://youtu.be/VUv3fBWjf34
- http://hub.sibelius.com/download/documentation/pdfs/sibelius620-licenceserver-en.pdf
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Meditation Impromptu 01
- Kevin MacLeod - Crossing the Divide
- Kevin MacLeod - Eastminster
Siddhartha Corsus - Bhagavan
Ketsa - Lost Worlds
Ketsa - We Are Stardust
Bio Unit - Across the Valley
28 min - TL0031 - 2011, Week 19
5/8/11 - Compaq was consumer, HP was enterprise. Also on a macbook, the delete key's equivalent is fn + backspace.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq
- https://www.pcguide.com/news/what-happended-to-compaq/
- https://www.theverge.com/2012/5/23/3039627/hp-compaq-low-end-branding
5/9/11 - Portal 2 online co-op with random people is a bad idea.
- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/05/portal-2-a-good-game-but-not-a-great-one/2/
5/10/11 - Special characters on the keyboard on Mac (option + letters)
- https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/enter-characters-with-accent-marks-on-mac-mh27474/mac
- https://www.theverge.com/22347140/apple-mac-special-characters-how-to
5/11/11 - Boston Billiard Club has billiard tables
- https://www.bostonbilliardclubcasino.com/
5/12/11 - Facebook has nickname support
- https://www.howtogeek.com/209580/how-to-add-nicknames-to-your-facebook-profile/
5/13/11 - Making Mac and Cheese
5/14/11 - Shemp was originally supposed to be in Curly's place when The Three Stooges got started.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=iTQXz-zQK5MC
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Niles Blues
- Kevin MacLeod - DD Groove
- Kevin MacLeod - Dirt Rhodes
- Kevin MacLeod - Slow Burn
- Kevin MacLeod - Hustle
- Kevin MacLeod - The Endless
- Kevin MacLeod - Rite of Passage
- Kevin MacLeod - Sovereign Quarter
23 min - TL0030 - 2011, Week 18
5/1/11 - More about Bobby Fischer than I'll ever need to know.
- https://vimeo.com/23894600
- https://mubi.com/films/bobby-fischer-against-the-world
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwF229U2ba8
5/2/11 - Hitler was announced dead to the world on May 1, 1945. Exactly 66 years later, Osama bin Laden was also announced dead.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1945#May_1,_1945_(Tuesday)
5/3/11 - How to make ethernet cables (again)
5/4/11 - Cinco de Mayo history?
- https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/cinco-de-mayo
- https://www.wmur.com/article/protests-held-at-unh-over-recent-racial-incident/9639777
5/5/11 - More things about WUNH, particularly the station power and EBS testing
5/6/11 - Where the varsity apartments are at UNH
5/7/11 - The monitors in the library can do picture in picture
- https://youtu.be/bA_3OLuIsXo
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
- Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Waltz - Tschikovsky Op. 40
- Kevin MacLeod - Virtutes Instrumenti
- Kevin MacLeod - Trio for Piano, Violin, and Viola
- Kevin MacLeod - Tranqulity
22 min - TL0029 - 2011, Week 17
4/24/11 - Bing gives out a lot of free stuff just for playing games and searching stuff
- https://news.microsoft.com/2009/05/28/microsofts-new-search-at-bing-com-helps-people-make-better-decisions/
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/microsoft-shouldnt-hire-any-ceo-who-wants-to-kill-bing-and-xbox/
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/bing-is-bigger-than-you-think-microsoft-boasts-at-33-of-us-searches/
4/25/11 - DVD Studio Pro, formulas in Excel such as COUNTIF with multiple criteria (SUMPRODUCT)
- https://www.tipard.com/dvd-solution/dvd-studio-pro.html
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3277294?start=0&tstart=0
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/countif-function-e0de10c6-f885-4e71-abb4-1f464816df34
- https://www.educba.com/countif-with-multiple-criteria/
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sumproduct-function-16753e75-9f68-4874-94ac-4d2145a2fd2e
4/26/11 - Dual Layer Masters can't burn to Single Layer blanks.
- https://itstillworks.com/differences-between-single-doublelayer-dvd-discs-2294.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200618005928/https://www.tgdaily.com/entertainment/games/35945-tobacco-smoke-makes-super-smash-bros-brawl-unplayable-on-wii/
4/27/11 - Stats analysis in JMP.
- https://www.computerworld.com/article/2527824/billionaire-sas-co-founder-keeps-on-coding.html
- https://www.jmp.com/en_us/academic/ap-stat-resources/confidence-intervals.html
4/28/11 - Hoco still supposedly has grilled cheese sandwiches on Thursdays.
4/29/11 - How to tie a tie.
4/30/11 - Portal 2 - going through a portal with a cube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twi7emnUYkU
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Enchanted Journey
- Kevin MacLeod - Impromptu in Quarter Comma Meantone
- Kevin MacLeod - Inner Light
- Kevin MacLeod - Lift Motif
- Kevin MacLeod - Silver Blue Light
- Kevin MacLeod - Relent
26 min - TL0028 - 2011, Week 16
4/17/11 - Walking with a pulled muscle apparently makes it better
- https://aaptiv.com/magazine/pulled-muscle
- https://www.healthline.com/health/pulled-muscle-in-lower-back
4/18/11 - French Fries are named based on their shape, not place or origin.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070203071633/http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Ebeling%20--%20French%20Fried.htm
4/19/11 - Some things about 64 bit addressing.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS
- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.4.0/tuning/bittage.html
4/20/11 - 7D with the tripod.
4/21/11 - MacBooks can apparently have fan speeds of about 8000 RPM.
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251778501
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5143388
- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/retina-macbook-pro-temperatures-and-maximum-fan-speed.1618468/
- https://youtu.be/LF0PBUnoNOc
4/22/11 - What a "domestic partnership" and "civil union" is.
- https://www.findlaw.com/family/domestic-partnerships/what-is-a-domestic-partnership.html
- https://www.findlaw.com/family/domestic-partnerships/civil-unions.html
4/23/11 - Blockbuster still took gift certificates from 2002 even when going out of business.
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-gift-card-was-invented-by-blockbuster-in-1994-180948191/
- https://gizmodo.com/the-vile-history-of-gift-cards-and-how-they-came-to-des-5434783
- https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140817152112AAwE6kf
- https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-apr-07-la-fi-ct-dish-blockbuster-20110407-story.html
- http://giftah.com/blog/tag/what-to-do-with-blockbuster-gift-card/index.html
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
- Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Autumn Day
- Kevin MacLeod - Dream Culture
- Kevin MacLeod - Clean Soul
- Kevin MacLeod - Danse Morialta
- Kevin MacLeod - Windswept
- Westy Reflector and Lee Rosevere - Truth is a Lonely Place
22 min - TL0027 - 2011, Week 15
4/10/11 - Wikipedia has a plan for preserving data in an event of mass human extinction.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Management_Policy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
4/11/11 - My phone is still rootable with SuperOneClick
- https://www.xda-developers.com/root/
- "SuperOneClick Roots Virtually Every Android Phone Out There"
- https://shortfuse.org/superoneclick/
- Main period-appropriate XDA thread
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-superoneclick-v2-3-3-motorola-exploit-added.803682/page-359
- Related thread, unrelated phone
4/12/11 - What CPU threading means.
- https://pureinfotech.com/robocopy-multithreaded-file-copy-windows-10/
4/13/11 - Unlinking Stereo Pairs in Final Cut Pro.
- https://youtu.be/waWrJW5STy8
4/14/11 - WordPerfect apparently existed before Microsoft Word.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190716205133/https://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/545525/pictures-25-years-microsoft-office-roadkill/
4/15/11 - UNH housing no longer charges for locked doors.
4/16/11 - What the meaning of the "Let's do the fork in the garbage disposal" dance followed by the dings meant.
- https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Yes%20Dance
- The YES dance (UNCENSORED VERSION)
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1382199/
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1382207/
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
- Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Panama hat no voice
- Kevin MacLeod - Dat groove
- Apple - Shetland
- Apple - Time Lapse
- Lee Rosevere - Dusk
- Lee Rosevere - Dream Colours
- Lee Rosevere - Peace
29 min - TL0026 - 2011, Week 14
4/3/11 - Google Calendar public links.
- https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37083?hl=en
4/4/11 - VLOOKUP in Excel
4/5/11 - Murderface is a Notary.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dethklok#William_Murderface
- https://dethklok.fandom.com/wiki/William_Murderface
- https://abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorado-Notary/notaries-ancient-greece-360-bc/
4/6/11 - How to play QWOP a bit better.
- http://foddy.net/Athletics.html?webgl=true
- https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Qwop
4/7/11 - HTML5 conversion in Dreamweaver
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML
- https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#relationship0
- https://www.templatemonster.com/blog/html5-extension-dreamweaver-cs5/
- https://digicompdiy.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/how-to-convert-a-dreamweaver-document-from-xhtml-to-html5/
- https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/13037/Converting-to-HTML5-with-Dreamweaver.html
4/8/11 - Getting more AP for Heimerdinger in LoL
4/9/11 - What channel Bravo is at my univeristy.
This week's episode comes from Apple iMovie.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Apple - Buddy
- Apple - Newborn
- Apple - Jaracanda
- Apple - Havana
- Apple - Acoustic Sunrise
- Apple - Sanskrit
- Apple - Park Bench
- Apple - Piano Ballad
- Apple - Daydream
28 min - TL0025 - 2011, Week 13
3/27/11 - The eMac.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xI3Xz0SR5o
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac
3/28/11 - I could use iFrames instead of JavaScript for menus
Embedding menu page as opposed to javascript anylinkmenu
- https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
- https://digitaladblog.com/2014/09/25/difference-iframe-javascript/
- https://www.blackburnlabs.com/iframe-evil/
3/29/11 - My university's outgoing SMTP server does work off campus, but you have to disable authentication (supposedly)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/mail-flow/connectors/allow-anonymous-relay?view=exchserver-2019
3/30/11 - Adobe After Effects? Sorta.
3/31/11 - Shutting down PowerPC G5 computers can lower the room temperature by double digits.
- https://tedium.co/2020/06/16/apple-powerpc-intel-transition-history/
- https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/10/5486-2/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5
4/1/11 - Some logic for playing League of Legends strategically.
4/2/11 - A good Heimerdinger build in LoL
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - ( Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
- Atraxia
- Squinting at the Sun
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel)
32 min - TL0024 - 2011, Week 12
3/20/11 - Snakes can eat through foam.
- http://animalia.bio/eastern-garter-snake
- https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ectothermic-cold-blooded-animals.html
3/21/11 - First Day of Spring (or the day after)=Lot of snow.
3/22/11 - What LogMeIn is
- https://www.logmeininc.com/about-us
- https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/20/logmein-acquires-internet-of-things-startup-pachube-for-15m-in-cash/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140203034914/http://help.logmein.com/SelfServiceKnowledgeRenderer?type=FAQ&id=kA0a0000000shH8CAI
3/23/11 - The RIAA once sued for 7 trillion dollars and the case was thrown out for being ridiculous.
- https://www.tomsguide.com/us/P2P-LimeWire-75-trillion-RIAA-Kimba-Wood,news-10580.html
- https://www.computerworld.com/article/2507250/riaa-request-for-trillions-in-limewire-copyright-case-is--absurd---judge-says.html
3/24/11 - Xsan was originally called CentraVision, explaining the cv commands in Terminal.
- Xsan introduced at WWDC 2004
- https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1317224&seqNum=12
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsan
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StorNext_File_System
- Quantum offers at least one product for StorNext/Xsan intercompatibilty between OSes
- https://support.dvsus.com/hc/en-us/articles/212921926-Checking-a-StorNext-Filesystem-cvfsck
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200101
3/25/11 - Freshmen think drinking counts as a job/activity.
3/26/11 - Macros in Microsoft Excel.
This episode's music comes from Reddit/YouTube, archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Punch Deck - Brahe
- Punch Deck - What Is And What Could Be
- Punch Deck - Omni
- Punch Deck - Ethereal
- Punch Deck - Shimmering Lights
- Lee Rosevere - The Ambient Ukulele (radio edit)
- Lee Rosevere - Illuminations (radio edit)
- Kevin MacLeod - Old Bossa
- Kevin MacLeod - Matt's Blues
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