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  • TL0013 - 2011, Week 01

    1/3/11 - Party Shuffle in Rock Band 3

    1/4/11 - 2.5" SATA and 3.5" SATA have different connectors.

    1/5/11 - Update on yesterday - They don't, I was being dumb, there was a coupler attached to the 2.5"

    1/6/11 - WTF is not an acronym because you can't pronounce it. Penn & Teller on Acronyms and Initialisms

    1/7/11 - Security Clearance applies to more than the current job you're at.

    1/8/11 - Google Maps Navigation without plugging in a destination

    1/9/11 - Macbook Pros can theoretically take a bullet.


    This episode's music comes from YouTube free music repositories 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 - Prelude in C (BWV 846)

      • TrackTribe - Walk Through The Park

      • TrackTribe - Hedge Your Bets

      • TrackTribe - Members Only

      • TrackTribe - Sunday

      • TrackTribe - Easy Stroll
      • 22 min
      • TL0012 - 2010, Week 52

        *PROGRAMMING UPDATE* - Next week's episode (and all future episodes) will launch on Sunday instead of Saturday. Example: The next episode will release January 3rd 2021)

        12/26/10 - DHCP Failover for Xserve

        12/27/10 - Rock Band 3's Leaderboards are fairly easy to top. Also scoring and gameplay mechanic changes.

        12/28/10 - It wasn't a skin tag on my shoulder, it was a mole.

        12/29/10 - Minecraft hMod (it became Bukkit/Spigot/Paper in years to come)

        12/30/10 - Some Achievements in Rock Band 3 don't work right.

        12/31/10 - Payload was in TF2 when it launched

        1/1/11 - Netflix on the Xbox

        1/2/11 - VPNing without using the Default Gateway (split tunneling)


        *This episode includes a bonus day to account for an issue where previous episodes weren't fully aligned with the year's week. This was due to the original podcast start date being on a Saturday.

        This episode's music comes from 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 - Black Bird

          • Kevin MacLeod - Babylon

          • Podington Bear - Mutinee

          • Podington Bear - Operatives

          • Podington Bear - Happiness Is

          • Podington Bear - Jazzer Incisors

          • Podington Bear - Breezin
          • 32 min
          • TL0011 - 2010, Week 51

            12/19/10 - A random rookie on a football team can be the one to win the game for them.

            12/20/10 - iMacs in Apple stores cant handle having every application opened at once.

            12/21/10 - LDAP Failover

            12/22/10 - Water physics in Minecraft

            12/23/10 - Which elevator at Best Buy is faster

            12/24/10 - Scratch tickets can be ridiculously complicated

            12/25/10 - Digital picture frame usage

            This episode's music comes from 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 - Blue Feather

              • Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll

              • Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll (ska)

              • Kevin MacLeod - Awkward Meeting

              • Kevin MacLeod - Batty McFaddin - Slower

              • Kevin MacLeod - Bicycle

              • Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean
              • 26 min
              • TL0010 - 2010, Week 50

                12/12/10 - Advanced Workgroup Manager/LDAP stuff in Mac OS X Server (self-taught myself dock settings for users)

                12/13/10 - iChat does video chat over AIM.

                12/14/10 - Podcast Producer (+ Podcast Capture) on Servers/Xserves can do email

                12/15/10 - UNH requires 12 credits/semester to be considered a full time student.

                12/16/10 - SCAN TV apparently helped out on some DVD that was played on PBS.

                12/17/10 - Intel Xserves have a case of the derps during their first initial setup...seems they forget how to set an admin password.

                12/18/10 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on the Xbox can be played with the Rock Band drumset.


                This episode's music comes from YouTube free music repositories and the Free Music Archive.

                Tracks featured in this episode include:

                TrackTribe - A Night Alone

                John Deley - Play Song

                JR Tundra - The Night Falling

                MK2 - The Big Score

                JR Tundra - Brother Jack

                The 126ers - The Low Seas

                SousLePont - LacNuit

                26 min
              • TL0009 - 2010, Week 49

                12/5/10 - SQL Server has dumb rules and restrictions.

                12/6/10 - Some things about Accounts between Mac and Windows

                12/7/10 - The database ACID standard

                12/8/10 - Figuring out DHCP stuff for the new server upgrades at SCAN.

                12/9/10 - Some professors fail to follow department guidelines.

                12/10/10 - Duplicate files don't take up nearly as much on the SCAN storage system as I thought.

                12/11/10 - Blowing things up in Minecraft! (and 3rd person mode)


                This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.

                Tracks featured in this episode include:

                • Jason Shaw - Thingamajig
                • Jason Shaw - Mountain Sun
                • Jason Shaw - Wheels
                • Kevin MacLeod      (incompetech.com)
                • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

                  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

                  • Kevin MacLeod - Faster Does It
                  • 19 min
                  • TL0008 - 2010, Week 48

                    11/28/10 - My grandmother's house has weird hotspots for 3G. Mainly, on the stairs only.

                    11/29/10 - The GNU General Public License (GPL)

                    11/30/10 - OSX Combo Updates fix things even in Hackintoshes.

                    12/1/10 - Lackadaisical is a word.

                    12/2/10 - Wireless Lav mics have a really good range when you suspend them from a ceiling

                    12/3/10 - How to install kexts into a Hackintosh

                    12/4/10 - Double clicking on an error in SQL Server takes you to the specified line.


                    This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.

                    Tracks featured in this episode include:

                    Jason Shaw - 12 Mornings

                    Jason Shaw - Acoustic Blues

                    Jason Shaw - Funky Junky

                    Jason Shaw - Words

                    Jason Shaw - Solo Acoustic Guitar

                    16 min
                  • TL0007 - 2010, Week 47

                    11/21/10 - How to use (and not use) SQL Cursors

                    11/22/10 - Bunch of stuff at WUNH, mainly concerning DJing

                    11/23/10 - High Pass Filter - lets high frequency pass through (filters out background). Low Pass Filter - lets low frequency pass through (filters out voices)

                    11/24/10 - How SyncBack functions (backup vs synchronizing)

                    11/25/10 - Symlinking stuff via the command line

                    11/26/10 - Blu-Ray players have a blue laser.

                    11/27/10 - Dropbox has major issues with symlinking stuff


                    This episode's music comes from 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 - Achaidh Cheide

                        • Kevin MacLeod - Beach Party

                          • SousLePont - Porchakovitch

                            • Steve Combs and Delta Is - Adrift (A Symphony Revisited)

                              • Chris Zabriskie - That Kid in Fourth Grade Who Really Liked the Denver Broncos
                              • 17 min
                              • TL0006 - 2010, Week 46

                                11/14/10 - Lava in Minecraft apparently isn't permanent. If you send it down a hill it goes away. (was most likely a glitch)

                                11/15/10 - The Ubuntu Live CD doesn't like iMacs

                                11/16/10 - Some stuff about old computers. Yay YouTube

                                11/17/10 - Apple Education pricing

                                11/18/10 - Playing the keyboard (memorizing hand positions)

                                11/19/10 - Despite waking up at 1pm, it can still feel like a very long day.

                                11/20/10 - How to reset the PRAM on a Mac

                                This episode's music comes from archive.org.

                                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 - Accralate
                                  • Kevin MacLeod - Aces High
                                  • 9 min
                                  • TL0005 - 2010, Week 45

                                    11/7/10 - Broadcast's deterioration in performance is probably because it's been on 24/7 for 5 years straight.

                                    11/8/10 - More Motion stuff

                                    11/9/10 - Bubbles can bounce off of hard surfaces, apparently (sort of)

                                    11/10/10 - There is an extensive diagnostics partition on most Dell computers

                                    11/11/10 - Having a lot of daisy chained BNC monitors degrades the quality.

                                    11/12/10 - HD video takes a hell of a long time to export.

                                    11/13/10 - Making BNC and RCA cables


                                    This episode's music comes from archive.org.

                                    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 - Beach Bum
                                      • Kevin MacLeod - Sunshine
                                      • Kevin MacLeod - Airport Lounge
                                      • 9 min
                                      • TL0004 - 2010, Week 44

                                        10/31/10 - How to disassemble a server class battery.

                                        11/1/10 - Apple is deprecating their Java for OSX Lion

                                        11/2/10 - SQL Views

                                        11/3/10 - Access codes for a door in the library

                                        11/4/10 - I already knew this, but this was reconfirmed in my mind: iMovie is a horrible piece of software.

                                        11/5/10 - Not every Windows XP disk comes with the recovery console.

                                        11/6/10 - Chroma Keying in Apple Motion

                                        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 - Off to Osaka
                                          • Kevin MacLeod - Vibe Ace
                                          • Jahzzar - Dummy
                                          • 9 min

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                                          What did you learn today? Steve looks back and reflects on daily things he's learned over the course of a decade and counting. Come listen to a relaxing journey and retrospective of things learned.…