Control Structure #46: Dinosaur Robot

Andrew welcomes back Steven to talk about old computers, government shutdowns, CERN, Google Street View, chiptunes, more GPU news, Valve, GNU, Bill Gates, funny observations, 64-bit, Mozilla, copyright, debugging private keys, and more.

Links

• Windows 98 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover, I am setting them free
• The Panda Cam? That’s Shut Down, Too | WBAA
• Mars Rover Curiosity Still Running, Shutdown Halts Other NASA Operations | Weather Underground
• Intelligence head says cutting ‘non-essential’ CIA, NSA employees puts the country in danger | The Verge
• Google Lat Long: Street View arrives at CERN
• Image: google trekker backpacker.JPG
• Big Giant Circles – “The Glory Days” (Impostor Nostalgia 2) by BigGiantCircles — Kickstarter
• Impostor Nostalgia | Big Giant Circles
• AnandTech Portal | Understanding AMD’s Mantle: A Low-Level Graphics API For GCN
• Glide API – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• [Phoronix] AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation
• Steam Controller
• Half-Life 3 trademark filed by Valve | News | PC Gamer
• Valve’s Steam Box won’t challenge consoles, says ‘Borderlands’ studio boss | The Verge
• Gearbox CEO: Duke Nukem Forever Is “Exactly Like Half-Life 2” | The Escapist
• GNU 30th anniversary – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation
• Initial Announcement – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation
• Debian — Debian GNU/Hurd
• Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete a mistake – CNN.com
• Exclusive: Microsoft investors push for chairman Gates to step down | Reuters
• Six Stages of Debugging // plasmasturm.org
• Explanations to common Java exceptions
• RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET – .NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Windows Server 2008 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2013-09-27: ARM64 and You
• MemShrink progress, week 117–120 | Nicholas Nethercote
• gemal.dk – HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway ) landed
• From the Canyon Edge: Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
• ibm-research/fusedos · GitHub
• subwindow/negative-captcha · GitHub
• World’s first cross-platform Web browser brought back to life | Ars Technica
• Jimmy Wales To Silicon Valley: Grow Up And Get Over Your Age Bias – ReadWrite
• Warner Bros. DMCA Fraud and Abuse Case Goes to Jury | TorrentFreak
• Microsoft Wants Google to Censor Its Wikipedia Page | TorrentFreak
• The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic
• API Endpoints | PayPal Developer
• Requesting an API Certificate
• Demandware | A Leading Digital Commerce Provider
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Super VVVVVVeat Boy | Big Giant Circles
• instrumentals | tryad

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #146: CS #46: Super VVVVVVeat Boy!

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