Control Structure #54: Conspiracy with Big Water

Andrew and Steven talk about near catastrophes, data retrieval, old hardware, new hardware, hard drives, Microsoft, killing processes, encryption, listener feedback and more.

Links

• Xannathor | LoadingReadyRun Video Gallery | The Escapist
• support SQLite for functional testing purposes by bendavies · Pull Request #12 · fre5h/DoctrineEnumBundle · GitHub
• This is the one map you need to understand Ukraine’s crisis
• Ghost ship Lyubov Orlova ‘sinks’ in Atlantic Ocean – Mirror Online
• Apps Status Dashboard
• We are the Google Site Reliability Engineering team. Ask us Anything! : IAmA
• Official Blog: Today’s outage for several Google services
• Use Subqueries to Count Distinct 50X Faster
• Count Distinct Compared on Top 4 SQL Databases
• Folklore.org: Quick, Hide In This Closet!
• AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100 | Ars Technica
• Intel bungs PC on an SD: Tiny computer for Internet of Things and wearables • The Register
• Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
• OneDrive for Everything in Your Life | OneDrive Blog
• Microsoft Will Rebrand SkyDrive After It Settles Trademark Case With Sky Broadcasting | TechCrunch
• Why isn’t People-Centric UI Design taking off? – Scott Hanselman
• TabWorks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• More Mantle Delay Rumors Surface in Relation to Battlefield 4 (Updated) | Maximum PC
• linux – When should I not kill -9 a process? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
• IE7 users, we need to talk… | Nursing Blog – NursingJobs.us
• The monkeys in 2013 | JavaScript
• Improving Firefox SSL/TLS Security – blog.dbrgn.ch
• SSL Cipher Suites Supported By Your Browser
• SSL/TLS Supported CipherSuites
• Restore Net Neutrality By Directing the FCC to Classify Internet Providers as “Common Carriers”. | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government
• Penguin-Geddon: Could The Next Major Google Search Engine Update Trigger An Economic Recession? | The Impact of Google Search Engine Updates
• Search DuckDuckGo
• GiftCardSpread
• Registers of the x86 CPU architecture | the Andrew Bailey
• Lovebible.pl – Charlie’s Diary
• Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems | Ars Technica
• Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch | Ars Technica
• Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Younnat – Magician’s Weekend by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds
• Younnat – Doctor Verhovtsev’s Dream by younnat on SoundCloud – Hear the world’s sounds

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #186: CS #54 — Apparently I’m France!

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