Control Structure #58: Goodbye XP

Andrew and Steven say Goodbye to Windows XP, then talk about other operating systems, AMD, Unreal Engine, Microsoft, web browsers, Heartbleed, services that should and are being killed, a rant against OpenStreetMaps, and more.

Links

• Support for Windows XP for Enterprise Business is ending
• It’s Bliss: behind the iconic Windows XP photo – Digital Cameras: SLR & Compact Cameras
• US Burns Through All High-Skill Visas For 2015 In Less Than A Week | TechCrunch
• Quake III bounty: we have a winner! | Raspberry Pi
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
• Unexpelled Ubuntu
• AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES
• Unreal Engine 4.1 Update Preview
• Epic Games’ Sweeney on the future of Unreal, VR and democratic game development | Polygon
• .NET Compiler Platform “Roslyn” – Home
• The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married. – .NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
• Registers of the x86 CPU architecture | the Andrew Bailey
• Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 | TechCrunch
• Windows to be free on 9” and smaller tablets, also on IoT devices | Ars Technica
• Internet Explorer Web Platform Status and Roadmap – status.modern.IE
• Irish domains – Domain names ireland – ie domain registration
• Chromium Dashboard
• WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers
• Staying ahead of OpenSSL vulnerabilities | CloudFlare Blog
• Heartbleed Bug
• Spring cleaning: Five Google projects that need to die | Ars Technica
• Why We Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts | Dyn Blog
• Text File formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text | Ronald Duncan’s Blog
• Osm2pgsql – OpenStreetMap Wiki
• Nominatim – OpenStreetMap Wiki
• Welcome
• International Backup Awareness Day
• USPS Address APIs | the Andrew Bailey

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
• LukHash – Falling Apart : LukHash : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #210: CS #58 — Navigate Around With Your Pinkies!

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