Control Structure #70: Three Trick Pony

Andrew talks about the past and the future, then joins Steven in the present to discuss Linux, caching, dependency independence, drive reliability, company domination, the NSA, and some other things.

Banter

• Folding USB Solar Cell by Brown Dog Gadgets — Kickstarter
• Celebrate 20 years of ‘Friends’ with this Windows 95 ‘cyber sitcom’ starring Rachel and Chandler | The Verge
• Potato Salad by Zack Danger Brown » PotatoStock 2014. GET. EXCITED. — Kickstarter
• After Kickstarter to Make Potato Salad, Columbus Prepares for Potato Stock – WSYX – Columbus, Ohio Top Stories – Breaking News, Weather, and Traffic

News

• Raw vision: First person to buy an iPhone 6 immediately drops it – YouTube
• My experience with using cp to copy a lot of files (432 millions, 39 TB)
• The call of the wild, or something, happened last week. (Well, there was an…
• RLSD
• gilbitron/Ideal-Image-Slider · GitHub
• Blizzard cancels its next-gen MMO Titan after seven years | Polygon
• Home – Simply Secure
• Backblaze Blog » Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014
• Backblaze Blog » Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis
• The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only two remain after 1.5PB – The Tech Report – Page 1
• Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works) | Andreessen Horowitz
• Well, I’m Back: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won’t Get A Choice
• AnandTech | MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives
• Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO | Re/code
• Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom – SPIEGEL ONLINE
• Shedding Light on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC): Court Findings from Our 2007-2008 Case | Yahoo Global Public Policy

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• 0x10c | C418

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #262: CS #70 — Rotating Gatling Gun Brotherhood!

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