Control Structure #91: This Time Will Be Different

Andrew celebrates the Windows 10 launch by putting Linux on his new laptop! Him and Steve talk about that, QA testing, Mozilla, passwords, new memory, Newegg, encryption, and lots of little things.

Banter

• Bill Sempf | On Testing
• Time Warner Cable owes $229,500 to woman it would not stop calling | Reuters

News

• Raspberry PI 2 Cluster Case pt2 | PocketCluster
• Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed | Ars Technica
• Windows 10 – The First 24 Hours | Blogging Windows
• ​Windows 10 downloads bend, but don’t break, the Internet | ZDNet
• An Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control | The Mozilla Blog
• Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event | Channel 9
• 5 Incredible Features in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview -Telerik Developer Network
• Nick Craver – Why you should wait on upgrading to .Net 4.6
• Fix for potential bad tailcall code generation by mmitche · Pull Request #1298 · dotnet/coreclr · GitHub
• DefCon Hackers Tell How They Cracked Brink’s Safe in 60 Seconds
• I Emailed 97,931 Users Their Passwords · atechdad
• I Sent 281,317 Users Their Passwords · atechdad
• Intel and Micron Produce Breakthrough Memory Technology
• Cold boot attack – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win – Unscrambled
• NVIDIA Pascal GPU To Feature 17 Billion Transistors and 32 GB HBM2 VRAM – Full CUDA Compute Architecture Arrives in 2016
• Notice for NVIDIA Tablet Customers
• Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown – The Washington Post

Appreciate Deprecate

• Use the hardware-based full disk encryption your TCG Opal SSD with msed — vxlabs
• Password not recognized after loadPBAimage and power cycle on Crucial MX200 · Issue #16 · r0m30/msed · GitHub
• README.md | master | cryptsetup / cryptsetup | GitLab
• Dogbert’s Blog: BIOS Password Backdoors in Laptops
• Installing Glassfish 4.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Steam Gauge | Get the value and size of your Steam account

Don’t forget

• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
• Music | Big Giant Circles
• BigGiantCircles (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
• Immerse | Lifeformed
• THE OTHER SIDE | LukHash

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #334: CS #91 — Use It For Real?!

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