Control Structure

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Control Structure

Control Structure is a podcast about computer science, IT news, stories, opinions, tips, and tricks for programmers, testers, administrators of all types and more, for fun or for profit hosted by Andrew Bailey and guests. And also some other things, just because they are cool

  1. 158

    Control Structure #157: Much Megabytes

    RASPBERRIES! Andrew and Steve are back at it again with some news about Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and... music formats?

  2. 157

    Control Structure #156: Fringe Farm

    After a long break, Steven and Andrew are back at it, talking about RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, Python, AMD, AVIF, and a few more things. It's been a long while.

  3. 156

    Control Structure #155: No One Can Play With Our Toys

    No, Andrew and Steven have not sold out to Microsoft, but they sure do talk about it a lot! They also mention some games, and how Firefox totally broke over the weekend.

  4. 155

    Control Structure #154: Fancy Web Browser Thingamajig

    After a normal period, Steve and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, new GPUs, old GPUs, Microsoft, lazy loading, and maybe something else, but I forgot.

  5. 154

    Control Structure #153: A Box Museum

    After moving into a new place, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, content security, GANs, light web pages, USB, and some backup tales.

  6. 153

    Control Structure #152: At Very Right Moment

    Coming back again, Steve and Andrew talk about dial up, Firefox, Internet Explorer, RAID accidents, and a few other tidbits.

  7. 152

    Control Structure #151: Bigger Coyotes Than Texas

    After a long hiatus, Andrew and Steven return to tell you all about new RASPBERRY!, vulnerabilities, some gaming news, and some updates on Kickstarters.

  8. 151

    Control Structure #150: Chaos Monkey Got Out

    You've been upgraded! Andrew and Steven talk about YouTube being down, Winamp, Intel, TLS, Windows, Google, jQuery, and QuickTime. (The last one is not an upgrade!)

  9. 150

    Control Structure #149: Google Minus

    Andrew and Steve are back, talking about Raspberry!, Java, Telltale, Geocities, Wikipedia, Wifi, Chinese hardware, Windows, and Google Plus.

  10. 149

    Control Structure #148: Can't Read Floppy

    Steven finally joins Andrew face to face to talk about how everyone hates Chrome, improved TLS, PCs, GIMP, inefficient software, Microsoft, Newegg, and Linux.

  11. 148

    Control Structure #147: A Wolfram Alpha Thing

    After having some Microsoft issues (both varieties), Andrew joins Steven and talk about Windows bugs, SMS, Valve, licenses, some feedback, and some chit-chat.

  12. 147

    Control Structure #146: Most Episodic Show

    Time for a celebration! Control Structure now has more episodes than any other (real) show on the The Nexus! Steven and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, Windows, Chrome, processors, Java, Firefox, and Let's Encrypt. Then both talk about what they've been up to. Apologies for the poor audio quality, and occasional Steven dropouts.

  13. 146

    Control Structure #145: I'm a Ghost, It Happens

    After a long hiatus, Andrew gets Steven to tell what he's been up to, RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, GPUs, domains at gunpoint, Linux, Firefox, CPUs, and Python.

  14. 145

    Control Structure #144: The Old Screensaver

    Andrew joins Steven on his "last" show to talk RASPBERRY!, Ubuntu, TCP flow control, Microsoft, Magento, POWER, and Cisco.

  15. 144

    Control Structure #143: Genetically Modified Cats

    After a hiatus, Andrew and Steve return to talk about AMD, Python, Java, SSDs, hard drives, and responsive images. Neat!

  16. 143

    Control Structure #142: Massive Data Maw

    Steven and Andrew return to talk RASPBERRY!, operating systems, vulnerabilities (as usual), warranties, shady URLs, PDFs, Payara, and a smartphone (with a blast from the past).

  17. 142

    Control Structure #141: Sounds Cooler With Enterprise

    Andrew and Steve are back with some RASPBERRY!, Google lawsuits, Java (or is it Jakarta?), BluRay, AMD, Let's Encrypt, passwords, and TOTP.

  18. 141

    Control Structure #140: Not my Cloud

    Steve and Andrew are excited to talk about RASPBERRY! hosted IoT, fake real missiles, Libreoffice, AMD, Mozilla, MPEG, Xerox, and threats of being a barista.

  19. 140

    Control Structure #139: People Don’t Read Anything

    Andrew and Steven talk about RASPBERRY!, false alarms, Ubuntu, Firefox, encryption standards, and old mainframes.

  20. 139

    Control Structure #138: Steal Your Private Key

    Steve wakes Andrew up to have a podcast in 2008. After sorting things out, they talk about Spectre, Meltdown, iPhone batteries, blockchains, Chrome, ADSL, Amazon, Crytek, Excel, and a few other things, because it's been a while.

  21. 138

    Control Structure #137: End Of The Internet

    After commenting on Steven's shack, Andrew and him talk about abandoned IoT, Firefox, Chrome, Vegas, Intel, AMD, Python, Linux, and the dangers of leaving computers unlocked.

  22. 137

    Control Structure #136: Ding! Your Files Are Done!

    Steve talks about his new place, Andrew talks about pizza, then they talk about RASPBERRY!, Apple, WPA2 WiFi, lots of updates for pretty much everything, Kinect, Humble Bundle, Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording, MDN, and go down some rabbit holes.

  23. 136

    Control Structure #135: Updating The Garbage Truck

    Steven returns and joins Andrew to talk about 64 gigs of RAM, cars, CCleaner, Apache, DNS, Adblock, Firefox, Java, Equifax (again), refresh buttons, and some love and hate.

  24. 135

    Control Structure #134: Eclipse The Sun Microsystems

    ARRR! Andrew wants you to know he'll be observin' International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Steven gets in on the fun. Then they talk boring stuff, like space probes, RASPBERRY!, Google, C, NGINX, Linux, Oracle, Java, and Equifax.

  25. 134

    Control Structure #133: The Internet Took All The Fun Away

    After a summer eclipse vacation, Andrew and Steve return to talk some RASPBERRY!, Windows, BSD, old school game hacks, and talk a lot about Google.

  26. 133

    Control Structure #132: Paid My AMD Tax

    Andrew talks about his brother leaving, his car getting fixed, then joins Steven to talk about Microsoft, Flash, AMD, Talos 2, GNOME, passwords, and a few other things.

  27. 132

    Control Structure #131: Pi In The Sky

    After a hiatus, Andrew explains why his new computer has been crashing, Steve has lots of RASPBERRY!, then they both talk about Windows, procedural planets, HTTPS, decompression bombs, the trials of multicore, and hard drives.

  28. 131

    Control Structure #130: Jump On Our Own Bandwagon

    After a month, Steve and Andrew talk about smelly voicemails, RASPBERRY!, Windows, Debian, AMD, Firefox, Opus, indie gaming, Firewire, SSH, and other neat tidbits.

  29. 130

    Control Structure #129: Nice Printer or White Elephant

    In light of massive living arrangement changes, Steven explains to Andrew how to use vim, while Andrew pontificates on CPU manufacturers, then both talk about patents, Windows, Wikipedia, Linux utility fun (not vim), t-time, and flint strikers.

  30. 129

    Control Structure #128: One Of The Three Halves

    Andrew talks about the story behind last week's podcast, Steven talks RASPBERRY!, then they talk about lots of exploits, Python, Linux, SQL, and viewer feedback!

  31. 128

    Control Structure #127: Hold The Light Still

    Andrew buys parts for a new PC, and builds it, while Steven hangs around.

  32. 127

    Control Structure #126: GPS Hat, Where's My Cat?

    The same old guys (Andrew and Steve) go at it again with RASPBERRY!, Ubuntu, Electron, bash, Steam, and some other things they forgot.

  33. 126

    Control Structure #125: Hey, I Need Some Batteries

    Andrew talks about how he got fired, then Steve jumps in, and they talk about XFCE, Orange Pi, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, AMD, Google, Ubuntu, and so much more. It's been a while!

  34. 125

    Control Structure #124: Mean People Screaming

    After talking about Chris' scheduling, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, the tinker board, Amazon, Firefox, Cloudflare, Windows, AMD Ryzen, emoji, and MediaWiki.

  35. 124

    Control Structure #123: Jinxed The Next Day

    After mentioning what Trump is doing, Andrew and Steve talk about AMD Ryzen, benchmarks, web bloat, hardware extravagence, neural net colors, and PuTTY.

  36. 123

    Control Structure #122: Cat Sleeping on the Keyboard

    After reminiscing about the cookout a fortnight ago, Steve and Andrew talk about how kids can't use computers, RASPBERRY!, Samsung, PC hardware, Mozilla, Linux, Google, and Microsoft.

  37. 122

    Control Structure #121: They Had Stack Overflow In '91?

    People got things for Christmas! Well, probably. Andrew and Steve talk about annoying recruiters, LG, IoT, routers, Firefox, cameras, Microsoft, golang, Cyanogen, old kernels, and compiling (stand by).

  38. 121

    Control Structure #120: I Drove Over The Cat

    In the middle of a snowstorm, Steve and Andrew discuss RASPBERRY!, AMD, Bitcoin, storage, Microsoft, web fonts, and a few more tidbits, like designing a rather graphic lawn mowing simulator.

  39. 120

    Control Structure #119: Build Them and Bill Them

    After a while of not podcasting, Andrew and Steve get back into action. They talk about building features, RASPBERRY!, Backblaze, AMD, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and the new Andrew Bailey.

  40. 119

    Control Structure #118: Shot Within Wi-Fi Range

    Steve and Andrew catch up on Apple dissappoint, Microsoft, insecurity, HTML, Let's Encrypt, another Google fatality, blog plans, turkeys, and some other little things.

  41. 118

    Control Structure #117: Dial-up Voting

    Our old friend Christopher joins Andrew and Steve to talk about some games, IoT, VeraCrypt, voting software, voting hardware, growing hardware, the LHC, doomed projects, CSP, and a few other tidbits.

  42. 117

    Control Structure #116: Posted By Not Firefox

    After mentioning Google's new iPhone, Steven and Andrew talk about BLACKBERRY! (yes), RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, Dropbox, the internet of threats (IoT), SSL "marketshare", pgAdmin, NBASE-T, and metafactories.

  43. 116

    Control Structure #115: Keysock Mode

    After talking about a company picnic, Andrew and Steve talk about some RASPBERRY!, dead hard drives, Microsoft, LSB, Intel, Digital Homicide, file URIs, Netbeans, Payara, Oracle, and a few other tidbits that they thought was relevant at the time.

  44. 115

    Control Structure #114: Babylon Is Conformist

    After talking about happenings around town, Steve and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, GE, Microsoft, SSH, CSS, Linux, password breaches, and full server encryption.

  45. 114

    Control Structure #113: Silly Things Like Reality

    After Steve has problems spelling "dual", he and Andrew talk about working, interviews, RASPBERRY, Microsoft, Mozilla, encryption, Inbox.com, KeePass plugins, and other tidbits.

  46. 113

    Control Structure #112: 3D Printer On The Moon

    In the middle of summer, Andrew and Steve talk about old consoles, space, Microsoft, documentation, HTTPS, CSS, and time tables.

  47. 112

    Control Structure #111: Internet Sound

    Steve and Andrew catch up on a few things, like RASPBERRY!, .NET, Seafile, and Windows 10 (Andrew had an adventure!)

  48. 111

    Control Structure #110: They Told Me I Could Fly

    After talking about cicadas and The Raphael Parable, Andrew and Steve talk about putting things on Github, Raspberry!, Firefox, Microsoft, ransomware, and headphones.

  49. 110

    Control Structure #109: Had A Tong

    On this short and sweet episode, Andrew talks about getting runner's high, Steve talks about printing and having a tong, then both discuss implications of Oracle vs Google.

  50. 109

    Control Structure #108: Alamagator

    It's Chris's birthday! Steve is amazed by infrared cameras, Andrew poses a hypothetical Apple scenario, then both talk about hard drives, IOT destruction, new hardware, Certbot, the NSA, Ubuntu, 3D printers, and a time table app.

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Control Structure is a podcast about computer science, IT news, stories, opinions, tips, and tricks for programmers, testers, administrators of all types and more, for fun or for profit hosted by Andrew Bailey and guests. And also some other things, just because they are cool

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