Control Structure
158 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★ - 1 ratingControl 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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Episodes
Control Structure #157: Much Megabytes
September 19, 2019 02:13 - 29 minutes - 11.7 MBRASPBERRIES! Andrew and Steve are back at it again with some news about Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and... music formats?
Control Structure #156: Fringe Farm
August 14, 2019 00:57 - 33 minutes - 12.3 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #155: No One Can Play With Our Toys
May 08, 2019 02:48 - 33 minutes - 13.1 MBNo, 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.
Control Structure #154: Fancy Web Browser Thingamajig
April 11, 2019 02:12 - 18 minutes - 7.4 MBAfter a normal period, Steve and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, new GPUs, old GPUs, Microsoft, lazy loading, and maybe something else, but I forgot.
Control Structure #153: A Box Museum
March 28, 2019 03:06 - 32 minutes - 12.6 MBAfter moving into a new place, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, content security, GANs, light web pages, USB, and some backup tales.
Control Structure #152: At Very Right Moment
February 13, 2019 03:15 - 21 minutes - 8.56 MBComing back again, Steve and Andrew talk about dial up, Firefox, Internet Explorer, RAID accidents, and a few other tidbits.
Control Structure #151: Bigger Coyotes Than Texas
January 30, 2019 03:07 - 46 minutes - 17.5 MBAfter a long hiatus, Andrew and Steven return to tell you all about new RASPBERRY!, vulnerabilities, some gaming news, and some updates on Kickstarters.
Control Structure #150: Chaos Monkey Got Out
October 25, 2018 01:17 - 29 minutes - 11.5 MBYou'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!)
Control Structure #149: Google Minus
October 11, 2018 01:44 - 31 minutes - 12.4 MBAndrew and Steve are back, talking about Raspberry!, Java, Telltale, Geocities, Wikipedia, Wifi, Chinese hardware, Windows, and Google Plus.
Control Structure #148: Can’t Read Floppy
September 26, 2018 01:39 - 34 minutes - 13.7 MBSteven finally joins Andrew face to face to talk about how everyone hates Chrome, improved TLS, PCs, GIMP, inefficient software, Microsoft, Newegg, and Linux.
Control Structure #147: A Wolfram Alpha Thing
August 31, 2018 02:19 - 32 minutes - 13.7 MBAfter having some Microsoft issues (both varieties), Andrew joins Steven and talk about Windows bugs, SMS, Valve, licenses, some feedback, and some chit-chat.
Control Structure #146: Most Episodic Show
August 16, 2018 02:49 - 45 minutes - 19.1 MBTime 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.
Control Structure #145: I’m a Ghost, It Happens
July 18, 2018 02:28 - 33 minutes - 13.3 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #144: The Old Screensaver
May 25, 2018 02:40 - 24 minutes - 9.67 MBAndrew joins Steven on his "last" show to talk RASPBERRY!, Ubuntu, TCP flow control, Microsoft, Magento, POWER, and Cisco.
Control Structure #143: Genetically Modified Cats
May 11, 2018 01:49 - 38 minutes - 15.5 MBAfter a hiatus, Andrew and Steve return to talk about AMD, Python, Java, SSDs, hard drives, and responsive images. Neat!
Control Structure #142: Massive Data Maw
April 19, 2018 00:48 - 38 minutes - 15.4 MBSteven 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).
Control Structure #141: Sounds Cooler With Enterprise
March 24, 2018 23:19 - 35 minutes - 14.6 MBAndrew and Steve are back with some RASPBERRY!, Google lawsuits, Java (or is it Jakarta?), BluRay, AMD, Let's Encrypt, passwords, and TOTP.
Control Structure #140: Not my Cloud
February 08, 2018 01:25 - 22 minutes - 9.16 MBSteve and Andrew are excited to talk about RASPBERRY! hosted IoT, fake real missiles, Libreoffice, AMD, Mozilla, MPEG, Xerox, and threats of being a barista.
Control Structure #139: People Don’t Read Anything
January 25, 2018 00:36 - 21 minutes - 8.48 MBAndrew and Steven talk about RASPBERRY!, false alarms, Ubuntu, Firefox, encryption standards, and old mainframes.
Control Structure #138: Steal Your Private Key
January 12, 2018 02:26 - 43 minutes - 17.5 MBSteve 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.
Control Structure #137: End Of The Internet
November 22, 2017 03:09 - 37 minutes - 16.5 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #136: Ding! Your Files Are Done!
October 27, 2017 02:23 - 1 hour - 29 MBSteve 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.
Control Structure #135: Updating The Garbage Truck
October 12, 2017 01:46 - 47 minutes - 17.7 MBSteven 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.
Control Structure #134: Eclipse The Sun Microsystems
September 19, 2017 00:39 - 44 minutes - 18.4 MBARRR! 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.
Control Structure #133: The Internet Took All The Fun Away
September 04, 2017 03:46 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBAfter a summer eclipse vacation, Andrew and Steve return to talk some RASPBERRY!, Windows, BSD, old school game hacks, and talk a lot about Google.
Control Structure #132: Paid My AMD Tax
August 10, 2017 00:50 - 52 minutes - 25.4 MBAndrew 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.
Control Structure #131: Pi In The Sky
July 24, 2017 02:39 - 53 minutes - 25.7 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #130: Jump On Our Own Bandwagon
June 29, 2017 02:46 - 53 minutes - 32.1 MBAfter a month, Steve and Andrew talk about smelly voicemails, RASPBERRY!, Windows, Debian, AMD, Firefox, Opus, indie gaming, Firewire, SSH, and other neat tidbits.
Control Structure #129: Nice Printer or White Elephant
June 01, 2017 02:00 - 55 minutes - 33.1 MBIn 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.
Control Structure #128: One Of The Three Halves
May 19, 2017 01:53 - 1 hour - 40.2 MBAndrew 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!
Control Structure #127: Hold The Light Still
May 12, 2017 04:16 - 59 minutes - 41.4 MBAndrew buys parts for a new PC, and builds it, while Steven hangs around.
Control Structure #126: GPS Hat, Where’s My Cat?
April 19, 2017 00:21 - 32 minutes - 14.4 MBThe same old guys (Andrew and Steve) go at it again with RASPBERRY!, Ubuntu, Electron, bash, Steam, and some other things they forgot.
Control Structure #125: Hey, I Need Some Batteries
April 06, 2017 02:29 - 57 minutes - 25.5 MBAndrew 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!
Control Structure #124: Mean People Screaming
March 15, 2017 02:26 - 42 minutes - 18.4 MBAfter talking about Chris' scheduling, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, the tinker board, Amazon, Firefox, Cloudflare, Windows, AMD Ryzen, emoji, and MediaWiki.
Control Structure #123: Jinxed The Next Day
February 24, 2017 02:28 - 33 minutes - 14.4 MBAfter mentioning what Trump is doing, Andrew and Steve talk about AMD Ryzen, benchmarks, web bloat, hardware extravagence, neural net colors, and PuTTY.
Control Structure #122: Cat Sleeping on the Keyboard
February 08, 2017 01:58 - 56 minutes - 23.5 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #121: They Had Stack Overflow In ’91?
January 12, 2017 01:34 - 49 minutes - 21.2 MBPeople 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).
Control Structure #120: I Drove Over The Cat
December 15, 2016 02:50 - 50 minutes - 21.5 MBIn 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.
Control Structure #119: Build Them and Bill Them
December 01, 2016 02:33 - 1 hour - 25.8 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #118: Shot Within Wi-Fi Range
November 03, 2016 01:01 - 44 minutes - 19.3 MBSteve and Andrew catch up on Apple dissappoint, Microsoft, insecurity, HTML, Let's Encrypt, another Google fatality, blog plans, turkeys, and some other little things.
Control Structure #117: Dial-up Voting
October 20, 2016 02:07 - 50 minutes - 21.7 MBOur 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.
Control Structure #116: Posted By Not Firefox
October 06, 2016 02:09 - 46 minutes - 20.1 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #115: Keysock Mode
September 21, 2016 23:58 - 45 minutes - 19 MBAfter 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.
Control Structure #114: Babylon Is Conformist
September 08, 2016 03:22 - 33 minutes - 14 MBAfter talking about happenings around town, Steve and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, GE, Microsoft, SSH, CSS, Linux, password breaches, and full server encryption.
Control Structure #113: Silly Things Like Reality
August 11, 2016 02:21 - 56 minutes - 23.8 MBAfter Steve has problems spelling "dual", he and Andrew talk about working, interviews, RASPBERRY, Microsoft, Mozilla, encryption, Inbox.com, KeePass plugins, and other tidbits.
Control Structure #112: 3D Printer On The Moon
July 28, 2016 00:09 - 45 minutes - 19 MBIn the middle of summer, Andrew and Steve talk about old consoles, space, Microsoft, documentation, HTTPS, CSS, and time tables.
Control Structure #111: Internet Sound
June 30, 2016 02:24 - 42 minutes - 18.3 MBSteve and Andrew catch up on a few things, like RASPBERRY!, .NET, Seafile, and Windows 10 (Andrew had an adventure!)
Control Structure #110: They Told Me I Could Fly
June 16, 2016 00:47 - 43 minutes - 18.7 MBAfter talking about cicadas and The Raphael Parable, Andrew and Steve talk about putting things on Github, Raspberry!, Firefox, Microsoft, ransomware, and headphones.
Control Structure #109: Had A Tong
June 02, 2016 01:41 - 20 minutes - 8.45 MBOn 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.
Control Structure #108: Alamagator
May 19, 2016 02:03 - 55 minutes - 22.9 MBIt'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.