Control Structure #46: Dinosaur Robot

Andrew welcomes back Steven to talk about old computers, government shutdowns, CERN, Google Street View, chiptunes, more GPU news, Valve, GNU, Bill Gates, funny observations, 64-bit, Mozilla, copyright, debugging private keys, and more.

Andrew welcomes back Steven to talk about old computers, government shutdowns, CERN, Google Street View, chiptunes, more GPU news, Valve, GNU, Bill Gates, funny observations, 64-bit, Mozilla, copyright, debugging private keys, and more.


Links

Windows 98 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NASA paywalls first papers arising from Curiosity rover, I am setting them free
The Panda Cam? That’s Shut Down, Too | WBAA
Mars Rover Curiosity Still Running, Shutdown Halts Other NASA Operations | Weather Underground
Intelligence head says cutting ‘non-essential’ CIA, NSA employees puts the country in danger | The Verge
Google Lat Long: Street View arrives at CERN
Image: google trekker backpacker.JPG
Big Giant Circles – “The Glory Days” (Impostor Nostalgia 2) by BigGiantCircles — Kickstarter
Impostor Nostalgia | Big Giant Circles
AnandTech Portal | Understanding AMD’s Mantle: A Low-Level Graphics API For GCN
Glide API – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[Phoronix] AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation
Steam Controller
Half-Life 3 trademark filed by Valve | News | PC Gamer
Valve’s Steam Box won’t challenge consoles, says ‘Borderlands’ studio boss | The Verge
Gearbox CEO: Duke Nukem Forever Is “Exactly Like Half-Life 2” | The Escapist
GNU 30th anniversary – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation
Initial Announcement – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation
Debian — Debian GNU/Hurd
Bill Gates: Control-Alt-Delete a mistake – CNN.com
Exclusive: Microsoft investors push for chairman Gates to step down | Reuters
Six Stages of Debugging // plasmasturm.org
Explanations to common Java exceptions
RyuJIT: The next-generation JIT compiler for .NET – .NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Windows Server 2008 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2013-09-27: ARM64 and You
MemShrink progress, week 117–120 | Nicholas Nethercote
gemal.dk – HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway ) landed
From the Canyon Edge: Fingerprints are Usernames, not Passwords
ibm-research/fusedos · GitHub
subwindow/negative-captcha · GitHub
World’s first cross-platform Web browser brought back to life | Ars Technica
Jimmy Wales To Silicon Valley: Grow Up And Get Over Your Age Bias – ReadWrite
Warner Bros. DMCA Fraud and Abuse Case Goes to Jury | TorrentFreak
Microsoft Wants Google to Censor Its Wikipedia Page | TorrentFreak
The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books Vanish – Rebecca J. Rosen – The Atlantic
API Endpoints | PayPal Developer
Requesting an API Certificate
Demandware | A Leading Digital Commerce Provider
Coding Horror: International Backup Awareness Day

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Super VVVVVVeat Boy | Big Giant Circles
instrumentals | tryad

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #146: CS #46: Super VVVVVVeat Boy!

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