Control Structure #58: Goodbye XP

Andrew and Steven say Goodbye to Windows XP, then talk about other operating systems, AMD, Unreal Engine, Microsoft, web browsers, Heartbleed, services that should and are being killed, a rant against OpenStreetMaps, and more.

Andrew and Steven say Goodbye to Windows XP, then talk about other operating systems, AMD, Unreal Engine, Microsoft, web browsers, Heartbleed, services that should and are being killed, a rant against OpenStreetMaps, and more.


Links

Support for Windows XP for Enterprise Business is ending
It’s Bliss: behind the iconic Windows XP photo – Digital Cameras: SLR & Compact Cameras
US Burns Through All High-Skill Visas For 2015 In Less Than A Week | TechCrunch
Quake III bounty: we have a winner! | Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
Unexpelled Ubuntu
AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Unreal Engine 4.1 Update Preview
Epic Games’ Sweeney on the future of Unreal, VR and democratic game development | Polygon
.NET Compiler Platform “Roslyn” – Home
The JIT finally proposed. JIT and SIMD are getting married. – .NET Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs
Registers of the x86 CPU architecture | the Andrew Bailey
Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1 | TechCrunch
Windows to be free on 9” and smaller tablets, also on IoT devices | Ars Technica
Internet Explorer Web Platform Status and Roadmap – status.modern.IE
Irish domains – Domain names ireland – ie domain registration
Chromium Dashboard
WebCL – Heterogeneous parallel computing in HTML5 web browsers
Staying ahead of OpenSSL vulnerabilities | CloudFlare Blog
Heartbleed Bug
Spring cleaning: Five Google projects that need to die | Ars Technica
Why We Decided To Stop Offering Free Accounts | Dyn Blog
Text File formats – ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or TAB delimited text | Ronald Duncan’s Blog
Osm2pgsql – OpenStreetMap Wiki
Nominatim – OpenStreetMap Wiki
Welcome
International Backup Awareness Day
USPS Address APIs | the Andrew Bailey

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
The Glory Days | Big Giant Circles
LukHash – Falling Apart : LukHash : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #210: CS #58 — Navigate Around With Your Pinkies!

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