Andrew and Steve talk about British knights, Apple acolytes, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, FPGAs, SSDs, memristors, listener feedback, and more, as the storms roll in. Special thanks to LoadingReadyRun and Musopen.

Andrew and Steve talk about British knights, Apple acolytes, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, FPGAs, SSDs, memristors, listener feedback, and more, as the storms roll in. Special thanks to LoadingReadyRun and Musopen.


Links

Crapshots Ep143 – The Crossroads – YouTube
Nexus Special #30: E3 2014 › The Nexus
The Highest-Paid CEOs Are The Worst Performers, New Study Says – Forbes
The Intel 80386 and 80486 | Indiegogo
BBC News – Raspberry Pi pioneer honoured in Birthday list
Crate of Penguins — Losing Apple
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Reacts to John Oliver Viral Video | Re/code
Hands-on with Canonical’s Orange Box and a peek into cloud nirvana | Ars Technica
MemShrink’s 3rd birthday | Nicholas Nethercote
An even slimmer pdf.js | Nicholas Nethercote
stop playing mp3 in new tab | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support
Internet Explorer Developer Channel is available for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1
3% of users browse with IE9 and 14% of users have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former? | Fiona TG
Microsoft Supercharges Bing Search With Programmable Chips | Enterprise | WIRED
Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server – The Washington Post
Safer email – Transparency Report – Google
TrueCrypt
Extreme Horizon experiment: iPhone on Spinning Car Wheel – Evil Window Dog blog
The Unicode Blog: Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0
The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte – The Tech Report – Page 1
With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer – Businessweek
The Swift Programming Language: The Basics
International Backup Awareness Day
AWS console breach leads to demise of service with “proven” backup plan | Ars Technica

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Sonata in D Major, D. 850 – Download free
Sonata in E Flat Major, D. 568 – Download free
The Hebrides – Fingal’s Cave, Op. 26 – Download free


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