Control Structure #70: Three Trick Pony

Andrew talks about the past and the future, then joins Steven in the present to discuss Linux, caching, dependency independence, drive reliability, company domination, the NSA, and some other things.

Andrew talks about the past and the future, then joins Steven in the present to discuss Linux, caching, dependency independence, drive reliability, company domination, the NSA, and some other things.


Banter

Folding USB Solar Cell by Brown Dog Gadgets — Kickstarter
Celebrate 20 years of ‘Friends’ with this Windows 95 ‘cyber sitcom’ starring Rachel and Chandler | The Verge
Potato Salad by Zack Danger Brown » PotatoStock 2014. GET. EXCITED. — Kickstarter
After Kickstarter to Make Potato Salad, Columbus Prepares for Potato Stock – WSYX – Columbus, Ohio Top Stories – Breaking News, Weather, and Traffic

News

Raw vision: First person to buy an iPhone 6 immediately drops it – YouTube
My experience with using cp to copy a lot of files (432 millions, 39 TB)
The call of the wild, or something, happened last week. (Well, there was an…
RLSD
gilbitron/Ideal-Image-Slider · GitHub
Blizzard cancels its next-gen MMO Titan after seven years | Polygon
Home – Simply Secure
Backblaze Blog » Hard Drive Reliability Update – Sep 2014
Backblaze Blog » Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis
The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only two remain after 1.5PB – The Tech Report – Page 1
Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works) | Andreessen Horowitz
Well, I’m Back: Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won’t Get A Choice
AnandTech | MIPS Strikes Back: 64-bit Warrior I6400 Arrives
Larry Ellison Will Step Down as CEO of Oracle, Will Remain as CTO | Re/code
Snowden Documents Indicate NSA Has Breached Deutsche Telekom – SPIEGEL ONLINE
Shedding Light on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC): Court Findings from Our 2007-2008 Case | Yahoo Global Public Policy

Don’t forget

International Backup Awareness Day

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
0x10c | C418

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