Control Structure #91: This Time Will Be Different

Andrew celebrates the Windows 10 launch by putting Linux on his new laptop! Him and Steve talk about that, QA testing, Mozilla, passwords, new memory, Newegg, encryption, and lots of little things.

Andrew celebrates the Windows 10 launch by putting Linux on his new laptop! Him and Steve talk about that, QA testing, Mozilla, passwords, new memory, Newegg, encryption, and lots of little things.


Banter

Bill Sempf | On Testing
Time Warner Cable owes $229,500 to woman it would not stop calling | Reuters

News

Raspberry PI 2 Cluster Case pt2 | PocketCluster
Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed | Ars Technica
Windows 10 – The First 24 Hours | Blogging Windows
​Windows 10 downloads bend, but don’t break, the Internet | ZDNet
An Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control | The Mozilla Blog
Visual Studio 2015 Final Release Event | Channel 9
5 Incredible Features in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview -Telerik Developer Network
Nick Craver – Why you should wait on upgrading to .Net 4.6
Fix for potential bad tailcall code generation by mmitche · Pull Request #1298 · dotnet/coreclr · GitHub
DefCon Hackers Tell How They Cracked Brink’s Safe in 60 Seconds
I Emailed 97,931 Users Their Passwords · atechdad
I Sent 281,317 Users Their Passwords · atechdad
Intel and Micron Produce Breakthrough Memory Technology
Cold boot attack – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win – Unscrambled
NVIDIA Pascal GPU To Feature 17 Billion Transistors and 32 GB HBM2 VRAM – Full CUDA Compute Architecture Arrives in 2016
Notice for NVIDIA Tablet Customers
Why the fear over ubiquitous data encryption is overblown – The Washington Post

Appreciate Deprecate

Use the hardware-based full disk encryption your TCG Opal SSD with msed — vxlabs
Password not recognized after loadPBAimage and power cycle on Crucial MX200 · Issue #16 · r0m30/msed · GitHub
README.md | master | cryptsetup / cryptsetup | GitLab
Dogbert’s Blog: BIOS Password Backdoors in Laptops
Installing Glassfish 4.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Steam Gauge | Get the value and size of your Steam account

Don’t forget

International Backup Awareness Day

Music

Bump Foot – Releases – foot132
Music | Big Giant Circles
BigGiantCircles (@BigGiantCircles) | Twitter
Immerse | Lifeformed
THE OTHER SIDE | LukHash

This episode of Control Structure has a Fringe episode. You should really listen to The Fringe #334: CS #91 — Use It For Real?!

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