Control Structure
158 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 5 years ago - ★ - 1 ratingControl Structure is a podcast about computer science, IT news, stories, opinions, tips, and tricks for programmers, testers, administrators of all types and more, for fun or for profit hosted by Andrew Bailey and guests. And also some other things, just because they are cool
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Episodes
Control Structure #107: Deadlines, Goals, and Gantt Charts
May 05, 2016 00:58 - 42 minutes - 18.3 MBAndrew and Steve talk about 3D printers, cameras, Dell, Ubuntu, Lavabit, Backblaze, Bitcoin, Clapper, Comey, and the T.
Control Structure #106: Linux Subsystem For Linux
April 21, 2016 02:35 - 52 minutes - 21 MBAfter briefly becoming the bike show, Steven and Andrew talk about gaming history, betas, Intel, Google, Paul Le Roo, IoT, and passwords.
Control Structure #105: Bootstrapping Your Flash Drive
April 07, 2016 02:50 - 50 minutes - 21.9 MBAndrew and Steve talk about the stuff that Microsoft announced at Build, how NodeJS broke everything, why IoT is a bad idea, ciphers, and broken iPhones.
Control Structure #104: My Real Real Email Address
March 24, 2016 00:48 - 1 hour - 27.6 MBSteve and Andrew talk about old times, new places, RASPBERRY!, stolen databases, vulnerabilities, encryption, iPhones, offline webpages, and some philosophy.
Control Structure #103: Knowledge Is Really Heavy
March 10, 2016 17:27 - 53 minutes - 22.1 MBAndrew tells Steve about moving in, then about Raspberry!, CHIP, SSDs, Microsoft, DROWN, Amazon, encryption, and some more web server optimizations.
Control Structure #102: Housing-as-a-Service
February 25, 2016 03:27 - 49 minutes - 21.9 MBChris mostly sleeps on the couch while Steve and Andrew talk about bullets, Amazon, housing, encryption, Vulkan, Backblaze, the weather, and source control tools.
Control Structure #101: Obsolete Installers
February 11, 2016 02:54 - 1 hour - 26.4 MBAfter the Suberb Owl, Andrew and Steve talk about robots, Gmail, tooltips, VLC, HTTPS certificates, going dark, NSA breakins, Steam, and Andrew's blog.
Control Structure #100: The One They Called 100
January 28, 2016 02:40 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBTom Chris comes back for another episode with Steve and Andrew. They discuss an old space probe, RASPBERRY!, crisis design, Microsoft, IBM, WebGL, AMD, quitting your dream job, GPU memory, encryption, some listener feedback, and Steve's Atari repair.
Control Structure #99: Critical CPU Damage
January 14, 2016 04:06 - 1 hour - 28.4 MBAndrew and Steve talk briefly talk about what happened over New Year's, like watching transmissions, Skylake, Internet Explorer end of support, OpenSSL funding, Postgres, reponsive design, and Atari.
Control Structure #98: Farms Are Expensive
December 24, 2015 03:19 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBTwentieth Century boots into this show with Andrew and Steve talking about Christmas, RASPBERRY!, Google, Chrome, Firefox, Ubuntu, PCI compliance, backdoors, minigames, games, file formats, Wireshark, and Andrew's encrypted blog. Have a Merry Chrixmix!
Control Structure #97: Who Owns The Grill Now?
December 07, 2015 03:14 - 44 minutes - 17.7 MBSteve talks about Thanksgiving and Andrew invents Instant Delicious, then they wonder about what it's like to be an object, RASPBERRY!, Dell certificates, surveillance, then finish it off with some video games.
Control Structure #96: Cats-as-a-Service
November 18, 2015 02:26 - 55 minutes - 23.2 MBStuck in the vault, Andrew and Steve talk about Betamax, passwords, Turing tests, storage, cats, and Android Nougat.
Control Structure #95: Operating System of the Fortnight
October 28, 2015 02:41 - 49 minutes - 21.1 MBSteve and Andrew talk about what's been going on with 3D printing, BLACKBERRY!, laws, DRM, net neutrality, encryption, and feedback from the last CS and the Berlin TED.
Control Structure #94: Hipster Vacation
September 12, 2015 18:46 - 48 minutes - 22.5 MBAndrew talks about his upcoming vacation with Steve, then talk about backdoors in locks, Raspberry Pie, Raspberry Pi, Qualcomm, password cracking, video codecs, Unreal Engine, and a few other things between.
Control Structure #93: Always 9:42
August 29, 2015 20:39 - 55 minutes - 24.1 MBAfter discussing what's happened during the past week, Andrew and Steve talk about a Raspberry pancreas, compression, Linux, confiscations, Firefox, graphics, crashing clouds, listener feedback, and other stuff.
Control Structure #92: Similar to VCR
August 15, 2015 18:56 - 48 minutes - 21.3 MBAfter sharing what happened at work, Andrew and Steve talked about Star Citizen, RASPBERRY, open source releases, Lenovo, hackable cars, Windows 10, and hamburger menus.
Control Structure #91: This Time Will Be Different
August 03, 2015 01:15 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBAndrew 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.
Control Structure #90: Demolished Mostly
July 20, 2015 02:15 - 49 minutes - 21.1 MBChris annoys Andrew and Steven as they talk about several things starting with Open, graphics news, Wildfly, the FBI and encryption, and lots of nonsensical things.
Control Structure #89: No! My Passwords!
June 25, 2015 08:17 - 41 minutes - 18.1 MBAndrew and Steve talk about goings on, RASPBERRY!, BLACKBERRY!, game development, password breaches, the government, HTTPS, and OneNote.
Control Structure #88: Kafkaesque
June 07, 2015 23:17 - 51 minutes - 22.6 MBSteven and Andrew talk about food, the apocalypse, social networking, Uber, SSH, Sourceforge, listener feedback, and plenty of other little things.
Control Structure #87: We’re Corporate Now
May 25, 2015 02:07 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBSteve wishes Microsoft BOB a belated birthday and talks about some Raspberry Pi articles, then him and Andrew talk about AMD, package managers, spinning rust, Rust, error messages, security vulnerabilities, and his new router.
Control Structure #86: You’re Changing My Brain
May 10, 2015 20:53 - 1 hour - 26.6 MBSteve and Andrew talk about accidental algorithmic cruelty, RASPBERRY!, AMD, Verizon, Microsoft, the NSA, and a few things between.
Control Structure #85: Smokey The Pi
April 26, 2015 01:23 - 50 minutes - 22.7 MBAfter returning from the IHOP, Andrew and Steve talk about Raspberry!, Apple, video, videogames, C#, encryption, Audacity, and other diverse topics.
Control Structure #84: 93% Appropriate
April 16, 2015 02:27 - 1 hour - 27.2 MBAndrew comes over to Chris's place to play some N64, then talk to Steve about encryption, Raspberry!, 3D tools, gaming, no Javascript, Stallman, LibreOffice, and then ask Chris some questions. For real this time.
Control Structure #83: Sideplate Washer
April 01, 2015 05:01 - 45 minutes - 19.7 MBAfter arguing about time measured on microwaves, Steven and Andrew interview Chris and share some recipes and thoughts about cooking and meat procuring strategies.
Control Structure #82: Guy With The Keys
March 19, 2015 02:23 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBAndrew and Steve talk about SSDs, submarine cables, databases, Microsoft, apps, listener feedback, and some other tidbits.
Control Structure #81: I’m So British
March 08, 2015 04:13 - 1 hour - 27 MBAndrew and Steven talk about ASP.NET on Raspberry!, Linux 4.0, "Superphish", FCC votes, lots of GDC news, what Steven's been up to, some listener feedback, and playing Portal with Chris.
Control Structure #80: Jenga Pistol
February 23, 2015 00:27 - 58 minutes - 26.4 MBRecording in the snow, Andrew and Steve talk about photography, Raspberry, security failures, Silver, SSDs, Lenovo, NSA, and a whole bunch of listener feedback.
Control Structure #79: Special Raspberry! Edition
February 04, 2015 03:07 - 12 minutes - 6.28 MBThe Raspberry Pi 2 Model B has been released, and Steven and Andrew are so excited that they did a podcast out of schedule!
Control Structure #78: Refill My Windows
January 29, 2015 01:35 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBSteve and Andrew talk about Chris, gaming, Windows, Firefox, networking, Verizon, EFF, Emscripten, vacuums, and podcast feedback.
Control Structure #77: Freezing is a Preservative
January 08, 2015 03:08 - 50 minutes - 23.7 MBAndrew and Steve find a whole bunch of DOS games, then talk about crap, MozJPEG, Microsoft, encryption methods, the NSA, and answer listener feedback.
Control Structure #76: Album Art Cat
December 18, 2014 03:51 - 58 minutes - 27.9 MBAndrew drags Ryan out of podcasting midterms to talk about coffee, Apple, storage, Google, Skype, and extreme definition sound.
Control Structure #75: Don’t Worry, Be Appy!
December 04, 2014 02:04 - 50 minutes - 25.3 MBAndrew and Steve talk about Thanksgiving activities, buzzwords, DRM, Swartz, FLAC support, Mozilla, UI design tips, HTML, HTTP, and Blizzard.
Control Structure #74: ACME
November 20, 2014 01:26 - 42 minutes - 21.8 MBAndrew and Steve talk about the past, present, and future, with Desert Bus, Raspberry, Winamp, Dot Net, TLS certificates, and Google Play.
Control Structure #73: Grappe Juice
November 07, 2014 03:41 - 1 hour - 32.4 MBAndrew and Steve talk about hiring people, new PC concepts, encryption, package managers, Ubuntu, math hacks, extensions, MD5, N64, moon robots, gaming, even more encryption, and sound systems.
Control Structure #72: Already Invented That
October 23, 2014 02:31 - 49 minutes - 26 MBSteve and Andrew talk about encryption, encryption vulnerabilities, unreliability, Linux, Alto, and surround sound.
Control Structure #71: Semi Internet Historic
October 09, 2014 03:09 - 42 minutes - 21 MBAndrew and Steve talk about lights, Raspberry, spin offs, TV, patents, Postgres, Shellshock, and hacked drivers.
Control Structure #70: Three Trick Pony
September 25, 2014 02:28 - 1 hour - 32.7 MBAndrew 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.
Control Structure #69: Official Dingus
September 11, 2014 02:11 - 1 hour - 33.6 MBAndrew and Steven note some Apple event, discuss sorting algorithms, hashing algorithms, garbage collection algorithms, company perks, Markdown, Unreal Engine 4, NASes, The Stanley Parable, bugs, listener feedback, and the Steven-Chris showdown.
Control Structure #68: Cold Wet Chicken
August 26, 2014 23:39 - 48 minutes - 23.7 MBAndrew and Steve talk about their Raspberries, CDs, Windows, zip codes, gaming services and devices, emergent orange, Chris, and listener feedback.
Control Structure #67: There Was No Firefox
August 14, 2014 02:14 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBAfter talking about what they've been doing at home, Andrew and Steve talk about Raspberry Pi, Broadwell, game development, the internet, Internet Explorer, OpenGL, USB, Markov Chains, and dice.
Control Structure #66: Mom as a Service
August 01, 2014 01:52 - 49 minutes - 25.1 MBAfter talking about how things Comcast and Kickstarter go awry, Andrew and Steven talk about the demoscene, Hemingway, sales charts, jQuery, CSS, notes, RAM drives, and listener feedback.
Control Structure #65: The Carpet Shampooer
July 18, 2014 02:23 - 40 minutes - 20.1 MBAndrew and Steven come around to talk about what's been going on around the internet, two Kickstarters, Raspberry Pis, free Microsoft stuff, web protocols, standards, FCC crashing, listener feedback, and other cool things.
Control Structure #64: Quantum Variable
July 03, 2014 03:17 - 1 hour - 44.3 MBAfter trying again, Andrew and Ryan talk about Google, Opera, MP3s, DoS attacks, security, HP, IBM, Samsung, Xanadu, Aaron Swartz, accomplishments, podcast feedback, and some other interesting tidbits.
Control Structure #63: Certain Fundamentals
June 20, 2014 02:30 - 1 hour - 35.6 MBAndrew 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.
Control Structure #62: Water in Your DSL
June 06, 2014 02:54 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBAndrew and Steven talk about Kickstarters, web links, web browsers, 3D, the future of the Internet, and some more things. Then they tell a story in low bandwidth voices: once upon a time, Tom Chris came back. The End.
Control Structure #61: Morale Has Improved
May 23, 2014 03:29 - 1 hour - 40.6 MBAndrew and Steven invite Ross Nover to the show and interview him about himself, The System and tools that he uses. Afterwards, they discuss a Raspberry Pi tank, computer time, OS user experience, securing HTTP, accessible HTML, colorful games, and listener feedback.
Control Structure #60: Actual Genuine Scanlines
May 09, 2014 02:12 - 1 hour - 35.8 MBOn this episode of the food show, Andrew and Steven talk about Rasberry Pi, Dell, Brian Fargo, Unreal Engine, Skype, AMD, internet middlemen, listener feedback, and so much more.
Control Structure #59: Server Babies
April 25, 2014 01:58 - 1 hour - 37.3 MBAndrew and Steven talk about the fallout from Heartbleed, compile times, realistic graphics, servers, Andrew's new backup strategy, a double dose of listener feedback, and more! And don't forget to submit any questions for Ross Nover from The System Comic!
Control Structure #58: Goodbye XP
April 10, 2014 00:23 - 1 hour - 34.7 MBAndrew 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.