Control Structure

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Control 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 also some other things, just because they are cool.

158 episodes · 2012–2019 · Page 1 of 4

Control Structure #156: Fringe Farm
00:33:10

After a long break, Steven and Andrew are back at it, talking about RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, Python, AMD, AVIF, and a few more things. It's been a long while.

Control Structure #153: A Box Museum
00:32:40

After moving into a new place, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, content security, GANs, light web pages, USB, and some backup tales.

Control Structure #150: Chaos Monkey Got Out
00:29:00

You've been upgraded! Andrew and Steven talk about YouTube being down, Winamp, Intel, TLS, Windows, Google, jQuery, and QuickTime. (The last one is not an upgrade!)

Control Structure #149: Google Minus
0:31:00

Andrew and Steve are back, talking about Raspberry!, Java, Telltale, Geocities, Wikipedia, Wifi, Chinese hardware, Windows, and Google Plus.

Control Structure #148: Can't Read Floppy
00:34:00

Steven finally joins Andrew face to face to talk about how everyone hates Chrome, improved TLS, PCs, GIMP, inefficient software, Microsoft, Newegg, and Linux.

Control Structure #146: Most Episodic Show
00:45:00

Time for a celebration! Control Structure now has more episodes than any other (real) show on the The Nexus! Steven and Andrew talk about RASPBERRY!, Windows, Chrome, processors, Java, Firefox, and Let's Encrypt. Then both talk about what they've been up to. Apologies for the poor audio quality, and occasional Steven dropouts.

Control Structure #142: Massive Data Maw
00:38:00

Steven and Andrew return to talk RASPBERRY!, operating systems, vulnerabilities (as usual), warranties, shady URLs, PDFs, Payara, and a smartphone (with a blast from the past).

Control Structure #140: Not my Cloud
00:22:00

Steve and Andrew are excited to talk about RASPBERRY! hosted IoT, fake real missiles, Libreoffice, AMD, Mozilla, MPEG, Xerox, and threats of being a barista.

Control Structure #138: Steal Your Private Key
00:43:00

Steve wakes Andrew up to have a podcast in 2008. After sorting things out, they talk about Spectre, Meltdown, iPhone batteries, blockchains, Chrome, ADSL, Amazon, Crytek, Excel, and a few other things, because it's been a while.

Control Structure #137: End Of The Internet
00:37:00

After commenting on Steven's shack, Andrew and him talk about abandoned IoT, Firefox, Chrome, Vegas, Intel, AMD, Python, Linux, and the dangers of leaving computers unlocked.

Control Structure #136: Ding! Your Files Are Done!
01:01:00

Steve talks about his new place, Andrew talks about pizza, then they talk about RASPBERRY!, Apple, WPA2 WiFi, lots of updates for pretty much everything, Kinect, Humble Bundle, Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording, MDN, and go down some rabbit holes.

Control Structure #134: Eclipse The Sun Microsystems
0:44:00

ARRR! Andrew wants you to know he'll be observin' International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Steven gets in on the fun. Then they talk boring stuff, like space probes, RASPBERRY!, Google, C, NGINX, Linux, Oracle, Java, and Equifax.

Control Structure #132: Paid My AMD Tax
00:52:00

Andrew talks about his brother leaving, his car getting fixed, then joins Steven to talk about Microsoft, Flash, AMD, Talos 2, GNOME, passwords, and a few other things.

Control Structure #131: Pi In The Sky
00:53:00

After a hiatus, Andrew explains why his new computer has been crashing, Steve has lots of RASPBERRY!, then they both talk about Windows, procedural planets, HTTPS, decompression bombs, the trials of multicore, and hard drives.

Control Structure #129: Nice Printer or White Elephant
00:55:00

In light of massive living arrangement changes, Steven explains to Andrew how to use vim, while Andrew pontificates on CPU manufacturers, then both talk about patents, Windows, Wikipedia, Linux utility fun (not vim), t-time, and flint strikers.

Control Structure #124: Mean People Screaming
00:42:00

After talking about Chris' scheduling, Andrew and Steve talk about RASPBERRY!, the tinker board, Amazon, Firefox, Cloudflare, Windows, AMD Ryzen, emoji, and MediaWiki.

Control Structure #120: I Drove Over The Cat
00:50:00

In the middle of a snowstorm, Steve and Andrew discuss RASPBERRY!, AMD, Bitcoin, storage, Microsoft, web fonts, and a few more tidbits, like designing a rather graphic lawn mowing simulator.

Control Structure #119: Build Them and Bill Them
01:00:00

After a while of not podcasting, Andrew and Steve get back into action. They talk about building features, RASPBERRY!, Backblaze, AMD, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and the new Andrew Bailey.

Control Structure #117: Dial-up Voting
00:50:00

Our old friend Christopher joins Andrew and Steve to talk about some games, IoT, VeraCrypt, voting software, voting hardware, growing hardware, the LHC, doomed projects, CSP, and a few other tidbits.

Control Structure #116: Posted By Not Firefox
00:46:00

After mentioning Google's new iPhone, Steven and Andrew talk about BLACKBERRY! (yes), RASPBERRY!, Microsoft, Dropbox, the internet of threats (IoT), SSL "marketshare", pgAdmin, NBASE-T, and metafactories.

Control Structure #115: Keysock Mode
00:45:00

After talking about a company picnic, Andrew and Steve talk about some RASPBERRY!, dead hard drives, Microsoft, LSB, Intel, Digital Homicide, file URIs, Netbeans, Payara, Oracle, and a few other tidbits that they thought was relevant at the time.

Control Structure #109: Had A Tong
00:20:00

On this short and sweet episode, Andrew talks about getting runner's high, Steve talks about printing and having a tong, then both discuss implications of Oracle vs Google.

Control Structure #108: Alamagator
00:55:00

It's Chris's birthday! Steve is amazed by infrared cameras, Andrew poses a hypothetical Apple scenario, then both talk about hard drives, IOT destruction, new hardware, Certbot, the NSA, Ubuntu, 3D printers, and a time table app.