Things Learned: Recent Episodes
Steve
What did you learn today? Steve looks back and reflects on daily things he's learned over the course of a decade and counting. Come listen to a relaxing journey and retrospective of things learned. Inquiries: @SteveTheITPro
4/9/12 - How to play Shuffleboard.
- Shuffleboard Table Care and Maintenance
4/12/12 - About the French Wars of Religion
4/13/12 - Foobar2000 shows the current time of the music in the status bar.
4/15/12 - The response to Christos Anesti
4/16/12 - Russia photoshopped people out of stuff before Photoshop existed.
- How Photos Became a Weapon in Stalin’s Great Purge
4/17/12 - Stuff about the Henrician reformation
4/20/12 - the
- The origin of the tag | HTML Blink Tag – W3C | The blinking text element - Mozilla
4/22/12 - I can preserve VirtualBox settings across OS installs
Extra Topic 1: Cap and Gown Pickup Day + MightyText and DeskSMS
Extra Topic 2: Crazy schedules on 4/11/12
Extra Topic 3: Wisdom from a computer science professor
Extra Topic 4: Spring Film Festival filming and editing
Extra Topic 5: State of the Podcast and future episode plans!
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and YouTube free music repositories.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Jason Shaw - 12 Mornings
- Kevin MacLeod - Silver Blue Light [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
- Doctor Turtle - The Kid In The Bins
- Doctor Turtle - His Last Share Of The Stars
3/26/12 - You can apparently buy items in shops in D&D
- Why Magic Shops Ruin the D&D Fantasy
3/27/12 - The origins of the Amish/Mennonites
3/28/12 - Netbeans has a specific Python edition.
- Get nbPython | NetBeans Python Editor | NetBeans - Python Wiki
3/29/12 - The Python Programming Language
- Python 0.9.1. part 01/21
3/30/12 - Transport Layer uses port numbers for addressing
- Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry (IANA)
4/1/12 - Facebook timeline didn't roll out to everyone despite them saying they did
- Safer Internet Day 2012 – Overview of Facebook Timeline | Facebook Timeline Rolls Out to All Brand Pages
4/2/12 - A kill in LoL=2.5 minion waves
4/3/12 - How to make an air cannon out of a box.
- The Vortex Cannon – Student Science
4/4/12 - Sorta figured out Content-Aware fills in Photoshop
- Adobe Launches Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended | Photoshop CS5 New Features – Content Aware Fill Tutorial | Remove objects from your photos with Content-Aware Fill
4/5/12 - The Dos Equis man owns a house in Vermont.
- Interesting
4/6/12 - John Snow is basically the pioneer of Anesthesia
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World | John Snow, MD: anaesthetist to the Queen of England and pioneer epidemiologist
Extra Topic 1: OnlyOffice
Extra Topic 2: Draw Something
Extra Topic 3: Air Display
Extra Topic 4: The Future of the IT Major
Extra Topic 5: Upcoming Commencement
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, Apple iMovie, and YouTube free music repositories.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Dee Yan-Key - Minor Angst
- De Yan-Key - Wade in the Water
- Apple - Park Bench
- Apple - Fifth Avenue Stroll
- Apple - Acoustic Sunrise
- TrackTribe - A Night Alone
- TrackTribe - Walk Through the Park
- Doctor Turtle - Doctor Talos Answers The Door
3/12/12 - Set Affinity in Task manager pertains to CPU cores.
- Processes, Threads, and Jobs in the Windows Operating System | What is Windows Priority and Affinity and what advatanges does it provide?
3/14/12 - What Speccy is.
- Speccy Tutorial for Beginners | Hackers compromised free CCleaner software, Avast's Piriform says | Leaked Documents Expose the Secretive Market for Your Web Browsing Data
3/15/12 - Windows 7 takes forever to update.
- Further simplifying servicing models for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 | Microsoft to end decades-old pick-a-patch practice in Windows 7 | Convenience rollup update for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
3/19/12 - About Nocturne for Mac, and that I can invert the menu bar with it.
- Nocturne for Mac | What Does It Mean When Apple “Sherlocks” an App?
3/20/12 - Mac OS X Has the biggest security hole ever in its password reset feature on the recovery disk.
- Reset a Lost Password in Mac OS X with a Boot Disk | Set a firmware password on your Mac | How to reset local user passwords from the macOS recovery partition
3/21/12 - Everything in Unix is treated as a file, even the Kernel Memory
- In UNIX Everything is a File
3/22/12 - More about Zwingli
3/24/12 - What Lane Freezing is in League of Legends
- How To Slow Push And Freeze A Lane In League of Legends
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Baldanders Strikes The Set
- Doctor Turtle - Jonah's Message for New York
- Doctor Turtle - Ladies, Take Me With You
- Doctor Turtle - The Kid In The Bins
- Doctor Turtle - Unexpected Hoedown In Bagging Area
2/26/12 - Figuring out Erasmus's The Praise of Folly
2/27/12 - cat command in Terminal
- cat(1) — Linux manual page
2/28/12 - Concatenate function in Excel (wasn't able to really get it work though)
2/29/12 - How the Elo touchscreen computer works
- ELO touchscreen does not respond to touch or has lost alignment at point of sale.
3/1/12 - Emperor Kangxi had the longest reign in China history.
- The Sacred Edict of the Kangxi Emperor, 1670
3/2/12 - I haven’t written in a while so my wrist cramps up a lot when I write.
3/4/12 - How to play Dota 2
- The Story of Dota 2
3/6/12 - How to use nc in Terminal.
- nc linux command man page | nc/netcat
3/7/12 - Putting torches on the right side of caves in Minecraft is a good idea.
3/8/12 - There's apparently a cloud menu bar icon that looks like iCloud but is for MobileMe.
- How do I remove the MobileMe icon in the menu bar? | iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses | Apple reminds users of MobileMe closure
3/9/12 - FTP is an insecure protocol.
- FTP Server – Beware of Security Risks
Extra Topic 1: An IT executive and an unexpected awkward moment
Extra Topic 2: Livestream's content purge of 2012
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Gillicuddy - Instrumental #2 Revisited
- Gillicuddy - Jupiter the Blue
- Lee Rosevere - Places Unseen
- The 126ers - The Low Seas
- Zero V - Don't Rush
2/12/12 - IBM's Thinkpad was the first laptop to have a keyboard light
- THINK: A brief history of ThinkPads, from IBM to Lenovo| IBM ThinkPad 701C: The Iconic Butterfly Keyboard| The ThinkLight: Shedding Light on the Legend (ft. David Hill)| What was the first backlit keyboard?
2/14/12 - How to burn a USB Lion disk and rotate multiple pages at once in Preview
- Make a Bootable Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Installer from a USB Flash Drive| How can you rotate all the pages of a PDF file in Preview?
2/15/12 - Clear command in terminal
- Clear(1) – Linux Manual Page
2/16/12 - I can middle click things in the Windows 7 Taskba
- Middle-Click on the Taskbar to Quickly Open and Close Application Windows
2/17/12 - You can move the chat bar in League of Legends
2/18/12 - The Dice app on Android can lock dice as well as have multiples/change dice color.
2/19/12 - Windows 7 can condense down to 2GB in size.
- Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all | Mark Russinovich Explains MinWin Once and For All
2/20/12 - About Potosi, the city of Silver
2/21/12 - The "College Freshman" meme picture was taken in the upper quad courtyard.
- Know Your Meme: College Freshman | Why Every College Freshman Should Start a Roth IRA | My Picture is Internet Gold Right Now
2/22/12 - Henry Morgan = Captain Morgan, and he wasn't a pirate, he was a privateer. Also, purge in OSX Terminal clears out inactive used memory
2/23/12 - Ton of stuff on Martin Luther. Also figured out IRC.
2/24/12 - defaults write com.apple.iCal IncludeDebugMenu 1 will turn on debug mode for ical in 10.7
- How to enable iCal's debug menu
2/25/12 - How the Frenzied Barbarian works in D&D
- Ultimate Barbarian (3.5e Class)
Extra topics:
- Club Bing's shutdown
- Housing damages bills
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod - Dat groove [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Apple - Daydream
- Apple - Coming of Age
- Jason Shaw - Thingamajig
- Jason Shaw - Mountain Sun
- Jason Shaw - Solo Acoustic Guitar
1/31/12 - The 4th Lateran Council
2/1/12 - About the Ming Empire
2/4/12 - What a "dirt block" drink is.
- Dirt Block (Minecraft cocktail)
2/5/12 - Using Foobar2000
2/6/12 - Christopher Columbus did a lot of terrible things.
- Was Christopher Columbus a Hero or Villain?
2/7/12 - Setting up Google Sync with Exchange on iOS.
- Sync heck: DalDAV vs Exchange Server – a Google Apple review | What are the pros and cons of IMAP/CalDAV vs. Exchange for Gmail and Google Calendar for iOS 4?
2/8/12 - iMovie has a built in way to move projects to other drives.
- Problem Solved: How to Move iMovie 09 Projects to Other Drives
2/11/12 - About QTTabBar
- QTTabBar| QTTabBar fork
Extra topic - random things about DTV - The Final Moments of Analog Broadcast
This episode's music comes from archive.org, YouTube free music repositories, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- TrackTribe - Walk Through the Park
- Kevin MacLeod - Virtutes Instrumenti [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Siddhartha Corsus - Count Your Blessings, Count Your Stars
- Siddhartha Corsus - Bhagavan
- Siddhartha Corsus - Pure of Heart
1/15/12 - Minecraft's sun rose and set in the wrong places until 1.9
- Sun – Minecraft Wiki
1/16/12 – Soundcloud
- MySpace lost 13 years worth of user data after botched server migration
1/18/12 - Some correct proportions for tablet compatible clickable images.
1/19/12 - Re-learned Lion's signature feature in Preview
- How to use Preview in OS X Lion to digitally sign documents | Fill out and sign a PDF form in Preview on Mac
1/21/12 - How to play D&D
1/23/12 - ITSM Process Modeling
1/25/12 - No more Macbook keyboard cover. Did more damage than good I think.
1/27/12 - The difference between an NSP and an ISP.
- NSPs vs ISPs – still a deal?
Extra topics:
- Various days I skipped
- OnLive Desktop: ComputerWorld - Run Windows on your iPad | OnLive vs. Microsoft Licensing Issues Resolved: OnLive Desktop Moves to Windows Server 2008
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and YouTube free music repositories
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
- TrackTribe - Lights
- TrackTribe - Cover Charge
- Lee Rosevere - Try Anything Once
- Lee Rosevere - I'm Going for a Coffee
- Doctor Turtle - Over the Water, Humans Gather
- Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Lee Rosevere - Wandering
1/1/12 - How to play Words With Friends
1/2/12 - Food Poisoning really sucks
1/3/12 - Microsoft released the Critical Update Notification Tool for Win98, but then changed the name to Critical Update Notification Utility to avoid using the unfortunate acronym.
- /r/todayilearned post
1/5/12 - 10.4 is probably the last OS you can get to run well on a G4.
1/6/12 - id and Apogee Software's histories
- All Your History: Id software | All Your History: The History of Apogee & 3D Realms
1/8/12 - IMAP folder subscriptions
- IMAP Folder Subscriptions | How to Subscribe to IMAP Folders in Thunderbird | Thunderbird Tip: Change IMAP Folder Subscriptions
1/9/12 - What Windows + T does (focuses the taskbar)
- Keyboard shortcuts in Windows | 30 Essential Windows Key Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows 10 | Missing suggestion to press Win+T to focus taskbar icons
1/10/12 - About 2/11/12 and 2112
1/11/12 - There's a WMUR app for the ipad
1/12/12 - Amazon Flow for the ipad
- Powered by Amazon, Flow Scans Products You Can Buy Online| TechHive: Get this app: Flow | Amazon Flow: Try Firefly on your existing phone (sort of)
1/14/12 - netstat -a -b will show network traffic
- NetStat – Microsoft Docs | Netstat Command in Linux - 28 Commands with Examples
Extra topics:
- SOPA
- Life after graduation
- Roommates
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Lullaby For Democracy
- Doctor Turtle - Manly Nunn Steps Out
- Doctor Turtle - Rocinante's Lament
- Doctor Turtle - Always The Teasmade, Never The Tease
- Doctor Turtle - Beaconsfield Villas Stomp
- Doctor Turtle - Unexpected Hoedown In Bagging Area
12/18/11 - Red Robin has bottomless fries
- If I order bottomless fries at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, how many fries would I have to eat in order for the restaurant to lose profit on my order?
12/19/11 - Ping google.com -t will give some more info on pings
12/20/11 - Gas gauges have an arrow pointing which side of the car it's on.
- The Fuel Gauge Arrow
12/22/11 - How to use Combofix
- ComboFix – Bleeping Computer
12/23/11 - Napoleon Dynamite had a $400,000 budget, but grossed $46,140,956.
- Napoleon Dynamite Quotes | Napoleon Dynamite – Box Office Mojo
12/24/11 - Mario originally was supposed to have a gun.
- Miyamoto: Mario originally had a gun | Super Mario Bros.' 25th: Miyamoto Reveals All
12/26/11 - Ultrabooks have specific specs needed to be called ultrabooks.
- Intel Capital launches $300M ultrabook fund
12/27/11 - Dell laptops in 2001 used to cost $1200
- The Cost of a Computer the Year You Were Born | $2,400 Laptop From 1994: Packard Bell Statesman | Dell Inspiron 9100: $4,800 Pentium 4 Laptop from 2004 | $5,399 Laptop From 1997: Gateway Solo 2200
12/28/11 - There is a Fantasy Starcraft league.
- BlizzConn ESL Fantasy Leagues | Fantasy eSports | Jung "FanTaSy" Myung Hoon | Fantasy (map) | Forget football: These fantasy e-sports sites mix League of Legends with cold, hard cash
12/29/11 - How to register Apple products and where to see them.
12/30/11 - 250x250 is a good resolution for Skype profile pictures.
- What's the default Skype Profile Picture Size?
12/31/11 - VNC on the ipad
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod - Batty McFaddin - Slower [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Doctor Turtle - Curse You, Fingers (edit)
- Doctor Turtle - Faster, Sons Of Vengeance, Faster!
- Doctor Turtle - Go Tell It On The Molehill
- Doctor Turtle - Doctor Turtle's Maggot
12/5/11 - Deja Vu is your brain is trying to apply a memory to a situation you are in, failing, and then making you feel like it's familiar anyway.
- Vuja De | The Matrix - Deja vu | Deja Vu: What It Is, When It May Be Cause for Concern | What Causes Déjà Vu? Neuroscience May Finally Have the Answer | Neuroimaging and cognitive changes during déjà vu| Presque Vu: An Annoying Mental Effect You Have Probably Experienced | How Words Get Stuck on the Tip of Your Tongue
12/6/11 - Preference file locations for Final Cut and DVD Studio.
12/7/11 - chflags nohidden ~/Library will unhide the Library folder in Lion.
- Show Hidden Library and User Library files and folder in macOS
12/8/11 - Cmd 8 will show/hide paragraph marks in Word 2011.
12/10/11 - How to root a Nook Tablet
- Nook Tablet Rooted! That Took Less Than A Week | How to root the NOOK Tablet, install the Android Market | Nook Tablet Update 1.4.1 Breaks Root And Ends App Sideloading
12/14/11 - 3rd Gen Macbook Airs don't have an eject button.
- What's the purpose of the eject button on the MacBook Air?
12/15/11 - I can finish a music final before most people even after being 30 minutes late
12/17/11 - I can move my room in 30 minutes.
Extra Topic 1 - Other Final Exams
Extra Topic 2 - TV Station theft
Extra Topic 3 - Internet2 senior project - Performance and Analytics Tools - Internet2
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Jason Shaw - Sidewalk
- Jason Shaw - Travel Light
- Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Lee Rosevere - Wordless Language
- Lee Rosevere - Wordless Language II
- Lee Rosevere - Going Home
- Lee Rosevere - Heat Haze
- Lee Rosevere - Keep Trying
11/23/11 - Guardsman Bob is from Denmark.
- In a Pros Mind: HotshotGG | HotshotGG Raging | Player Report - Yesterday | Guardsman Bob on Twitch
11/24/11 - Samsung makes washers/dryers.
- Samsung's Heritage
11/25/11 - TSO recruits local orchestra members for their shows.
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Band and Family | 'Little gift' from Trans-Siberian Orchestra strikes the right chord | The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is bigger
11/26/11 - What "The Uncanny Valley" is
- The Uncanny Valley: The Original Essay by Masahiro Mori | Elergy of Emptiness
11/27/11 - My old phone runs better with little to no apps installed on it
11/29/11 - Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
11/30/11 - Cmd + Shift + 4 + Spacebar = screencap window
- Take a screenshot on your Mac
12/1/11 - CPI and SPI ratios for project management
- Schedule Performance Index (SPI) & Cost Performance Index (CPI)
12/2/11 - /etc/bootpd.plist is where the DHCP settings are in OSX Server
- Adding DHCP options into bootpd.plist | Running Mac OS X’s built-in DHCP server
12/3/11 - A whole lot about Skyward Sword's gameplay mechanics.
Extra Topic 1: Bone the Fish - What Happened to Jump The Shark?
Extra Topic 2: Google Wave: we came, we saw, we played D&D | Google Wave: why we didn’t use it| Microsoft Launches Google Wave (2021)
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and YouTube free music repositories
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod - Black Bird [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Jason Shaw - Wheels
- Podington Bear - Happiness Is
- Lee Rosevere - Where Was I
- Kevin MacLeod - How it Begins
- Kevin MacLeod - Wallpaper
- Lee Rosevere - All The Answers
- JR Tundra - The Night Falling
- John Deley - Play Song
- RKVC - Friday Night Lights
- MK2 - The Big Score
- TrackTribe - Lost At Sea
11/8/11 - COCOMO stuff, how to calculate it
- Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II | COCOMO II on YouTube | COCOMO: Not worth serious attention| COCOMO calculator
11/9/11 - What a context diagram is.
- What is System Context Diagram?
11/10/11 - Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land"
- Pastures of Plenty | Woody Guthrie-This Land Is Your Land | The Story Of Woody Guthrie's 'This Land Is Your Land'
11/11/11 - Ocarina of Time Master Quest has graves in Dodongo's Cavern.
- Gravestones on the wall| Gravestones in random rooms
11/12/11 - Lion VNC is broken for Windows
11/14/11 - DVDs can only have 18 buttons on a menu (relearned)
- Final Cut Studio 2: DVD Studio Pro 4.2 - Technical Specifications | CreativeCOW - What's the Limits of a DVD| DVD Demystified
11/16/11 - How big a 3D Projector is
11/17/11 - The PCAC now has Wifi
Extra Topic 1: 'American Pie' is Rock Band's final DLC song | Rock Band Guitar Peripheral Maker Mad Catz Files for Bankruptcy
Extra Topic 2: Earthcomber| Earthcomber – Personal Radar for iPhone | Earthcomber - Crunchbase | Earthcomber Drops Patent Lawsuit Against TechCrunch, Loopt | App Maker Uses GPS Patent To Sue Zillow, Trulia
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and Apple Movie
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod - Sunshine [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Kevin MacLeod - Achaidh Cheide
- Podington Bear - Jazzer Incisors
- Podington Bear - Mutinee
- Apple - Park Bench
- Apple - Fifth Avenue Stroll
- Podington Bear - Falcon Hood
- Apple - Piano Ballad
10/23/11 - relearned (maybe remembered) the "group by" clause in SQL
- SELECT - GROUP BY- Transact-SQL | SQL Group By
10/24/11 - Relearning Java
10/27/11 - LoL on Windows can possibly run on a flash drive.
- How to Play League of Legends From a Flash Drive
10/28/11 - My phone still can't really handle HD video capture that well.
- Cheaper than most, better than all: the 2013 Nexus 7 reviewed | How SSDs conquered mobile devices and modern OSes | Lollipop on the 2012 Nexus 7: Not great, but not much worse | Review: Samsung Droid Charge
10/29/11 - Trees with leaves on them are very easily brought down by snow.
- Snow on Dead Leaves Weighs Down Branches | Will the Snow on My Trees Harm Them?
10/31/11 - Lion Recovery and the fact that you should repair your disk after updating from Snow Leopard to Lion.
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan: The Ars Technica Review | Repair disk on Snow Leopard using a bootable USB, in order to upgrade to Lion | What steps should I take in preparation for upgrading to Mountain Lion? | About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature
11/1/11 - more stuff about cp in Terminal - mainly with replacing files and copying apps.
11/2/11 - Glassfish server on the Mac doesn't like blank passwords.
- How to Install glassfish on MacOS | JDBC Tutorial
11/3/11 - How absolutely annoying Apple Qmaster is to get working properly.
11/4/11 - Motion Blurs in Photoshop
- Use Adobe Photoshop to create a motion blur effect
Extra topic: Occupy Sesame Street blog post
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Flies On the Prize
- Kevin MacLeod - Inner Light [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Doctor Turtle - I'm What You'd Be Without Her (Long Version)
- Lobo Loco - Just Walking (ID 1515)
10/12/11 - Something clicked with Normal Form with Database Design today.
10/13/11 - Setting up the new Cluster Printers on Macs.
10/14/11 - Some stuff on card counting (from the movie Holy Rollers)
- Holy Rollers (2010) (with Eisenberg) | Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians (2011) (IMDB) | RottenTomatoes| 11th Annual NH Film Festival
10/15/11 - The old LoL installer/patcher will still update to the latest version. That, and some Windows 8 stuff.
- Video comparison of old/new League launcher | Microsoft's strange, passive-aggressive "Mojave Experiment." | Microsoft to switch internal focus to Windows 8 in July 2010| Microsoft starts to talk Windows 8, all but confirms App Store| Hands-on with Windows 8: A PC operating system for the tablet age
10/17/11 - About the Kenny Barron Jazz Trio
- Kenny Barron Jazz Trio – Gretna Music | Kenny Barron Bio| Kenny Barron Trio concert on YouTube
10/19/11 - "Bleach is mostly water, and we are mostly water, therefore, we are Bleach"—Metalocalypse
- Metalocalypse – Trick the Doctor | DethHealth
10/21/11 - Xsan upgrade process for Lion upgrade.
- Apple Lion Press Release | Xsan 2.3 Guide | Lion Server – MacUpdate
10/22/11 - What "Edward Fortyhands" is.
- Time Well Managed Means Excluding Edward Forty-Hands| EDWARD FORTYHANDS (ft. Mamrie Hart)
Extra Topic: Madison Who’s Who Scam
Extra Topic: Haunted Overload
This episode's music comes from archive.org, YouTube, and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
-Kevin MacLeod - Babylon [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
-Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean
-Kevin MacLeod - Bicycle
-Doctor Turtle - Flush Your Rolex
-Kevin MacLeod - Soporific
-TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
-Kevin MacLeod - Eastminster
-Kevin MacLeod - AcidJazz
Doctor Turtle - Which That Is This (Long Version)
9/26/11 - A way of closing gaps while editing in Final Cut
Final Cut Pro 7 Shortcut Guide | Closing Gaps in FCP7 | Close all gaps in Final Cut Pro 7| FCPX Magnetic Timeline
9/27/11 - Doritos have different flavors based on region.
List of various Doritos flavors| 102 Doritos Flavors from Around the World| The Psychological Secrets Behind Nacho Cheese Doritos | Top 10 Weirdest Doritos Flavors from Around the World
9/28/11 - How to make fake blood
Making Fake Blood | The Twisting History of Fake Blood on Film| How Fake Blood is Made for Movies
10/3/11 - Finder has a "background" option for thumbnail view, and flipping a video horizontally in Final Cut
10/4/11 - Smarter column filtering/handling in Excel, as well as stupid glitches associated with it.
Filter data in a range or table| Excel Filter problems and fixes
10/5/11 - DOCX files are just ZIPped folders with XML files and other assets. Change the extension to ZIP, extract, and go to the Media folder to find the original images.
10/6/11 - According to a textbook, Microsoft Office was on the Mac in 1986.
The first MS Office Ad | History & Evolution of Microsoft Office Software | The History of Microsoft - 1986
Extra topic - iPhone 4S
Apple Special Event, October 2011 | “iPhone 5” Event Predictions
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Gillicuddy - A Garden and a Library
Doctor Turtle - His Last Share Of The Stars
Jesse Spillane - Number 0
lietoofine - Parachute Descent
Kevin MacLeod - Faster Does It [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
Quantum Jazz - If I Can't Dance It's Not My Revolution
9/12/11 - How to make a sweet navbar thing similar to Google's
- Google Goes Black With Black Navigation Bar Test | W3C CSS Navigation Bar
9/13/11 - Caveat Emptor = Let the buyer beware
- FindLaw’s “What does ‘Caveat Emptor’ Mean?”
9/15/11 - The origin of the term x86
- Microprocessor Hall of Fame| Intel: Happy Birthday, 8086| Definition of x86
9/16/11 - Minecraft 1.8 stuff
- Java Edition Beta 1.8
9/18/11 - Fire Alarms have PA systems built into them (usually)
- Can I Use Fire Alarm Speakers For General Paging?
9/21/11 - SQL Server on Mac
9/23/11 - Where Nova Scotia is.
- History of Nova Scotia
9/24/11 - Re-learned Beirut
- How to Play Beer Pong / Beirut| Boston Ruit (archived site)
Extra topics: 1SaleADay
- 1SaleADay archive from 9/23/11 | 1SaleADay on CrunchBase
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Jason Shaw - 12 Mornings
- Jason Shaw - Mountain Sun
- Jason Shaw - One Fine Day
- Jason Shaw - River Meditation
- Jason Shaw - Solo Acoustic Guitar
- Jason Shaw - Words
- Kevin MacLeod - Airport Lounge [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Jason Shaw - Running Waters
- Doctor Turtle - Hypocritopotamus
8/30/11 - Some specifics on the fiber switch at the student cable access network
8/31/11 - What a Padiddle means
- Carl Benz | History of the Headlight | Origin and meaning of Padiddle | Wikipedia for Padiddle | Scientific Phone Apps & Mobile Devices (Springer Nature), 3(1), 7–20.
9/1/11 - The Denver Baggage system fiasco
- BAE Automated Systems Inc. Automated Baggage Handling System DIA | MSNBC on Denver's Automated Baggage System
9/3/11 - The card readers on campus would be the absolute last thing to lose power.
9/6/11 - The Remote Desktop dashboard widget will observe/preview a selected computer.
- Nostalgic article on the Dashboard | Windows Gadgets Discontinued | The Verge reports Dashboard is gone from Catalina | ARD Widget Description from Apple | Current ARD Widget Download Page
9/8/11 - What a Tanner is
- Merriam-Webster Definition | WikiHow article| Runescape Wiki - Tanner | William Billings of Boston | William Billings of Boston - A Choral Drama
9/9/11 - Sorting columns in Excel.
Links regarding the Chromebooks extra topic:
- CR-48 Review | A New Kind of Computer: Chromebook
This episode's music comes from archive.org, YouTube free music repositories, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod - Spy Glass [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Apple - Fifth Avenue Stroll
- Apple - Dewdrops
- Apple - Jaracanda
- Apple - First Snowfall
- TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
- TrackTribe - A Night Alone
- TrackTribe - Walk Through the Park
- Kevin MacLeod - Autumn Day [ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ]
- Lee Rosevere - Wordless Language
- Lee Rosevere - Palmyra (free Bassel)
- Lee Rosevere - Astronomia
8/15/11 - Making tables using only divs
- Stack Overflow
- Tabulizer
8/16/11 - The Wii and Xbox Rock Band drumset motherboards are only slightly different.
- e-kit Adapter Guide
- Playing Rock Band with a Yamaha DTXplorer
- Harmonix Controller Compatibility Page
- Bluetooth Interconnectivity Example
8/19/11 - The HP Touchpad can run Android.
- Bounty for HP Touchpad Android Port
- Article on bounty
- Engadget article
- NetworkWorld article
- NetworkWorld article 2
- Android Pie on TouchPad
8/20/11 - Adobe AIR apparently causes space issues on Mac OS Lion
- Blog: The Future of Adobe Air
- LoL PVP.NET update
- Apple forum thread 1
- Apple forum thread 2
- AIR CVEs
8/22/11 - JDiskreport works in OSX Lion if you use the Java version.
- JDiskReport download page
- Java on Mac Info
- Official Apple KB on Java
8/26/11 - Most people in the single rooms of my old dorm stayed there for another year.
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Podington Bear - Giving Tree
- Jason Shaw - River Meditation
- Gillicuddy - Multitudes
- Doctor Turtle - The Circles I Went Round In
- Siddhartha Corsus - Pure of Heart
- Doctor Turtle - Dead From The Beginning, Alive Till The End
- Lobo Loco - Just Walking (ID 1515)
In this special episode, I just want to go over the current state of the show, and highlight some upcoming changes.
TL;DL: Going forward, future episodes of Things Learned will be moving away from the weekly episode release format. Instead, I will be focusing on more qualitative spotlights of the most interesting things learned over a more variable range of time.
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Jason Shaw - Lazy Day
8/7/11 - The original iPhone couldn't MMS
- https://appadvice.com/appnn/2009/05/why-cant-first-generation-iphones-receive-mms
- https://www.aiseesoft.com/solution/mms-messaging.html
- https://www.macworld.com/article/198643/iphone_3.html
- http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/3568/pixer-brings-mms-picture-messaging-to-the-palm-os
8/8/11 - How to manipulate a database on a webpage
8/9/11 - Heroes of Newerth has a huge initial install file.
- http://heroesofnewerth.com/download/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20111024152233/http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/download
- https://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=786&game=Heroes%20of%20Newerth
8/10/11 - CSS references need to be in the head tag to validate
8/11/11 – Exposé existed in OSX 10.3
- https://web.archive.org/web/20030801220959/https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jun/23panther.html
8/12/11 - Galio is a pretty good tank.
- https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/champions/galio/
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Galio/LoL
- https://youtu.be/sOQGg1-RzWw
- https://youtu.be/t3BFQMW2Lfw
8/13/11 - One of the pedals on a piano is the softening pedal
- https://www.allpianos.com/piano-pedalling-techniques-beginner-advanced
- https://livingpianos.com/when-to-use-the-soft-pedal-on-the-piano/
- https://youtu.be/V3RfqwOjK6s?t=28
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Stuff Will Never Love You Back
- Doctor Turtle - You Um, I'll Ah
- Doctor Turtle - Cod Demotika
- Doctor Turtle - You're Right But I'm Me
- Doctor Turtle - Dead From The Beginning, Alive Till The End
7/31/11 - Minions can't crit
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Critical_strike
8/1/11 - Effective use of Flash in LoL
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Flash
8/2/11 - Which frats at UNH are unrecognized and why.
- https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20081002/NEWS/810020417
- https://www.fosters.com/article/20111026/GJNEWS_01/710269947
- https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20111107/NEWS/111070335
- https://tnhdigital.com/2014/10/14/unh-buys-former-alpha-tau-omega-house/
- https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2018/02/spotlight-tau-kappa-epsilon
8/3/11 - Some decent Singed builds in LoL
- https://youtu.be/_JObZnNmybM
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Singed/LoL
8/4/11 - Microsoft Publisher
- https://youtu.be/voTUnZ0bdZY
- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/04/stock-markets-exchange-plunge-business
- https://youtu.be/dtLb1BJGCXU
- https://youtu.be/-wlCZMYq3X0
8/5/11 – “chflags nohidden /users/
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3673035
- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/users-library-hidden-in-big-sur.2245150/
8/6/11 - The laugh command in LoL
- https://gametipcenter.com/league-of-legends-how-to-laugh
- http://gametipcenter.com/league-of-legends-how-to-taunt
Extra topic - Edmund Vance Cooke's "How Did you Die?" - https://allpoetry.com/How-Did-You-Die-
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - G of the Bang
- Turtle - I Snost, I Lost
- Turtle - Jolenta Clears The Table
- Turtle - Wherever I Lay My Hat, That's My Wife
7/24/11 - Droid Charge screenshot feature: Just hold Back and then press Home.
- https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/1759/how-to-take-a-screenshot-with-an-android-device
7/25/11 - The Clone Stamp in Photoshop
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/how-to/clone-stamp-remove-object.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G0Q58-C0ME
- http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Aq47xw7ZFTs/TyeMMxkqOGI/AAAAAAAAKDI/dDY--4rMUnA/w1200-h630-p-nu/83382c6dovieposter.jpg
7/26/11 - Asset management in Dreamweaver (protip: Ctrl F)
- https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/keyboard-shortcuts.html
- https://www.creativebloq.com/computer-arts/sharpen-your-design-skills-part-two-9089252
7/27/11 - How to play Annie in LoL
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Annie/LoL
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/V1.0.0.122
- https://youtu.be/KOD_aOY7sv8?t=76
7/28/11 - Mountain Dew doesn't taste good when warm.
7/29/11 - HTML5 Article tag
- https://html.com/tags/article/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/article
- https://youtu.be/Eyndz5R-Vkg
- https://youtu.be/swWeWesZVZU
7/30/11 - Microsoft Office 4 was released in 1993
- https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-office/40
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120829165451/http://www.intowindows.com/microsoft-office-history-in-brief/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Version_history
- https://youtu.be/IEtpqQK3JHY
Extra topic: Facebook account linkage + Yahoo account connections:
- https://venturebeat.com/2011/07/05/facebook-blocks-contacts-exporter/
- https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18718/how-to-connect-google-account-to-yahoo-account
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Today's Special: Jam Tomorrow
- Doctor Turtle - The Void Says Hi (long version)
- Doctor Turtle - Lullaby For Democracy
- Doctor Turtle - The Ants Built A City On His Chest
- Doctor Turtle - Rotisserie Graveyard
7/17/11 - A better tank Heimer build
7/18/11 - Stand in spawn with Tear of the Goddess and spam abilities to gain max mana fast.
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Tear_of_the_Goddess
7/19/11 - Tricks to validate pages for HTML5.
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel
7/20/11 - Asset management in Dreamweaver.
- https://youtu.be/fZov_-7_U7M?t=10
- https://youtu.be/Pp2Cgu6EljM?t=8
- https://youtu.be/HiiZh5ZT2eE
7/21/11 - Pressing "tab" when renaming a file selects the next file with the 'rename box' already opened.
- https://lifehacker.com/rename-files-fast-with-the-tab-key-5597035
- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nasas-final-space-shuttle-mission-comes-to-an-end
- https://www.space.com/18162-space-shuttle-atlantis.html
7/22/11 - Boston University's layout
- http://www.bu.edu/backtoschool/location/newbury-biblical-institute/
- http://physics.bu.edu/~okctsui/BU_map_with_parking.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrAz5YsT-Q
7/23/11 - defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false fixes the key repeat bug in macOS Lion
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5038771
- https://www.howtogeek.com/267463/how-to-enable-key-repeating-in-macos/
- https://lifehacker.com/make-your-keyboard-keys-repeat-properly-when-held-down-5826055
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120606025715/http://slacktory.com/2011/07/os-x-lion-alphabet-which-keys-repeat/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130117032835/https://discussions.apple.com/message/15665581#15665581
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - And the Darkness Grew Like a Tree
- Doctor Turtle - Fingerlympics
- Doctor Turtle - One Person Listening Now
- Doctor Turtle - So Long, Succour
- Doctor Turtle - Carrot Sticks
7/10/11 - Mission Control has a few extra gestures built in
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/6/
- http://macnix.blogspot.com/2011/07/change-mac-os-x-107-lion-ical-and.html
- https://youtu.be/LPMjUtfQPks?t=863
7/11/11 - CSS3 Gradients.
- https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_gradients.asp
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Images/Using_CSS_gradients
- https://cssgradient.io/
7/12/11 - ASP forms
- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-html-asp/
- https://www.diffen.com/difference/ASP_vs_ASP.Net
- https://www.w3schools.com/ASP/asp_inputforms.asp
7/13/11 - Archangel's Staff first for better AP scaling (+200 difference by end game)
7/14/11 - More about HTML/ASP forms
7/15/11 - Selling on eBay
- https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/selling-fees?id=4364&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5337590774&customid=&toolid=10001
7/16/11 – A quote from an Ars Technica article: "If your new system has a regular magnetic HDD, it's a good idea to install your applications before you transfer a lot of data. This way, the applications will be stored on the outer, faster part of the disk platters so they load faster."
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/making-a-clean-start-with-lion-migrating-without-assistance/3/
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464414/
Extras - ShiftWindow:
- http://grismar.net/shiftwindow/
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Doctor Turtle - Over the Water, Humans Gather
- Doctor Turtle - Frosty Jack's Supernova
- Doctor Turtle - Reality Cartwheeled
- Doctor Turtle - Kerchingless Wonder
- Doctor Turtle - The Circles I Went Round In
7/3/11 - All instruments mode in Rock Band 3
- https://harmonix.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/217924338-How-can-7-people-play-Rock-Band-3-at-once-
- https://www.giantbomb.com/rock-band-3/3030-27919/forums/rock-band-3-all-instruments-mode-ok-idea-poorly-im-462958/
- https://youtu.be/40aL4x0r-qg
7/4/11 - I've been spelling Marshmallow wrong.
- https://mandelaeffect.com/
- https://screenrant.com/nintendo-gameboy-game-boy-real-name-spelling-mistake/
- https://old.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/4kgrjh/marshmellow_is_really_spelled_marshmallow/
- https://youtu.be/LB3CybXl8rs
7/5/11 - How to replicate a table in a div
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13350192/replicate-a-table-with-div-css
- http://jsfiddle.net/tNms9/3/
7/6/11 - My website has fewer validation errors than apple.com
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7940/how-important-is-w3c-xhtml-css-validation-when-finalizing-work
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6894256/is-w3c-validation-important
7/7/11 – Internet Explorer is so bad it has its own comments for CSS for alternate styles based on the browser detected.
- https://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
- https://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-specific-for-internet-explorer
7/8/11 - Parallax effects in CSS (wouldn't want to use it though)
- https://www.w3schools.com/howto/tryhow_css_parallax_demo.htm
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/css-pure-css-parallax
7/9/11 - Yorick is an absolutely useless champion.
- https://www.pcgamer.com/e3-2011-league-of-legends-newest-champion-yorick-in-action/
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Yorick/LoL/Patch_history
- https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/yorick-masters-guide-94005/discussion
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Gillicuddy - Springish
- Gillicuddy - Thinking of You
- Gillicuddy - A Garden and a Library
- lietoofine - Parachute Descent
- Unknown Artist - Marianne
- Doctor Turtle - Marty, Ladies and Gentlemen
- Kielicaster - Neuanfang (Kielicaster ID 017)
- Kielicaster - Shangri La (Kielicaster 010)
6/26/11 - Android is technically a Java stack and not really Linux
- https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-784964/
- https://www.howtogeek.com/189036/android-is-based-on-linux-but-what-does-that-mean/
- https://linuxhint.com/is-android-linux/
6/27/11 - A better way to power off the TV station computers all at once.
6/28/11 - Image Maps
- https://www.w3schools.com/htmL/html_images_imagemap.asp
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/83073/why-not-use-tables-for-layout-in-html
6/29/11 - Classes vs. IDs
- https://www.w3docs.com/learn-css/css-id-and-class.html
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12889362/what-is-the-difference-between-id-and-class-in-css-and-when-should-i-use-them
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors/Type_Class_and_ID_Selectors
6/30/11 - Z-index
- https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_z-index.asp
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Positioning/Understanding_z_index
7/1/11 - The border-radius spec has been made official and standardized.
- https://sitthykun.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/border-radius-and-moz-border-radius/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-radius
- https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#vendor-keywords
7/2/11 - overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; makes the overflow work with horizontal or vertical scrolling.
- https://www.w3schools.com/CSSref/css3_pr_overflow-x.asp
- https://www.w3schools.com/CSSref/css3_pr_overflow-y.asp
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive. Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Gillicuddy - Adventure, Darling
- Cory Gray - All My Light
- Gillicuddy - Porthglaze Cove
- Gillicuddy - Multitudes
- Gillicuddy - Ferns and Cork
- Gillicuddy - Jupiter the Blue
- Gillicuddy - Travelling Made-up Continents
- Gillicuddy - Pony
- Gillicuddy - The Everlasting Itch for Things Remote
- Lobo Loco - Just Walking (ID 1515)
6/19/11 - Monitoring my GPU via MSI Afterburner.
- https://www.msi.com/Landing/afterburner/graphics-cards
- https://www.gpumag.com/msi-afterburner/
- https://coinguides.org/safe-gpu-temperature/
- https://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Info/MobileMeter.shtml
6/20/11 - Third party cookies being disabled in Firefox causes Facebook “like” buttons to infinite loop.
- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/third-party-cookies-firefox-tracking-protection?redirectslug=disable-third-party-cookies&redirectlocale=en-US
6/21/11 - Livestream audio recording on the Mac
- https://www.hltv.org/news/9932/own3dtv-confirms-shutdown
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSplit
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Broadcaster_Software
- http://camtwiststudio.com/
- https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower
- https://youtu.be/bJHdFO1Mfls?t=109
- https://youtu.be/EPZXkvl8cT0?t=69
6/22/11 - The Zune mini player can view the current playlist.
6/23/11 - Javascript mouseover menus
- http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm
6/24/11 - Guinness isn't that bad.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3266819.stm
- https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/guinness-good-for-you
- https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1016/j.pathophys.2003.10.011
- https://www.veganfoodandliving.com/news/its-official-all-guinness-now-suitable-vegans-draft-bottle-can-form/
6/25/11 - Stacking runes is really helpful
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Rune_(Historical)
- https://youtu.be/79XQKhuKq28
- https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/game-updates/patch/patch-722-notes
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171106152513/http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/featured/preseason-update
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Siddhartha Corsus - Mountain Flowers
- Siddhartha Corsus - Song for Ramanujan (Saraswati Devi)
- Speed Limit 35 - Binky
- Siddhartha Corsus - Winds of Change
- Zero V - Don't Rush
6/12/11 - Archangel's Staff gives Heimerdinger a massive early game buff provided you have the gold
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Archangel%27s_Staff
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Tear_of_the_Goddess
- https://www.ign.com/wikis/league-of-legends/Blasting_Wand
- https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/V1.0.0.94(b)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200314090140/http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=148864
6/13/11 - How to ship stuff at the shipping office downtown
- https://k.kramerav.com/downloads/pdf/product/1/VM-80V.pdf
6/14/11 – Bonds
- https://youtu.be/IuyejHOGCro
6/15/11 - What the word libido means
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/libido
- https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/smells-like-teen-spirit/
- https://www.biography.com/news/kurt-cobain-nirvana-smells-like-teen-spirit-meaning
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Spirit_(deodorant)
6/16/11 - MSN rounds financial statement numbers.
- https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2018/may/fraud-round-numbers.html
- https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/rounding-amounts-balance-sheet-financial-statements
- https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-is-materiality
- https://www.accountingtools.com/articles/2017/5/14/the-materiality-principle
6/17/11 - Steam's video driver update system has gotten a lot better
- https://youtu.be/nIn4Zc2NhlY
- https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/1/135508662494900311/
- https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6416-EYDH-0477
6/18/11 - My computer's GPU overheats easily
- https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/mobility-radeon-hd-4570.c1630
- https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-4570.13885.0.html
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- De Yan-Key - Wade in the Water
- Ketsa - Sunshine-Send-Off
- Jesse Spillane - Number 0
- Lobo Loco - By By River (ID 209)
Siddhartha Corsus - Count Your Blessings, Count Your Stars
6/5/11 - Not caring about anything is apparently the best way to deal with things.
6/6/11 - More accounting stuff
6/7/11 - The Wii U
- https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2011/110425_4e.pdf
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEMz4ZieCwM
- https://www.vg247.com/2011/05/03/nintendo-e3-conference-date-and-time-announced/
6/8/11 - More accounting (it's all I'm doing lately)
6/9/11 - Migrating over Compressor droplets from the old Final Cut Studio to the new one.
- https://youtu.be/EY1bAJmZ_vU
- https://support.apple.com/guide/compressor/create-and-use-droplets-cpsr8747db7f/mac
6/10/11 - Notifications were in Android 1.5, and didn't originate in 1.6
- https://www.gsmarena.com/google_android_through_the_years-news-31123.php
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/2/
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/building-android-a-40000-word-history-of-googles-mobile-os/8/
- https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/05/android-22-and-developers-goodies.html
6/11/11 - I'm really not into the taste of beer.
Extras:
Six-core Mac Pro "Mid 2010" versus "Westmere 2012:"
- https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/specs/mac-pro-six-core-3.33-mid-2012-westmere-specs.html
- https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/faq/differences-between-mac-pro-mid-2012-mid-2010-models.html
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Podington Bear - Relinquish
- De Yan-Key - Night Sky
- Zero V - Indian Summer
- Antony Raijekov - By the Coast (2004)
- Mid-Air Machine - Breakdown
- Revolution Void - Scattered Knowledge
- Ketsa - Origin Funk
5/29/11 - Computer keyboards in the rest of the world apparently have a very unnecessarily large return key that the US abolished in the Windows 95 days.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_key
- https://deskthority.net/wiki/Return_key
- https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/garfield-steve-jobs-fonts/index.html
- https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Apple-Mac-keyboards-have-a-return-key-instead-of-an-enter-key
- https://support.getfreewrite.com/article/44-freewrites-physical-keyboard-layouts-ansi-vs-iso
- https://thomasbaart.nl/2019/02/10/keycap-count-by-size-and-row-for-ansi-and-iso/
5/30/11 - The HoN staff are jerks.
5/31/11 - No matter how much you study you can still screw up an exam.
6/1/11 - "None of the above" usually has the lowest probability of being right.
6/2/11 - Apple Qmaster setup
6/3/11 - Lyme disease can be contracted from ticks and mosquitoes
- https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/ticks-mosquitoes-infectious-disease-carriers-expanding-their-range/
- https://www.sponauglewellness.com/conditions/lyme-disease-treatment/lyme-study-how-borrelia-bacteria-is-transmitted-from-mosquitoes-to-humans/
- https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/index.html
- https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/mayonii/index.html
6/4/11 - Steve Jobs is apparently called Wally
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6401015/
- https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/comment/1104763/
Extras:
TagWhat:
- https://vimeo.com/27952772
IvyLoL:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110602160912/http://ivylol.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140909144340/http://www.reddit.com/r/ivylol
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Ketsa - New Soul
- Ketsa - Good Vibe
- Kriss - Jazz Club
- Dee Yan-Key - Minor Angst
- Stephan Siebert - When
- Quantum Jazz - If I Can't Dance It's Not My Revolution
5/22/11 - Skype takes up a lot more bandwidth than I originally thought.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110430074127/https://www.dpacket.org/articles/revealing-skype-traffic-when-randomness-plays-you
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-the-conspiracy-theories-skypes-supernodes-belong-in-the-cloud/
5/23/11 - The accounting equation
- https://youtu.be/56xscQ4viWE
5/24/11 - More accounting equations
5/25/11 - An open directory glitch with DHCP in Mac OSX Server.
5/26/11 - Recovering an SD card takes multiple computers.
- https://www.howtogeek.com/184640/ask-htg-windows-always-wants-to-scan-and-fix-my-usb-drive-should-i-let-it/
- https://appuals.com/how-to-recover-a-damaged-memory-card-in-ubuntu/
5/27/11 - Location profiles - Mac OS X
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202480
5/28/11 - Bowling left handed
Extras:
Chris Sargent's world record/NHCBA records/Paul Berger's 500:
- https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/what-a-string-bowler-ties-world-record-with-a-245-at-peabody-lanes/article_499ad11b-95f7-554b-9f78-792ae0755397.html
- https://www.candlepin.org/nhcba-records
- https://youtu.be/mA9qhS4Lxws
HP battery recall
- https://www.engadget.com/2011-05-28-hp-expands-laptop-battery-recall-doesnt-want-you-to-feel-the-b.html
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Siddhartha Corsus - Pure of Heart
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Kevin MacLeod - Soporific
Kevin MacLeod - Tikopia
Kevin MacLeod - Quasi Motion
Kevin MacLeod - Meditation Impromptu 02
Kevin MacLeod - Winner Winner
5/15/11 - How to slice images and export them to HTML in Photoshop
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110720092936/http://scanvideoserver.unh.edu/
- https://planetphotoshop.com/turning-a-sliced-image-into-an-html-webpage-in-photoshop-7s-save-for-web.html
- https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/photoshop/images.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/html-options-slices.html
5/16/11 - A lot more CSS stuff.
- https://validator.w3.org/
- https://blog.hubspot.com/website/what-is-css-class
5/17/11 - Press Command-Tab for the Application Switcher and then, keeping Command down, press Q to quit apps.
- https://www.parallels.com/blogs/alt-key-on-a-mac/
- https://www.howtogeek.com/322054/quit-and-hide-macos-apps-from-the-commandtab-interface/
5/18/11 - Rubber can be fabricated naturally.
- https://pediaa.com/difference-between-natural-rubber-and-synthetic-rubber/
- https://www.pslc.ws/macrog/exp/rubber/synth/methyl.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rubber
- https://www.earthlypassion.com/post/2016/10/19/your-using-rubber-but-that-is-not-environmentally-friendly-or-is-it
- https://youtu.be/lUg7r7fu_eo
5/19/11 - You can drag files into the finder toolbar.
- https://osxdaily.com/2014/08/15/customize-mac-finder-toolbar-drag-drop/
5/20/11 - Margin versus Padding for CSS
- https://blog.hubspot.com/website/css-margin-vs-padding
5/21/11 - Sibelius 6.2 on the mac and installing it
- https://youtu.be/VUv3fBWjf34
- http://hub.sibelius.com/download/documentation/pdfs/sibelius620-licenceserver-en.pdf
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Meditation Impromptu 01
- Kevin MacLeod - Crossing the Divide
- Kevin MacLeod - Eastminster
Siddhartha Corsus - Bhagavan
Ketsa - Lost Worlds
Ketsa - We Are Stardust
Bio Unit - Across the Valley
5/8/11 - Compaq was consumer, HP was enterprise. Also on a macbook, the delete key's equivalent is fn + backspace.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq
- https://www.pcguide.com/news/what-happended-to-compaq/
- https://www.theverge.com/2012/5/23/3039627/hp-compaq-low-end-branding
5/9/11 - Portal 2 online co-op with random people is a bad idea.
- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/05/portal-2-a-good-game-but-not-a-great-one/2/
5/10/11 - Special characters on the keyboard on Mac (option + letters)
- https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/enter-characters-with-accent-marks-on-mac-mh27474/mac
- https://www.theverge.com/22347140/apple-mac-special-characters-how-to
5/11/11 - Boston Billiard Club has billiard tables
- https://www.bostonbilliardclubcasino.com/
5/12/11 - Facebook has nickname support
- https://www.howtogeek.com/209580/how-to-add-nicknames-to-your-facebook-profile/
5/13/11 - Making Mac and Cheese
5/14/11 - Shemp was originally supposed to be in Curly's place when The Three Stooges got started.
- https://books.google.com/books?id=iTQXz-zQK5MC
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Niles Blues
- Kevin MacLeod - DD Groove
- Kevin MacLeod - Dirt Rhodes
- Kevin MacLeod - Slow Burn
- Kevin MacLeod - Hustle
- Kevin MacLeod - The Endless
- Kevin MacLeod - Rite of Passage
- Kevin MacLeod - Sovereign Quarter
5/1/11 - More about Bobby Fischer than I'll ever need to know.
- https://vimeo.com/23894600
- https://mubi.com/films/bobby-fischer-against-the-world
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwF229U2ba8
5/2/11 - Hitler was announced dead to the world on May 1, 1945. Exactly 66 years later, Osama bin Laden was also announced dead.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13256676
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1945#May_1,_1945_(Tuesday)
5/3/11 - How to make ethernet cables (again)
5/4/11 - Cinco de Mayo history?
- https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/cinco-de-mayo
- https://www.wmur.com/article/protests-held-at-unh-over-recent-racial-incident/9639777
5/5/11 - More things about WUNH, particularly the station power and EBS testing
5/6/11 - Where the varsity apartments are at UNH
5/7/11 - The monitors in the library can do picture in picture
- https://youtu.be/bA_3OLuIsXo
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
- Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Waltz - Tschikovsky Op. 40
- Kevin MacLeod - Virtutes Instrumenti
- Kevin MacLeod - Trio for Piano, Violin, and Viola
- Kevin MacLeod - Tranqulity
4/24/11 - Bing gives out a lot of free stuff just for playing games and searching stuff
- https://news.microsoft.com/2009/05/28/microsofts-new-search-at-bing-com-helps-people-make-better-decisions/
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/microsoft-shouldnt-hire-any-ceo-who-wants-to-kill-bing-and-xbox/
- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/bing-is-bigger-than-you-think-microsoft-boasts-at-33-of-us-searches/
4/25/11 - DVD Studio Pro, formulas in Excel such as COUNTIF with multiple criteria (SUMPRODUCT)
- https://www.tipard.com/dvd-solution/dvd-studio-pro.html
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3277294?start=0&tstart=0
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/countif-function-e0de10c6-f885-4e71-abb4-1f464816df34
- https://www.educba.com/countif-with-multiple-criteria/
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/sumproduct-function-16753e75-9f68-4874-94ac-4d2145a2fd2e
4/26/11 - Dual Layer Masters can't burn to Single Layer blanks.
- https://itstillworks.com/differences-between-single-doublelayer-dvd-discs-2294.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200618005928/https://www.tgdaily.com/entertainment/games/35945-tobacco-smoke-makes-super-smash-bros-brawl-unplayable-on-wii/
4/27/11 - Stats analysis in JMP.
- https://www.computerworld.com/article/2527824/billionaire-sas-co-founder-keeps-on-coding.html
- https://www.jmp.com/en_us/academic/ap-stat-resources/confidence-intervals.html
4/28/11 - Hoco still supposedly has grilled cheese sandwiches on Thursdays.
4/29/11 - How to tie a tie.
4/30/11 - Portal 2 - going through a portal with a cube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twi7emnUYkU
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Enchanted Journey
- Kevin MacLeod - Impromptu in Quarter Comma Meantone
- Kevin MacLeod - Inner Light
- Kevin MacLeod - Lift Motif
- Kevin MacLeod - Silver Blue Light
- Kevin MacLeod - Relent
4/17/11 - Walking with a pulled muscle apparently makes it better
- https://aaptiv.com/magazine/pulled-muscle
- https://www.healthline.com/health/pulled-muscle-in-lower-back
4/18/11 - French Fries are named based on their shape, not place or origin.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070203071633/http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Ebeling%20--%20French%20Fried.htm
4/19/11 - Some things about 64 bit addressing.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS
- https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGMCP_5.4.0/tuning/bittage.html
4/20/11 - 7D with the tripod.
4/21/11 - MacBooks can apparently have fan speeds of about 8000 RPM.
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251778501
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5143388
- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/retina-macbook-pro-temperatures-and-maximum-fan-speed.1618468/
- https://youtu.be/LF0PBUnoNOc
4/22/11 - What a "domestic partnership" and "civil union" is.
- https://www.findlaw.com/family/domestic-partnerships/what-is-a-domestic-partnership.html
- https://www.findlaw.com/family/domestic-partnerships/civil-unions.html
4/23/11 - Blockbuster still took gift certificates from 2002 even when going out of business.
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-gift-card-was-invented-by-blockbuster-in-1994-180948191/
- https://gizmodo.com/the-vile-history-of-gift-cards-and-how-they-came-to-des-5434783
- https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20140817152112AAwE6kf
- https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2011-apr-07-la-fi-ct-dish-blockbuster-20110407-story.html
- http://giftah.com/blog/tag/what-to-do-with-blockbuster-gift-card/index.html
This episode's music comes the archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
- Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Autumn Day
- Kevin MacLeod - Dream Culture
- Kevin MacLeod - Clean Soul
- Kevin MacLeod - Danse Morialta
- Kevin MacLeod - Windswept
- Westy Reflector and Lee Rosevere - Truth is a Lonely Place
4/10/11 - Wikipedia has a plan for preserving data in an event of mass human extinction.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Terminal_Event_Management_Policy
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
4/11/11 - My phone is still rootable with SuperOneClick
- https://www.xda-developers.com/root/
- "SuperOneClick Roots Virtually Every Android Phone Out There"
- https://shortfuse.org/superoneclick/
- Main period-appropriate XDA thread
- https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-superoneclick-v2-3-3-motorola-exploit-added.803682/page-359
- Related thread, unrelated phone
4/12/11 - What CPU threading means.
- https://pureinfotech.com/robocopy-multithreaded-file-copy-windows-10/
4/13/11 - Unlinking Stereo Pairs in Final Cut Pro.
- https://youtu.be/waWrJW5STy8
4/14/11 - WordPerfect apparently existed before Microsoft Word.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190716205133/https://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/545525/pictures-25-years-microsoft-office-roadkill/
4/15/11 - UNH housing no longer charges for locked doors.
4/16/11 - What the meaning of the "Let's do the fork in the garbage disposal" dance followed by the dings meant.
- https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=The%20Yes%20Dance
- The YES dance (UNCENSORED VERSION)
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1382199/
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1382207/
This episode's music comes from archive.org, the Free Music Archive, and Apple iMovie
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
- Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Panama hat no voice
- Kevin MacLeod - Dat groove
- Apple - Shetland
- Apple - Time Lapse
- Lee Rosevere - Dusk
- Lee Rosevere - Dream Colours
- Lee Rosevere - Peace
4/3/11 - Google Calendar public links.
- https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37083?hl=en
4/4/11 - VLOOKUP in Excel
4/5/11 - Murderface is a Notary.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dethklok#William_Murderface
- https://dethklok.fandom.com/wiki/William_Murderface
- https://abclegaldocs.com/blog-Colorado-Notary/notaries-ancient-greece-360-bc/
4/6/11 - How to play QWOP a bit better.
- http://foddy.net/Athletics.html?webgl=true
- https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Qwop
4/7/11 - HTML5 conversion in Dreamweaver
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML
- https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080122/#relationship0
- https://www.templatemonster.com/blog/html5-extension-dreamweaver-cs5/
- https://digicompdiy.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/how-to-convert-a-dreamweaver-document-from-xhtml-to-html5/
- https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/13037/Converting-to-HTML5-with-Dreamweaver.html
4/8/11 - Getting more AP for Heimerdinger in LoL
4/9/11 - What channel Bravo is at my univeristy.
This week's episode comes from Apple iMovie.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Apple - Buddy
- Apple - Newborn
- Apple - Jaracanda
- Apple - Havana
- Apple - Acoustic Sunrise
- Apple - Sanskrit
- Apple - Park Bench
- Apple - Piano Ballad
- Apple - Daydream
3/27/11 - The eMac.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xI3Xz0SR5o
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMac
3/28/11 - I could use iFrames instead of JavaScript for menus
Embedding menu page as opposed to javascript anylinkmenu
- https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp
- https://digitaladblog.com/2014/09/25/difference-iframe-javascript/
- https://www.blackburnlabs.com/iframe-evil/
3/29/11 - My university's outgoing SMTP server does work off campus, but you have to disable authentication (supposedly)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/mail-flow/connectors/allow-anonymous-relay?view=exchserver-2019
3/30/11 - Adobe After Effects? Sorta.
3/31/11 - Shutting down PowerPC G5 computers can lower the room temperature by double digits.
- https://tedium.co/2020/06/16/apple-powerpc-intel-transition-history/
- https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/10/5486-2/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5
4/1/11 - Some logic for playing League of Legends strategically.
4/2/11 - A good Heimerdinger build in LoL
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - ( Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
- Atraxia
- Squinting at the Sun
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel)
3/20/11 - Snakes can eat through foam.
- http://animalia.bio/eastern-garter-snake
- https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/ectothermic-cold-blooded-animals.html
3/21/11 - First Day of Spring (or the day after)=Lot of snow.
3/22/11 - What LogMeIn is
- https://www.logmeininc.com/about-us
- https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/20/logmein-acquires-internet-of-things-startup-pachube-for-15m-in-cash/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140203034914/http://help.logmein.com/SelfServiceKnowledgeRenderer?type=FAQ&id=kA0a0000000shH8CAI
3/23/11 - The RIAA once sued for 7 trillion dollars and the case was thrown out for being ridiculous.
- https://www.tomsguide.com/us/P2P-LimeWire-75-trillion-RIAA-Kimba-Wood,news-10580.html
- https://www.computerworld.com/article/2507250/riaa-request-for-trillions-in-limewire-copyright-case-is--absurd---judge-says.html
3/24/11 - Xsan was originally called CentraVision, explaining the cv commands in Terminal.
- Xsan introduced at WWDC 2004
- https://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1317224&seqNum=12
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsan
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StorNext_File_System
- Quantum offers at least one product for StorNext/Xsan intercompatibilty between OSes
- https://support.dvsus.com/hc/en-us/articles/212921926-Checking-a-StorNext-Filesystem-cvfsck
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200101
3/25/11 - Freshmen think drinking counts as a job/activity.
3/26/11 - Macros in Microsoft Excel.
This episode's music comes from Reddit/YouTube, archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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- Punch Deck - Brahe
- Punch Deck - What Is And What Could Be
- Punch Deck - Omni
- Punch Deck - Ethereal
- Punch Deck - Shimmering Lights
- Lee Rosevere - The Ambient Ukulele (radio edit)
- Lee Rosevere - Illuminations (radio edit)
- Kevin MacLeod - Old Bossa
- Kevin MacLeod - Matt's Blues
3/13/11 - Fixing the duplicate problem with Xmarks (used a Firefox extension)
3/14/11 - What Fuddruckers is.
https://www.fuddruckers.com/about
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/09/08/lubys-liquidation-texas-restaurant-chain/5749821002/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/fuddruckers-is-going-out-of-business-heres-what-that-means-for-south-florida-locations/ar-BB18SdXz
3/15/11 - There is a programming language called D.
https://dlang.org/
https://youtu.be/IJbXmQBVkOo
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/d-programming-language/
3/16/11 - Minecraft has this weird techno track that plays at random, rarely.
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Java_Edition_removed_features#calm4.ogg
3/17/11 - Internet Explorer 1 worked on 3.1, 95, and NT.
https://youtu.be/k5QqYVurImY
https://web.archive.org/web/20090308005808/http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/columns/historyofie.mspx
https://winworldpc.com/product/internet-explorer/10
https://youtu.be/T7wbNAOu5uU
3/18/11 - The 7 Apple startup keys.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7980086
https://osxdaily.com/2007/01/12/10-must-know-startup-commands/
https://web.archive.org/web/20101123113341/http://davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
3/19/11 - How to use Boot Camp on a Mac. Also the low rumbling noise you can voluntarily hear in your ears is done with the Tensor tympani muscle.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/boot-camp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(software)
https://www.scienceabc.com/humans/tensor-tympani-muscle-why-does-closing-the-eyes-tightly-produce-a-rumbling-sound-in-the-ears.html
https://youtu.be/bugvN7sHN6E
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Kevin MacLeod - Spy Glass
Kevin MacLeod - How it Begins
Kevin MacLeod - Wallpaper
Lee Rosevere - Wordless Language
Lee Rosevere - Palmyra (free Bassel)
Lee Rosevere - There's A Lifetime
Lee Rosevere - Natural Animation
Lee Rosevere - Cat Wearing Glasses
3/6/11 - Safe mode on the Mac (hold Shift while booting)
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
- https://www.howtogeek.com/107511/how-to-boot-into-safe-mode-on-windows-8-the-easy-way/
3/7/11 - Light Based Computing
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_computing
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9lB-REWP5EC&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Nolte, D.D. (2001). Mind at Light Speed: A New Kind of Intelligence. Simon and Schuster. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-7432-0501-6.
- https://youtu.be/UWMEKex6nYA
- https://youtu.be/fzWbnXHEydU
3/8/11 - There is no room 122 in Dimond Library. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
3/9/11 - Relearned Motion cropping (bezier mask)
- https://youtu.be/ktEpzAXY2pA
3/10/11 - I shouldn't attempt to print an essay on a DVD disc.
3/11/11 - Xmarks
- https://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/29/xmarks-sync-shuts-down-openoffice-revolt/
- https://www.ghacks.net/2017/11/07/whats-going-on-with-xmarks-for-firefox/
- https://www.ghacks.net/2018/03/31/logmein-to-shut-down-xmarks-on-may-1-2018/
- https://ymarks.org/
3/12/11 - Xmarks isn't that great, it just sorta screws up your bookmarks
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - Everywhere
- Lee Rosevere - Knowing the Truth
- Lee Rosevere - Waves of Sleep
- Lee Rosevere - I'm Going for a Coffee
- Lee Rosevere - 4th Ave. Walkup
- Lee Rosevere - And So Then
PROGRAMMING NOTE This episode only features 6 days to re-align the schedule. Next episode will include 7 things learned, from Sunday-Saturday.
2/28/11 - Skype 5 won't work on PowerPC.
- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/33556/what-is-the-last-version-of-skype-that-will-run-on-os-x-10-5-for-a-ppc-mac
- https://www.oldapps.com/mac/skype.php
- https://www.techjunkie.com/skype-versions-supported-os-x/
- https://lowendmac.com/2016/using-skype-on-your-ppc-macintosh-in-2016/
- https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/skype-in-2018-on-ppc-macs.2116573/
3/1/11 - Justin Bieber was born on the same day Nirvana performed their final concert
- https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/flashback-nirvana-play-gut-wrenching-encore-at-last-concert-128265/
- https://www.livenirvana.com/concerts/94/94-03-01.php
3/2/11 - Steve Jobs is still alive.
- https://money.cnn.com/2011/03/02/technology/ipad_2_announcement/index.htm
- https://youtu.be/wqY01giPM-k
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190201035000/iossupportmatrix.com/
3/3/11 - MyTV isn't available at UNH.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWJE-DT#WZMY-TV
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling
- https://www.youtube.com/user/Wolfman12395
3/4/11 - Minecraft farming
- https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Farming
3/5/11 - Misc. Solutions to problems with my Xserves at SCAN, mainly concerning the backup login server.
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - All The Answers
- Lee Rosevere - Betrayal
- Lee Rosevere - I Bet You Wonder Why
- Lee Rosevere - Awkward Silences (version a)
- Lee Rosevere - Awkward Silences (version b)
- Lee Rosevere - We'll Figure it Out Together
2/21/11 - Better understanding of what a segmentation fault is.
- https://kb.iu.edu/d/aqsj
2/22/11 - Email Spam is a term originally coined by Monty Python
- https://www.templetons.com/brad/spamterm.html
- https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.mud/c/fUxvPNpEZEA/m/46-ecknME4kJ
2/23/11 - The first tablet was released in 1989.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120605085743/http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6565/GRidPad-1910/
- https://medium.com/@AlbertoSavoia/the-palm-pilot-story-1a3424d2ffe4
2/24/11 - Intel Light Peak technology.
- http://web.archive.org/web/20110710012629/https://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/02/24Apple-Updates-MacBook-Pro-with-Next-Generation-Processors-Graphics-Thunderbolt-I-O-Technology.html
2/25/11 - Hockey games can end in ties after overtime. Boring.
- https://unhwildcats.com/sports/mens-ice-hockey/schedule/2011-12
- https://hockeyanswered.com/can-hockey-end-in-a-tie/
- https://www.si.com/nhl/2018/04/18/nhl-overtime-rules-explained
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_Boston_Bruins_season#Off-season
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtime_(ice_hockey)
2/26/11 - Old Mac Emulators
- https://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/index.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMac
- https://youtu.be/0JPFFrELdlg
2/27/11 - The Mac equivalent of "tree" from Windows Command Prompt. cd to a folder and enter this in Terminal: find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'
2/14/11 - Sorta already knew this, but i.e. = "That is," and e.g. = examples
- https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ie
2/15/11 - A Charlie Brown Christmas was originally supposed to have a laugh track.
- https://lostmediawiki.com/A_Charlie_Brown_Christmas_(unreleased_%22laugh_track_cut%22_of_Christmas_special;_1965)
- https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/the-most-famous-music-from-a-charlie-brown-christmas-was-originally-written-for-a-different-project/16357/
- https://www.newsweek.com/podcast-how-charlie-brown-christmas-almost-didnt-come-be-1266815
2/16/11 - Justin Bieber's mom was anti-Semitic when it came to signing him.
- https://forward.com/schmooze/135394/q-and-a-justin-biebers-jewish-father-figure-tal/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Braun
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattie_Mallette
- https://heavy.com/entertainment/2020/01/justin-bieber-mother-mom-patricia-mallette/
- https://www.goalcast.com/2020/09/09/justin-bieber-mother-pattie-labelle-relationship-past-mistakes/
2/17/11 - Apparently you don't need to enable the root user to do sudo commands. Also how to take the T in Boston.
2/18/11 - Arthur is the second longest running show in the US, second only to The Simpsons.
- https://dailycollegian.com/2013/11/the-golden-age-of-%E2%80%98arthur%E2%80%99-comes-to-an-end/
2/19/11 - unh.edu is hosted by GoDaddy.
2/20/11 - VLC is still developing for PowerPC, which I thought they discontinued support for.
- https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
- https://www.videolan.org/news.html#news-2014-02-21
- https://www.videolan.org/news.html#news-2013-11-05
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - Here's Where Things Get Interesting
- Lee Rosevere - Going in Circles
- Lee Rosevere - Slow Lights
- Lee Rosevere - Baldachin
- Lee Rosevere - Old Regrets
2/7/11 - Adobe After Effects CS3 is the last version to work on PowerPC
- https://adobe.fandom.com/wiki/PowerPC
- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1782884
2/8/11 - Professors can be unprovoked jerks for no reason.
2/9/11 - Model numbers of 2008 Macbook Pros, and disassembling them.
2/10/11 - Bonjour Printing is hidden and disabled on Xserves, you need to get to a special page to enable it.
- https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01863553
- "Bonjour is a networking technology developed by Apple that makes it easy to set up and use devices and services on a network. Because Bonjour-compatible devices and services advertise their availability, it’s easy for you (or an app or service) to find devices and services that you want to use. For example, if you turn on file sharing, other macOS users on your local network see your Mac when they browse."
- From https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-a-dynamic-global-hostname-on-mac-mh27452/11.0/mac/11.0
2/11/11 - What "Fill with slug" means in Final Cut
- Slug? You know, the video generator that is simply black video filler (and audio filler as well).
- From http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/slug_andrew.html
- https://youtu.be/eIq-SBjcGNg
2/12/11 - College students are unexpectedly bad with computers.
2/13/11 - The Simpsons are on Hulu
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - It's a Mystery
- Lee Rosevere - Under Suspicion
- Lee Rosevere - Small Steps
- Lee Rosevere - New Day
- Lee Rosevere - Night Caves
- Lee Rosevere - Expectations
- Lee Rosevere - Not Alone
1/31/11 - Just how glitchy Mac OS X Server DNS can be.
2/1/11 - Open Directory Master/Replica stuff...mainly troubleshooting
2/2/11 - Powerbook G4s are obnoxious to open.
2/3/11 - How to completely disassemble/reassemble a Powerbook G4
2/4/11 - OSX 10.5 Disks are highly selective as to what computer they work on.
2/5/11 - Sir Isaac Newton died a virgin.
- https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2008/04/hitchens_newton200804
- https://medium.com/@denislesak/why-isaac-newton-died-a-virgin-192decd2a750
- https://history.info/on-this-day/1727-isaac-newton-probably-died-a-virgin/
2/6/11 - The US Government has a rather unprofessional and humorous takedown splash page they put up when they seize sites.
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - Places Unseen
- Lee Rosevere - Thoughtful
- Lee Rosevere - Try Anything Once
- Lee Rosevere - Sad Marimba Planet
- Lee Rosevere - Introducing the Pre-roll
1/24/11 - What "NP is not in P!" means. Can't solve it though.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem
- P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo
1/25/11 - Xsan migration from PPC to Intel, and how horrifying it is.
1/26/11 - Xsan can get corrupted for no reason.
1/27/11 - Xsan can also fix itself spontaneously for no reason
1/28/11 - Formatting a drive on XP means it may not work in Windows 2000.
- https://www.serverwatch.com/guides/size-does-matter-windows-2000-xp-and-hard-drive-size-limits/
1/29/11 - Pressing Ctrl and Enter in the address bar in Firefox surrounds what you entered with "www" and ".com"
1/30/11 - Ethernet interfaces can be renamed on the Mac.
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Lee Rosevere - Let That Sink In
- Lee Rosevere - Making It Look Easy
- Lee Rosevere - Where Was I
- Lee Rosevere - The Little Painter Man
- Lee Rosevere - Cloudloop
1/17/11 - Apple Business stuff
- http://web.archive.org/web/20110120100438/https://www.apple.com/business/
1/18/11 - The difference between DDR2 and DDR3 RAM (speed!)
1/19/11 - AirPrint only works with a few printers
1/20/11 - Misc. YTMND fads
1/21/11 - Engadget journalism isn't that great (see the Oracle/Java copyrighted code fiasco)
- Nilay Patel taking Florian Mueller at his word: https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-21-oops-android-contains-directly-copied-java-code-strengthening.html
- which led to him posting an update https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-21-android-source-code-java-and-copyright-infringement-whats-go.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2011/jan/21/android-patent-oracle-problems
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jan/23/android-patent-google-oracle-confusion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller_%28author%29#Oracle_v._Google
1/22/11 - Moving User Profiles in Windows 7
1/23/11 - Shining laser pointers at airplanes is very bad.
This episode's music comes from YouTube free music repositories, archive.org, and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Podington Bear - Falcon Hood
- Podington Bear - Origami
- TrackTribe - Island Wave
- TrackTribe - I Drank Alone
- TrackTribe - Drag Race
- TrackTribe - Delta
1/10/11 - Bamboo in Minecraft
1/11/11 - Synergy updated for the first time in like, 5 years. Also fixing a Synergy bug in which I couldn't connect to my PC at home (change the "check clients every" value)
1/12/11 - The B:/ Drive was for 5.25" Floppies.
1/13/11 - Syncing old Windows Mobile
1/14/11 - New World Man by Rush is their highest charting single.
1/15/11 - There exists number and letter sudoku solvers.
1/16/11 - Stuff about sleep cycles from Reddit
This episode's music comes from YouTube free music repositories.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- TrackTribe - Longer Distance
- TrackTribe - I Have a Reservation
- TrackTribe - Lights
- TrackTribe - Cover Charge
- TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
- TrackTribe - Home For the Holidays
1/3/11 - Party Shuffle in Rock Band 3
1/4/11 - 2.5" SATA and 3.5" SATA have different connectors.
1/5/11 - Update on yesterday - They don't, I was being dumb, there was a coupler attached to the 2.5"
1/6/11 - WTF is not an acronym because you can't pronounce it. Penn & Teller on Acronyms and Initialisms
1/7/11 - Security Clearance applies to more than the current job you're at.
1/8/11 - Google Maps Navigation without plugging in a destination
1/9/11 - Macbook Pros can theoretically take a bullet.
This episode's music comes from YouTube free music repositories and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Prelude in C (BWV 846)
- TrackTribe - Walk Through The Park
- TrackTribe - Hedge Your Bets
- TrackTribe - Members Only
- TrackTribe - Sunday
- TrackTribe - Easy Stroll
PROGRAMMING UPDATE - Next week's episode (and all future episodes) will launch on Sunday instead of Saturday. Example: The next episode will release January 3rd 2021)
12/26/10 - DHCP Failover for Xserve
12/27/10 - Rock Band 3's Leaderboards are fairly easy to top. Also scoring and gameplay mechanic changes.
12/28/10 - It wasn't a skin tag on my shoulder, it was a mole.
12/29/10 - Minecraft hMod (it became Bukkit/Spigot/Paper in years to come)
12/30/10 - Some Achievements in Rock Band 3 don't work right.
12/31/10 - Payload was in TF2 when it launched
1/1/11 - Netflix on the Xbox
1/2/11 - VPNing without using the Default Gateway (split tunneling)
*This episode includes a bonus day to account for an issue where previous episodes weren't fully aligned with the year's week. This was due to the original podcast start date being on a Saturday.
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Black Bird
- Kevin MacLeod - Babylon
- Podington Bear - Mutinee
- Podington Bear - Operatives
- Podington Bear - Happiness Is
- Podington Bear - Jazzer Incisors
- Podington Bear - Breezin
12/19/10 - A random rookie on a football team can be the one to win the game for them.
12/20/10 - iMacs in Apple stores cant handle having every application opened at once.
12/21/10 - LDAP Failover
12/22/10 - Water physics in Minecraft
12/23/10 - Which elevator at Best Buy is faster
12/24/10 - Scratch tickets can be ridiculously complicated
12/25/10 - Digital picture frame usage
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Blue Feather
- Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll
- Kevin MacLeod - B-Roll (ska)
- Kevin MacLeod - Awkward Meeting
- Kevin MacLeod - Batty McFaddin - Slower
- Kevin MacLeod - Bicycle
- Kevin MacLeod - Backed Vibes Clean
12/12/10 - Advanced Workgroup Manager/LDAP stuff in Mac OS X Server (self-taught myself dock settings for users)
12/13/10 - iChat does video chat over AIM.
12/14/10 - Podcast Producer (+ Podcast Capture) on Servers/Xserves can do email
12/15/10 - UNH requires 12 credits/semester to be considered a full time student.
12/16/10 - SCAN TV apparently helped out on some DVD that was played on PBS.
12/17/10 - Intel Xserves have a case of the derps during their first initial setup...seems they forget how to set an admin password.
12/18/10 - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World on the Xbox can be played with the Rock Band drumset.
This episode's music comes from YouTube free music repositories and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
TrackTribe - A Night Alone
John Deley - Play Song
JR Tundra - The Night Falling
MK2 - The Big Score
JR Tundra - Brother Jack
The 126ers - The Low Seas
SousLePont - LacNuit
12/5/10 - SQL Server has dumb rules and restrictions.
12/6/10 - Some things about Accounts between Mac and Windows
12/7/10 - The database ACID standard
12/8/10 - Figuring out DHCP stuff for the new server upgrades at SCAN.
12/9/10 - Some professors fail to follow department guidelines.
12/10/10 - Duplicate files don't take up nearly as much on the SCAN storage system as I thought.
12/11/10 - Blowing things up in Minecraft! (and 3rd person mode)
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Jason Shaw - Thingamajig
- Jason Shaw - Mountain Sun
- Jason Shaw - Wheels
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Faster Does It
11/28/10 - My grandmother's house has weird hotspots for 3G. Mainly, on the stairs only.
11/29/10 - The GNU General Public License (GPL)
11/30/10 - OSX Combo Updates fix things even in Hackintoshes.
12/1/10 - Lackadaisical is a word.
12/2/10 - Wireless Lav mics have a really good range when you suspend them from a ceiling
12/3/10 - How to install kexts into a Hackintosh
12/4/10 - Double clicking on an error in SQL Server takes you to the specified line.
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Jason Shaw - 12 Mornings
Jason Shaw - Acoustic Blues
Jason Shaw - Funky Junky
Jason Shaw - Words
Jason Shaw - Solo Acoustic Guitar
11/21/10 - How to use (and not use) SQL Cursors
11/22/10 - Bunch of stuff at WUNH, mainly concerning DJing
11/23/10 - High Pass Filter - lets high frequency pass through (filters out background). Low Pass Filter - lets low frequency pass through (filters out voices)
11/24/10 - How SyncBack functions (backup vs synchronizing)
11/25/10 - Symlinking stuff via the command line
11/26/10 - Blu-Ray players have a blue laser.
11/27/10 - Dropbox has major issues with symlinking stuff
This episode's music comes from archive.org and the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kevin MacLeod - Achaidh Cheide
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Kevin MacLeod - Beach Party
-
SousLePont - Porchakovitch
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Steve Combs and Delta Is - Adrift (A Symphony Revisited)
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Chris Zabriskie - That Kid in Fourth Grade Who Really Liked the Denver Broncos
11/14/10 - Lava in Minecraft apparently isn't permanent. If you send it down a hill it goes away. (was most likely a glitch)
11/15/10 - The Ubuntu Live CD doesn't like iMacs
11/16/10 - Some stuff about old computers. Yay YouTube
11/17/10 - Apple Education pricing
11/18/10 - Playing the keyboard (memorizing hand positions)
11/19/10 - Despite waking up at 1pm, it can still feel like a very long day.
11/20/10 - How to reset the PRAM on a Mac
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Accralate
- Kevin MacLeod - Aces High
11/7/10 - Broadcast's deterioration in performance is probably because it's been on 24/7 for 5 years straight.
11/8/10 - More Motion stuff
11/9/10 - Bubbles can bounce off of hard surfaces, apparently (sort of)
11/10/10 - There is an extensive diagnostics partition on most Dell computers
11/11/10 - Having a lot of daisy chained BNC monitors degrades the quality.
11/12/10 - HD video takes a hell of a long time to export.
11/13/10 - Making BNC and RCA cables
This episode's music comes from archive.org.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Beach Bum
- Kevin MacLeod - Sunshine
- Kevin MacLeod - Airport Lounge
10/31/10 - How to disassemble a server class battery.
11/1/10 - Apple is deprecating their Java for OSX Lion
11/2/10 - SQL Views
11/3/10 - Access codes for a door in the library
11/4/10 - I already knew this, but this was reconfirmed in my mind: iMovie is a horrible piece of software.
11/5/10 - Not every Windows XP disk comes with the recovery console.
11/6/10 - Chroma Keying in Apple Motion
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - Off to Osaka
- Kevin MacLeod - Vibe Ace
- Jahzzar - Dummy
10/24/10 - My hat makes a great rain shield for the Canon 7D
10/25/10 - Setting up a Minecraft server, on OSX (specifically, the enemies implementation isn't there yet)
10/26/10 - Setting attributes for columns in SQL tables.
10/27/10 - It is really difficult to get Mac OS 10.3.9 to work with anything multimedia related. It's too damn old.
10/28/10 - Learned the intro to Rock & Roll Band on Guitar, as well as a few other miscellaneous songs' main riffs (I got Knights of Cydonia by Muse down pretty well)
10/29/10 - Everyone thinks I'm 21. Also figured out Fraps and recording my screen.
10/30/10 - Got IP Printing to work at my house with a Mac.
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - As I Figure
- Kevin MacLeod - Dances and Dames
10/17/10 - The Snow Leopard Graphics Update isn't kind to Hackintoshes. Don't install it if you got one. Still looking around for a fix for that.
10/18/10 - DV Decks require you to clean the heads with a cleaning tape every once in a while. Luckily it wasn't my tape that was messed up.
10/19/10 - blip.tv does playlists, and makes management of videos on websites so much easier than manually adding in the code
10/20/10 - A full install of Final Cut Pro would trash the internal storage on the flash-based Macbook Air (64GB).
10/21/10 - When you use a helmet cam, the angle is highly important; make sure you're tilting it downward a little bit, so you ensure you aren't just filming the sky. Figured that out the hard way.
10/22/10 - External JavaScript Menu files for websites. Awesome (and so convenient).
10/23/10 - Finding the model of a Promise RAID System and upgrading the firmware of said RAID system. The SCAN one is an E class, in case you ever wanted to know.
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
- Jahzzar - Candlelight
- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
- Kevin MacLeod - AcidJazz
10/10/10 - Getting to know other student organizations/networking with people is a very good thing. I got to meet Lewis Black this way.
10/11/10 - It is possible to give a lecture on your job and bust a Meth Lab at the same time (HTCIA meeting).
10/12/10 - Figured out Spaces on the Mac.
10/13/10 - Learned how to Chroma Key the green screen at SCAN. Hilarity ensued.
10/14/10 - Ultramon doesn't save settings in terms of taskbar placement in scheme files. Sucks for my desktop with stacked dual monitors.
10/15/10 - Heaters can apparently be fixated on ceilings and look like fluorescent lights, or at least that's what they do in the Owl's Nest apartments at Keene.
10/16/10 - Jungle Juice is weird.
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Podington Bear - Giving Tree
Jason Shaw - River Meditation
Jason Shaw - Running Waters
Jason Shaw - Sidewalk
Jason Shaw - Travel Light
This podcast will launch on October 10, 2020.
You learn something every day, and when you keep track of it, you would be amazed at just how far you've come. Welcome to Things Learned.
This episode's music comes from the Free Music Archive.
Tracks featured in this episode include:
Jason Shaw - Lazy Day