Things Learned
Steve
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3/26/12 - You can apparently buy items in shops in D&D
3/27/12 - The origins of the Amish/Mennonites
3/28/12 - Netbeans has a specific Python edition.
3/29/12 - The Python Programming Language
3/30/12 - Transport Layer uses port numbers for addressing
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.
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.
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.
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
3/22/12 - More about Zwingli
3/24/12 - What Lane Freezing is 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
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
3/1/12 - Emperor Kangxi had the longest reign in China history.
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
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.
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
2/16/12 - I can middle click things in the Windows 7 Taskba
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
2/25/12 - How the Frenzied Barbarian works in D&D
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