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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: @[email protected]
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TL0062 - 2012, Week 15 and 16 Highlights
2023/07/15
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 HTML element was implemented drunkenly after a discussion in a bar
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
TL0061 - 2012, Week 13 and 14 Highlights
2022/04/10
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
TL0060 - 2012, Week 11 and 12 Highlights
2022/03/24
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
TL0059 - 2012, Week 09 and 10 Highlights
2022/03/10
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
TL0058 - 2012, Week 07 and 08 Highlights
2022/02/19
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
TL0057 - 2012, Week 05 and 06 Highlights
2022/01/30
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
TL0056 - 2012, Week 03 and 04 Highlights
2022/01/16
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
TL0055 - 2012, Week 01 and 02 Highlights
2022/01/06
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
TL0054 - 2011, Week 51 and 52 Highlights
2021/12/20
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
TL0053 - 2011, Week 49 and 50 Highlights
2021/12/05
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
TL0052 - 2011, Week 47 and 48 Highlights
2021/11/21
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
TL0051 - 2011, Week 45 and 46 Highlights
2021/11/07
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
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