Things Learned Steve

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

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