Things Learned

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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: @USBTypeSTeve@infosec.exchange

  1. 07/15/2023

    TL0062 - 2012, Week 15 and 16 Highlights

    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

    21 min

  2. 04/10/2022

    TL0061 - 2012, Week 13 and 14 Highlights

    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

    24 min

  3. 03/24/2022

    TL0060 - 2012, Week 11 and 12 Highlights

    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

    25 min

  4. 03/10/2022

    TL0059 - 2012, Week 09 and 10 Highlights

    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

    25 min

  5. 02/19/2022

    TL0058 - 2012, Week 07 and 08 Highlights

    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

    25 min

  6. 01/30/2022

    TL0057 - 2012, Week 05 and 06 Highlights

    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

    21 min

  7. 01/16/2022

    TL0056 - 2012, Week 03 and 04 Highlights

    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

    19 min

  8. 01/06/2022

    TL0055 - 2012, Week 01 and 02 Highlights

    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

    26 min
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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: @USBTypeSTeve@infosec.exchange

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  • Creator
    Steve
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2023
  • Episodes
    64
  • Rating
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