Things Learned

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 htt...

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/th...

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.l...

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 d...

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...

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/56xsc...

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...

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-gam...

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/new...

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-boas...

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...

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/sup...

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/At...

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

*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-o...

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/de...

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...

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:/...

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/h...

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...

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...

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 sud...