Episode 19: #19: “This is an exploding motorcycle.”

This week Dave and Gunnar talk about: Gunnar smoking funny cigarettes, OpenShift all over the place, motorcycles, hacking Gunnar’s house (in a bad way), how to ask for help, and how to receive help like a gentleman.

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• Dave got to see a motorcycle explode at Thunder in the Valley since our last episode
• Solar powered Raspberry Pi
• The Singularity Is Near: Mind Uploading by 2045?
  • This is what it will actually look like
  • Related: Home automation at the Hellekson residence?
  • Why Gunnar can’t have nice things



• Open source preference blunted in UK Government guide
  • Hellekson’s Law of Software Policy
  • Unrelated: 11 Wacky “Laws” Named for People
    • Dave’s favorite = Hofstadter’s Law
    • “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”

  
  
  
  


• DISA Plans $450 Million Commercial Cloud Buy


• A Partner We Like: Autonomic Resources
  • Well, look at that: a FedRAMP’d cloud running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • OpenShift on Autonomic Resources cloud



• PayPal now builds products on its internal PaaS, namely OpenShift on OpenStack
  • You can be like PayPal too



• Deploy to OpenShift from Cloud9


• Catching up Wayman (and ourselves) on what he (we) missed at the Red Hat Summit
  • Summit videos and presentations
  • Major Hayden enjoyed the systemd video. Be like Major
  • Bonus links: Dave’s SELinux video series on the Customer Portal
    • sVirt
    • SELinux user confinement
    • MLS (coming soon!)

  
  
  
  


• OpenSCAP coming to an Anaconda near you


• Quitting smoking with skeumorphism


• Install Cyanogen on your Nook Color


• GitHub
  • Embed geojson
  • Embed STL for 3D models
  • It’s a floor wax! It’s a desert topping!



• Say “orange” to avoid sneezing on demand
  • Per the internet, pickle, pineapple, watermelon, and cucumber also work
  • A pickled cucumber is indeed a fruit
  • No word in the English language rhymes with orange
  • Eminem disagrees



• Red Hat’s gov-sec mailing list for US government employees and contractors


• On help: “Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.” – Randy Pausch

Cutting Room Floor

• RIP I Am Legend author and Twilight Zone writer Richard Matheson
• Agency web icons, for use with presentations, cakes, tattoos, etc.

We Give Thanks

• Major Hayden for the systemd video tip
• Camille Acey for being so responsive on the tooter
• Matt Micene, for letting us name-check him.
• Randy Pausch, RIP — thanks for the perspective!
• Richard Matheson, RIP — thanks for the sci fi!