Episode 26: #26: Hedbänger’s Bäll

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: snollygosters firing 9 or every 10 sysadmins, even yet still more Google and privacy, hands-free computing, Gunnar’s reputation management problems, and Dave’s “how to say no” weapons turned against him.

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• Lauren mentioned on Crain’s Business Cleveland podcast
  • HER Ideas in Motion hands-on learning for girls in technology and media arts
  • How the Egts family rolls on Mother’s Day: Mother Daughter Hack Day



• Gunnar visits Sweden!


• Zach Sciales says nice things about Red Hat and the D&G Show!


• Automation Myths: The NSA Can’t Replace 90% of Its System Administrators
  • Dave’s Confining Users with SELinux video series
  • Red Hat is hiring



• Code By Voice Faster Than Keyboard


• Google Adds Your Flights, Reservations, and Purchases to Voice Search


• Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption
  • So you can store the data at rest w/encryption, but you need to decrypt it to work on it unless you use homomorphic encryption as discussed in D&G #9



• Google says UK privacy laws can’t touch it


• Egts family spring break candidate: Principality of Sealand
  • HavenCo



• Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web
  • Man Crosses Twitter and Google Reader to Create Open Source Love Child
  • Meet the Indie Web hackers who want to jailbreak the internet



• Groklaw Shuts Down, A Self-Described Casualty In The Privacy Wars
  • PJ’s reasoning



• Open Technology Fund


• Lauren is a developer!
  • Scratch on Raspberry Pi video now live!



• Major Hayden now uses Linux! (Wait, what?)


• Super fun flying club, from United: Inside United’s Secret Club for Top Fliers


• Gunnar at OSHERA on 5 September.


• Dave presenting via web with David A. Wheeler and Josh Davis at GovLoop Government Innovators Virtual Summit on September 10


• Gunnar keynotes NC DataPalooza on September 12


• Dave receiving AFCEA DC AFCEAN of the Month award at AFCEA DC’s Monthly Luncheon on September 16


• Dave as panelist at GovLoop Agency of the Future on September 17


• Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1


• Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2


• Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!


• Gunnar’s GCN article: Do you have a cloud exit strategy? Here’s one clear path.


• Headbangers Ball: Dave’s recap of FedScoop’s Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit
  • Note the TV hanging from the ceiling to the right of the panelists
  • Dave’s Fedscoop TV video



• Dan Walsh blogging about Dave’s software defined Multi Level Security video series
  • D&G updated Blacklist: cyber, “software-defined”



• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 in evaluation!


• Hellekson’s Law: request denied, for now
  • Would a title of nobility make Gunnar more notable?
  • The Magic of Incentives: Brazilian Journals’ Self-Citation Cartel Smashed
  • CommaFeed backlinks from Wikipedia to D&G!



• “How to say no” update: Adam Clater makes Dave an offer he couldn’t refuse
  • This is what it looked like



• There’s a difference between being right & being persuasive


• Word of the day that we aren’t allowed to use any more: snollygoster — an unprincipled but shrewd person

Cutting Room Floor

• FeedBin: A new OSS RSS reader entrant
• ExplainShell: A command line explainer
• HT Jared Jennings: darcs is simpler and more fun than git. but http://hub.darcs.net and http://patch-tag.com aren’t quite github.
  • Unrelated but delicious: D’Arc’s Pizza in Windber, PA



• Soylent Green, for real: “I didn’t get to be the reviews editor of a major technology website by reading stupid directions.”


• Heavy Metal Umlaut Quiz


• Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” reenacted with librarians


• Black Flag’s Henry Rollins to keynote the 2013 California Library Association conference


• Knitters are banned from library due to dangerous needle use


• A creepy robot that can sneak under your door


• Plan ahead: Drone guidelines for Burning Man


• OpenDesk.cc Is Like Ikea For Open Source Zealots


• Regular expresssion crossword puzzle sites of the week

We Give Thanks

• Rachel Wilkins Patel for getting girls into technology and media arts and being a great role model
• Zach Sciales for letting us know we’re helping!
• Dan Walsh for blogging about Dave’s MLS video series
• Adam Clater for using our mind tricks against us for everyone’s benefit
• Jared Jennings for the tip on Darcs