Episode 47: #47: Out-of-Order Execution
Apr 10, 2014•1 hr 6 min
Episode description
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about home storage, open source 5th columnists at MSFT, the Amazon unicorn factory, Gunnar’s new job, new workflow, and Georgios Papanikolaou, a monthly visitor of guinea pigs.
Image courtesty of @feitclub- Redshift in EPEL dynamically adjusts screen brightness and color based upon location and time of day like f.lux
- OpenSpritz and FBReader OpenSpritz Plugin for speed reading!
- Dave’s choice is jetzt on Firefox with a workaround
- Lauren, now in ebook form and as an Opensource.com 2014 People’s Choice Award nominee
- Bonus link: Ellie the robot is ready to compete
- Gunnar is thrilled about a revamped and open sourced dgshow.org his other new new project Soren!
- Gunnar’s Drobo 2.0? — Google Drive prices slashed!
- Anyone try Insync?
- Is Space Monkey the device Gunnar thought he heard mentioned on Back to Work?
- Anyone try the Synology Dropbox-like storage product?
- Goodyear Zeppelin arrives near Dave’s house
- RHEL 6.6’s plans for inclusion of the SCAP Security Guide
- Heartbleed: oy.
- See if your favorite web site is vulnerable ← Runs on OpenShift!
- Sleep well — Red Hat has you covered
- Open Wifi: don’t listen to this radio in my window.
- By extension, is it then illegal to strobe someone else’s server? Gunnar’s been complaining about this since 2003
- Microsoft releases source code for its OS and Word (MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a specifically)
- AWS urges developers to scrub GitHub of secret keys
- ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP
- Dave and Gunnar need this like we need smart watches: Google and Microsoft are out to stop dual-boot Windows/Android devices
- Nice open source list of 2 factor authentication sites + ways to pester those who don’t have it yet
- HT Dave Sirrine: ScratchJr — Coding for Young Kids
- Cisco cozies up to Red Hat and KVM
- RHEL on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Access!
- AWS Achieves DoD Provisional Authorization
- RIP, the server. It’s time to breathe the air of cloud connection
- ‘Amazon has destroyed the unicorn factory’ … How clouds are making sysadmins extinct
- AFSPC CIO thinks we’re doing consolidation, not cloud. Agree? Disagree? Talk amongst yourselves.
- HT Bob Kozdemba: How to request resources for Non-Profit, Open Source, or Educational Institutions
- A Customer We Like: NASA and their launch control center firing room featuring Red Hat (Enterprise) Linux (6)!
- slack.com looks really interesting for collaboration
- Gunnar plays with capture tools like NewsBlur and Blogtrottr but can’t quit rss2email and processing tools like Pinboard which he still needs to figure out
- D&G Book Club: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
- Ken Burns 6 hour documentary coming in 2015
- The pap test for cervical cancer screening is due to Georgios Papanikolaou in 1928 where he studied the menstrual cycles of guinea pigs
- Related: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — start with the Radiolab episode and follow up episode
- Bonus book: Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well
Cutting Room Floor
- Pretty great interview with Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz
- A persuasive case for government-run/subsidized Internet
- Semantic Versioning — It’s a thing
- Amazon Dash: genius
- Make your own GitHub ribbon with CSS alone
- Twilight Zone action figures (in black and white!)
- The Expert
- JakToGo: Great for smuggling hams into movie theaters too
We Give Thanks
- Dave Sirrine for letting us know about ScratchJr
- Bob Kozdemba for helping spread the word about free OpenShift for non-profit, open source, and educational institutions
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