Episode 50: #50: Trenton on Notice

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: procurement disasters past, present, and future, cloud arbitrage, Bannana Slugs and storage, and the Large Hadron Collider, homesteading on the cloud.

• TRANSPORTER was the storage device we couldn’t think of in episode 47
• Hackpad got bought by Dropbox
• Retraction: Psych! Microsoft didn’t really open-source MS-DOS (thanks David A. Wheeler!)
• Trigger Warning: NJ procurement
  • Compare this with the UK red line policy
  • VanRoekel in Congress, hat in hand.



• Nike stops making FuelBand — Dave and Gunnar Trigger Warning!
  • Gunnar Fitbit Force rash status: Pending



• Compare and contrast: 5 things tech buyers just don’t care about and Google’s Project Ara Could Bring PC-Like Hardware Ecosystem To Phones


• HT Matt Micene: Bored with trading oil and gold? Why not flog some CLOUD servers? Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans cloud spot exchange


• Emergent and Red Hat JBoss BRMS Workshop & Happy Hour


• Storage workshop: Modern Data Protection Tour by Red Hat


• Red Hat welcomes Inktank!


• OpenShift and Hortonworks Data Platform


• GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic by Matt Hicks


• Dell and Red Hat Deliver Enterprise-Grade, OpenStack Private Cloud Solution, Extend Co-Engineering to Deliver OpenShift and Linux Container Solutions


• CERN uses RHEV to tell the difference between matter and anti-matter. Do you?
  • CERN’s Zombie movie



• Sovereign: Ansible playbooks for homesteading on the Internet


• How can I get colleagues to stop bickering about trivialities?
  • Design Thinking
  • Wikipedia, Design, and Consensus

Cutting Room Floor

• More drones moving to Linux
• New album released via Linux kernel module steganography
• Time is a flat circus
• HT Lauren: Programmer Ryan Gosling
• Raspberry Eye is a Raspberry Pi answer to Google Glass
• UFO typologies, circa 1967
• 1979 Mercedes El Camino
• The World’s Longest Conveyor Belt is 61 Miles Long
• D&G DIY Joke Kit of the Week: Convicted Terrorist Sentenced to Read Malcolm Gladwell Book
• Meanwhile in Cleveland: Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?
  • Almost related: Front Fell Off



• HT Doug Denny: Disgusting Computers


• Reading Rainbow
  • HT Dan Walsh: SELinux coloring book now on GitHub
  • Free OpenShift O’Reilly book by Steven Citron-Pousty and Katie Miller
  • Red Hat Summit attendees get another free O’Reilly ebook

We Give Thanks

• David A. Wheeler, Matt Micene, Lauren, Doug Denny, and Dan Walsh for giving us things to talk about!
• Mike Richichi for being “the colleague”. In truth, he was Gunnar’s boss.