This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: US Government bitcoins, skeumorphic bitcoins, TSA coin-flips, twitter drops a dime on the US government, OSS payload this Federal IT award season, our $.02 on RHEL 6.5 and Fedora 20. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Uzoma Nwosu likes Google Reminders and Keep, now part of Google Now on Android. Location-based reminders! GTDAgenda folks want Gunnar to try their stuff East Austin Studio Tour Will Cordis recommends Flight001 luggage Dave suggests that the Houseke...
Nov 27, 2013•1 hr 5 min
This week on Dave and Gunnar : Oracle plays with science, Amazon plays with the US Postal Service, and everyone plays with tracking you like a criminal. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . FLIGHTMARE! Inflight cell calling debuts, dealing heavy blow to quality of life U.S. Reaches Preliminary Deal in American-US Airways Merger Lawsuit Adam Clater will soon be able to recharge his beard phone and guinea pig with microwaves HT Jason Calloway : Beard followup badBIOS and more apocalyptic movie plot ideas...
Nov 19, 2013•50 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about badBIOS and unreliable narrators, 85% of Android is crap, warrant canaries, and special guest star Adam Clater talking about OpenShift and ownCloud Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . badBIOS disputed Analysis is wrong Researcher skepticism Almost related: Motorola wants you to tattoo a smartphone microphone onto your throat Cloud to Butt 2.0: xkcd substitutions Chrome extension Risk Walking Dead Survival Edition Gunnar is enjoying his Nexus 5 and its inability to...
Nov 12, 2013•52 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about alien invasion, BIOS invasion, privacy invasion, and invasion of common sense at FAA. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . He’s a macaroni. History of Rome is amazing. Check out Revolutions ! Gunnar bait of the other week , part 2 Deep Brain Stimulation stimulator goes somewhere other than your head and the leads go in your brain — don’t let some fly by night surgeon tell you otherwise Remember the Milk is forgetting to Remember the Customers: Andrew @ Remember The...
Nov 06, 2013•54 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: turning people into products, patches into pounds and pence, protecting poultry, priorities, primary patchers on projects, and PDFs into poison. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . How do you say “infringement” in Farsi? Gunnar: There’s an app for that HT @CampCatastrophe : Deep Brain Stimulation implant “about the size of a stopwatch” Almost related: LG jumps on the vestibulo-ocular reflex chicken powered steady cam bandwagon Not related: Chicken safety vest HT ...
Oct 29, 2013•37 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Vulcan death grips, death from above, and the death of the open source business model. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . A Hill Staffer checks his phone as Capitol Hill police take aim on the grounds of the Capitol. Congressional API on IFTTT Government shutdown and API abandonment Red Hat Storage is one way to replicate your important big data in the cloud Bill Gates admits that Ctrl Alt Delete was a mistake Wikipedia article on Control-Alt-Delete SGI Vulcan De...
Oct 22, 2013•1 hr 2 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Pudding ‘n Airplanes, Penguins ‘n Space, Parkinson’s ‘n Chickens, Printing ‘n 3D, and IMAP. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Lauren can’t stop watching Bohemian Gravity Lots of Twitter folks getting compromised. Do you have login verification enabled? HT Matt Micene : Court: Facebook ‘Like’ Is Protected By the First Amendment HT Mark Bohannon : Penguins in Space! Asteroid mining and Linux Travel hack of the week: Engineer earned 1.25M airline miles by buying $2...
Oct 02, 2013•1 hr 22 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Batman, Acxiom as your personal data custodian, the TSA Pre-✓ Class War, and the HACK REACTOR. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Dave visits an abandoned amusement park in Chippewa Lake, OH which was featured in a 10 min documentary and was the filming location of Closed for the Season Gunnar needs a Dark Knight intervention When not listening to D&G: Windows XP apocalypse and your own countdown clock to April 8, 2014 Yahoo! doppelgängers KnowEm Tracks Down ...
Sep 24, 2013•1 hr 21 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: spying, conspiracy theories, boxing and calculus in Ohio, Klingons in Illinois, the return of Nirmal, a ball peen update, and LUG parenting teachable moments. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Never trust a man with a mustache. Don King ‘s Ohio training compound is close to Mike Tyson ‘s Ohio abandoned mansion with tiger cages in Trumbull, OH Indian Government To Ban Use of US Email Services For Official Communications Google Facebook privacy disappointment of ...
Sep 10, 2013•1 hr 10 min
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. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Dave gets incepted. 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 ...
Sep 03, 2013•50 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Google’s expectations of privacy, VMware’s expectations of profit, Dave’s expectations of SELinux, and Gunnar’s inflated expectations of productivity software. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld Incarnations of Immortality by Piers Anthony Google: Cloud users have ‘no legitimate expectation of privacy’ Yes, Gmail Users Have Some Privacy. Here’s What You Can Expect Why Some Startups Say the Cloud Is a Waste of Money VMware CEO: OpenS...
Aug 27, 2013•52 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Twitter security, Chrome security, SpiderOak security, SnapChat security, Open Security, OpenShift security, and calendar security. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . A prototype. Twitter improves 2 factor authentication Android Device Manager web page going live for some users Google Chrome lets you – or anyone using your computer – see the plaintext web passwords stored by your browser (by design) “Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead,” Benja...
Aug 20, 2013•1 hr 19 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: key deathwatch, mobile carrier deathwatch, klingon deathwatch, and Google Meat, Mk I. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Red Hat’s Eye of Sauron. Action photos from Lauren’s Akron LUG presentation on Scratch and Raspberry Pi Lauren’s impromptu app Gunnar sitting in Red Hat’s new office , which dominate the Raleigh skyline Soylent Green is Google! : Something to snack on while you wait for your mind to be uploaded Netflix US removes Star Trek III due to missing V...
Aug 06, 2013•45 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Professional Wrestling, Professional Android Security, Professional Evangelism with Steve Citron-Pousty, and a very unprofessional Linus Torvalds. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Cutting someone’s mail queue in half. Gunnar’s buddy Andy suggests he builds his own desk: Make Your Own Multi-Level, Adjustable Height Standing Desk Gunnar thinks Andy, a carpenter, is overdue for a visit to Austin Multi level filing system makes a perfect accessory for a multi leve...
Jul 30, 2013•1 hr 10 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about the worst virus remediation ever, the NSA all up in your phone, fashion advice from Dan Walsh, and a whole bunch of Gunnarbait. This episode is dedicated to Seth Vidal. Please visit this page of Seth Vidal memorial events . Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Dapper Dan. Gunnar’s housewarming gift to himself: The Uplift desk Smoking with skeumorphism, round 2: Anti-Smoking Cage Helmet An asthma-inhaler-looking Nicotine delivery device isn’t as cool as an electroni...
Jul 17, 2013•52 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Le PRISM, Slashdot Gunnarbait, OpenStack Security Guide, the Indie Web, a petabyte of tax data, and an interview with the creator of CommaFeed. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Welcome to Texas, Gunnar. Le PRISM: France Has A PRISM-Like Program With Millions Of Trillions Of Metadata Elements PRISM & Big Data: Big Data and Analytics: The Hero or the Villain? PRISM Break : EFF’s list of free, open, secure alternatives to proprietary software Gunnarbait: NSA B...
Jul 09, 2013•1 hr 5 min
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. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . See if you can find where he installed the Raspberry Pi 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 li...
Jul 02, 2013•1 hr 2 min
Dave’s off on a motorcycle or something, so this week, Jason “Open Government Machine” Hibbets and Gunnar talk about CityCamp, Code for America, civic innovation, and (of course) Jason’s new book. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Red Hat official history Red Hat Customer Portal opensource.com Red Hat Magazine: still up! City Camp Transparency Camp Barcamp rules Raleigh is open by default . The tweet from Bonner that started it all City Camp NC Kevin Curry Gunnar’s Hawaii Tips Code for america CfA b...
Jun 25, 2013•57 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Evolution of evolution, skeumorphism (again), Onion Pi, Brick Pi, Red Hat Summit 2013, an interview with Nirmal Mehta and some lessons learned from Google and NSA. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Nirmal big and small. So this is an enormous episode, the longest we’ve done yet. If you just want to hear from Nirmal, jump to 1:00:00. Yes, an hour in. This episode is epic. Deepest apologies to Rackspace: it was another user hogging all the swap. Related Red Hat S...
Jun 19, 2013•1 hr 11 min
Today, Dave and Gunnar talk about the third day of the Red Hat Summit, and interview Major Hayden at last! This one is super-nerdy, that’s fair warning. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Just look at him: a man comfortable with the safety of his systems. Hortonworks partnership Storage integration with OpenStack: Verified: the customer portal is awesome . Kids love Gnome Classic . Dell GovCloud runs on Red Hat. OpenStack , on like donkey kong....
Jun 15, 2013•34 min
On the second day of Red Hat’s 2013 Summit, Dave and Gunnar talk about RHEV 3.2’s launch, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, the Mirantis/Red Hat OpenStack partnership, and OpenShift with our #1 fan. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Well, look what we found: young Dan! RHEV 3.2 now featuring storage live migration plus other goodness! Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform can’t meaningfully fit in the same tweet as Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz Mira...
Jun 13, 2013•13 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar broadcast from Boston, on the first day of the 2013 Red Hat Summit. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Have you seen this man? Back to Work , with Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann. Face to face Acxiom, NewLease, and Verizon Terremark are now CCPs Dell GovCloud using RHEL and RHEV AWS running RHEL on the free tier – 750 hours/month OpenShift now for sale! JBoss Windup Dave, Gunnar, and Lauren featured on opensource.com We Give Thanks To everyone who we interviewed yesterday, in ...
Jun 12, 2013•25 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: NYC Checkbook, passwords, FSF getting silly, open source dying, killing patent trolls with fire, RHEL6 STIGs, Rasberry Pi, and next week’s Red Hat Summit. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . The mustard shall indicate progress. And oversight from German regulators. NYC Checkbook 2.0 LinkedIn adds two step verification Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331” FSF’s insane campaign against regulations.gov Monty thinks open source is...
Jun 06, 2013•58 min
This week Dave and Gunnar provide a very special episode of the Dave and Gunnar Show, in which we talk to our boss, Paul Smith, who runs Red Hat’s US Public Sector group. ] 3 Photo courtesy FedScoop. Show Notes 10 years ago Matthew Szulik Red Hat Government ‘s website the SELinux project Jim Whitehurst on managing in an open source company . In case you can’t tell, we’re hiring . Gunnar messed up by saying “wearing your best suit” and not making a Paul Smith joke. Shawn Wells and the SCAP Securi...
Apr 05, 2013•21 min
