This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: monkey selfies, elephant-based coffee, and yak shaving with OpenStack. Dave is all all Skyped up on RHEL 7 Provides 32 bit qtwebkit which isn’t in EPEL HTTPS mandates: “With great power comes a tiny amount of responsibility.” D&G Joke Kit of the Week: Monkey’s selfie cannot be copyrighted, US regulators say Open source intelligence: Gun Safety, Self Defense, and Road Marches – Finding an ISIS Training Camp Hard Core History Shamless plug for my friend G...
Sep 09, 2014•47 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about vampire plants, spider oaks, and ultrasonic potatoes. No radiation gets in, only creepy vibes get out. Lauren’s latest project now published: Raspberry Pi powered juggling performance Gunnar loves pajamas, especially these HT Matt Micene : Ultrasonic everything Gunnar removes chips, water, and plants from the Faraday cage in his basement: Researchers reconstruct human speech by recording a potato chip bag The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop...
Aug 26, 2014•51 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: GSA USDS 18F OMB OSS LOL BBQ & RHEL SSG, RHEL VPAT, KVM, EAP GA, IBM+BRMS. Dave gets all Chromebook ed up How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Google Cloud Print Server Gunnar gets all RØDE Podcaster ed up Calling Dr. Clater: Star Trek Axanar and Star Trek Phase II Correction: MSFT wasn’t subject to EU data protections, and in fact that’s what the Judge’s decision was about: whether they could comply with the warrant given the nexus of jurisdiction GSA and...
Aug 22, 2014•51 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Barthelona, Gaudi, Toledo, Detroit, the Stasi, and why cloud providers can’t have nice things. Barcelona and Detroit trip report Barcelona Uber is there but illegal Nova Icària is the Egts family’s preferred Barcelona beach When in town, be sure to check out Montserrat , Las Ramblas , and Sagrada Família Detroit Maker Faire Dave highly recommends: The Henry, Autograph Collection The Stasi almost caught up to Dave Truck crashes into East Toledo Tony Packo’s T...
Aug 12, 2014•39 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Dave’s Russian agents, VMware’s nightmarish Docker future, everyone learns what “navigator” is in Greek. Cпасибо? Dave’s article is mentioned in Russian D&G bait: Will Docker and VMware Compete? Betteridge’s law of headlines Libswarm and Apache Mesos will help with management Red Hat and Google Collaborate on Kubernetes to Manage Docker Containers at Scale Learn more here Linux Wants Automakers to Stop Failing at Infotainment by Using Common Software Jo...
Jul 22, 2014•41 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Government Surveillance, Corporate Surveillance over land, sea and air, Personal Surveillance, and a vague but pervasive sense that you’re being monitored at this very moment . Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Matthew Burton has a podcast: “Let’s Talk Calmly About Security and Privacy” Don’t call me Shirley: Sherlybox is a private Dropbox based upon Raspberry Pi See also the ‘NSA-proof’ Protonet Economics of Bulk Surveillance This week in irony: Tech leaders u...
Jul 15, 2014•54 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk about containers, Project Atomic, Containers, RHEL 7, Containers, RHEV 3.4, and DockerDockah. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . United joins Delta with point per dollar spent, not miles flown . Animals. Text STOP to 48369 to quit iMessage Standing desks are passé: More Office Workers Switching To Fetal Position Desks Feedly and Evernote Go Down As Attackers Demand Ransom This week in vendor abandonment: Netflix Will Shut Down Public API Support For Third-Party Develope...
Jul 08, 2014•44 min
This week, Dave and Mike pay the rent by talking about Red Hat’s developer tools. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Red Hat Developer Blog has technical articles on Red Hat Software Collections and Red Hat Developer Toolset and their related technologies, plus DevOps and much more. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Program Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Subscriptions Red Hat Software Collections (dynamic languages, databases, web servers) Red Hat Developer Toolset (GCC, etc.): What “Developer S...
Jun 25, 2014•20 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Apple’s lock-in empire, autonomous vehicles, and improvisational theater as a way of life. Southwest adds non-stop flights from Canton-Akron to DCA Soylent Youngstown: This Ohio cricket farm is first in US to raise ‘chirps’ for human consumption Scratch (the creative learning environment from #MIT) version 2.0 now open source ! Swift : Apple owns the language, the tools, the means of distribution, and demands 30% of your revenue Sixteen Tons Banality of Evil...
Jun 04, 2014•31 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with special guest star and elder statesman of open source in security and government, Dr. David A. Wheeler about Heartbleed, security reviews, and why security vulnerabilities are like human organs. David’s How to Prevent the next Heartbleed article got picked up by Slashdot Fuzz testing All about Heartbleed How the Heardbleed bug works (in XKCD cartoon form) Heartbleed tick-tock HT Summer Maynard : What Heartbleed Can Teach The OSS Community About Marketing FIPS ...
May 20, 2014•59 min
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...
May 13, 2014•43 min
Dave and Gunnar talk with one of their favorite partners: Nirmal Mehta of Booz Allen Hamilton, Red Hat Innovation Award winner in 2013. It’s a nerdfest. And a Dockerfest. Highlights Hey Nirmal: His name is Solomon Hykes . Atomic Project the container certification program Vagrant Nirmal wants a workflow. the Devnation Netflix session : it’s what Docker enables. the systemd session Open Source: yes, we actually buy that stuff . Chris works on BPMS , and it’s nice to know that it’s Chris. BAH’s Op...
Apr 29, 2014•31 min
Dave got a chance to talk with OpenShift Marketing guru and D&G superfan Dan Juengst . Highlights PaaS: stuffed crust innovation. The sausage you need, the pepperoni on-demand. Dell announced their support for OpenShift OpenShift Online Marketplace : we figured out how make other people money on OpenShift! SAP now building Sybase cartridges OpenShift, Docker, and RHEL. It’s on. geard is how RHEL manages containers, and it’ll fold into OpenShift upstream . Atomic Project is RHEL purpose-built...
Apr 28, 2014•16 min
Ted’s Red Hat’s Cloud Architect for DOD. He enjoys roast beef, Docker, and OpenStack. Highlights Ted’s Twitter handle is amazing. Innovation of the People, By the People, For the People Certified Cloud Provider Program Shawn Wells and the SCAP Security Guide Meat Docker, again. Brian Stevens’ keynote . Walk-on from Soren. Container Certification Program...
Apr 27, 2014•12 min
Dave chats with James Kirkland , Red Hat’s undisputed Internet of Things expert, with a cameo from Jan Mark Holzer . Canadians pronounce RHEL wrong. The Chatsworth train collision got Positive Train Control started. They’re using AMQP . Injury, death! Canadians pronounce routers wrong. Why REST isn’t the only answer. How messaging works in electrical grids (this is where Gunnar gets jealous he wasn’t on the line) Most smart meters use MQTT . Yes, we support it. Bosch Connected World 2014 Snowden...
Apr 26, 2014•52 min
Dave and Gunnar talk with Jan Mark Holzer , who’s a “consulting engineer” in the same way Sherlock Holmes is a “consulting detective.” He’s a legend at Red Hat, and we were really lucky to get some time with him. He gets around . 2.5 months in the air last year. Lucky for us, he’s a compulsive photographer . Customer Roundtables were a big hit. Open Compute Project...
Apr 25, 2014•20 min
Dave and Gunnar catch up with Hellekson’s Law consigliere Matt Micene of DLT . They have a project called CODEvolved , which lets you stand up your own OpenShift in Amazon EC2. Highlights They even figured out how to do a hybrid model: on-premise and on EC2. Want to run this on bare metal? They covered that, too. xPaaS is coming! .NET is coming!...
Apr 24, 2014•11 min
Dave talked with Linda Wang , Senior Software Engineering Manager with Red Hat. Her team handles memory management, scheduling, kdump, and all that gnarly low-level stuff. Learn how kpatch was created because of a missed conference call, and get some tips from Linda on how to participate in kernel development. Highlights We’re adding Snappy compression in the kernel How containers are supported by kernel namespace, control groups, systemd, and SELinux – and why Docker is a big deal. Linda missed...
Apr 23, 2014•29 min
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. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . 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, ...
Apr 10, 2014•1 hr 6 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk with Shawn Wells about the origins of the SCAP Security Guide, community building with the government and integrators, and future plans for the OpenStack Security Guide. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Breaking News: SCAP Security Guide is shipping in RHEL6.6 ! NSA SNAC Guide SCAP mil-oss , the finest collection of DOD open source nerds you’ll find anywhere SCAP Security Guide RPMs are in EPEL ! Check out the National Checklist Program Repository for SCAP policy for...
Apr 01, 2014•48 min
This week Dave and Gunnar talk with special guest correspondent Lauren Egts about her interview with Ken Burns of TinyCircuits for Open Source Hardware Week ! Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Lauren’s Opensource.com article interviewing Ken Burns of TinyCircuits : Like Arduino? Miniaturize your project with TinyCircuits Arduino Check out Open Source Hardware Week at opensource.com We Give Thanks Ken Burns for making tiny open source hardware and letting us share the audio of the interview! Lauren E...
Mar 21, 2014•22 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: talk about: backups, media players, Amazon GovCloud, new JBoss releases, Gilligan’s Island. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Star Trek Continues E02 “Lolani” puts Dave in a state of euphoria The Twilight dude puts Gunnar in a state of euphoria Drobo or Dropbox or something else? Delta SkyMiles To Be Based On Price Of Ticket, Not Distance Of Flight Added to the list of Things Gunnar Won’t Buy: Keurig’s next generation of coffee machines will have DRM lockdown A...
Mar 12, 2014•1 hr 1 min
This week Ray Ploski and Langdon White prep Dave and Gunnar for DevNation ! Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Check out www.devnation.org and follow @DevNationConf and #DevNation Developer Toolset and Red Hat Software collections DevAssistant AeroGear LiveOak Apache Cordova xPaaS Ceylon Vert.x Gene Kim of The Phoenix Project will be keynoting! From Ray for Langdon: C Sharp evangelist position in Cambridge We Give Thanks Ray Ploski and Langdon White for talking about DevNation with us!...
Mar 10, 2014•34 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about affordances, partnerships, and a bunch of reasons Red Hat is a great place to work. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Sophisticated multi-touch interfaces in vehicles have consequences. Gunnar gets angry about DRM all over again and gets a ChromeCast while Dave is still thrilled with his Roku 3 Google buys SlickLogin, a startup out to kill the password with sound If you can’t wait for the book or movie, check out the D&G Origin Story Fork your own agency ope...
Mar 04, 2014•1 hr 13 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: robotics, public and not-so-public goods, and redesigning airlines. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Adam Clater: please explain. Dave is glad he’s moving to US Airways: United Airlines drops Cleveland as hub airport HT Cleveland expat James Labocki : Did Burke Lakefront Airport Miscalculations Add to Hopkins Hub Troubles in Cleveland? Meanwhile: Delta’s 80’s In-Flight Safety Video Almost related: Dave makes contingency plans for in-flight calling with DrumPan...
Feb 18, 2014•59 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: cleaning out the attic, transparency in companies, new RHEV release, and Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . That’s Dave on the right. Lauren’s new article: Like Arduino? Miniaturize your project with TinyCircuits EFY Times’ version , now updated to include a little attribution Now use sound to levitate and do neat things with water HT Dan Walsh : Learn Spanish using SELinux Announcing New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Pri...
Feb 05, 2014•1 hr 9 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk to Ric Wheeler and Tom Coughlan, high priests of storage at Red Hat. It’s a total nerd-out, from shingled drives to data megatrends. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Early disc farming. All kinds of exciting storage features to check out in RHEL 7 beta Btrfs Device Mapper Storage Manager OpenLMI LVM SSDs dm-cache tuned pNFS Labeled NFS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Red Hat Storage and GlusterFS Great storage partners like Jon Benedict and NetApp We Give Thanks Ric Wheeler...
Jan 28, 2014•49 min
This week Dave and Gunnar celebrate Youth in Open Source Week, and talk with Dave’s favorite open source developer: his daughter, Lauren. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Youth in Open Source Week at Opensource.com Lauren is a fan of Darik’s Boot And Nuke Lauren’s Gluster and Scratch on Raspberry Pi presentations at the Akron LUG The Great Guinea Pig Escape Lauren at the Cleveland and Akron Mini Maker Faires and Element 14 and Opensource.com interviews The Hathaway Brown Fighting Unicorns all girl ...
Jan 13, 2014•38 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: watching your email, hearing your GnuPG key, the smell of fresh-baked OpenStack, a taste of ARM on Fedora, a touch of Skynet. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . This episode’s title is dedicated to Peter Larsen. We heard you, and welcome your feedback! Lauren wins the National Center for Women & Information Technology Aspirations in Computing 2014 Ohio Affiliate Award PaaS and Three Cruelties of Federal IT Gunnar enjoys Plague Inc when not catching up on Gam...
Jan 07, 2014•1 hr 15 min
This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: Audio hacking, Nexus 5 hacking, currency hacking, OpenShift Enterprise 2.0 hacking, lake monsters, and a new segment: the Security Dog House. Subscribe via RSS or iTunes . Red Hat Canada Thanksgiving greetings remind Dave of lessons learned from The Last Lecture Today in Audio Hacking: Scientist-developed malware prototype covertly jumps air gaps using inaudible sound D&G Beard of the Week: Matt Micene ‘s first video interview including a Hellekson’s La...
Dec 10, 2013•1 hr 5 min
