This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Vulcan death grips, death from above, and the death of the open source business model.

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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 Death Grip = Left CTRL + Left SHIFT + F12 + / on the number pad * Practice safe USB charging * Target practice: F-16 drone flying at 40,000 feet, Mach 1.47, and doing barrel rolls pulling 7Gs + Meanwhile, Gunnar needs to power off his Walkman and Palm Pilot on US Airways, for now * HT Matt Jamison: Linux Kernel Development: How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It (2013 Edition) * Gunnar bait of the week courtesy of Mike Olson Board Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera: “So here is the conundrum facing enterprise infrastructure software companies: You can no longer win with a closed-source platform, and you can’t build a successful stand-alone company purely on open source.” * Red Hat Summit Call for Proposals now open! * RHEL 5.10 released! * RHEL 6.5 beta released! * New RHEL packaging provides stacking, instances, portability * Satellite 5.6 released! * Open demos available now! * Dave and Gunnar are liking the Red Hat Consulting internal podcast by Ian Tewksbury and Krain Arnold + Be like Ian and Krain: Get yourself a modcluster t-shirt and the party invitations from famous people will follow * Red Hat and HP win VA Scheduling contest * SCAP Security Guide welcomes ORNL as contributor! * SCAP Security Guide builds now in Koji!

Cutting Room Floor

  • The Onion reviews the movie “Gravity”

We Give Thanks

  • Matt “Jamo” Jamison for the Linux Foundation report pointer!
  • Ian Tewksbury and Krain Arnold for a great podcast!