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.

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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 like + Related: Home automation at the Hellekson residence? + Why Gunnar can’t have nice things * Open source preference blunted in UK Government guide + Hellekson’s Law of Software Policy + Unrelated: 11 Wacky “Laws” Named for People - Dave’s favorite = Hofstadter’s Law - “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.” * DISA Plans $450 Million Commercial Cloud Buy * A Partner We Like: Autonomic Resources + Well, look at that: a FedRAMP’d cloud running Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization + OpenShift on Autonomic Resources cloud * PayPal now builds products on its internal PaaS, namely OpenShift on OpenStack + You can be like PayPal too * Deploy to OpenShift from Cloud9 * Catching up Wayman (and ourselves) on what he (we) missed at the Red Hat Summit + Summit videos and presentations + Major Hayden enjoyed the systemd video. Be like Major + Bonus links: Dave’s SELinux video series on the Customer Portal - sVirt - SELinux user confinement - MLS (coming soon!) * OpenSCAP coming to an Anaconda near you * Quitting smoking with skeumorphism * Install Cyanogen on your Nook Color * GitHub + Embed geojson + Embed STL for 3D models + It’s a floor wax! It’s a desert topping! * Say “orange” to avoid sneezing on demand + Per the internet, pickle, pineapple, watermelon, and cucumber also work + A pickled cucumber is indeed a fruit + No word in the English language rhymes with orange + Eminem disagrees * Red Hat’s gov-sec mailing list for US government employees and contractors * On help: “Sometimes, all you have to do is ask, and it can lead to all your dreams coming true.” – Randy Pausch

Cutting Room Floor

  • RIP I Am Legend author and Twilight Zone writer Richard Matheson
  • Agency web icons, for use with presentations, cakes, tattoos, etc.

We Give Thanks

  • Major Hayden for the systemd video tip
  • Camille Acey for being so responsive on the tooter
  • Matt Micene, for letting us name-check him.
  • Randy Pausch, RIP — thanks for the perspective!
  • Richard Matheson, RIP — thanks for the sci fi!