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Episode Synopsis
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.
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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 visits Sweden!
Zach Sciales says nice things about Red Hat and the D&G Show!
Automation Myths: The NSA Can’t Replace 90% of Its System Administrators
Dave’s Confining Users with SELinux video series
Red Hat is hiring
Code By Voice Faster Than Keyboard
Google Adds Your Flights, Reservations, and Purchases to Voice Search
Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption
So you can store the data at rest w/encryption, but you need to decrypt it to work on it unless you use homomorphic encryption as discussed in D&G #9
Google says UK privacy laws can’t touch it
Egts family spring break candidate: Principality of Sealand
HavenCo
Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web
Man Crosses Twitter and Google Reader to Create Open Source Love Child
Meet the Indie Web hackers who want to jailbreak the internet
Groklaw Shuts Down, A Self-Described Casualty In The Privacy Wars
PJ’s reasoning
Open Technology Fund
Lauren is a developer!
Scratch on Raspberry Pi video now live!
Major Hayden now uses Linux! (Wait, what?)
Super fun flying club, from United: Inside United’s Secret Club for Top Fliers
Gunnar at OSHERA on 5 September.
Dave presenting via web with David A. Wheeler and Josh Davis at GovLoop Government Innovators Virtual Summit on September 10
Gunnar keynotes NC DataPalooza on September 12
Dave receiving AFCEA DC AFCEAN of the Month award at AFCEA DC’s Monthly Luncheon on September 16
Dave as panelist at GovLoop Agency of the Future on September 17
Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1
Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2
Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!
Gunnar’s GCN article: Do you have a cloud exit strategy? Here’s one clear path.
Headbangers Ball: Dave’s recap of FedScoop’s Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit
Note the TV hanging from the ceiling to the right of the panelists
Dave’s Fedscoop TV video
Dan Walsh blogging about Dave’s software defined Multi Level Security video series
D&G updated Blacklist: cyber, “software-defined”
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 in evaluation!
Hellekson’s Law: request denied, for now
Would a title of nobility make Gunnar more notable?
The Magic of Incentives: Brazilian Journals’ Self-Citation Cartel Smashed
CommaFeed backlinks from Wikipedia to D&G!
“How to say no” update: Adam Clater makes Dave an offer he couldn’t refuse
This is what it looked like
There’s a difference between being right & being persuasive
Word of the day that we aren’t allowed to use any more: snollygoster — an unprincipled but shrewd person
Cutting Room Floor
FeedBin: A new OSS RSS reader entrant
ExplainShell: A command line explainer
HT Jared Jennings: darcs is simpler and more fun than git. but http://hub.darcs.net and http://patch-tag.com aren’t quite github.
Unrelated but delicious: D’Arc’s Pizza in Windber, PA
Soylent Green, for real: “I didn’t get to be the reviews editor of a major technology website by reading stupid directions.”
Heavy Metal Umlaut Quiz
Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” reenacted with librarians
Black Flag’s Henry Rollins to keynote the 2013 California Library Association conference
Knitters are banned from library due to dangerous needle use
A creepy robot that can sneak under your door
Plan ahead: Drone guidelines for Burning Man
OpenDesk.cc Is Like Ikea For Open Source Zealots
Regular expresssion crossword puzzle sites of the week
We Give Thanks
Rachel Wilkins Patel for getting girls into technology and media arts and being a great role model
Zach Sciales for letting us know we’re helping!
Dan Walsh for blogging about Dave’s MLS video series
Adam Clater for using our mind tricks against us for everyone’s benefit
Jared Jennings for the tip on Darcs
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 visits Sweden!
Zach Sciales says nice things about Red Hat and the D&G Show!
Automation Myths: The NSA Can’t Replace 90% of Its System Administrators
Dave’s Confining Users with SELinux video series
Red Hat is hiring
Code By Voice Faster Than Keyboard
Google Adds Your Flights, Reservations, and Purchases to Voice Search
Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption
So you can store the data at rest w/encryption, but you need to decrypt it to work on it unless you use homomorphic encryption as discussed in D&G #9
Google says UK privacy laws can’t touch it
Egts family spring break candidate: Principality of Sealand
HavenCo
Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web
Man Crosses Twitter and Google Reader to Create Open Source Love Child
Meet the Indie Web hackers who want to jailbreak the internet
Groklaw Shuts Down, A Self-Described Casualty In The Privacy Wars
PJ’s reasoning
Open Technology Fund
Lauren is a developer!
Scratch on Raspberry Pi video now live!
Major Hayden now uses Linux! (Wait, what?)
Super fun flying club, from United: Inside United’s Secret Club for Top Fliers
Gunnar at OSHERA on 5 September.
Dave presenting via web with David A. Wheeler and Josh Davis at GovLoop Government Innovators Virtual Summit on September 10
Gunnar keynotes NC DataPalooza on September 12
Dave receiving AFCEA DC AFCEAN of the Month award at AFCEA DC’s Monthly Luncheon on September 16
Dave as panelist at GovLoop Agency of the Future on September 17
Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1
Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2
Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!
Gunnar’s GCN article: Do you have a cloud exit strategy? Here’s one clear path.
Headbangers Ball: Dave’s recap of FedScoop’s Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit
Note the TV hanging from the ceiling to the right of the panelists
Dave’s Fedscoop TV video
Dan Walsh blogging about Dave’s software defined Multi Level Security video series
D&G updated Blacklist: cyber, “software-defined”
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 in evaluation!
Hellekson’s Law: request denied, for now
Would a title of nobility make Gunnar more notable?
The Magic of Incentives: Brazilian Journals’ Self-Citation Cartel Smashed
CommaFeed backlinks from Wikipedia to D&G!
“How to say no” update: Adam Clater makes Dave an offer he couldn’t refuse
This is what it looked like
There’s a difference between being right & being persuasive
Word of the day that we aren’t allowed to use any more: snollygoster — an unprincipled but shrewd person
Cutting Room Floor
FeedBin: A new OSS RSS reader entrant
ExplainShell: A command line explainer
HT Jared Jennings: darcs is simpler and more fun than git. but http://hub.darcs.net and http://patch-tag.com aren’t quite github.
Unrelated but delicious: D’Arc’s Pizza in Windber, PA
Soylent Green, for real: “I didn’t get to be the reviews editor of a major technology website by reading stupid directions.”
Heavy Metal Umlaut Quiz
Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” reenacted with librarians
Black Flag’s Henry Rollins to keynote the 2013 California Library Association conference
Knitters are banned from library due to dangerous needle use
A creepy robot that can sneak under your door
Plan ahead: Drone guidelines for Burning Man
OpenDesk.cc Is Like Ikea For Open Source Zealots
Regular expresssion crossword puzzle sites of the week
We Give Thanks
Rachel Wilkins Patel for getting girls into technology and media arts and being a great role model
Zach Sciales for letting us know we’re helping!
Dan Walsh for blogging about Dave’s MLS video series
Adam Clater for using our mind tricks against us for everyone’s benefit
Jared Jennings for the tip on Darcs
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