Episode 30: #30: Sequestration and Subscriptions

22/10/2013 1h 1min

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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!