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 making FuelBand — Dave and Gunnar Trigger Warning!

Gunnar Fitbit Force rash status: Pending


Compare and contrast: 5 things tech buyers just don’t care about and Google’s Project Ara Could Bring PC-Like Hardware Ecosystem To Phones
HT Matt Micene: Bored with trading oil and gold? Why not flog some CLOUD servers? Chicago Mercantile Exchange plans cloud spot exchange
Emergent and Red Hat JBoss BRMS Workshop & Happy Hour
Storage workshop: Modern Data Protection Tour by Red Hat
Red Hat welcomes Inktank!
OpenShift and Hortonworks Data Platform
GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic by Matt Hicks
Dell and Red Hat Deliver Enterprise-Grade, OpenStack Private Cloud Solution, Extend Co-Engineering to Deliver OpenShift and Linux Container Solutions
CERN uses RHEV to tell the difference between matter and anti-matter. Do you?

CERN’s Zombie movie


Sovereign: Ansible playbooks for homesteading on the Internet
How can I get colleagues to stop bickering about trivialities?

Design Thinking
Wikipedia, Design, and Consensus



Cutting Room Floor

More drones moving to Linux
New album released via Linux kernel module steganography
Time is a flat circus
HT Lauren: Programmer Ryan Gosling
Raspberry Eye is a Raspberry Pi answer to Google Glass
UFO typologies, circa 1967
1979 Mercedes El Camino
The World’s Longest Conveyor Belt is 61 Miles Long
D&G DIY Joke Kit of the Week: Convicted Terrorist Sentenced to Read Malcolm Gladwell Book
Meanwhile in Cleveland: Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?

Almost related: Front Fell Off


HT Doug Denny: Disgusting Computers
Reading Rainbow

HT Dan Walsh: SELinux coloring book now on GitHub
Free OpenShift O’Reilly book by Steven Citron-Pousty and Katie Miller
Red Hat Summit attendees get another free O’Reilly ebook



We Give Thanks

David A. Wheeler, Matt Micene, Lauren, Doug Denny, and Dan Walsh for giving us things to talk about!
Mike Richichi for being “the colleague”. In truth, he was Gunnar’s boss.

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