Episode 59: #59: Alphabet Soup

22/08/2014 51 min

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This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: GSA USDS 18F OMB OSS LOL BBQ & RHEL SSG, RHEL VPAT, KVM, EAP GA, IBM+BRMS.



Dave gets all Chromebooked up

How to Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Google Cloud Print Server


Gunnar gets all RØDE Podcastered up
Calling Dr. Clater: Star Trek Axanar and Star Trek Phase II
Correction: MSFT wasn’t subject to EU data protections, and in fact that’s what the Judge’s decision was about: whether they could comply with the warrant given the nexus of jurisdiction
GSA and 18F: Open Source First

18F goes open first.
GSA follows suit.
US Digital Service announced, with Playbook and TechFAR.

Bonus Gunnar press hit




Lessons from the UK’s Govt Digital Service

Gunnar’s posts on 18F and USDS


More transparency made the Fed quieter, more conservative, more worried about how smart it sounds
Gunnarbait of the week: Microsoft’s Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video)
This Week in Vendor Abandonment: Rackspace bows out commodity IaaS market in favor of ‘managed cloud’
Lauren’s new Raspberry Pi project’s maiden voyage: Impossible Deceptions, Charles Peachock & Jason Alan Magic on August 23
Formal ALUG Meeting: Controlling juggling pins with Raspberry Pi – Lauren Egts on September 4
Dave bait: Docker kicks KVM’s butt in IBM tests

Performance Analysis of Docker on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7


RHEL 6.6 Beta is out

Includes the SCAP Security Guide!!!


VPAT for RHEL 7!
JBoss EAP 6.3 is GA
Reminder: JBoss BRMS and IBM are the only BRMS worth looking at, per Forrester
OpenShift now up at UNC
The copy of the U.S. Constitution that’s installed on every Mac

Cutting Room Floor

Fold a shirt in 2 seconds
TBD: A SkyMall catalog of the future
Philosophy Referee Hand Signals
Beautiful Open Source Project Sites
Building a Better Butter Knife