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 47Hackpad got bought by DropboxRetraction: Psych! Microsoft didn’t really open-source MS-DOS (thanks David A. Wheeler!)Trigger Warning: NJ procurementCompare this with the UK red line policyVanRoekel in Congress, hat in hand.Nike stops making FuelBand — Dave and Gunnar Trigger Warning! Gunnar Fitbit Force rash status: PendingCompare 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 movieSovereign: Ansible playbooks for homesteading on the Internet
How can I get colleagues to stop bickering about trivialities? Design ThinkingWikipedia, Design, and ConsensusMore drones moving to LinuxNew album released via Linux kernel module steganographyTime is a flat circusHT Lauren: Programmer Ryan GoslingRaspberry Eye is a Raspberry Pi answer to Google GlassUFO typologies, circa 19671979 Mercedes El CaminoThe World’s Longest Conveyor Belt is 61 Miles LongD&G DIY Joke Kit of the Week: Convicted Terrorist Sentenced to Read Malcolm Gladwell BookMeanwhile in Cleveland: Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier?Almost related: Front Fell OffHT Doug Denny: Disgusting Computers
HT Dan Walsh: SELinux coloring book now on GitHubFree OpenShift O’Reilly book by Steven Citron-Pousty and Katie MillerRed Hat Summit attendees get another free O’Reilly ebookDavid 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.