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Dave & Gunnar Show episodes

  • RH Summit 2014: James Kirkland, King of Things

    Dave chats with James Kirkland, Red Hat’s undisputed Internet of Things expert, with a cameo from Jan Mark Holzer.

    • Canadians pronounce RHEL wrong.
    • The Chatsworth train collision got Positive Train Control started. They’re using AMQP.
    • Injury, death!
    • Canadians pronounce routers wrong.
    • Why REST isn’t the only answer.
    • How messaging works in electrical grids (this is where Gunnar gets jealous he wasn’t on the line)
    • Most smart meters use MQTT. Yes, we support it.
    • Bosch Connected World 2014
    • Snowden jokes!
    • Robot freight trucks. They’re coming, and they’re uninsurable.
    • Lee Congdon kicked us out of the room.
    • Docker + IoT: using containers to deliver applications to a standardized, embedded platform.
    • and don’t forget better app density in SWAP environments
    • Personal privacy and aggregate privacy as two different things
    • “Enterprization” of the control tier, getting professionalized and formally supported by an IT-like organization
    • Look for ARM64 on there, with containers
      • ARM64 on Fedora

      • Ob Raspberry Pi mention

      • Configuration Drift

      • New AMQ Release: AMQP, HA without shared storage

      • Devnation: it was great.

      • How to Learn in Your Sleep

      • James’ advice for the road, and for life: wants you to cultivate your Zen nature. Also, don’t be afraid to ask if you need something.

      • App Choices
        • Get TripIt Pro.
        • CamScanner.

        • Dave suggest leaving a Google Hangout with your whole family open, so you can update your family on what’s going on.

        • Everybody’s child is in FRC, which is not an isolationist movement.

        • ENDORSED: Minecraft Mods for kids


        • 53 min
        • RH Summit 2014: Jan Mark Holzer, Panda Breeder

          Dave and Gunnar talk with Jan Mark Holzer, who’s a “consulting engineer” in the same way Sherlock Holmes is a “consulting detective.” He’s a legend at Red Hat, and we were really lucky to get some time with him.

          • He gets around. 2.5 months in the air last year.
          • Lucky for us, he’s a compulsive photographer.
          • Customer Roundtables were a big hit.
          • Open Compute Project
          • 20 min
          • Red Hat Summit 2014: CODEvolved with Matt Micene

            Dave and Gunnar catch up with Hellekson’s Law consigliere Matt Micene of DLT. They have a project called CODEvolved, which lets you stand up your own OpenShift in Amazon EC2.

            Highlights

            • They even figured out how to do a hybrid model: on-premise and on EC2.
            • Want to run this on bare metal? They covered that, too.
            • xPaaS is coming!
            • .NET is coming!
            • 12 min
            • Red Hat Summit 2014: Linux Kernel Internals with Linda Wang

              Dave talked with Linda Wang, Senior Software Engineering Manager with Red Hat. Her team handles memory management, scheduling, kdump, and all that gnarly low-level stuff. Learn how kpatch was created because of a missed conference call, and get some tips from Linda on how to participate in kernel development.

              Highlights

              • We’re adding Snappy compression in the kernel
              • How containers are supported by kernel namespace, control groups, systemd, and SELinux – and why Docker is a big deal.
              • Linda missed a conference call, so now we’re supporting kpatch. She did a whole session on it.
              • Check out the RHEL Roadmap session
              • Auto NUMA balancing
              • Get the RHEL 7 Release Candidate!
              • 30 min
              • Episode 47: #47: Out-of-Order Execution

                 

                This week Dave and Gunnar talk about home storage, open source 5th columnists at MSFT, the Amazon unicorn factory, Gunnar’s new job, new workflow, and Georgios Papanikolaou, a monthly visitor of guinea pigs.

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                • Redshift in EPEL dynamically adjusts screen brightness and color based upon location and time of day like f.lux
                • OpenSpritz and FBReader OpenSpritz Plugin for speed reading!
                  • Dave’s choice is jetzt on Firefox with a workaround

                  • Lauren, now in ebook form and as an Opensource.com 2014 People’s Choice Award nominee
                    • Bonus link: Ellie the robot is ready to compete

                    • Gunnar is thrilled about a revamped and open sourced dgshow.org his other new new project Soren!

                    • Gunnar’s Drobo 2.0? — Google Drive prices slashed!
                      • Anyone try Insync?
                      • Is Space Monkey the device Gunnar thought he heard mentioned on Back to Work?
                      • Anyone try the Synology Dropbox-like storage product?

                      • Goodyear Zeppelin arrives near Dave’s house
                        • Goodyear’s next generation iconic airship takes flight

                        • RHEL 6.6’s plans for inclusion of the SCAP Security Guide

                        • Heartbleed: oy.
                          • See if your favorite web site is vulnerable ← Runs on OpenShift!
                          • Sleep well — Red Hat has you covered

                          • Open Wifi: don’t listen to this radio in my window.
                            • By extension, is it then illegal to strobe someone else’s server? Gunnar’s been complaining about this since 2003

                            • Microsoft releases source code for its OS and Word (MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a specifically)
                              • Microsoft Launches .NET Foundation To Foster The .NET Open Source Ecosystem

                              • AWS urges developers to scrub GitHub of secret keys

                              • ATM operators eye Linux as alternative to Windows XP

                              • Dave and Gunnar need this like we need smart watches: Google and Microsoft are out to stop dual-boot Windows/Android devices

                              • Nice open source list of 2 factor authentication sites + ways to pester those who don’t have it yet

                              • HT Dave Sirrine: ScratchJr — Coding for Young Kids

                              • Cisco cozies up to Red Hat and KVM

                              • RHEL on Google Compute Engine with Cloud Access!

                              • AWS Achieves DoD Provisional Authorization

                              • RIP, the server. It’s time to breathe the air of cloud connection

                              • ‘Amazon has destroyed the unicorn factory’ … How clouds are making sysadmins extinct
                                • AFSPC CIO thinks we’re doing consolidation, not cloud. Agree? Disagree? Talk amongst yourselves.

                                • HT Bob Kozdemba: How to request resources for Non-Profit, Open Source, or Educational Institutions

                                • A Customer We Like: NASA and their launch control center firing room featuring Red Hat (Enterprise) Linux (6)!

                                • slack.com looks really interesting for collaboration

                                • Gunnar plays with capture tools like NewsBlur and Blogtrottr but can’t quit rss2email and processing tools like Pinboard which he still needs to figure out

                                • D&G Book Club: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
                                  • Ken Burns 6 hour documentary coming in 2015
                                  • The pap test for cervical cancer screening is due to Georgios Papanikolaou in 1928 where he studied the menstrual cycles of guinea pigs
                                  • Related: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — start with the Radiolab episode and follow up episode
                                  • Bonus book: Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well

                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                    • Pretty great interview with Horowitz of Andreesen Horowitz
                                    • A persuasive case for government-run/subsidized Internet
                                    • Semantic Versioning — It’s a thing
                                    • Amazon Dash: genius
                                    • Make your own GitHub ribbon with CSS alone
                                    • Twilight Zone action figures (in black and white!)
                                    • The Expert
                                    • JakToGo: Great for smuggling hams into movie theaters too
                                    • We Give Thanks

                                      • Dave Sirrine for letting us know about ScratchJr
                                      • Bob Kozdemba for helping spread the word about free OpenShift for non-profit, open source, and educational institutions
                                      • 1 hr 6 min
                                      • Episode 49: #49: A Word from Our Sponsor

                                        This week, Dave and Gunnar talk with Shawn Wells about the origins of the SCAP Security Guide, community building with the government and integrators, and future plans for the OpenStack Security Guide.

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                                        Breaking News: SCAP Security Guide is shipping in RHEL6.6!

                                        • NSA SNAC Guide
                                        • SCAP
                                        • mil-oss, the finest collection of DOD open source nerds you’ll find anywhere
                                        • SCAP Security Guide
                                          • RPMs are in EPEL!

                                          • Check out the National Checklist Program Repository for SCAP policy for all kinds of products like the one for RHEL 6

                                          • Do manual checks with OCIL like this one for JBoss EAP 5

                                          • jOVAL, create and use SCAP on basically any platform.

                                          • System Deployment & Security Auditing with RHN Satellite & Nessus: slides

                                          • and recording
                                          • SSG is the upstream for the RHEL STIG

                                          • OSCAP Anaconda Addon project

                                          • Subscribe to gov-sec for updates on a Defense in Depth Day near you

                                          • Jeff Blank’s and Shawn’s upcoming Summit session

                                          • OpenStack Security Guide

                                          • Call to action: join the fun on scap-security-guide!

                                          • We Give Thanks

                                            • Shawn Wells for leading the SSG community and stopping by to speak with us!
                                            • 49 min
                                            • Episode 48: #48: Tiny Circuits, Big Factory

                                              This week Dave and Gunnar talk with special guest correspondent Lauren Egts about her interview with Ken Burns of TinyCircuits for Open Source Hardware Week!

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                                              • Lauren’s Opensource.com article interviewing Ken Burns of TinyCircuits: Like Arduino? Miniaturize your project with TinyCircuits
                                              • Arduino
                                              • Check out Open Source Hardware Week at opensource.com
                                              • We Give Thanks

                                                • Ken Burns for making tiny open source hardware and letting us share the audio of the interview!
                                                • Lauren Egts for interviewing Ken Burns and being our guest correspondent!
                                                • 22 min
                                                • Episode 46: #46: Prisencolinensinainciusol

                                                  This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: talk about: backups, media players, Amazon GovCloud, new JBoss releases, Gilligan’s Island.

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                                                  • Star Trek Continues E02 “Lolani” puts Dave in a state of euphoria
                                                  • The Twilight dude puts Gunnar in a state of euphoria
                                                  • Drobo or Dropbox or something else?
                                                  • Delta SkyMiles To Be Based On Price Of Ticket, Not Distance Of Flight
                                                  • Added to the list of Things Gunnar Won’t Buy: Keurig’s next generation of coffee machines will have DRM lockdown
                                                  • Apple CarPlay coming to a Volvo near you
                                                    • “Will Apple allow Google Maps on CarPlay?”
                                                    • Google opens up Chromecast with new streaming SDK for iOS, Android, Chrome

                                                    • cloud.cio.gov is surprisingly useful!

                                                    • Better than Cam Scanner? Google Drive updated with quick-scan widget and animated GIF support

                                                    • From the ACLU: How location data can be abused

                                                    • FCC To TV Companies: You Can’t Broadcast Emergency Alert Tones If It’s Not An Emergency

                                                    • RIT now offers a minor in open source. Red Hat and RIT have been working on this for a while!

                                                    • So we don’t get hate mail from Langdon White: Check out DevNation April 13-17 in San Francisco!

                                                    • Get the lowest rate for the Red Hat Summit by going through your Red Hat account team. Over 40 OpenStack sessions!
                                                      • Dave moderating Government Lunch panel and Innovation Award Finalist panel!

                                                      • RHEL is now on GovCloud!

                                                      • JBoss BPM, BRMS released: welcome, Polymida!

                                                      • JBoss Fuse ESB on OpenShift: You can fit the install command in a tweet!

                                                      • .NET support hits OpenShift Origin!

                                                      • Oracle 12c install guide for RHEL 6

                                                      • Inktank has publicaly stated support for RHEV3.3 and RHEL OSP4 in their 1.1 release
                                                        • In exchange, we published benchmarks that show Gluster is 2x as fast as Ceph. We’re classy!

                                                        • RTM pro-tip: yearly reminder for old blog posts

                                                        • Clever Map Reveals Which Cities Get the Best Weather

                                                        • 17 Facts You Might Not Know about Gilligan’s Island

                                                        • Commedia dell’Arte
                                                          • Free nightmare are available via Google Image search for plague mask

                                                          • HT D&G Ambassador to Japan Adam Clater: Why do Japanese people wear surgical masks? It’s not always for health reasons
                                                            • Far Side classic: How Nature Says “Do Not Touch”

                                                            • Cutting Room Floor

                                                              • Choosing secure passwords by Bruce Schneier
                                                              • Short rib recipies don’t qualify as Massachusetts vehicle inspection stickers
                                                              • Download 15,000+ Free Golden Age Comics from the Digital Comic Museum
                                                              • World’s fastest nose typer
                                                              • Fake chef pranks local morning TV shows
                                                              • How computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia
                                                                • SCIgen paper generator

                                                                • What languages sound like to foreigners
                                                                  • Prisencolinensinainciusol: Oll raigth!

                                                                  • When your stab proof suit is at the dry cleaner’s, wear taser-proof clothing

                                                                  • We Give Thanks

                                                                    • Adam Clater for keeping us up to speed on Japanese culture.
                                                                    • 1 hr 2 min
                                                                    • Episode 45: #45: DevNation

                                                                      This week Ray Ploski and Langdon White prep Dave and Gunnar for DevNation!

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                                                                      • Check out www.devnation.org and follow @DevNationConf and #DevNation
                                                                      • Developer Toolset and Red Hat Software collections
                                                                      • DevAssistant
                                                                      • AeroGear
                                                                      • LiveOak
                                                                      • Apache Cordova
                                                                      • xPaaS
                                                                      • Ceylon
                                                                      • Vert.x
                                                                      • Gene Kim of The Phoenix Project will be keynoting!
                                                                      • From Ray for Langdon: C Sharp evangelist position in Cambridge
                                                                      • We Give Thanks

                                                                        • Ray Ploski and Langdon White for talking about DevNation with us!
                                                                        • 34 min
                                                                        • Episode 44: #44: Glad to be here

                                                                          This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about affordances, partnerships, and a bunch of reasons Red Hat is a great place to work.

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                                                                          Sophisticated multi-touch interfaces in vehicles have consequences.
                                                                          • Gunnar gets angry about DRM all over again and gets a ChromeCast while Dave is still thrilled with his Roku 3
                                                                          • Google buys SlickLogin, a startup out to kill the password with sound
                                                                          • If you can’t wait for the book or movie, check out the D&G Origin Story
                                                                          • Fork your own agency open source policy
                                                                          • “Run me on OpenShift”
                                                                          • Dave bait: Dear Car Makers: Please Hire People Like This
                                                                            • Affordance

                                                                            • So we don’t get hate mail from Langdon White: Check out DevNation April 13-17 in San Francisco!

                                                                            • Get the lowest rate for the Red Hat Summit by going through your Red Hat account team
                                                                              • kpatch! Learn more here

                                                                              • Dave on a panel about How to Acquire and Implement Secure Cloud Solutions at the Symantec Government Symposium

                                                                              • The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence welcomes Red Hat as a National Cybersecurity Excellence Partner

                                                                              • Alcatel-Lucent and Dell are using Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for (Software Defined) Networking

                                                                              • Red Hat Storage 2.1 released!
                                                                                • Test drive this and more on AWS!

                                                                                • Red Hat Urges Supreme Court to Address Impediments to Innovation

                                                                                • The Best Cloud Computing Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2014

                                                                                • A lifehacker we like: Dave and Gunnar review Jim Whitehurst’s productivity tricks

                                                                                • Speaking of CEOs: How to Write Emails Like a CEO
                                                                                  • Email signature rules of engagement: the now-defunct protocol.by
                                                                                  • See the archived protocol builder
                                                                                  • related: remember geekcode?

                                                                                  • Is that a wallabag in place of Pocket or …?

                                                                                  • Cutting Room Floor

                                                                                    • Using Civ IV in schools: ENDORSED
                                                                                      • Tom Lee: “it’s especially vital now as the current generation of granary workers prepares to retire”

                                                                                      • HT Uzoma Nwosu: Exploring regional listening preferences

                                                                                      • The to-be-created OpenShift app of the week: Infinifriends sitcom script generator

                                                                                      • Bitcoins vs. Beanie Babies

                                                                                      • Plague Doctors are terrifying

                                                                                      • Guinea pig alternative: The sugar glider

                                                                                      • We Give Thanks

                                                                                        • AT&T U-verse for a great customer support experience.
                                                                                        • Jim Whitehurst for being a CEO we admire.
                                                                                        • Tom Lee for reminding us of the granary workers.
                                                                                        • Uzoma Nwosu for letting Dave know that Florida Georgia Line exists and is really popular in Ohio.
                                                                                        • Chris Williams found a bug in our mp3 encoding. Thanks, Chris! Problem fixed.
                                                                                        • 1 hr 13 min

                                                                                        About Dave & Gunnar Show

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                                                                                        David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson discuss privacy, security, robots, and internet ephemera.