#42: Topic Roulette

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: cleaning out the attic, transparency in companies, new RHEV release, and Packing for Mars by Mary Roach.

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• Lauren’s new article: Like Arduino? Miniaturize your project with TinyCircuits
  • EFY Times’ version, now updated to include a little attribution



• Now use sound to levitate and do neat things with water


• HT Dan Walsh: Learn Spanish using SELinux


• Announcing New Amazon EC2 M3 Instance Sizes and Lower Prices for Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS


• Amazon’s ‘schizophrenic’ open source selfishness scares off potential talent, say insiders


• Amazon is a hornet’s nest of malware


• Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates


• Red Hat Summit sessions now live — 160+ sessions in 15 parallel tracks!


• Gunnar tells us How APIs will drive agency PaaS adoption


• RHEV 3.3 is now out!
  • Self hosting helps further Dave’s vision of Secure virtualization for tactical environments



• Red Hat Storage adds new data protection features too


• Robin Price and Ted Brunell get CAC enabled OpenSSH to push code into OpenShift using git!
  • See also: Dan Risacher‘s most awesome PuTTY-CAC



• A Customer We Like: The Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance


• Gunnar’s version of AMSR: Hellekson Syndrome or “things fitting perfectly into other things”


• HT Erich Morrisse: Cow tunnels are the subterranean part of Manhattan’s lost meat infrastructure


• Michael Bay freakout lesson: there is no such thing as winging it


• D&G Book Club
  • Confessions of a Public Speaker by Scott Berkun
  • Packing for Mars by Mary Roach



• Jump to Android’s Quick Settings with a Two-Finger Drag


• The Sims Changelog is amazing

Cutting Room Floor

• Using sprintf() is a decision you can never take back
• North Korea knows what’s up
• Art sadly imitating life: A conference call in real life
• Awesome infoviz: Google’s Music Timeline: A Visualization of 60 Years of Changing Musical Tastes
• 16 Stupid Tech Job Interview Questions: Show Your Snark
  • Q: If you could throw a parade of any caliber through the Zappos office, what type of parade would it be?
  • A: I would return the money for the parade to shareholders.

We Give Thanks

• Dan Risacher for making PuTTY-CAC, the constructive feedback, and being a good sport!
• Dan Walsh for helping us brush up on our Spanish.
• Robin Price and Ted Brunell for their CAC work!
• Erich Morrisse for adding “cow tunnel” to our vocabulary.