#30: Sequestration and Subscriptions

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about Vulcan death grips, death from above, and the death of the open source business model.

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• Congressional API on IFTTT
• Government shutdown and API abandonment
• Red Hat Storage is one way to replicate your important big data in the cloud
• Bill Gates admits that Ctrl Alt Delete was a mistake
  • Wikipedia article on Control-Alt-Delete
  • SGI Vulcan Death Grip = Left CTRL + Left SHIFT + F12 + / on the number pad



• Practice safe USB charging


• Target practice: F-16 drone flying at 40,000 feet, Mach 1.47, and doing barrel rolls pulling 7Gs
  • Meanwhile, Gunnar needs to power off his Walkman and Palm Pilot on US Airways, for now



• HT Matt Jamison: Linux Kernel Development: How Fast it is Going, Who is Doing It, What They are Doing, and Who is Sponsoring It (2013 Edition)


• Gunnar bait of the week courtesy of Mike Olson Board Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera: “So here is the conundrum facing enterprise infrastructure software companies: You can no longer win with a closed-source platform, and you can’t build a successful stand-alone company purely on open source.”


• Red Hat Summit Call for Proposals now open!


• RHEL 5.10 released!


• RHEL 6.5 beta released!


• New RHEL packaging provides stacking, instances, portability


• Satellite 5.6 released!


• Open demos available now!


• Dave and Gunnar are liking the Red Hat Consulting internal podcast by Ian Tewksbury and Krain Arnold
  • Be like Ian and Krain: Get yourself a mod_cluster t-shirt and the party invitations from famous people will follow



• Red Hat and HP win VA Scheduling contest


• SCAP Security Guide welcomes ORNL as contributor!


• SCAP Security Guide builds now in Koji!

Cutting Room Floor

• The Onion reviews the movie “Gravity”

We Give Thanks

• Matt “Jamo” Jamison for the Linux Foundation report pointer!
• Ian Tewksbury and Krain Arnold for a great podcast!