#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