#63: Presidential Style

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about more about civet cat scat, the TI-84 racket, my mobile backend, and Red Hat Cloud for Government.

Soren would like to apologize for screaming bloody murder for the duration of this episode.

• Gunnar’s presentation au Quebec, mais pas en français.
• Dave enjoys Hard Core History on the Silver Line
• SELinux labeled NFS is super easy to configure on RHEL 7
• HT Matt Micene:

Catching up on the podcast, your missing Indonesian coffee animal is the Civet Cat. There’s a huge deal around “sustainable” and cruelty free gathering of scat…

• HT Erich Morisse:

Your show got me thinking of my long neglected Yahoo! email account, and I wanted to see if there was any signal buried in the years of neglected spam. On a whim, I tried regex figuring most real people would have their name as Firstname\sLastname. By gum! It worked: from:"^[^/s]* [^/s]*$" -in:trash
Worst part: Nope, no signal in the noise. (see pie chart)

• Ripe for disruption: The unstoppable TI-84 Plus: How an outdated calculator still holds a monopoly on classrooms
  • See also



• Life imitating art: Facebook — for rich people (for just $9,000)
  • Let’s recall Metcalfe’s law
  • Related: New App Matches You With Others In Vicinity Who Wasted $2.99 On Same App



• USSS to check visitor blocks before they arrive at the White House


• Lauren is Code.org’s Student of the Week!


• Gunnar will be at Code for America 2014 in San Francisco September 23-25, NASCIO 2014 in Nashville September 28 to October 1, and the Red Hat Forum in Washington DC October 23


• RHEL 5.11 Risk Report


• Red Hat welcomes FeedHenry!


• Red Hat Cloud for Government launched


• A Partner We Like: Autonomic’s ARCWRX Solution is Ready to Fill PaaS Void After DISA STAX Sunset


• Another Partner We Like Just as Much: Booz Allen Hamilton and Red Hat have teamed up to host the ManageIQ Design Summit October 7-8


• D&G Job Title of the Week: Chaos Commander


• Gunnar did housekeeping this week
  • Let’s talk about dotfiles and why they should all be on git
  • Moved from screen to tmux, mostly because tmux is google-able
  • Cupcake: help people avoid censorship by installing a Chrome extension

Cutting Room Floor

• Prosthetic anti-surveillance face
• Goodnight, Dune
• George Mason University’s Green Machine pep band rages against the machine
• Hamster wheel standing desk
• Metástasis con Walter Blanco
• The Suitsy: The business suit onesie hybrid (“It’s like if a jumpsuit and a business suit had a lovechild.”)

We Give Thanks

• Matt Micene and Erich Morisse for the follow up!