This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about: snollygosters firing 9 or every 10 sysadmins, even yet still more Google and privacy, hands-free computing, Gunnar’s reputation management problems, and Dave’s “how to say no” weapons turned against him.
- Lauren mentioned on Crain’s Business Cleveland podcast
- HER Ideas in Motion hands-on learning for girls in technology and media arts
- How the Egts family rolls on Mother’s Day: Mother Daughter Hack Day
- Gunnar visits Sweden!
- Zach Sciales says nice things about Red Hat and the D&G Show!
- Automation Myths: The NSA Can’t Replace 90% of Its System Administrators
- Dave’s Confining Users with SELinux video series
- Red Hat is hiring
- Code By Voice Faster Than Keyboard
- Google Adds Your Flights, Reservations, and Purchases to Voice Search
- Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption
- So you can store the data at rest w/encryption, but you need to decrypt it to work on it unless you use homomorphic encryption as discussed in D&G #9
- Google says UK privacy laws can’t touch it
- Egts family spring break candidate: Principality of Sealand
- Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web
- Groklaw Shuts Down, A Self-Described Casualty In The Privacy Wars
- Open Technology Fund
- Lauren is a developer!
- Scratch on Raspberry Pi video now live!
- Major Hayden now uses Linux! (Wait, what?)
- Super fun flying club, from United: Inside United’s Secret Club for Top Fliers
- Gunnar at OSHERA on 5 September.
- Dave presenting via web with David A. Wheeler and Josh Davis at GovLoop Government Innovators Virtual Summit on September 10
- Gunnar keynotes NC DataPalooza on September 12
- Dave receiving AFCEA DC AFCEAN of the Month award at AFCEA DC’s Monthly Luncheon on September 16
- Dave as panelist at GovLoop Agency of the Future on September 17
- Gunnar presenting at NIST Cloud Computing and Mobility workshop on October 1
- Dave as panelist at Symantec Government Symposium on October 2
- Red Hat Government Symposium registration now open!
- Gunnar’s GCN article: Do you have a cloud exit strategy? Here’s one clear path.
- Headbangers Ball: Dave’s recap of FedScoop’s Lowering the Cost of Government with IT Summit
- Dan Walsh blogging about Dave’s software defined Multi Level Security video series
- D&G updated Blacklist: cyber, “software-defined”
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 in evaluation!
- Hellekson’s Law: request denied, for now
- Would a title of nobility make Gunnar more notable?
- The Magic of Incentives: Brazilian Journals’ Self-Citation Cartel Smashed
- CommaFeed backlinks from Wikipedia to D&G!
- “How to say no” update: Adam Clater makes Dave an offer he couldn’t refuse
- This is what it looked like
- There’s a difference between being right & being persuasive
- Word of the day that we aren’t allowed to use any more: snollygoster — an unprincipled but shrewd person
Cutting Room Floor
- FeedBin: A new OSS RSS reader entrant
- ExplainShell: A command line explainer
- HT Jared Jennings: darcs is simpler and more fun than git. but http://hub.darcs.net and http://patch-tag.com aren’t quite github.
- Unrelated but delicious: D’Arc’s Pizza in Windber, PA
- Soylent Green, for real: “I didn’t get to be the reviews editor of a major technology website by reading stupid directions.”
- Heavy Metal Umlaut Quiz
- Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” reenacted with librarians
- Black Flag’s Henry Rollins to keynote the 2013 California Library Association conference
- Knitters are banned from library due to dangerous needle use
- A creepy robot that can sneak under your door
- Plan ahead: Drone guidelines for Burning Man
- OpenDesk.cc Is Like Ikea For Open Source Zealots
- Regular expresssion crossword puzzle sites of the week
We Give Thanks
- Rachel Wilkins Patel for getting girls into technology and media arts and being a great role model
- Zach Sciales for letting us know we’re helping!
- Dan Walsh for blogging about Dave’s MLS video series
- Adam Clater for using our mind tricks against us for everyone’s benefit
- Jared Jennings for the tip on Darcs
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