#40: Unlikely Partners with Award-Winning Support and a Strong Female Lead

This week Dave and Gunnar ask: WILL IT BLEND? ARM and Microsoft, IaaS and PaaS, Google and Nest, Red Hat and CentOS.

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• Lauren is thrilled to be featured on Opensource.com’s Youth in Open Source Week in D&G #39 and her interview with her CS teacher Mr. James Allen
• Lauren approved: Use CodeCombat to fight ogres with JavaScript and open source
• Dave is a fan of Philips Sonicare customer support!
• quietnet: Near ultrasonic chat
• WebRTC Quickstart using Node
• Dave bait: Top Microsoft bod: ARM servers right now smell like Intel’s (doomed) Itanic
  • Meanwhile, OpenStack and OpenShift Origin work on ARM and ARM is now a Tier 1 architecture on Fedora
  • And, Thought sales were in the toilet before? Behold the agony: 2013 was a PC market BLOODBATH
  • Chromebook Overtakes Macbook in Sales
  • Related: The PC’s Death Might Also Mean the Web’s Demise
• Red Hat Forum North America features keynote from Dave Bartelotti, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, Lee Congdon and Red Hat customers Boeing and Intuit January 29 in Palo Alto
• On demand replay: Is it PaaS or something else?
• Announcing: DevNation April 13-16 in San Francisco
• Red Hat Summit April 14-17 in San Francisco
• Welcome CentOS!
• Partner Conference highlights
  • Red Hat Celebrates Partner Award Winners at 2014 North America Partner Conference
  • A bunch of Partner Program improvements
  • Customers can run test drives of Red Hat products on AWS thanks to Citytech, Shadow-Soft, and Vizuri
• A Public Sector TAM and Consultant We Like
  • GSS’s Jamie Duncan for his soscleaner
  • GPS’s Frank Caviggia for his classification banner
• Are you subscribed to gov-sec and mil-oss?
• Google buys Nest, which means the guy who invented the iPod works for Google now
• Google+ users can email you with just your G+ ID, and you can fix that here
• WalMart used node.js for Black Friday
• The sum of all natural numbers (1 to infinity) equals -1/12
• HT Robin Price: Play ogg videos in Firefox at 2x
  • For example: Pick a video –> Right click on video part of page –> Play Speed –> High Speed (1.5x)
• HT Mrs. Egts: Soylent Cleveland is Vitamix!
  • Blendtec blended a Vitamix on Will it Blend
• yum history
  • How to use yum history to roll back an update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?
• grep –color!
  • For example: grep –color localhost /etc/hosts

Cutting Room Floor

• Create ASCII diagrams from the browser using ASCIIflow
• WhisperSystems: TextSecure, RedPhone, and other tools for an encrypted lifestyle
• Another infographic poster for your doomsday bunker: The most comprehensive zombie classification chart we’ve ever seen
• Electroplate your favorite corpses
• North Carolina Trekkie councilman says ‘I quit’ in Klingon
• More human than human: Flexible Muscle-Based Locomotion for Bipedal Creatures
• Now it all makes sense: Nazi aliens rule the U.S., reports Iranian news agency
• A fake house in Raleigh
• Replace your face with Nicolas Cage’s
• HT Mrs. Egts: How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood, or Satanic Animal Mockumentaries Based on Classic Literature Set in Europe About Art & Design For Ages 5 to 7 With a Strong Female Lead

We Give Thanks

• Jamie Duncan, Frank Caviggia, Robin Price, and Mrs. Egts for giving us things to talk about