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I love google - add Nutanix to the list: https://content.edgar-online.com/ExternalLink/EDGAR/00016282...

"If open source software programmers, most of whom we do not employ, do not continue to develop and enhance open source technologies, our development expenses could be increased and our product release and upgrade schedules could be delayed."

I wonder if Red Hat's S-1 said anything similar.

I love govc - it should be a defacto standard tool in the industry so I put it in my resume.

Wait... I can already put it in my resume and be more impressive for hiring managers (and HR?) who can appreciate the superpowers of govc.

I love govc.

Isn't Wordpress a different beast compared to Blogger in terms of it's history and the breakdown of the types of users?

Does Google or any Megacorp act monolithically over the span of a decade?

I have a conspiracy theory:

These are myths writers from Wired and PC World want us to believe in so that they attract eyeballs.

And now you sir, have recirculated these myths!

Ah ha - I had been configuring syslinux to serve out pxelinux.0 only and not pxelinux.efi. Could they have just thrown that one liner in to one of the slides?

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX#UEFI

edit: on 2nd thought I need to try this out to verify it end to end. Maybe there some other step.

Or maybe this is yet another reason to embrace AWS. I get to declutter the UEFI/BIOS topic out of my mind.

"people use legacy for specific reasons" was for people like me. I have a note in our company wiki to disable UEFI because it broke our PXE deployments.

Now from this PDF I am forced to harness the power of Google to understand why.

I would like to be what appears to be the 1st person on this thread to point out one key idea:

we have these things called "laptops" with "wifi" access technology. Typically you should be able to unplug your power cord, stand up and move your feet to quieter areas.

My mac laptop also has command-Q technology built into all my programs -- including chat and email.

Also I have these things that go over my ears and delivery music.

This is an issue that will never be settled at a high level - where it's some sort of rule everyone should live by. This is what the headline implies.

Your approach is relative to your current situation.

IF people realized this we'd:

- have 50% less questions on Quora and Yahoo answers

- better google matches for the things we need

- a faster internet (or maybe not, more room for porn bandwidth?)

Assholes can be unavoidable. You may land a job at a point where there are none. Over time they hire more assholes.

Get the offer from the assholes, and use it as a bargaining chip.

Stated in this exact way, word-for-word is quite extreme. Could the author be paraphrasing?

I'm probably nitpicking like a nerd. Even if he were paraphrasing it wouldn't take away from the overall message.

I used to do get riled up over things I don't control. Getting into a bad mood over this is your responsibility. Think of it as a situation to work on your emotional intelligence.

Well he self-identifies as a infrastructure theorist and inventor so I'm not surprised by the writing style.

But since he's self-aware of who he is, he should have spent more time editing it down.

OTOH this is freely published so I have no complaints :)

How does this compare to Cloud Foundry? Do they solve different problems and therefore should not be compared directly?

I can (and will) google this myself in an effort to triangulate and understand but I figure it would be valuable to hear from people who are more informed and experienced.

I wonder what Michael O'Church's response is to this? I bring this up more because I'm sure others accuse him of excessive self-promotion. I used to think so but after reading more of his stuff, I think he just really likes to write.

very Alvin Toffler Future shock like. At least from what I recall. Not really "utter nonsense" but I think, raw ideas that need to be fleshed out into a meatier narrative/argument.

Are you open to different structures of the deal? Like:

* some upfront fee

* you remain onboard for X months

* each time period is a certain % of equity

* some monthly fee paid to you until X total

At a minimum the reporter could have googled Sam to find out he teaches security and the range of classes: http://samsclass.info/

... or applied some logic. Instead of contacting them directly he could have:

* broadcasted it to the world (maybe a reporter!) that the FTP server was insecure * do/say nothing

Perhaps we can learn from PGP adoption and evangelism. One reason why it's not widespread is it simply doesn't "just work" in the minds of a non-technical end user. Sure there are longer, detailed causes to debate over but that is the bottom line to a non-technical end user.

The questions I read were in the 4th paragraph where you talk about not being in control.

There's a range of possibilities that you are more in control of things than you think. Is it The opinions of others? Perhaps take a needed vacation to travel. Travel alone to reflect or just not think about it. Perhaps someone is actively trying to control you for what they think is best for you?

I believe in a 25 year old crisis. Because you still have people out there who think they inspire you, or want to influence and guide you. Or you are legally an adult but there's all these older folks to still see you and treat you as a kid. Or you overcompensate for it by out-adulting the adults. Or you are self-aware of your age and how your accomplishments overshadow those who are older than you. You have surpassed them in some ways yet still try to find meaning in life. I think that's what I'd call something like the quarter life crisis.

I guess no matter what age you're at, it's time that matters in how you invest it and appreciate it. I want to control time!

I'm eagerly awaiting when the SSL cert setup is more streamlined and maybe encapsulated if possible?

I could hack away at the powershell that MS makes available but if you guys are going to put work into it, I will wait even more eagerly for it.

Well, you can develop on your laptop in the same container and know you can upload/sync the same exact thing to production.

That basic essential feature is absolutely valuable to me.

This is super cool/useful. I say celebrate small wins, man!

Would be interesting to hear from them on the rationale of why they chose Salt stack compared to puppet, chef or ansible. I figure they must have given it a good analysis since it seems to be a heavy part of what VisualOps/Madeiera is about.

Here's my unsolicited opinion:

Dehaan is pretty much spot on. Knupp's post seemed to first latch onto the idea that devops is about devs doing ops works. To add, I think Knupp should do a rewrite after listening to some devops cafe and food fight podcasts, if he really believes in what he wrote.

It's somewhat an unfair comparison though. If you're the author/creator of ansible you surely have spent a lot of time thinking and understanding what devops means. To be frank, I cannot tell if Knupps post is just link bait to sell his book.

The concept (and value) of the devops mindset & culture is less debatable in 2014 than in the past 5 years. Those who latch onto the totem pole model will simply get left behind while the rest of the industry moves on... or at least that's what they tell me!

this reminds me of index.docker.io and vagrant boxes ... do they have their own social/sharing thing too? Maybe someone needs to me a meta sharing thing for all this, for fun.

geerlingguy: you should make another post that let's you provision puppet/chef/salt or cfengine3 via ansible :) I think that would be cool and generate even more attention to how cool ansible is.

I'm going to play this this later today it looks intriguing.

I think his point is there are tradeoffs, and I agree. On top of that, meaningful debate over what tool should be about what context you're in. This applies to the OP's slidedeck.

To give context about my comment about context:

* was nagios setup before you started the job?

* did you setup nagios yourself?

* is your internal process for managing nagios broken?

* culturally do you work at a place where ops is an afterthought?

* if Nagios is your technical debt do you have a way out? are you crushed by other commitments? Maybe it's more of a management/culture issue.

... hmm actually I should stop. From re-reading your comment, I can't tell how much of it is trolling (in a entertaining Skip Bayless, right wing radio, Jim Cramer kind of way).

i wonder how soon a metasploit plugin will be available?

since you have the time to clarify, perhaps you should update the post's title. :)

I may sound like a conspiracy theorist but oh well:

The cynic in me says such graphs are (figuratively) propaganda by the 1% (of 1% in wealth, not income), in that now we can define what the masses are "ok" with while we, the 1% of the 1%, can accelerate our gains further. Let the rest of them have crumbs and be content.

I'm going to keep using Evernote but I'll factor in some of the complaints and horror stories by a technique called "backing up" or "exporting" my notebooks.

Evernote solves a great problem awesomely and at the moment for my personal use case. For now I'd rather focus on optimizing other things.

The OP didn't seem to explain too many reasons other than a link to http://jasonkincaid.net/2014/01/evernote-the-bug-ridden-elep... which to me seems to be a uber power user use case and a post that could use some rewriting/editing to cut it down to a post instead of a rant.

I just use it for text notes though. Evernote works great for me - I'm not going to worry about it.