Bingo. It takes a day or so to explore the new interface and do some research on the web to find out how to use it and a week or so to become used to it. One is forced to assume that the complainers are drooling morons who would be unable to cope with learning anything new without being spoon-fed. Heaven help these people if they had to learn something as complicated as a new programming language.
That used to be the kind of response uncomfortable newbies trying a new system used to get from some Linux users 10yrs ago that gave them a bad reputation for being elitist arrogant pricks.
I find it funny that the elitist arrogant pricks are now the early adopters of a new Windows version chiding those others that aren't so comfortable with the changes. And now the whining from longer term Linux users is now about hating recent desktop changes.
I think you're correct if you're talking about Citrix's commercial XenServer product whose main market would be enterprise users.
But this is about the open source Xen hypervisor project. It's main deployment is with cloud and VPS hosting providers eg Amazon, Rackspace, Linode etc. And it is doing well in that world.
And now that the open source Xen is free from Citrix, ongoing development shouldn't be as dependent on Citrix's fortunes with XenServer.
This isn't the Linux Foundation going looking for a virtualisation project and picking Xen.
From what I've read, this is the open source Xen community asking Citrix if the open source project can shift to being run by an independent foundation, Citrix agreeing to that, and the Xen community picking the Linux Foundation as the best fit.
I'm sure that if Redhat wanted to move KVM to the Linux Foundation, that would be able to happen too. It would be like eg the Apache Foundation managing 'competing' projects just fine.
The Xen community felt that this move will make it easier for other companies and developers to contribute to the open source Xen project, and hope that it will improve collaboration with other projects etc etc.
Citrix still has its commercial XenServer product, and will presumably still employ developers to work on the open source Xen. But the management of the open source project is now independent from Citrix.
Personally I think it's a good move - after all Xen is running an awful lot of hosting/cloud providers out there.
What's the problem with humans going extinct in cataclysmic astronomical event? Who exactly is going care? We certainly won't - we're all dead remember.
When linux is a web-based service, call me and we'll talk. Until then, stop taking things out of context... it makes you look retarded.
When you understand what Persona is, call me and we'll talk. Until then, stop taking things out of context... it makes you look retarded.
Hint: Personal is a decentralised system/protocol implemented using open source code. Anybody can set up an identity provider, and Mozilla will have no connection to it. In terms of the rest us being users vs being products it is far closer to Linux than your "web based services" (eg Facebook or Twitter).
usually just that they get to know your Google ID which is also your e-mail address
It's actually more private than that. Without knowing all the nitty gritty details - if an app follows Google's process for signing up users, that user gets a unique OpenID specific to that app via a common 'discovery' url.
That way all the apps you sign up for can't really connect you with anything else.
It is a slight pain for open standards though - Google is making it much harder to know what your standard OpenID actually is.
A symbiote is part of a symbiotic relationship, in which the symbiote gives something back to the host. Even with the permissive licensing of BSD, requiring the BSD attribution alone, using BSD produced code makes you a fucking parasitic remora sucking on the body of the graceful shark that is Berkeley's BSD
Remoras aren't parasitic. Well not in the biological sense at least - I suppose they still are in the fluid dynamic sense (groan).
...previous to his career as a prophet. All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world. So there was only one thing that I could do Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long.
VMWare is completely lost if that is how they view their marketplace.
Maybe that silly statement (which was made in context of their new cloud hosting plans) was intended to deflect attention away from what they are really frightened of.
eg AWS isn't really much of a threat for VMWares existing enterprise customers, but OpenStack and MS Azure could end up being one due to hybrid public/private cloud stuff gaining some traction.
I reckon there is a chance they are more nervous about Azure (MS) and OpenStack (Dell, HP, IBM, Rackspace etc) than Amazon, but didn't want to legitimize them by mentioning them directly while rallying the salestroopers against the other cloud providers. Once a big vendor starts mentioning the new upstart competiton, it's often taken as a sign to start paying attention to that competitor.
This Paypal move has added some weight to that idea. Or more likely, you're right and VMWare really is that clueless.
Then rather than being too self-absorbed with with your own attendance/non-attendance, you should be more concerned about the numbers and quality of developers that are being [scared off/pissed off] from attending through fear of being made into the next internet monster by politically correct "behavior normalization" nazis.
Have no fear. Public shaming is now against the code of conduct.
If you do something really dumb, nobody will be tweeting your photo around. You'll just get privately spoken to or privately kicked out. Unless of course you do something so bad that someone is willing to also get kicked out for it.
Pycon put out a statement that it was regrettable somebody was oversensitive and overreacted to something mildly offensive.
Well they did update their code of conduct to disallow public shaming of anyone.
That under these particular circumstances it might have been best if the offended party had expressed the fact that she was offended directly to those offending her (as they were not the least bit threatening) or perhaps escalated it to Pycon security.
She did inform the organisers. They privately dealt with it, the jokers sincerely apologised, and the organisers left it at that. The tweeting of their photo was in addition to that.
I can't fault the PyCon organisers for anything in this. If anything, they now have a more robust code of conduct now. Future events should hopefully be free of any of this nonsense.
And to answer the article's question: If I were a Python dev, I wouldn't attend. That would send a more clear message to everyone involved that those situations are ridiculous than a bunch of posts on random message boards.
That would send a message? Really?
BTW - the PyCon code of conduct was updated so that publicly shaming anyone is now a breach of it.
I find it somewhat ironic that Microsoft will support Linux on its IaaS platform before Google will support Windows on theirs.
Why is that ironic? The difficulty/pain for each of them to support the "other" OS isn't the same.
Linux is easier for cloud providers. eg no license tracking, billing or activation type stuff (for most distros at least) to worry about, small Linux server instances require less resources than Windows, just a bunch of files to deploy - no installation processes, instance specific UUIDs etc
Windows is harder (for everyone but MS) for the opposite reasons.
Right. I have no clue what 'Wu Tang Clan,' 'Shaq,' and 'Being Confused after Waking Up from Naps.' are referencing because I am a Canadian and I am over 30. Even if I did know what they were about, I would think "liking" dirty jokes concerning blonde women and suggestive pictures with scantily clad women would be a better indication of your preferences than some arbitrary crap that some 20 something kids in Southern California happen to like at the moment.
I suspect the reason you don't know much about Wu Tang Clan and Shaq is more likely to be because you are too young, rather than too old:)
I'm in my 40s, and they were well known when I was a 20 something kid before Al Gore had even built the internet. And I'm nowhere near Southern California (or the US). Definitely not my scene back then - although the Samoan and Tongan kids lapped it up.
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Hmmm someone needs an anatomy lesson or an actual girlfriend (probably both).
That used to be the kind of response uncomfortable newbies trying a new system used to get from some Linux users 10yrs ago that gave them a bad reputation for being elitist arrogant pricks.
I find it funny that the elitist arrogant pricks are now the early adopters of a new Windows version chiding those others that aren't so comfortable with the changes. And now the whining from longer term Linux users is now about hating recent desktop changes.
How times change.
This must be thursday. I never could get the hang of thursdays.
(note: before anyone complains it isn't thursday - it is in my timezone you insensitive clod!)
I think you're correct if you're talking about Citrix's commercial XenServer product whose main market would be enterprise users.
But this is about the open source Xen hypervisor project. It's main deployment is with cloud and VPS hosting providers eg Amazon, Rackspace, Linode etc. And it is doing well in that world.
And now that the open source Xen is free from Citrix, ongoing development shouldn't be as dependent on Citrix's fortunes with XenServer.
This isn't the Linux Foundation going looking for a virtualisation project and picking Xen.
From what I've read, this is the open source Xen community asking Citrix if the open source project can shift to being run by an independent foundation, Citrix agreeing to that, and the Xen community picking the Linux Foundation as the best fit.
I'm sure that if Redhat wanted to move KVM to the Linux Foundation, that would be able to happen too. It would be like eg the Apache Foundation managing 'competing' projects just fine.
The Xen community felt that this move will make it easier for other companies and developers to contribute to the open source Xen project, and hope that it will improve collaboration with other projects etc etc.
Citrix still has its commercial XenServer product, and will presumably still employ developers to work on the open source Xen. But the management of the open source project is now independent from Citrix.
Personally I think it's a good move - after all Xen is running an awful lot of hosting/cloud providers out there.
What's the problem with humans going extinct in cataclysmic astronomical event? Who exactly is going care? We certainly won't - we're all dead remember.
According to Wikipedia the Cro Mags are still around.
Seriously though: aren't we actually the same species anyway?
Turn in your reading comprehension card.
They said they needed IE8 - not that IE 10 wasn't available for Windows 7. I'm not sure how you could misread that so badly.
It isn't an XML and SOAP powered enterprise style sea of complexity?
I'm sure there are other differences :)
When you understand what Persona is, call me and we'll talk. Until then, stop taking things out of context... it makes you look retarded.
Hint: Personal is a decentralised system/protocol implemented using open source code. Anybody can set up an identity provider, and Mozilla will have no connection to it. In terms of the rest us being users vs being products it is far closer to Linux than your "web based services" (eg Facebook or Twitter).
It's actually more private than that. Without knowing all the nitty gritty details - if an app follows Google's process for signing up users, that user gets a unique OpenID specific to that app via a common 'discovery' url.
That way all the apps you sign up for can't really connect you with anything else.
It is a slight pain for open standards though - Google is making it much harder to know what your standard OpenID actually is.
Remoras aren't parasitic. Well not in the biological sense at least - I suppose they still are in the fluid dynamic sense (groan).
That's the trouble taking things too literally, or assuming too much.
The unicorns could be gay or commies or something...
I remember having high hopes for Berlin back in the day (back when I was naively optimistic hehe).
Maybe that silly statement (which was made in context of their new cloud hosting plans) was intended to deflect attention away from what they are really frightened of.
eg AWS isn't really much of a threat for VMWares existing enterprise customers, but OpenStack and MS Azure could end up being one due to hybrid public/private cloud stuff gaining some traction.
I reckon there is a chance they are more nervous about Azure (MS) and OpenStack (Dell, HP, IBM, Rackspace etc) than Amazon, but didn't want to legitimize them by mentioning them directly while rallying the salestroopers against the other cloud providers. Once a big vendor starts mentioning the new upstart competiton, it's often taken as a sign to start paying attention to that competitor.
This Paypal move has added some weight to that idea. Or more likely, you're right and VMWare really is that clueless.
Nobody got escorted out. Fired yes, escorted out no.
Have no fear. Public shaming is now against the code of conduct.
If you do something really dumb, nobody will be tweeting your photo around. You'll just get privately spoken to or privately kicked out. Unless of course you do something so bad that someone is willing to also get kicked out for it.
Well they did update their code of conduct to disallow public shaming of anyone.
She did inform the organisers. They privately dealt with it, the jokers sincerely apologised, and the organisers left it at that. The tweeting of their photo was in addition to that.
I can't fault the PyCon organisers for anything in this. If anything, they now have a more robust code of conduct now. Future events should hopefully be free of any of this nonsense.
That would send a message? Really?
BTW - the PyCon code of conduct was updated so that publicly shaming anyone is now a breach of it.
Google docs is only free for business if you were an existing customer and got grandfathered in before they changed it.
For new business customers, there is no free tier any more. And frankly I wouldn't expect them to keep the free grandfathered in plan around either.
Why is that ironic? The difficulty/pain for each of them to support the "other" OS isn't the same.
Linux is easier for cloud providers. eg no license tracking, billing or activation type stuff (for most distros at least) to worry about, small Linux server instances require less resources than Windows, just a bunch of files to deploy - no installation processes, instance specific UUIDs etc
Windows is harder (for everyone but MS) for the opposite reasons.
I suspect the reason you don't know much about Wu Tang Clan and Shaq is more likely to be because you are too young, rather than too old :)
I'm in my 40s, and they were well known when I was a 20 something kid before Al Gore had even built the internet. And I'm nowhere near Southern California (or the US). Definitely not my scene back then - although the Samoan and Tongan kids lapped it up.
I had no idea they were still around.
But as for that naps thing - no idea.
No surprise there. mod_python has been deprecated abandonware for years.
Phew that was lucky. We just give booze. If they don't like our choice, not to worry they can just dump it off at the next party they go to :)