We are fed up with the needless and growing complexity in the container ecosystem and are previewing a new open source project that takes a first step in trying to simplify containers, networking, orchestration and app deployments with Flockport.
People should be able to focus on their apps and not get bogged down with infrastructure that should be as easy to use as possible, fade into the background and be robust.
And give proper credit and recognition to all the wonderful open source Linux technology and projects that make containers and orchestration possible.
Disclosure - I am part of the Flockport team. This is the exact problem Flockport tries to solve with LXC containers. You can download containers of popular apps and web stacks and launch them in seconds.
And you get all the advantages of LXC containers; portability, flexibility and near bare-metal performance. You can deploy multiple versions of apps and stacks all in their own containers, you are not wedded to any host, your apps and workloads in containers are portable and can be moved easily across any Linux host. It's like a mobile server. And you get clones, backups, snapshots. It's a complete delight to work with.
LXC containers are lightweight and give you all the advantages of virtualization without the performance overhead. LXC is supported in the vanilla Linux kernel and most distros have ready to install packages, we have a repo for Debian Wheezy as it doesn't have updated packages. You have to install LXC and after that every thing is a quick download and deploy.
Ultimately its about society and individuals. How comfortable are you with having sex offenders living in your neighborhood. Would your opinion change if you had kids? This is a balance of rights and clearly some people are nervous about having sex offenders living in their neighborhood. The question is is this a legitimate concern, lots of people will be nervous, paranoid about lots of things so where does legislation step in.
By limiting their rights to the internet what the system is essentially saying is these people cannot be trusted, they are not reformed. So ideally they should be in a prison or some other institution where they can be reformed and if they can't then they shouldn't be out. By having them live in a hostile society, which is exactly what happens when you have laws like this, you are infact wronging them.
I don't think Wikipedia is the right platform for advertising of any kind, the goal and value of Wikipedia far exceeds any value delivered by advertising. Any commercial interests will compromise its credibility and put off a large number of contributers which is where a lot of its value derives from. Far better to find a more creative way to fund itself.
India is really a sad country, most of us are immune to this, we'd rather not face it. When I first came here as a naive 16 year old 10 years ago the poverty even in a city like Bombay shocked me, there is too much suffering here.
In villages the caste system is alive and well with lower castes living on the periphery and not sharing even the same resources like water. In cities you don't see it untill its time to get married, then even the most educated Indian becomes caste conscious. We are very religious as a people but not moral, for us sex and public posturing is more about morality, as individuals we have no integrity which reflects in the massive amount of corruption, how other Indians less fortunate than us are treated. For instance you could be praying all day and yet have little qualm in mistreating the people who work for you. The state and its various arms have no respect for the people, unless you are someone important even the most basic decencies are not extended.
This is everday life, there is a VIP culture, a culture of servitude which means that no rules are followed, no system adhered to, anything goes if you have the right connections. Thats why the environment is a mess, and administration ineffective. Whatever little resources is available is wasted.
And you can't run away from a population of 1.3 billion ever increasing. Even the most talented and commited administration can't solve this over the next 100 years. We can't have a welfare state and provide even bassic amenities. We will always judge ourselves by standards that are significantly lower than any western country. I think Europe at the moment is the good example of how to get things right. But indians will point to morality, as if they have a monolopoly on things like family values and caring for kids, what about trying to give people a decent chance at having a life, that's not important in the face of pretension and posturing. So every small success is magnified. We are insecure so any response to this article can only be defensive. But if we don't recognize the problem we can't solve it. We are inadequate, the systems and laws are there but we can't implement anything because of a overwhleming lack of integrity.
On the business side, the IT revolution has definitely made life better and its another small step. Companies are profesionally managed nowdays, no bosses wife intefering in your work. People are better paid. More people earning means more spending and this has a roll on effect. But we are not innovating, india has not innovated. BPO and IT services is the most boring work in the world, there is money but no challenge at work. We don't have a culture of R&D, taking a risk, making a product, and taking it to market, we don't have the appetite for that sort of invstment with no guarantee of returns, so much easier to to mop up service contracts, hire people here and refine a process and take the money. No risks. So don't compare this to Silicon Valley, thats a bit of a joke. The pharma industry have a similar business model, and here things could get dangerous especially with no effective regulation and human testing.
The entire world is living on science and technology that really picked up with the renassiance. We should not be shy to acknowledge this. Western civilization is the moden world, its a massive achievement for as as humans and as cultures we should learn form this human achievement and not try to posture about our failures so far.
Most US companies are multinationals, they are present in many countries, they are global. This makes the US one of the richest countries in the world and its citizens amongst the most prosperous. The US has benefited from capitalism and free trade. When US companies go to other countries with their products, usually because of better technology, more efficiency and better value they win and people lose jobs. Most countries have gone through this stage, People have suffered. This is free trade, this is the system we have accepted, when it benefits us and when it doesn't. For the US with off shoring now it doesn't, for India, it does. Its either this or to close down free trade and close markets to US companies. So what is it, do we believe in free trade?
That's the macro look. In the micro look things don't look, good, when US companies go to new markets people suffer, now people in us suffer. Nobody can be happy about this but the US being a richer country will have a better solution for affected people, hopefully. And even for people who don't lose jobs there is always an sense of insecurity, this is the worst part of it. The idea that people who are being laid off should train their replacements in India is a cruel joke, macabre. BOA should pay and get these people trained.
The paradox in is in both instances corporations benefit. But free trade gives you an option, But Americans are not helpless, as consumers you can vote with your wallets and boycott such companies.
Somebody deviously injected moral relativism & cultural values into this as if censorship is a 'chinese value' as opposed to an oppressive tool deployed by a tyranical regime. And I'm sure a lot of the posters will have little qualm dealing with pre-apartheid South africa, after all the argument's the same, the law of the land. Integrity is not negotiable, to have values untill it's inconvenient is just pathetic.
Do you believe in censorship? If no you can't support and worse enforce censorshop. Period. This ends my respect for google. From now on they are just another company. We all have values untill we have to make a sacrifice. Sad.
The poverty argument is akin to saying because there are poor people in the world we should disband NASA. Clearly economics is not a strongpoint with some posters. This is a fantastic, positive and inspiring initiative by Nicholas Negroponte and its disheartening to see so much cynisism on slashdot. One would think slashdotters would be at the forefront championing the cause.
Instead we have shortsighted speculation about its uses betraying an unbelievable ignorance of our own experience with technology. You can bet recipients will find creative and innovative ways to enrich and improve their lives.
The only problem will be distribution and ensuring the laptops ends up in the hands on the intended recepients which is a perennial problem in developing countries. And if there is demand for these laptops in first world as has already been displayed in some of the posts you can bet an active blackmarket will thrive to divert them back to the first world.
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We are fed up with the needless and growing complexity in the container ecosystem and are previewing a new open source project that takes a first step in trying to simplify containers, networking, orchestration and app deployments with Flockport.
People should be able to focus on their apps and not get bogged down with infrastructure that should be as easy to use as possible, fade into the background and be robust.
And give proper credit and recognition to all the wonderful open source Linux technology and projects that make containers and orchestration possible.
Disclosure - I am part of the Flockport team. This is the exact problem Flockport tries to solve with LXC containers. You can download containers of popular apps and web stacks and launch them in seconds.
And you get all the advantages of LXC containers; portability, flexibility and near bare-metal performance. You can deploy multiple versions of apps and stacks all in their own containers, you are not wedded to any host, your apps and workloads in containers are portable and can be moved easily across any Linux host. It's like a mobile server. And you get clones, backups, snapshots. It's a complete delight to work with.
LXC containers are lightweight and give you all the advantages of virtualization without the performance overhead. LXC is supported in the vanilla Linux kernel and most distros have ready to install packages, we have a repo for Debian Wheezy as it doesn't have updated packages. You have to install LXC and after that every thing is a quick download and deploy.
Ultimately its about society and individuals. How comfortable are you with having sex offenders living in your neighborhood. Would your opinion change if you had kids? This is a balance of rights and clearly some people are nervous about having sex offenders living in their neighborhood. The question is is this a legitimate concern, lots of people will be nervous, paranoid about lots of things so where does legislation step in.
By limiting their rights to the internet what the system is essentially saying is these people cannot be trusted, they are not reformed. So ideally they should be in a prison or some other institution where they can be reformed and if they can't then they shouldn't be out. By having them live in a hostile society, which is exactly what happens when you have laws like this, you are infact wronging them.
I don't think Wikipedia is the right platform for advertising of any kind, the goal and value of Wikipedia far exceeds any value delivered by advertising. Any commercial interests will compromise its credibility and put off a large number of contributers which is where a lot of its value derives from. Far better to find a more creative way to fund itself.
India is really a sad country, most of us are immune to this, we'd rather not face it. When I first came here as a naive 16 year old 10 years ago the poverty even in a city like Bombay shocked me, there is too much suffering here.
In villages the caste system is alive and well with lower castes living on the periphery and not sharing even the same resources like water. In cities you don't see it untill its time to get married, then even the most educated Indian becomes caste conscious. We are very religious as a people but not moral, for us sex and public posturing is more about morality, as individuals we have no integrity which reflects in the massive amount of corruption, how other Indians less fortunate than us are treated. For instance you could be praying all day and yet have little qualm in mistreating the people who work for you. The state and its various arms have no respect for the people, unless you are someone important even the most basic decencies are not extended.
This is everday life, there is a VIP culture, a culture of servitude which means that no rules are followed, no system adhered to, anything goes if you have the right connections. Thats why the environment is a mess, and administration ineffective. Whatever little resources is available is wasted.
And you can't run away from a population of 1.3 billion ever increasing. Even the most talented and commited administration can't solve this over the next 100 years. We can't have a welfare state and provide even bassic amenities. We will always judge ourselves by standards that are significantly lower than any western country. I think Europe at the moment is the good example of how to get things right. But indians will point to morality, as if they have a monolopoly on things like family values and caring for kids, what about trying to give people a decent chance at having a life, that's not important in the face of pretension and posturing. So every small success is magnified. We are insecure so any response to this article can only be defensive. But if we don't recognize the problem we can't solve it. We are inadequate, the systems and laws are there but we can't implement anything because of a overwhleming lack of integrity.
On the business side, the IT revolution has definitely made life better and its another small step. Companies are profesionally managed nowdays, no bosses wife intefering in your work. People are better paid. More people earning means more spending and this has a roll on effect. But we are not innovating, india has not innovated. BPO and IT services is the most boring work in the world, there is money but no challenge at work. We don't have a culture of R&D, taking a risk, making a product, and taking it to market, we don't have the appetite for that sort of invstment with no guarantee of returns, so much easier to to mop up service contracts, hire people here and refine a process and take the money. No risks. So don't compare this to Silicon Valley, thats a bit of a joke. The pharma industry have a similar business model, and here things could get dangerous especially with no effective regulation and human testing.
The entire world is living on science and technology that really picked up with the renassiance. We should not be shy to acknowledge this. Western civilization is the moden world, its a massive achievement for as as humans and as cultures we should learn form this human achievement and not try to posture about our failures so far.
Most US companies are multinationals, they are present in many countries, they are global. This makes the US one of the richest countries in the world and its citizens amongst the most prosperous. The US has benefited from capitalism and free trade. When US companies go to other countries with their products, usually because of better technology, more efficiency and better value they win and people lose jobs. Most countries have gone through this stage, People have suffered. This is free trade, this is the system we have accepted, when it benefits us and when it doesn't. For the US with off shoring now it doesn't, for India, it does. Its either this or to close down free trade and close markets to US companies. So what is it, do we believe in free trade?
That's the macro look. In the micro look things don't look, good, when US companies go to new markets people suffer, now people in us suffer. Nobody can be happy about this but the US being a richer country will have a better solution for affected people, hopefully. And even for people who don't lose jobs there is always an sense of insecurity, this is the worst part of it. The idea that people who are being laid off should train their replacements in India is a cruel joke, macabre. BOA should pay and get these people trained.
The paradox in is in both instances corporations benefit. But free trade gives you an option, But Americans are not helpless, as consumers you can vote with your wallets and boycott such companies.
Somebody deviously injected moral relativism & cultural values into this as if censorship is a 'chinese value' as opposed to an oppressive tool deployed by a tyranical regime. And I'm sure a lot of the posters will have little qualm dealing with pre-apartheid South africa, after all the argument's the same, the law of the land. Integrity is not negotiable, to have values untill it's inconvenient is just pathetic.
Do you believe in censorship? If no you can't support and worse enforce censorshop. Period. This ends my respect for google. From now on they are just another company. We all have values untill we have to make a sacrifice. Sad.
The poverty argument is akin to saying because there are poor people in the world we should disband NASA. Clearly economics is not a strongpoint with some posters. This is a fantastic, positive and inspiring initiative by Nicholas Negroponte and its disheartening to see so much cynisism on slashdot. One would think slashdotters would be at the forefront championing the cause.
Instead we have shortsighted speculation about its uses betraying an unbelievable ignorance of our own experience with technology. You can bet recipients will find creative and innovative ways to enrich and improve their lives.
The only problem will be distribution and ensuring the laptops ends up in the hands on the intended recepients which is a perennial problem in developing countries. And if there is demand for these laptops in first world as has already been displayed in some of the posts you can bet an active blackmarket will thrive to divert them back to the first world.