I'm the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. And I'm here to read the funnies to you, happy boys and honeys. Yes, boys and girls, it's comic weekly time.  Right out of the pages of Puck the Comic Weekly, straight into your living room, your friend, the comic weekly man, the jolly comic weekly man. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. Love you, sorry. How are you today? Do you have a riddle for me today? I said how are you today? Fine. Do you have a riddle for me today? Don't you want to know how I am? How are you? Fine. Do you have a riddle for me today? Yes, yes. What is a bed but never sleeps and has a mouth but never eats? It has a bed but never sleeps. That's hard. Well, I'll make it easy for you. The answer is a river. Oh, yes. A river has a bed and it never sleeps and it keeps running all the time. And it has a mouth but it never eats. That's very good. Now please read me the funnies. They're always good too. Puck the Comic Weekly? I will in just a moment, but before I do, let's listen to this nice man. Now here we go with Puck the Comic Weekly and at the top of the first page is Snookums. Oh, read that please. Very well. Magic wits for the music, please. Very well, my lady. Diddle-dee-da, diddle-dee-doo, wake-a-macka-mookums. Let's have a little tune for a little Snookums. Archie and Snookums are at a carnival. Archie buys Snookums a balloon and holds the balloon while Snookums goes on the merry-go-round. First picture, next row, a little boy asks Archie, Would you hold my balloon while I go on the ferris wheel, mister?  Would you hold mine too? And then another. And another.   All of a sudden, last picture, a man standing on the top of an apartment building sees Archie sailing through the air, hanging under all of the balloons, and Archie is yelling, Help! Help! Archie up into the air. You don't? No, I saw a balloon man with yesterday, and he could even sit down with his. He could? Yes. Well, maybe they use different kinds of balloons in the funnies. Oh, yeah, I guess so. Uh-huh. Well, now? Well, over the page, quick, flies Gordon, because Zarko, Flies' friend, has rescued Flies and Dale. Yes, but the outlaw Zinn is still in hiding somewhere, and had sent the zombies who he controls after Flash. Yes, but Flash put the zombies to sleep with some special smoke. Mm-hmm. So now let's see what happens next with Flash Gordon. Riga-rigadoon dunes. Ask him a task. Let's have music for heroic Flash. Mercifully putting his zombie foes to sleep with coma smoke, Flash leads the raid to capture Zinn's laboratories. As they enter the laboratories, they find Zinn's papers, and the secret to his control over the zombies. They try to trace Zinn through the zombies. But Zarkov, Flash's picture of the row exclaims, he just stopped breathing. Flash answers, Zinn simply ordered a drew. He found we were getting too close. But he can't stop us now. I have a fix on the location of his auto-brain. He's deep underground. First picture bottom row, through his zombie observers, Zinn sees that Flash and the rocket doom are closing in on him. He snarls, Flash will never catch me. That liquid genet atom rocket is too fast for him. And he climbs into the rocket.  Flash reacts instantly, ordering all of his rocket to follow Zinn. But as Zinn's rocket ship disappears ahead of him, Zarkov, last picture, reports, he's outrun us, but he's heading out of the solar system. He'll never reach another planet. Flash replies, well, he chose his fate. We'll head for Mongo and make sure he doesn't try to circle back here. It's home. Yes. But just the same, I wish they'd caught that Zinn instead of letting him get away like that. I think you've got something there. Well, now let's go across the page of Dick's adventures. Because Dick was dreaming last week that he came to George Washington's house to tell him about Paul Revere's ride when Paul Revere yelled, here come a British. Yes, Dick is with Paul Revere in the early days of America, and it looks like there's going to be a war between the British and the Americans. Let's read and see what happens today. Very well, here we go with Dick's adventures and say the magic words with me. Let's have music for adventure this Dick. As Dick is talking to George Washington, a servant comes in followed by a tall, lanky man. The servant announces, Mr. Thomas Jefferson of Monticello. When Dick sees this famous patriot, he says to himself, gosh, it's really him. Thomas Jefferson enters, and last picture top row, at Washington's bidding, Dick again starts recounting the alarming news from Lexington and Concord, but more visitors arriving. First picture next row, Washington asks Dick to stop while he introduces them. Mr. Henry, this is Dick, who comes from Virginia with news from New England. Fighting is already broken out. Henry? Oh, Patrick Henry! I'm very glad to know you, sir. We heard a lot about you. Didn't you say... And Patrick Henry walks to the table which is now surrounded by many famous men, and last picture of the row speaks grimly. I said, give me liberty or give me death. I mean every word of it. And Dick says in a ringing voice, and I do, now and forever. And George Washington exiles, and I and the other men nod their heads in agreement. First picture bottom row, one other visitor comes in, just arrived back from London, writer, printer, man of science, statesman, patriot, postmaster general for the American colonies, and Dick recognizes him and explains, Benjamin Franklin! Oh, this is wonderful! As all the men looks expectantly at Benjamin Franklin, he says, We are at war, gentlemen, without an organized army, without a commander, against the strongest military in Europe. But fight we must, all of us. Or if we don't hang together, we may all hang separately. The Americans have to make some rapid decisions. An army must be organized. A commander must be selected. And so the Second Continental Congress has been summoned to a historic meeting in Philadelphia. From north and south, the delegates of all the colonies come. Dick and Washington set out from Virginia on their journey. It is early May, 1775, and last picture as they gallop down the pike. A hard-looking man with a pistol in his hand watches them from behind a tree. That's something we'll have to wait to find out. Oh, this is exciting! He's going to be made father of his country. Well, we'll find out for sure next week. Now look, here underneath Dick's adventure. Oh, yes! Rusty and Mr. Miles are going to go on a trip. Yes, to a place up on the New England coast, yes, and the place is called Sharks Neck. But that man named Squire something at Sharks Neck isn't too happy that they're going to come because it looks like there's something crooked going on. Well, let's find out right now with Rusty Riley. Gallop and run till the road is dusty. Give us music for his horse and Rusty. Tex announces to Mr. Miles. Well, I guess we're all set to leave for Cedar Point Creek, ain't we, boss? Mr. Miles replies, Yes, Tex, everything seems to be arranged at Sharks Neck. I just had a letter from Squire Boggs. He's been looking after my place up there. He is a tutor for the children. In fact, he asked me in his letter if he and his partner, Captain Crune, could land their lobster parts on our beach. That afternoon at the Sharks Neck Station, Rusty and Patty have gotten off the train. As it pulls out, they see a man carrying an umbrella looking for them. Rusty asks, Oh, are you Squire Boggs, sir? This is Patty Miles, and I'm Rusty Riley. The Squire nods his head and says, Glad to meet you, children. I'll take you right over to the house. First picture bottom row, they go into the house, where a rather odd-looking skinny fellow is waiting. The Squire introduces them. First picture bottom row saying, This is your tutor, children. My nephew, Anthony. Tony, Mrs. Patty Miles and Rusty Riley. Tony replies, Oh, hi. I'm delighted, really. And then the children are shown to their rooms. Later on in the afternoon, Patty and Rusty have gone down to the beach with Flip their dog. Patty asks Rusty if Tony Boggs seems like a regular teacher to him. Rusty replies, No, not exactly. But maybe teachers are different up this way. He seems friendly anyway. Patty nods her head. But even so, she still feels a little suspicious. Meanwhile, at Captain Clune's boatyard, Squire Boggs is talking to the captain who asks, Well, Squire, didn't them young ones get here? How do you think your nephew Tony will make out as a teacher? Squire replies, They're here. And they're might older than I figured on. But Tony's been to college, even if he didn't stay long. But that isn't what's worrying me most. We've been storing the stuff in Miles' boat house. Well, with him here, that's out. Who, uh, where are we going to put it? Last picture the captain answers. I thought of that. I got the answer. How about one of them old schooner hawks that's rotten away at Gibby's Wharf? You know, I bet they're doing something they shouldn't be doing. I wouldn't be a bit surprised. But now let's turn over the page and see who's there. Oh, look, here's Bear Rabbit. And I know you're anxious to read that. Yes, I am. Well, then, without wasting a minute, here we go with Uncle Remus and his tales of Bear Rabbit. Say the magic words with me. Hippity hoppity make it a habit to give us music for a Bear Rabbit.  Yes, Bear Rabbit thinks Bear Ant is a wise little fellow, so he trots down the road on his way to visit Bear Ant, saying, I just take my magnifying glass long so I can see how Bear Ant's coming on with his upside down castle. Finally he gets out to a field. He sees Bear Weasel and Bear Fox sitting in a log having a chant. So Bear Rabbit stops and from behind a bush listens, and he hears Bear Fox saying, I go over the scheme once more, Bear Weasel. Bear Weasel answers, Well, us sits Bear Possum's bar and fire. Then when all the creeders runs to put out the fire, us robs the bank. He's here. Bear Rabbit says to himself, No, they're going to burn out Bear Possum and rob the bank. Well, well, well. Bear Rabbit decides that there aren't going to rob the bank, so he picks up a long stick, blitz the end of it, and fastens the match in the slit in the end, saying, last picture, top row. If creeders like them would try working, they wouldn't be thinking so much about robbing. The first picture, bottom row, he pushes the long stick toward Bear Weasel and Bear Fox, who have their backs to him. Bear Fox is asking, Well, how did you know that the folks in the bank will go to the fire too? Bear Weasel replies, There you go. There he is, all volunteers. Then when the match is right up against the log, Bear Rabbit holds his magnifying glass up so the sun shines through it onto the match. And in a second, the hot sun shining through the magnifying glass lights the match and the log catches on fire. Bear Fox and Bear Weasel leaf in the air, shouting, No, Bear Weasel!  Maybe the volunteers will come and put them out. And last picture, Bear Rabbit is looking at Bear Ant through his magnifying glass, telling him what he's just done. And he finishes the story saying, That's the way it was, Bear Ant. And the last I see them, they was running for the Mississippi. And Uncle Remus says, The hardest way to get something is to try to get it easy. Hero today. I should say so. He prevented the bank from being robbed. And he saved everybody's money. And I'll read that in just a moment, but first here's that nice man again with something interesting to say. Now here we go again with Puck the Comic Weekly and on the top of page five of the first section are old friend Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys. Magic words for the music, please. Ha yippai-o! Now here we go with Roy and Trigger. Ha yippai-o! Roy was on his way to help his friend, Shubby Walden. A couple of thugs were trying to shoot a wonderful wild horse. When he tried to stop him, they tried to tie him to a wild westang and chased the horse off, dragging Roy on the ground behind him. Just when it looked like Roy would be killed, Trigger stopped the wild horse long enough for Roy to untie himself. As Roy continues on his way today, he hears someone off the road calling for help. Roy gets off Trigger and runs to help the man. He sees that the man has been caught in a landslide. As Roy pulls rocks and logs off him, he exclaims, What do you get here? And what happened? His friend replies, Beaker Morgan, shorty, tossed me off the cliff. They tried to catch my red ron. Last picture, top row, as Roy pulls Chubby off from underneath the logs, Roy tells him, are they with the same arm raiser jump me? What do they want with your red ron, Chubby? Chubby says weekly, first picture, next row. Because my horse has got... Hey Roy, get me the dark rentals, sagebrush bend, quick. Hey, he's passing out. Roy lifts Chubby into the saddle saying, I got to get Chubby to town, he might be hurt bad. Still like to know, though, about that red ron. Then Roy climbs on to Trigger, holding Chubby in place, and heads for the town of sagebrush bend. Last picture of the row, Roy enters the town. It's a small place, but there's not a single soul in sight. Roy exclaims, there's a graveyard. When it looks like somebody's in the livery stable, so Roy stops in front of the stable and enters first picture, bottom row. He asks a man standing there, hey mister, you know where I can find dark rentals, got a friend outside who's hurt bad? The man doesn't answer, nor does he move. Roy says, hey, didn't you hear me? I said my friend is hurt. When the man still doesn't answer, Roy claps him on the shoulder. Hey, the fella's head drops off and Roy sees a broomstick and he realizes that this is a dummy fixed up to look like a man. As Roy wonders what this is all about, last picture, a rifle barrel appears from behind the box.  Raise your hands before you bust up anything else. That's the strangest thing I've ever seen, an empty town. Yes, and dummies fixed up to look like people. And someone sticking a gun in Roy's back. Oh, this is mysterious. Yes, but I think the real dummy is the fella who thinks he can get away with anything with Roy Rogers. Yes, he's the real dummy because Roy is the hero. You bet he is. And next week we'll find out who the mysterious gunman is. Well, now if you'll pick up the second section of the comic weekly, I'll read Dagwit and Blondie. Well, here they are, right at the first page of the second section. So here we go with Dagwit and Blondie. Ram-a-foo, Ram-a-fum, Zim-Zim-Zombie, conjugal music for Dagwit and Blondie. Zim-Zim-Zombie. Zim-Zim-Zombie. Zim-Zim-Zombie. It's morning. Dagwit awakens, stretches, and sits back on the edge of his bed. And he says, oh, boy, am I sleepy. This is one of those mornings I just can't wake up. And he crawls back into bed. Zim-Zim-Zombie. When Blondie comes in, Dagwit looks as if he were dying and moans. Oh, call up the office. Tell him I won't be in today. I have every ache and pain known to medical science. So Blondie goes out of the room. Last picture top row, Dagwit shakes the paw of Daisy's dog and says with a smile, congratulations, it worked. I tried that gag a hundred times. This is the first time she ever fell for it. First picture next row, Dagwit comes in and Alexander says, hey, we're sorry you're not well, Daddy. Dagwit moans. Oh, Papa's a sick and ailing man. Alexander says, hey, Mr. Woodley's downstairs and wants to see you, Daddy. Oh, tell him I'm too sick to see anyone. Last picture of the row, Herb Woodley starts up the stairs. Blondie grabs him and says, don't you dare to go up there. Dagwit's a sick man. Last picture next row, Dagwit hears the noise outside his window.  This is Sunday. You have a date to go fishing with us. Dagwit's eyes pop open. He exclaims, oh, my goodness. And then as Herb climbs down the ladder to go fishing, Dagwit chooses fingernails saying, oh, how could I have made a terrible mistake like that? Oh, what can I do? A little later, last picture of the row, Dagwit comes downstairs with his clothes on and he tells Blondie and the children, hey, look, I'm well. That little bitty pill I took cured me. And then he dashes out of the house and leaps into his car. First picture about a row, Dagwit has arrived at the lake where his friends are fishing. They're not making a sound, so the fish won't be scared away. Dagwit jumps out of his car and yells, look boys, it's me. I'm here. His friends leap on him and start to beat him up. Hey, quiet. Yeah, but quiet. Yeah, but quiet. Yeah, but...  His three friends go back to their fishing and one asks, hey, do you think we were too rough on him? And Herb replies, if he can't have him scared in the fish away. Well, that was no way for Herb to treat Dagwit when he was so happy. No. He was being a little rough. Instead of hitting him on the head, they should have put a sponge in his mouth. What good would that do? Oh, when Dagwit tried to talk, the sponge would soak up the words.  Now how would you like to go down to the mountain? Oh, sure, sure. Well, then let's mosey over the page, pass the lone ranger, turn over page three, pass the little iodine, then pass Jungle Jim on page five, turn over to the middle of page six, and here we are with Barney, Google and Snuffy Smith. Igal Ogle, Oogle, Ipswath Swith, Music for Google and Funny Snuffy Smith.  Snuffy claps his hands to his forehead and horror and exclaims, That's an outright shame, Ma. So they start to think about what they should give Lucie and Lucy for a wedding present. Louise, he says, Let's see, I could give him my purdy double wedding ring quilt. No, that ain't good enough. How about that rocky chair your grandpeppy wheeled out by hand? No, no, no. That last picture top rose south, and he tears out of the door saying, Time's a weasel.  Aunt Louise, who knows what's in the wheelbarrow, exclaims, Sure I would. There ain't nothing too good for Lucie and Lucy. And by the time you can go, Snuffy is wheeling the wheelbarrow up to Lucie and Lucy's house, and he shouts, Hey, Lucie and Lucy, I got you a bold, deacious wedding present. And Lucie rushes out and looks at what's in the box and exclaims, Dolan the ghost.  I'm on a Twitter. And last picture we see the wedding presents climb out of the box. Lucie says, 14 pretty little puppy dogs. And Lucie, who doesn't want to start off married life by taking care of 14 pup, exclaims, Now there just ain't nothing weans need wasn't 14 pretty little puppy dogs.  Well, no, not quite 14. And that's the way Lucie feels about it. Imagine having to take care of 14 little puppy dogs who aren't used to a house. Yes, but just the same, just think, 14 little puppy dogs. Well, let's skip over now to the last page. Well, I know what's on the last page. It's Prince Valiant. And on his travels, he's come to a castle that's a big mess because the man who owns the castle makes experiments with explosive stuff and he's blown the roof off the castle. And last week, he was telling Val about a genie that he discovered in his experiments. A genie's a magic person and a really scared the daylights out of everybody. Now Val's friends are anxious to be on their way. Well, I don't blame them after the way that man sets up explosions around them all the time. Well, let's see what happens next on the last page with Prince Valiant in the days of King Arthur. Hackett, Brackett, Gray Malkin and Quince. Music romantic for a fair, fair print. Music romantic for a fair, fair print. Prince Val and his friends leave the ruined castle of Sir Deluc rather hurriedly. Their nerves badly shattered by his experiments with a genie who roars and hurls flaming rocks into the sky. Last picture, top row, just as they're safely away from the castle, they get another shock. Val announces, there was a parting gift Sir presented me with some of his magic powder. Music romantic for a fair, fair print. Music romantic for a fair, fair print. That evening, first picture, next row, they make a campfire for the night. As they sit around the campfire roasting their dinner, Val talks about the magic powder. He begins learnedly. As a pupil of the great wizard Merlin, I believe the virtue lies in this powder and that the symbols and the incantations are unnecessary.  Suddenly, there's a...  How is Val to know that the Sir to look at accidentally discovered gunpowder? The four men are dizzy from the explosion and for many minutes there's an ominous silence. And then, after the smoke clears away, first picture, bottom row, each one can tell by looking at his companions just how much good looks he has left. The hair has been singed off the heads of every one of them and their faces are blackened from the blast of the powder. They love and respect their leader, the thought that their good looks have been lost for the time being and their beautiful hair has been singed off their heads. This is too much. And the three of them pick up Val and toss him in a puddle of water. Last picture. No, this is one time that even Val was curious where he should have been more careful. Well, yes, but you can't blame him too much because long, long ago, not even a hero like Val knew very much about gunpowder, did he? You're quite right and you're very smart because the people in those days didn't know about such a thing as gunpowder. Yes, I am, I'm right. Yes, you are. Now, that's all the time I have, but before I go, here's that fella with some more interesting information. Well, honey and all your boys and girls, I've got to go now. All right, Mr. Comic Weekly Man, but I'll be waiting for you next week. Okay, that's a date. And the date with all your boys and girls, be sure to meet me with our little friend Miss Honey next week when I read The Comic Weekly Man. I'll be back to read the funnies to you happy boys and honeys. Don't forget, boys and girls, see you all next week. Your friend, The Comic Weekly Man, The Jolly Comic Weekly Man.


So today, what I want to talk about is a very large misconception that kind of exists around the whole Linux thing, right? When people think about Linux, even if they don't use Linux, one of the things that they think probably is that it's more private than Windows or Mac. And I think that this is a very dangerous assumption to make because it's not always true. I'd say that it's hardly ever actually true. Now there are some exceptions in some places where obviously Linux does a way better job of not stealing and sending your data to some gigantic corporation. But just because Linux doesn't necessarily do all of the shenanigans that Microsoft and Apple do doesn't mean that it's the most private or secure thing in the world. It's not. So what I want to do today is kind of talk about this myth or this wrong-headed idea that some people have and just kind of discuss why it's so wrong and why it's so dangerous. So let's go ahead and talk about that. But before we do, if you leave a thumbs up on this video, I'd really appreciate it. It would really help the channel. So why do I say Linux isn't more private? Well, it can be more private. It doesn't mean that you can't make Linux as private as you want it to be. That's one of the reasons why Linux is so good. But out of the box, if you just go say install Ubuntu, which is what most people do who come to Linux, that's one of the first things that most people do is Ubuntu or Linux Mint or whatever, you've then stole this thing. And automatically you think, well, I'm more private. I'm more secure with my data. Well, no, you're not. OK, just because you have installed a open source program or an open source distro or whatever doesn't mean that your data is more secure than it was when you were using Windows. Now, it does mean that you're probably not the shill of a major corporation, most likely. I mean, we do have our qualms with canonical, but they're not as data hungry as say Microsoft, but your operating system still is insecure. If it's connected to the internet, it doesn't mean you can still go forth and download malware on your machine if you so choose to, or accidentally if you choose not to write, you can still do that. There is malware for Linux. It does exist now. Is it as prevalent as Windows? No, of course not. Windows is by far the larger target because more people use it. But that doesn't mean that it's not out there. You can still find malware for Linux. It happens. And that means that you can potentially see your computer and your data compromised, even though you're using the more secure operating system. So that is one area where Linux is and not as secure as some people think that it is. Now, like I said, Windows is by far the bigger target when it comes to malware. So most malware is written for Windows and probably for Mac too. As you know, combine those two, that's the vast majority of bad stuff out there. But Linux is very large on the server space. And that means that hackers and, you know, nefarious criminals out there have put effort into creating malware for those specific types of computers that run the world's internet, basically. And that stuff exists and can still be put onto your computer. And you created a botnet or whatever, you know, ransomware can be downloaded on your computer.  So just because you use Linux doesn't necessarily make you immune to viruses, malware, ransomware, what have you. So it can happen. And the idea that some people spread that it can't happen just makes it harder for people to protect themselves because they develop a false sense of security. They think that while I'm using Linux, you're not going to catch me with any ransomware or malware because it doesn't. I guess people told me that Linux is secure. Therefore I can just relax and visit whatever weirdo sites that I want to visit. I'm not judging you. You can visit whatever weirdo sites you want to. But just like on Windows, you do have to have some sense, some common sense when you visit stuff online, when you click on links in your email, you have to have some common sense. First off, don't click on links in your email. Just unless you know absolutely who it's from. And even then I would highly recommend not clicking on links in emails. It's just a bad idea all around. It doesn't matter what operating system that you're using. So that's one area where this myth has kind of developed and that's the reason why it's wrong. So another thing that I hear all the time is just that Linux is plain old more secure than Windows. Again, not true. It's just it's an operating system just like Windows is. Now again, for the most part, Linux doesn't have all the telemetry and back end wheeling, dealing that Microsoft shoves into Windows. That's true. But just because you're using Linux doesn't mean that it's automatically more secure. It still has flaws and bugs and security stuff that goes on in creating a piece of software as large as the Linux kernel. And people are out there who can take advantage of those holes and bugs in the imperfection of that code. It just can happen and it does happen. So a good example of this that I can give you is the meltdown inspector flaws that they were that were found in CPU architectures a few years ago that affected Windows, obviously, but it also affected Linux. That was something that had to be fixed inside of the Linux kernel in order to mitigate those vulnerabilities. It affected both operating systems and was equally as bad. Now, you could argue that Linux solved it faster or whatever. I don't know. But still, those vulnerabilities did exist on Linux, just like they existed on Windows and presumably Mac. I don't actually know that for sure.  Sometimes, you know, they make mistakes or, you know, just because they're working with 30 million lines of code, you know, nothing there is possible to make perfection. It just doesn't exist. You know, it can't happen. It's just the nature of the being stuff goes wrong in that code and that that creates vulnerabilities and attack vectors and all the stuff that people can take advantage of if they have the nefarious mindset to do so. So just because you're using Linux doesn't mean that you're secure. It's just not true. It's a piece of software just like any other. And because that's true, it can have flaws. And the bottom line here is that instead of thinking yourself safe and secure by using Linux, what you need to do is just like you do on Windows, keep your head on a swivel, make sure that you're looking both ways before you cross the street, whatever metaphor you want to use. Just keep your common sense about you. Don't click on links in your email. Like I said, don't go searching for the latest malware on Discord and make sure that you keep your computer up to date. Make sure you restart every once in a while so that the new kernels can actually take effect, you know, do all these things to ensure that you're as safe as possible. Keep in mind that you're using a piece of software that's not secure because no software is secure by nature and you need to be able to keep yourself secure. It's your responsibility to do so, not the operating systems responsibility. So at the end of the day, the idea that Linux is more secure is false. But I want to go on to talk about privacy because I think one of the things that draws a lot of people to Linux is the idea that Linux is more private. And here's where we can all agree that it is more private than Windows out of the box. I think that that is not even arguable because Windows has all this nonsense going on in the background. They have advertisements and they have all this telemetry and all this stuff. And for the most part, Linux is free of advertisements and things that's going to take your data without you knowing and shoving it towards a large cooperation. For the most part, that's true. But telemetry does exist on Linux. It's just more front and center and much more in your control. So if you, for example, use the GNOME desktop environment, they collect telemetry if you allow them to do so. If you use KDE Plasma, they collect telemetry if you allow them to do so. Same thing at a distribution level. If you're using Ubuntu, they collect telemetry if you allow them to do so. If you notice the pattern, I kept saying if you allow them to do so. That's the difference between Windows and Linux. Whereas Windows, even if you turn off all those buttons that you see during Windows install and say, Hey, I don't want to send any of this data. Please don't do so. Windows is still going to send a whole bunch of data to Microsoft servers, even if you don't want them to. That's just the nature of the being. And if you want to try to rip all that stuff out, you can do so, but it's a pain in the rear end. And the next time they do a major update, it's probably going to be putting all back in and turned right back on. So that's just the nature of Windows. For Linux, if you tell them not to do so, they're not going to do it. And we can verify that they're following that rule because the code is open source and our developers probably smarter than you or me that have gone through and tested that and made sure that they're actually following the thing that they said they're going to do. So that's the difference between Windows and Linux. It doesn't necessarily mean that Linux is free of telemetry or data collection. It just means that you're more in control over those things that happen. It's just something that is absolutely true. You have the control when you use Linux whereas on Windows, you're basically renting it and the payment for renting that piece of software is your entire life story. So when people say Linux is more private, yes, I would have to say that Linux is more private but just like with the whole secure idea, you still have to be conscious of what you're doing and the data that you're sending out just because Linux is not the only thing you're going to be using. Like if you're just using the TTY on a Linux server or whatever, you're using a fairly private piece of software. You're probably not going to be sending out a lot of data to anybody. For the most part, it's going to be telemetry free. Obviously not going to see any ads unless you're using Ubuntu because Ubuntu puts ads in the terminal because it's canonical for whatever reason but you get whatever. But for the most part, if you're just living in the TTY, yeah, sure. That's really private. But once you get into the whole thing of using your computer, you're downloading a browser and you're browsing the web and you're downloading applications left, right and center and you're doing all of the stuff. The more connected to the internet you are, the less privates you are, right? Just because Linux is technically more private than Windows doesn't mean that you have privacy when you use Linux. It's not going to protect you from the likes of Google and them storing a whole bunch of cookies on your machine to track you all across the internet forever and ever.  So another thing a lot of us think that is, I'm using Firefox, therefore I'm more private. I have better privacy protection. Yeah, probably true. Again, then you're probably a little bit more private but you're still going to encounter cookies and trackers and all this stuff and that you've taken specific and painful steps to avoid those things on the internet, you're still going to be not private. That's just kind of the way things go. Any step towards privacy and security is going to require you to put in the effort towards those things. It's not automatic, which I think is the main point I'm trying to make here is that neither privacy nor security is an automatic thing. Even though you could argue that Linux is more private and secure, it's not automatically so. You have to put in effort in order to make it more private, more secure and that responsibility lies on you to do so, not on Linux itself. So at the end of the day, Linux is technically more private, not really more secure, to be honest with you. It's just, it's a piece of software.  So just keep that in mind as you use Linux. Be smart about it. Keep your head on the swivel, like I said, and make sure that you're paying attention to the data that you're sharing and where you're sharing it. Take steps to avoid running into malware and adware and viruses. Even though you're using a more secure platform, technically, you still have to take those steps. So that's it for this video. If you have thoughts or comments on this, you can leave those in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you. You can follow me on master down or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast. You can also head on over to the store at shop.linuxcast.org. There you'll find desk mats and hats and t-shirts and all sorts of stuff. All that stuff goes directly to help the channel. It means more content for you guys and I can spend more time in doing this. So I appreciate those of you who have and will in the future visit the store and buy some merch. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube because you're all absolutely amazing without you. The channel's not made anywhere near where it is right now. 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Oh, it's time again for JP's product pick of the week. It's me, JP, and here we are. Thank you for stopping by everyone who's over in Discord as well as people watching on Twitch and Twitter and Periscope and Facebook and LinkedIn and all the other places we're broadcasting. Hello, if you're wondering where the chat's happening, check out Discord, it's adafruit.it slash discord. You'll get an instant invite and you can see all the good people over there saying, hey, Mr. Certainly, Hugo, C Grover. Who else do we have in there? Gary Z, welcome. Welcome, everybody. Right. Let's do this, let's get going. So the first thing I wanna do is let you know that there is a place where you can watch the show and get a 50% off discount. And if you go right there to that URL, just point your device that has a lens, camera, webcam, whatever you like at that QR code and that'll take you to the product 904. If you watch from inside of the product page, you're gonna get a discount. And I know that spoils the surprise a little bit, but this video's playing right in there and you can get a discount on the product just now, just during the show only. It expires right after the show. If you have it in your cart, you have a little bit of a grace period there. But go check it out, it's 50% off. So with no further ado, let's have Lady Aida tell us about this product pick. Okay, another revision, the Stem Acutification Train rolls on, choo choo, this stop is the I&H 219. You'll notice that I'm starting to get to the really old boards, like really original boards that we've had for a very long time. These are the toughest ones to revise because of course, we make a lot of them, we have to do a revision process. But we revised this board, so it now has Stem Acutic connectors. It's still the lovable I&H 219, I squared C power monitor, plus or minus 26 volts, I think like plus or minus two amps or something. You can set the jumpers on the back, but it's just like Stem Acutic, it's plug and play now, really easy to use with any of our Stem Acutic boards. I've, you know, I plugged one of these into a clue and made a cool solar panel monitor over the summer. And that worked out real well for me, so I'm liking it and I will just keep QT-ifying the world. All right, and in order to keep QT-ifying the world, I'm gonna head over to my cabinet of mystery wonder drawers. Its name changes every week, I think. And I'm gonna change outfits three or four times in the process and go get myself one of these little boards, hang on. And there it is, our product pick of the week is the I&A 219, Highside DC voltage and current sensor in Stem Acutic format. So let's first of all, head over to take a look at the product page here. Here you can see, if I reload this right now, it's gonna magically cut the price in half. So 50% off, it's $4.98, maximum of 10 per customer. Go pick some of these up if you wanna do some current sensing and voltage sensing in your projects and simplify the wiring a decent amount by using the Stem Acutic connector. You'll notice here that this video is active. You can watch from inside the product page, which we think is a nifty feature. And of course, if you look at the product page, this will give you a bunch of specs and info about the product as well as a link, if we keep scrolling down, to the learn guide. So there's a few projects that have used this and if you click on this first link, you'll head right here. This is the learn guide for the INA 219. We also have this built into a feather, by the way, this same chip. But the one that we're looking at here is useful for any microcontroller you're using. You can plug it into your I squared C, clock and data pins as well as power and ground and off you go. This also has, if you take a look at the last page in the guide that downloads page, we can head to the data sheet. So here it is from Texas Instruments. This is the zero drift bidirectional current power monitor with I squared C interface. And I always like to look and see what are the suggested uses. Here you can see in applications, it says things that you might wanna use this chip in to sense your current voltage servers, telecom equipment, notebook computers, power management, battery chargers, welding equipment, power supplies and test equipment. So what I'm gonna do is take a look at it in a little sample project that I have here. So what I've put together, just to give you a little tour, I have an Itsy-Bitsy M4 microcontroller here. And you'll notice this is the STEM-AQT connector that goes to header pins on the Itsy-Bitsy and that's what I've got plugged into the INA219. I also have another STEM-AQT cable connecting to this little OLED display so that we can see the voltage and the current. And then I've just set up a little button and I have my external power supply and a DC motor.  And then we can look at the voltage and current as we run the motor, as well as when we stall the motor because the current draw when you stall is sometimes an important thing for things like robotics so that you know what's the maximum it's gonna draw even when the motors aren't turning so that you can provide enough current protection as well as a beefy enough power supply. So the connections here, you'll see I've got, this is a five volt two amp DC wall wart and that is going through this little adapter. I've put a little shunt diode here just to protect it from a voltage spike. This runs the positive voltage so that's the deal with the high side current measure. It's not measuring this on ground so the ground is stable with measuring on the current's high side or the voltage high side. So that power supply goes to the V in plus and you'll see that our board here has a little supplied 3.5 millimeter screw terminal. So I've got this running to the board so it can measure the current voltage and then that runs to the rest of my circuit and that's where that is being drawn and used and then you can see here I'm gonna display the output here for voltage and current. So what I'll do is I'm gonna hold up this motor here and I'll press the button and now you can see it's drawing about 170 or so milliamps. You could get fancy and graph this, you could create a nice min max for yourself so it'll let you know the maximum current you're drawing and now you'll see what I'm gonna do so I'm gonna put a finger on this motor and as it struggles, so imagine your robot has a little bit of weight to it, it's not freely spinning. Now you can see the current is quite a bit higher, it's almost double, we're running about 300 milliamps when it is struggling and if I stop it entirely, you'll see we're drawing about half an amp, so just about 500 milliamps and you can see there the voltage is actually at about 4.3 or so and that will adjust a little bit as we stall it and this is super useful because now, let me hit the button and stop this, we can test this without grabbing the multimeter and alligator clips and adding your multimeter into the circuit, instead you can kinda insert this into very quickly into any circuit that you are testing to see what the current draw is as well as the voltage. It also has some other features for shunt voltage and some calibration, so neat thing is we've got a very nice circuit Python library as well as Arduino library. If we take a look at the code here and I can keep that in view just cause I think it's a handsome looking little circuit, this is the code that I have running on here. It is using the H-bridge driver, it's a L9110 H-bridge driver, MITC motor, I've got a little explainer up there at the top, I'm bringing in a bunch of libraries including the INA219 library and some display stuff. I set this on the I-squared C bus and I instantiate the sensor here somewhere after I'm done with all my display shenanigans, there we go. So this is Adafruit underscore INA219 being set on the I-squared C bus and then when I wanna read it and we can also just print this out to the serial display if we want, all I'm doing is calling these two things, INA219 dot bus voltage and INA219 dot current, those are then what I'm showing on the display and you can see I'm using the button to start and stop the motor here. You can even see here from when I was first starting I have the print statements for current and bus voltage. If I look at the serial display, the same sort of thing, so you can see it's not drawing much anything right now, if I turn it on, there we go, we're drawing our roughly 150 or so and I can get it to stall out at about 500. So easy to do, you don't need to use the OLED display, that's just a convenience, makes it a little easier if you're putting this on to say a robot and let's see, I think that's what we wanted to cover, yeah, so this of course, like I said, you can use it in circuit Python, you can use it in Arduino and it allows you, since it's over I2C, to chain together a bunch of different devices for passing data around, such as in this case, I've got the INA219 as well as this little display. I think that's gonna do it, so once again, I'll remind you if you wanna go and pick one up, head to this here product page, it's at Adafruit.com slash product slash 904, it's 50% off right now, one of our favorite little current sensing chips we've used it, as you can see, it's a fairly early product number, 904, we're up in the three, four thousands right now, so it's something that's been revised, didn't used to have the StemAQT connectors on it, now it does and like I said, we also have it on a feather breakout. So that is the INA219 High Side DC Current Sensor Breakout and let me give you the proper outro here, makes it much easier to do my recap video later. So that's my product pick of the week, it is the INA219 DC High Side Current and Voltage Sensor in StemAQT format and I'll go ahead and stick that on my StemAQT board of goodness and that's gonna do it for another episode of JP's product pick of the week, thank you so much for stopping by and I will see you next time, bye bye.


Right, if you're working on a tight budget right now, finding golf just a little bit expensive, which it certainly has got, then maybe these are the new irons that you should be considering. You see, on a recent trip to Decathlon Superstore, I bought all kinds of stuff. Gloves, golf balls, drivers, hybrids, and these, the Inesis 500 irons, which I've got to say, I'd seen lots of pitches, they're not new. I'd seen a lot of pitches on the internet over the last maybe a year or so, someone else can tell me just exactly when these came out. And I have to admit, when I seen the pitches, I was really, really impressed. They're very clean looking. They look superb. And if I'm honest with you, I thought it was a premium brand. I had no idea they were available from Decathlon Superstore at £349 for a full set of irons. So my question now is, how are they so cheap? And are they any good?  But the biggest surprise is just how good these things sound and feel. I'm amazed by what I've seen in terms of the Inesis product so far, and I've only just finished testing the driver. I'm into this seven iron, and I've got to say, this is a real, real shock again. And my first initial feedback with Club at Address in terms of what we always look at is kind of top line. This would fall into that game improvement category. There's no doubt about that. It's a thick top line. And in terms of the toe, it's got a very much, a very strange cut-off angle, which is different. It's not necessarily putting me off, but it's very different visually. But I've got to say, the one thing that's impressed me so far in hitting the balls is the ball flight. It's launching the ball really easy. Ball flight seems really, really good. And I think these are launch, sorry, lofted at 31 degrees. So a stronger iron in terms of loft, in terms of traditional loft, the ball seems to be going a long, long way in terms of its carry. I have to talk about aesthetics first and foremost because it's the biggest surprise for me. I love an iron that has a little bit of chrome in it, tick. It's got minimal markings, tick. The shaping and the profile of it in terms of overall size is relatively compact, to be honest with you, even though I've just mentioned the top line suggests obviously it's a game improvement style iron, but they look really, really good. The shaft I've got is an NS Pro shaft, again, which is a good quality component, which is something I mentioned in the previous video. And the nine iron I picked up had a UST recoil graphite shaft in it. So another great option and a great quality component. And the thing that surprises me more than anything, and again, if you watch the other video, I'm sure I'm gonna repeat this in terms of the driver, is the one thing that you expect when you're paying low-end in terms of budget money-wise is there's some compromises. And those compromises would be the quality of the components used. And that simply just isn't the case in these irons, nor it was in the driver. So, so impressed with how these are put together. And like I said, visually, as a full set of irons, I think they look superb. Now the other bargain I picked up was these Adidas Stan Smith-esque shoes. So we can't go any further without you letting me know what your thoughts are on these as well, because I absolutely love them. Yeah, please tell me in the comment section below how many of you are aware of Decathlon stores? Because, like I said, for my ignorant side, didn't really know. I knew it as a brand. I didn't know it was a sports super store. I'd never been there before. It took me, it was about an hour's journey to find the nearest one to me. But I've got to say, I was super impressed with what goes on there. It's like a giant DIY store with just sports products in. And every sport product you could possibly imagine. And like I said, from a golfing perspective, I bought golf balls, I bought a towel, I bought these shoes, I bought a carburetor leather glove. We bought the irons, the hybrid and the driver. So there's a huge amount of product in there. And from what I'm seeing so far, really, really good quality at a really, really good price. And you don't hear that too often when the word golf is mentioned nowadays. So I think it's about time we talk negatives about this Inesis 500 iron from Decathlon. That's a tough one, you know? You see, the thing is when you're looking for all, when you're looking to review a product full stop, if you're looking for both the positives and the negatives, one of the toughest things right now as a reviewer of product is that in general terms, it all tends to be fairly good. And that's why reviews nowadays, you could often criticise them for being too polite because like I said, picking fault with product is not easy. And that's very much the same here today with the Inesis irons at 349 pound for a full set of irons. I was expecting to find issues, those issues being first of all, like I said, the quality of the build, it didn't do that. How it sounded and felt, it didn't do that. How the data looked in terms of performance, it's not doing that spoiler alert for the end. So that, you know, it's really difficult to find a negative in these and just huge, huge positives because of that price point and everything else that we've said. The one negative would be is the limitations in terms of being able to get custom fit. That's not an option. The shaft options again, all be very, very good in terms of the quality of them are also limited. So these irons are, have their restrictions, have their limitations, but that's very minimal in terms of what you're offsetting against that cost gain that you're making. The question you've got to ask yourself is, how do you play the game right now? What are you looking to achieve from your game of golf? How serious do you take it? What is your end goal I suppose? Because yes, there are better irons out there. Yes, there are certain gains that you can make if you really want to in terms of the performance of these irons or other irons. But that's going to come at a significant cost. And that's the question that, like I said, you've got to ask yourself. I'm super impressed, you know. Now before we get into the data and finish this one off, I've just switched up into a 9-9. This has got the UST recoil shaft in, which really interests me because, first of all, this 9-9 has performed really, really well. It launches the thing into orbit. And I think that if you're looking for some ease of view, slightly slower swing speed, that recoil shaft is so, so good. You know, it's a reg shaft, but it does things with a very nice, easy tempo, gets the ball out there and I think is a real good components in these things. The one other negative that's, and I didn't come up with a negative, so the one negative that I'll come up with is what I don't know is availability, this product, just how easy it is to get old of. When I visited the store in Stockport, just outside of Manchester, they had very little stock available for me to buy, whether that's different online, I don't know. But that's a potential negative on just how easy it is to get old of this stock. Whether it's a product that sort of comes in and the minute it hits the shelves, then it's gone, I don't know. So good luck with buying it, but in terms of the UST recoil shaft in the 9-9, whoo, thumbs up. Now, I always end my reviews with beta and for those of you really interested, the full set of numbers I will throw up at the very end. But what this average data, which is on screen for you now is gonna tell you, is these are incredibly good irons, a 170 carry, 20 degree launch, 115 ball speed, 4-3 spin, 98 peak height and a descent angle of 46.9. Now, in terms of a 31 degree 7 iron, of which is quite commonplace right now, even though it's not traditional, then that kind of 170 carry is exactly where I'd expect it to be in terms of the top end irons that I've tried this year. So whatever I would put in hand, if I consider it to be a premium brand, premium product, 31 degrees, I'd expect 170 carry. Launch angle, again, for me, absolutely bang on. Love that launch angle, anything around 20 degrees, but it's also suggesting that it gets the ball nice and high very easily. That 115 ball speed and the peak height of 98 and the descent angle of 46.9 means we've got every chance of stopping this ball on greens. Even though the one criticism in terms of the date you would pick up on is the low spin number at 4392, but bear in mind that in the majority of reviews I do, one of the issues based on my own delivery of the club is that often my spin number can be low. Not that low, it's not perfect, don't get me wrong, there are issues in that number there. And for that premium iron that I refer to, I would be looking at sort of a five and a half to 6,000 revs of spin in my own optimum performance, but don't forget that would be in a custom fit iron with a custom fit shaft and all those things that go into making that data spot on for your own personal performance or big consideration. But the difference between those irons, most of those will retail at about 1,200 pound. The ones I'm referring to are gonna be 1,200 pounds a set. These cost 349 pounds. That difference is huge. And for anyone looking to get into the game, and I think these are far better than, they're certainly not a beginner set of irons by any means, but if you're looking to get into the game and you want to buy yourself a set of irons, a couple of wedges, a putter, a driver, a hybrid, a bag in there, a pair of shoes in there, some golf balls in there, then you can get a heck of a lot of that for a lot less than what you can buy a set of irons for from the major brands. So that's gotta be a huge, huge positive. But I would still not suggest anybody did that unless the performance, unless I felt the performance of the products was good enough to justify a relevance of cost. And it does, it does it really, really well. I've been shocked by the two videos that we've put out I don't know in which order or when or when you're watching these. But anyway, I've been shocked at the, just how good the quality from Decathlon has been. I've got a hybrid to test and I've also got their three piece urethane covered ball to test as well. So going by these first two reviews, I've now changed my opinion and there's a lot of expectation based, built around the performance of those two. So we'll see how they get on in the coming weeks. Anyway, as ever, thank you for watching. Stick your comments down below. Let me know what you thought of the Inesis 500 iron from Decathlon, but don't decathlon. And Inesis.


There is a type of relationship between a male and a female which is a relationship that pushes each of the parties involved into deeper self-realization. It may not work on a romantic level, it may not work on a sexual level, but what it does is it pushes each one to themselves. That kind of relationship and in the common parlance it's called a twin flame relationship. Actually what it really is is a soul polarity relationship. It's like one soul in two people. It is a phenomenon, it's not something common.


The Enterprise IT environment is usually complex, full of products and technologies from different providers, systems and different applications. Today, I want to show you one example of how GitLab can play well with others. Enterprise IT environments are all different because they are designed to serve different purposes. Nevertheless, there are technologies that are pretty mature and transversal to these environments, such as identity and access management tools. In this story, I am assistant administrator, a wizard who is in charge of maintaining and configuring the environment. And I want to reuse my Enterprise directory to authenticate my users in GitLab. After all, I already have them here. Then, I can use GitLab LDAP integration to sign in. But there is something I am not happy about here, and it's this register tab. Based on my identity plan, employees must use LDAP credentials, and standard authentication is reserved for local logins in a few accounts, so this register option is not needed in this case. Luckily, in GitLab, I can quickly modify the sign-up settings. I can disable it and also activate sending a confirmation email on sign-up. Good, now the register option is gone, and the users will use LDAP to login. And now, consider this. We have three new employees that joined the data management department, and we need them to be added to GitLab data management group as well. So, because I am a great wizard or system administrator, I configured the directory a long time ago. I already have this group created here. Look, here it is, data management. In GitLab, the data management group is called GitLab data experts. I select it, and in settings, enable LDAP synchronization. This will give me the ability to quickly sync anyone from my LDAP with GitLab, and grant them the right permissions. In this case, anyone from LDAP data management group will get developer permission level for all the projects within this GitLab group. I notice it is syncing now, and there you go. The new employees were added to the data management group in GitLab as developers, the permission level I configured. And its membership to this group is managed using LDAP. I can add more synchronizations if I need it. This will be up to my identity governance and access management program. Quick takeaways. If the employees leave the company, they will be disabled from LDAP. Therefore, we will automatically lose any access to GitLab. GitLab plays well with others, plays well with identity and access management tools, making it ready to be plugged into IT enterprise environments. Stay tuned, and let's continue learning at GitLab.


Appalachian Wireless proudly brings you unlimited data. Unlimited data is only $80 a month for a single line. Four lines as low as $200. Better service? Bigger savings? That's today's Appalachian Wireless. An East Kentucky network company. Get a speed slow to 25 gigabytes per line to 512 kilobits for phones and tablets. And 15 gigabytes for motors. See store for more details. There's no question the Martin County Water District has seen its share of challenges, but officials with the company say they are now taking steps to change directions. However, those steps are coming at a cost in the way of a potential rate increase of almost 50 percent. Our rates have not increased since 2011. I believe it is. Gasoline, insurance, electricity. We've not kept up with it. And it's taken a toll on us. Hammond says those operating costs have made it impossible for the company to be able to provide much-needed services. So the Martin County Water District is preparing to submit a request to the Kentucky Public Service Commission for a rate increase. Would go up to approximately $39 on the minimum bill. And knowing they were facing this request, the Martin County Water District has reached out to Kentucky Rural Water for assistance to figure out exactly how much of an increase the company needs. Kentucky Rural Water has done the rate analysis and they've come up with approximately 49 percent. But before the official request can be submitted to the Kentucky Public Service Commission, he says they have to make sure their customers know the plan. I have an advertisement that we had to put into paper for three weeks to inform the customers of the rates and let them know what we're doing. EKB News will continue to follow this developing story out of Martin County and bring you updates as they become available. In Inez, I'm Shannon Deskins, EKB News.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2017, brought to you by VMware and it's ecosystem partner. Okay, we're live here at VMworld 2017. It's theCUBE's coverage of VMworld 2017. I'm John Furrier with my host, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. We've got two sets kicking off live here in Las Vegas for our eighth year of coverage. Blooming, we're in the broadcast booth at the Mandalay Bay. Guys, we're here to kick off the show, three days of wall-to-wall coverage, three days of great keynotes. Today, big surprise, Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon Web Services, joined Pat Gelsinger on stage in a surprise announcement together, hugging each other before they talked and even after they talked, this partnership is going to be big. We're going to have a coverage in-depth analysis that Dave, VMworld is now the cloud show with Reinvent. If you look at what's going on, Stu, you've been to many, many shows, this is our eighth year. This was the show, great community. Now, Reinvent has been called the new VMworld. You put them both together. It's really the only cloud show that matters. Google does not have yet a presence. Microsoft has all these shows that have kind of spread all over the place. All the top people are here in IT and cloud at a VMworld and at Reinvent coming up in December. Well, John, eight years ago, we talked about is this the last stop for IT before cloud just decimates it? And if you go back two years ago, VMware was not in favor. The stock was half of what it is today. License revenue was down 1%. Fast forward to today, it's growing at 10 to 12% a year. License is up 13%. It's throwing off operating cash flow with $3 billion a year. The market's booming. Wall Street's talking about VMware now being an undervalued stock. The big question is, is this a fundamental shift in customer mindsets? In other words, are they saying, hey, we want to bring the cloud operating model to the business and not try to force our business into the cloud? Or is this the last gap of on-prem? Stu, I want to get your thoughts because I wanted to squinting through the announcements and all the hype and all the posturing from the vendors is, I was looking for, where's hybrid in all this? Where's the growth? And my validation point on the keynote was when we heard very few words hybrid. Private on-premise was the focus you guys put out at Wikibon, a report called True Private Cloud, market sizing and kind of layout. That's where the growth is. But I tweeted, private cloud is the gateway drug to hybrid. We're seeing customers now wanting to do hybrid but they got to do their homework first. They got to do the building blocks on-premise and that is what you're calling true private cloud. Do you agree and your thoughts? Yeah, so really good points, John. And the nuance here, because if I'm VMware, I've got a great position in the data center. 500,000 customers, absolutely. The growth is the move from legacy to true private cloud. The challenge for VMware is they already have 500,000 customers there. Those are the customers that are making that shift. So it does not increase vSphere. One of the key things for me is Pat said, what vSphere had done for the last 20 years is what NSX is going to do for the next 10 years or more because they're betting on networking, security, some of these multi-cloud services that they announced. How do those expand VMware so that as true private cloud grows and they also do public cloud, VMware has a bigger seat at the table, not just saying, wait, my customers are shifting, where are they going? Dave, I want to get your thoughts. You and I talk about all the time on camera and also privately about ways. We've been through many waves in the industry. We've seen a lot of waves. Pat Gelsinger has seen many waves too. Let's talk about Pat Gelsinger because interesting little tidbits inside the stage area. One, he said, I want to thank you for being the CEO of this company. Stu, you made a comment that this is the first VMworld where there's not a rumor that Pat's not going to be the CEO.  Stock's up and he put the wave slide out there. And wave slides to me, you can tell the senior management is kind of mojo by how well laid out the wave slide is. He put up a slide on one side, mainframe mini computer cloud. And the other side, client server internet IoT edge. He nailed it. I think Pat Gelsinger is either going to go down as being one of the most brilliant strokes of genius by looking at either laying down, look like a data center position and some say capitulate to Jassy who's smiling up there saying, bring those customers to Amazon. But this is a real partnership.  You can't be any bigger, bold bet than Pat Gelsinger right now with VMware. And it looks like it's paying out. What's your thoughts on Pat Gelsinger, the wave and his bold bet? Well, I think that businesses are configuring the cloud, John, to the realities of the data. And the data, most of the data is on-prem. So the big question I have is, how is Amazon going to respond to this? And Stu, you and Floria have had debates over the years. Floria has said flat out, Amazon is going to do a true private cloud just like Azure Stack. You have said no. But if Amazon doesn't do that, I think that Pat Gelsinger is going to look like a genius. If they do do that, it's going to become increasingly a more competitive relationship right now than it is right now. Yeah, just a little bit of the inside baseball. Kudos to VMware for getting this VMware on AWS out. I hear it was the sprint of the finish because taking cloud foundation, which is kind of a big piece. It's got the vSAN, the NSX, all that stuff and putting it in a virtual private data center. Amazon owns the data center, they give them servers. This was a heavy lift. NSX, some of the pieces are still kind of early, but getting this out the door limited availability, it's one data center, they're going to roll out services, but to Dave's point, right, where does this go down the road? Is this Amazon sticking a straw into 500,000 data centers and saying, come on in. We've got great services and this is awesome because I don't see Amazon rewriting their Linux stuff to be all native VMware. So where will this partnership mature? Andy said we're going to listen to our customers. We're going to do what you're asking us and absolutely today, VMware and Amazon, two of the strongest players in the ecosystem today, they're going to listen to their customers. There's Google, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, all in the wings fighting for these customers, so it's battle royale. There's no straws in there, John. What's your take and where do the developers fit in this? Well, Stu wrote a good point inside baseball, the key is that success with Amazon was critical. Jassy said basically this is not a Barney deal, which he kind of modernized by saying it's most deals are optical, really hitting at Microsoft on this one in Google. I mean, they're groping for relevance. It's clear that they're way behind. Everyone's trying to follow these guys, but on the heels of V Cloud Air, it was critical that they get this stake in the ground with Amazon. They took a lot of heat for the V Cloud Air, Stu. This had to get done. Now, my take on this is that this, I think it's a genius move. I think Pat Gelsinger is by betting the ranch on Amazon. It will go down in history as being a great move. You'll heard that here in 2017. He's so smart. He wants to be a component of the Amazon takeover, which will happen. It'll be a two cloud game, maybe three, maybe four, we'll see, but maybe two. But the ecosystem partners on this phase one is key. DXT, Deloitte, Accenture, Capgemini, and then you start to see the logos coming in. They have so many logos that they break them down. But more importantly, the white space. DevOps, migration costs, network security, and data protection are all filled in with plenty more room for more players. I think this is where the ecosystem was lagging just a few years ago. You saw the shift in the tide. Now you see an ecosystem going, wow, I get what VMware is doing. I'm doubling down. It's an Amazon web services, VMware world, all the other cloud players, in my opinion, are really fumbling the ball. I can infer from that, do you see this as a balanced partnership, i.e., it's not like one needs more than the other. I mean, clearly Amazon needs VMware to reach those 500,000 customers, and clearly VMware needs a cloud strategy because vCloud Air and many other attempts have failed. Yes, we said that, it has failed, we asked Pat about that. So you see it as a more balanced partnership. Do you see that balance of power shifting over time as that straw gets bigger and bigger and bigger? Well, the walking dead or as the Game of Thrones reference coming on is kind of the great wars happening in cloud. And it really is going to become Amazon versus whoever they can partner with and the rest of the legacy world. I think the wave slide was impressive to me because this is such a shift from just distributed computing now decentralized with blockchain and AI looming as massive disruptions. I think this is only going to get more decentralized. So whoever has tech that's legacy will ultimately be toast. And I think Gelsinger's smart to see that wave and I'm starting to see the movement. It's super early, so no big bets. It's just be directionally correct and ride that wave. Yeah, so one of the things that got me is last year kind of went on the radar that VMware's starting to launch some cloud services and we're very direct today that they said there are seven, basically SaaS offerings. It's security, it's cost management. Now VMware on AWS, a little expensive. We're starting to get the data on how much it is per month or per year or for a three year, but you know, going to have those SaaS offerings. We know VCloud Air failed. Also, Palmaritz had played the Microsoft game. We're going to get this suite of applications. We're going to give you email. We're going to give you social. We're going to give you all these things. They're all gone, kind of cleared the table of all those. Now they've got these SaaS applications. So how will that play? I kind of like Pat very upfront on security and said, as an industry, we have failed you. Dave, you've been looking at this for a long time. It's a board level discussion. It's a do-over for security. Does VMware have the chops to play in this space, Dave? Do you buy them as a valid SaaS provider? Well, two questions there. One is in the security front, that great tech is always going to get beat by bad user behavior. So this is a board level issue. As far as SaaS, to me, it's a business model issue that VMware is migrating its business to a ratable business model, which is smart. I don't see it as SaaS as in applications, but I see it as a monthly fee and better to get ahead of it now while you're hot, then get crushed by Wall Street as you're trying to make that transition, like many other companies have failed to do. Guys, one thing I want to note is that VMware also laid out their strategy. You kind of heard it there, even though that Jassy came on stage.  He's smart. He knows what's going on. He knows that he has to win VMware over because VMware, he's got to balance it. You got him in the back pocket on one hand and got a great relationship to 5,000 customers. But remember, VMware is also an arms dealer. They got the IT operations locked down with their customers. So they have other clouds they can go to. So the big trend that we didn't hear that's out there kind of hiding in plain sight is multi-cloud. Multi-cloud is ultimately VMware's strategy. He laid out, one, make private cloud easy. You guys reported on that. Two, deep partnerships with major cloud providers. And three, expand the ecosystem. Yeah, John, so I mean, a little bit of, you know, kind of rumors I heard. They were actually looking to make the partnership not with AWS at first. It was going to be Google. And Michael Dell said, we're going to start with a cloud deal. It's going to be Amazon. The right move. Absolutely. That's where it's going to be. But you remember last year we were here, John. You and I, the announcement was with IBM. Now, no offense to SoftLayer, great acquisition. It's doing well, but IBM does not play at the level of an Amazon. They might have the revenue of a Google in cloud, but you know, very different positioning. They were up on stage talking about security today. Great position there with analytics. But we'll see. There's two more days of keynotes. I expect we'll see another cloud provider making some announcements with VMware. And VMware, absolutely. An arms dealer. They put out on the slide all of their service fighters. We've got people like CenturyLink and OVH and Rackspace on theCUBE this week, as well as how they're going to play with the Microsoft Google. You got Michael Dell on tomorrow. I know you're going to talk to him about how Dell fits with Azure Stack and how, you know, the Dell whole family is going to play across all of these. Because at the end of the day, Michael Dell and Pat working for him, they want to keep getting revenue no matter who's the winner out there. Okay, final question as we wrap up the segment. Customers that are watching in here, it's clear to me that we even heard from one on stage saying, well, we're taking baby steps. That wasn't her exact words, but they're going slow to hybrid cloud. All the actions on private, as you guys pointed out in your true private cloud report on wikibond.com, you haven't seen it, go check it out. It's going viral. But this is classic slowness of most enterprise customers. When there's doubt, they slow down. And one of the things that concerns me, Stu, about the cloud guys right now, whether it's AWS, Google and Microsoft, is the market's moving so fast that if these clouds aren't dead, simple, easy to use, the customers aren't going to go to hybrid. They're going to go back to their comfort zone, which is the true private cloud. Going to build that base and it's just got to get easy to manage. It's got to get easier to a multi-cloud. And the bottom line is that Amazon's clearly in the lead. So, Jassy has a window right now to run the table on the enterprise. He's got about 18, 24 months. But Google's putting the pedal to the metal. I mean, they're pedaling as fast as they can. Microsoft's cobbling together their legacy, okay, running as fast as they can. But there's diseconomies of scale, Stu, for them. Your thoughts and reaction. Yeah, so, I always thought enterprise simplicity is actually an oxymoron. It does not exist. This VMware community, one of the things that people loved about it, they were builders.  Harvard Business School calls it the IKEA effect. If I help build it just enough, I actually love it a little bit more. VMware's not simple. NSX, hitting about a billion dollars. When you get into it, it is not easy. You know, security and networking are never going to be dirt simple. Amazon, we thought it was real simple. Now, thousands of services, absolutely. We've been at that ecosystem for many years. It gets tougher and tougher the more you get into it. And it's, John, some of the builders there, the developers there, they get in. There's lots of room for this ecosystem to build around that because one of the things we talk, as VMware goes to some of these clouds, where do they get that ecosystem? You mentioned some of the systems integrators, but the rest of the channel, where can they make money? And trying to help because it's not simple. How do they help get opinionated, make those choices, build it all together? There's professional services dollars there. There's ways to help consult with companies. Ecosystem's a key point. Watch the ecosystem and how that's forming around cloud, hybrid cloud, true private cloud, whatever you want to call it. And then again, the technology's maturing. It's all about the people and the process to actually affect so-called cloud, hybrid cloud, bringing the cloud model to the data, not forcing your business into cloud. We got to wrap up here. We also got Lisa Martin and Keith Townsend and John Troyer. We got some community guests as well, John and the community again like we did last year. So that should be great. But I want to put something out there, guys, so we can hit up tomorrow and tease it out. I worry about when you have these fast waves that are coming through and the velocity is phenomenal right now, is that what tends to crumble, Dave, to your ecosystem point are these foundations. When you have these industry consortiums, it's kind of like this political, they kind of, they've got boards and multiple, we've got their fingers in it. That could be the suffering point, in my opinion. And that points directly to Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, some of these consortiums groups are at risk, in my opinion, if it goes too fast due to your point. Kubernetes has got great traction, you got containers, Docker's got a new CEO, Uber's got a new CEO, I mean the world is moving so fast. So rhetorical question, industry consortiums, do they suffer or do they win in this environment? Depends on what they're doing, right? If they're low level technical standards that advance the industry, I think they do win. I think if it's posturing and co-opetition and trying to cut off one vendor at the knees, it loses. Let's do it real quick, consortiums, win or lose in this environment? Yeah, we've seen some that have done quite well and some that have been horrific. So absolutely, if it gets way too political, open source has done some really good things, but the foundations once they get in there, it's challenging and I'd say more times than not, they don't help. Well, we're in theCUBE, we're breaking it down, we're going to be squinting through all the announcements, looking at where the meat on the bone is, where the action is and the relevance and the impact to enterprises in an emerging tech. This is theCUBE, I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman and Dave Vellante, we're back with more live coverage, day one after this short break.


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