Show Notes
Buffer Overflow: Municipal Broadband Devours Children
Episode 107
Municipal Broadband denied, Vmware on Azure, and Google’s Amnesia Machine
Hosts
Ned Bellavance, Director of Cloud Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ned-bellavance-ba68a52
@Ned1313
Chris Hayner, Delivery Manager
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismhayner
Kimberly DeFilippi, Project Manager, Business Analyst
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-defilippi-77b3986/
Brenda Heisler, Resource Coordinator
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brenda-heisler-b5431989/
Longer Topics
Municipal Broadband
* Verizon, etc, continue to bribe- er, I mean, encourage.. State legislatures to ban local broadband
* According to the American Consumer Satisfaction index, barely 62 percent of US Residents report being “satisfied” by their ISP
* Consumers who have municipal broadband are the only Americans who are overwhelmingly happy with their broadband
* And in states that actually have been running with full scale bans on municipal internet, it has been an unmitigated disaster for consumers.
* Major findings From Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom
VMware on Azure is official… again
* Microsoft announce VMware on Azure in November of 2017
* VMware was all like, “We are not going to support that. At all.”
* Provision VMware VMs from the Azure console, CLI, API
* Ned’s Post on VMware on AWS
Lightning Round
* Amazon’s majestic programmer-friendly efff youuu to Oracle is finally released to the public
* In fact, they already have Corretto 8 available in preview
* Four Terabytes ought to be enough for anybody, until it sets your computer on fire
* Google self-imposes amnesia
* Girls are beating Boys at tech and engineering
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