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Good call.

I W00T at __EDIT: The w00table thing that was posted and then removed.__

I would love for that to be real, but I don't think it is. The way the flyer is being held, the plan names should be slanted like the rest of the columns. But in that picture, they don't have the same pitch as the rest of the table they're in. Someone did a better job at photoshopping than the original "fake" image.

If I'm wrong, I'll be happy

*hears the Linode secret police coming"

It is real - these were handed out at SXSW. I posted it a week ago or so, but was requested to not post it until all 3 NextGen Blogposts were made, to ensure Linode gets most benefit out of it so they can continue to do things like this in the future.

Unless the final announcement is today, I'm pretty sure they'll request you to remove the image as well.

Once they start handing out flyers that information is out there and there is little point trying to hide it.

I edited my post anyway as a good faith kind of thing. I'll be very happy to get the __undisclosed thing that we are talking about__.

I just can't wait for the official announcement. I've been looking forward to this for quite awhile. mikegrb is dreamy with his clothes on; I can't imagine how wonderful the centerfold will be.

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The __undisclosed thing__ isn't a 100% bigger dingley dangler.

Not me. My uptimes are "horrible" (not really an issue. I could easily do some sort of high-availability load balancing, or temporarily migrate DNS to a different host when I need to reboot) ... in my case, the lower uptimes are because my linode is running pvgrub (custom) kernels.

Even if I wasn't running gentoo on this linode (default kernels for gentoo are all "compile your own kernel" even if you use gentoo's genkernel tool to configure it) ... historically, I've only rarely ever waited for major linux distributions to build me a new kernel, but more often I've not even used the distro's kernel, or sometimes not even built against their kernel patchset if I had a reason not to (note that linode-provided kernels don't use the "intended" patchset for whatever distro you're on)

I could probably get away with running a linode-provided kernel against gentoo's dependancy system, but since I'm not willing to wait for linode's provided kernels to be updated, and I'd have no guarantees that configured options would be compatible with all my userspace code, or that a provided kernel will have features I need enabled for whatever reason, or other features disabled for performance or security, etc. etc. etc. </rant>

My last kernel upgrade was less than 2 months ago, and just a couple releases before 3.7.x kernels were marked "end of life" by the maintainers at kernel.org:

... ~ $ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.7.8 (kuzetsa@yurizoku.tk) (gcc version 4.7.2 (Gentoo 4.7.2 p1.2, pie-0.5.5) ) #2 SMP Sat Feb 16 10:38:10 UTC 2013
... ~ $ uptime
 15:12:54 up 36 days,  3:50,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05

The flyers are being shown on Linode's own blog aggregation site The flyer does have certain differences from what is currently advertised, although it's not what I was hoping for...

Part 2 was 11 days after part 1, and it is now 11 days after part 2. Hoping for part 3