Stuart Herbert | Gentoo

When I recently bought my new MacBook Pro, I also picked up a copy of Parallels Desktop for Mac from the same store. That turned out to be a bit of a mistake.

I downloaded the latest beta of Parallels, only to find that the license key that came in the retail copy of Parallels wasn’t recognised by the beta. More than a bit puzzled (the instructions for the beta state that you can re-use your existing license key), I contacted Parallels’ support team for help.

It turns out that the retail copy of Parallels that I bought isn’t supported by Parallels at all. Not the customer service I was looking for. I have to go through the UK reseller for support.

Why do I have the feeling that this is going to turn into a saga?

Don’t make my mistake - if you want to get yourself a copy of Parallels, make sure you download it from their website. Don’t waste your money on a boxed copy from a store.

Contrary to what this week’s Gentoo Weekly News says, please don’t contact me about the removal of the nxserver packages from Portage. That section of GWN appears to be auto-generated by a script, and not checked by a human prior to publication.

Please send all queries to nx@gentoo.org instead. I believe Stefan (genstef) has taken over the NX packages.

I’d just like to say thank you to everyone who’s contacted me since I retired, offering words of support and understanding. I’ve made many great friends over the last three years, and enjoyed great working relationships with many more folks, and I hope we all keep in touch in the future.

I have no intention of talking about my retirement in public, so please stop asking me to. I’ve left Gentoo. My involvement with it is now history as far as I am concerned. I can’t stop you talking about why I left, but whatever concerns you want to raise about Gentoo, please make sure they’re your personal concerns instead of whatever you believe it was that finally made me decide to quit. Just leave me out of it, please.

A few folks have been in touch to call me a “coward” for leaving. I despise each and every one of you for that (which I’m sure is hardly news to you). You only make me wonder how you can look at yourselves in the mirror each morning.