Posts by none_of_your_business 5 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2023
Sorry, they do different things... though the article doesn't really make this clear and I'm not buying the "they have 30% market share" each thing either as they aren't competitors.
Ansible - configuration management, configures your infrastructure (real competitor : something like Chef or Puppet).
Terraform - infrastructure as code, creates your infrastructure (real competitor : something like AWS Cloudformation).
There are points where there is crossover but not on the whole.
Not sure IBM cares too much about the command line terraform which was the only open source bit. It always struck me as being an 'open core' project of sorts. It's HCP Terraform or the enterprise stuff they're after, none of which was ever free (unless you've less than 5 users but IBM doesn't care if that's you). True, most terraform adopters only ever ran the terraform cli tool and built their own management around it with extra bits of scripts and CI/CD platforms but in my opinion the terraform tool itself is not of much use without a management process and supporting infrastructure around it except in the most simple of cases. So from IBM's perspective I reckon the merger of ansible and terraform into a unified platform with a web front end, lots of graphs, and reports for management types will be a winner for enterprises. For everyone else there's the forks.
Not going to downvote! But pedant hat on...
Standardised control keys and options, which Windows follows, originated back with the Apple Lisa and later there was an attempt to standardise these under the auspices of IBM called the "common user access" or CUA guidelines which was intended to make working in applications across all flavours of computer system consistent. Microsoft was no doubt involved and paid heed to these but I wouldn't necessarily credit them with it; it was an industry wide thing.
Yes, easy to think nothing much has changed and in some ways you're right that it hasn't.
But lots of things are way better than they were 10 or so years ago or at least accessible to people without tons of money if they existed back then.
Tablet computers with touch screens would be the prime thing... didn't exist as a realistic proposition prior to 2010. Neither for that matter were smart phones a big thing.
Then there's display technology... remember the standard 1366x768 15.6" laptop display? Try looking at one now, they're really rather awful in retrospect. Now 1920x1080 is entry level and a 4K display isn't mega bucks.
And battery life? 2h30 realistically from a 10 year old laptop even when new... noisy fans, spinning rust hard drives, CCFL backlights sucking the power. Battery tech hasn't improved much if any since then but you get so much more for so much less power draw these days.
Software, ok -- some improvements but more like one step forward two steps back (three steps if you're Microsoft :-p )
Maybe I've misinterpreted you but you seem to be a bit upset about being shown pimples. Might I suggest that people suffering from skin conditions have as much right to be represented on the internet and share their experiences of their 'own story' as you put it without framing that experience as 'marginal or unimportant' or to suggest that they are so unpleasant that you should be protected from them. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean you can demand the right to be shielded from it.
I don't like the mass surveillance any more than most people in the know, and whilst I don't really use any social media, I do spend time on YouTube and find it quite good at matching what I'm interested in viewing. At least where it works in my favour I'm happy to tolerate the intrusion, perhaps you should try not interfering with it and it might work better at helping you avoid 'unpleasant skin conditions'.
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