From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id a7ba8641 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 97D339C146; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:06:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAD079C0FD; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:05:40 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=andrewnesbit.org header.i=@andrewnesbit.org header.b="lx6xLqin"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id EC4269C0FD; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:05:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp-out-3.mxes.net (smtp-out-3.mxes.net [198.205.123.68]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 20D819BFE6 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 03:05:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Customer-MUA (mua.mxes.net [IPv6:fd::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B924327384; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:05:31 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=andrewnesbit.org; s=default; t=1579539932; bh=ZcyPP+cDeYVJDPXYvepSh1NwVwGOmdKb+bzPlC6LKR0=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=lx6xLqinMRolBPyWdDBQ8k4YNxvfBD+Y0OW4ELszpH1M3lC/0Crnpa/Kt4ky1a7F8 6ba0lQiucoBHb/2YSDh84nn8K7t6mMDF2rPqO0TXH5VDL9QYacwZjiNbKJBcoYtHrk XUMiCjgC02cYf3L/5O3U5N38BncMQ1pJbfIQHrmA= To: =?UTF-8?Q?=c3=81lvaro_Jurado?= , The Eunuchs Historic Society References: From: U'll Be King of the Stars Message-ID: <6071258e-83f7-da7d-35a1-5f5ece216750@andrewnesbit.org> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:05:30 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Sent-To: Subject: Re: [TUHS] Distributed systems, was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question" X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 18/01/2020 11:55, =C3=81lvaro Jurado wrote: > IBM Watson is not that concept? I don't want to go too off topic but out of all the cloud computing=20 providers I think that IBM Cloud is the nicest in terms of its interface=20 and functionality. Does anybody else think the same? I'm considering investing more of my time and resources into learning=20 about it. It certainly has the most interesting ecosystem. It doesn't=20 make me feel bombarded with information overload in the same way that=20 AWS does[1]. Nevertheless I think it's useful to have at least one AWS EC2 machine if=20 you're working professionally in the field of cloud computing and to=20 know one's way around the UI. It is, after all, the industry standard=20 reference platform in this field. Andrew [1] https://www.lastweekinaws.com is the saving grace that makes the=20 complicated AWS ecosystem understandable to me. --=20 OpenPGP key: EB28 0338 28B7 19DA DAB0 B193 D21D 996E 883B E5B9