| > Educate me. Not sure if I'm being trolled... It finds a remote machine by name, and routes a connection to it. It authenticates and establishes a secure connection with the machine. It sends a command to the remote machine, the remote machine executes it, and the result is returned. It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell. > That was a quick response to what I thought would be better than administrating a UNIX system on an Amazon machine. It was content-free. > Don't be an ass. What's good for the goose... > I've no experience with the real distributed computing systems created before UNIX. And already the expert. Impressive. > No, that's the vapid marketing pitch. No, that's the reality. That's why Amazon, Google, Azure, and everybody else offer it in their clouds and use it on their internal infrastructure. > The Linux kernel randomly kills processes when it starts exhausting memory. It's garbage. I'll take that over "running little functions floating in the void", it actually exists and works. |
It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell.
That does sound better than returns one octet with two well-defined values, sure.
And already the expert. Impressive.
I know UNIX is shit with a legion of cultists.
Hey, if we live in the best of all possible worlds, explain the market dominance of Windows. Did MicroSoft give Windows away for nothing, to poor unsuspecting university students who decided to hack on it instead of learn what a real computer is, until none remained?