Interesting Snippets from 2013-07-04

• Why Ansible | AnsibleWorks

  Ansible is an orchestration engine—built to provide a powerful framework for systems automation. Ansible allows you to avoid writing custom scripts or code to manage your applications—but more importantly, it allows you to do so in a language that approaches plain English.

• A few words on Doug Engelbart

  Engelbart had an intent, a goal, a mission. He stated it clearly and in depth. He intended to augment human intellect. He intended to boost collective intelligence and enable knowledge workers to think in powerful new ways, to collectively solve urgent global problems. The problem with saying that Engelbart "invented hypertext", or "invented video conferencing", is that you are attempting to make sense of the past using references to the present. "Hypertext" is a word that has a particular meaning for us today. By saying that Engelbart invented hypertext, you ascribe that meaning to Engelbart's work.

• ansible/ansible · GitHub

  Ansible is a radically simple configuration-management, deployment, task-execution, and multinode orchestration framework.

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