Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

O'Reilly Publishing Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

Posted by pudge on from the sweet-unix-luvin dept.

vi-rocks writes "A new O'Reilly book is due for release in October: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Brian Jepson and Ernest Rothman are the authors. Details about the book (including a sample chapter) are available on the website. Note the sash on the top right hand of the cover reads 'Switching to Mac OS X.' They say you can't judge a book by it cover -- HUMBUG!, I've already pre-ordered :)" The sample chapter information on NetInfo has helped me already.

3 of 71 comments (clear)

  1. META: Please flag PDF-links by RobotWisdom · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    In my ongoing campaign to encourage the creation of a styleguide for Slashdot blurbs, I'd like to point out again that the link to the sample chapter in this blurb will be a 'gotcha' for many readers, who need to give PDFs special handling (or skip them).

    Just marking it [pdf] would be a big help, for minimal effort. (See my other recent replies for similar style suggestions.)

    1. Re:META: Please flag PDF-links by RobotWisdom · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      "tons of explicit metadata"

      The rule is very simple: minimise 'gotchas'. Any non-standard file-format deserves explicit tagging.

      "Look at your browser's status bar"

      This is just inconsiderate interface-design. Nobody really wants to have to hover-and-peek before every click.

  2. Linux users would switch.... by fault0 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    if apple gave us free mac hardware :)