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Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online
prostoalex writes "The Unix-Haters Handbook, publication year 1994, is now available online for free as a single PDF file. Apparently some suburban Seattle company has agreed to host this 3.5MB file on its servers. The anti-foreword is written by no other but Dennis Ritchie, who proclaims: 'Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But
it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.'" This is what should happen to more out-of-print books.
Its not? It must just be a complete coincidence then that Daniel Weise (A) Hates UNIX (B) Works for Microsoft and (C) was allowed to have it on one of Microsoft's servers. Ya think Microsoft would have minded had Daniel been one of the co-authors of the I Hate Windows book?? Do the math.
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First Crybaby statement:
A) Cryptic Command Names. Still there in Linux ALIAS to something easier you dolt
Second Crybaby statement:
It is amazing how much training it takes in UNIX to do something simple in Windows. Like grepping a text delimited file and piping its output into awk or sed from a simple command prompt? Or storing that information in a simple system variable to be used by a C program compiled on gcc for whatever reason you need? How dumb is you!
Third Crybaby statement:
D) The X-Windows Disaster. X-Windows is what first made me question UNIX's superiority. Dang X sucks. Bad. What a mess! "Motif Self-Abuse Kit" made me laugh because my brief experience programming Motif was one of the worst in my life. It was a mess of void pointers and pointers to functions that was an absolute pain to program.
It's Open Source bigshot college educated programmer, weren't you bright enough to FIX the problems or just whine because thats what you can do?
Last Crybaby statement that prooves no programmer wrote this:
I've never found a make that I liked. You should not have to spend hours programming the freakin makefile. Nor should you have to debug whitespace because you have an extra space or tab.
Riiiiiiiiiight, everything should work perfectly the first time with only minutes invested regardless of the complexity of the code and how many source/header files you are trying to link up with that makefile.
Maybe you need to go back and put some real work into that useless piece of paper you got, cuz buddy you are a programmer like George W. Bush is a Scholar and Genius.
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHH. My god, is ALL of Slashdot fools these days? THAT "story" was the April Fools joke. Do you also still believe that Microsoft adn Disney give away free stuff to people who forward emails, or that stepping on cracks actually breaks backs?
jX [ Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. - Einstein ]
Does that kind of bullshit macho attitude apply for companies making airplanes? When people making airplaies discovered that slats switches were being turned on accidentally, did they say:
:-)
"Yea, so what the slats extention switch can be accidentally turned on by an unintentional movement, possibly causing passenter-injury. Tell the pilots to be more careful and not fuck up."
No, they didn't. They said,
"Ok, so this is a problem. Why don't we cover the slats switch with a spherical clear cover that has to be unhinged before extending slats -- that way, they won't get extended at 500mph and cause the plane to trolly."
OK. Somebody reads Micheal Crichton.
Was there any other point
Microsoft has researchers? Or is it just the one? If so, that would indeed explain the inability of such a huge company to come up with anything even remotely innovative that they haven't stolen from someone else.
Although 'respected' would something of a stretch by any measure....
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
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You mean like that kind of junk?
This isn't a fault of the system, it's a strength - the strength called 'job security'.
Any idiot can become an MCSE. Hell, just about any generic power user would qualify, since the MCSE really can't do much more than the power user can no matter what his training. If you can't even see the code you're stuck with the same tools as the power user (plus perhaps a few you've crafted yourself, but then you're already beyond 99% of the MCSE's out there).
However, in Unix or Linux it takes some serious dedication to even find some of the fucking tools, much less understand how they're applied. Do you think that was done by accident? No way, Jack; some canny Unix dweebs said "hey, if I make the bloody thing as difficult to master as possible I'm set for life! Sweeeeet!"
And lo! We have commands which do not follow logically from their names, as well as the godawful man pages and info system. It's simply an extension of an old programming truism often used by the unscrupulous: make the code twisted and the documentation nonexistent and company x will be calling you back for support for the life of the program.
Note that I'm not blasting Linux, from when I write this post, but after all these years, and with the advance of age, I find that I've forgotten more about Linux than most of the noobs ever learn. The pain of that is that if I vaguely remember doing operation x several years back and want to do it again, I have to hunt for the bloody information all over again, and with some measure of frustration as now I *know* it's around, I just can't precisely remember *where*.
The thing I want most for Linux: comprehensive documentation. I mean freakin'-fucking-comprehensive, all in dead tree format. Screw job security, I don't have any in this economy anyway.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
'd really like to see you design airplaines. Maybe fighter planes. Just to make sure pilots are *extra careful*, the button for "drop bombs" should be right next to the button for "lower landing-gear".
If you find unix to be this hard or complex perhaps you should focus on something more your speed, like PS2 or XBOX.
You continually build up strawman arguments in almost every one of your responses (not just in this thread). I don't know if you consider that to be a valid form of discussion or debate, but it isn't.
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