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.

Comments

Re:Windows Hater Book, Entry 1

[pdan]

I skimmed through the introduction to the book and it seems that they mostly complain about applications, not Unix OS itself.

Re:Ironic

[Narchie Troll]

Well, Plan 9 is five trillion times better than MacOS X. Also, I have the best-looking penis in the world.

Isn't making generalizations of personal preferences fun?

rm

[juuri]

There are no such things as "rm disasters".

There are only mistakes, stop making them, or at least think before you execute.

What are you talking about?

[unterderbrucke]

Nummynuts.