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Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-keep-that-bottled-up-inside-you dept.

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.

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  2. Re:Windows Hater Book, Entry 1 by pdan · · Score: 1, Troll

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

  3. Re:Ironic by Narchie+Troll · · Score: 0, 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?

  4. rm by juuri · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are no such things as "rm disasters".

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

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    --- I do not moderate.
  5. What are you talking about? by unterderbrucke · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nummynuts.