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The Unix-Haters Handbook Online
kinema writes "It looks like The UNIX-Hater's Handbook has been made availible
online for free. You'll never guess who's server it is on." Worth noting that the book was written some time ago, and that much of what is in there is ancient history. But still worth a look.
... I guess Taco hates Unix so much, he wanted us to see this story twice.
This time the duplicate is deliberate: they're trying to double-slashdot That Company's servers.
-Mark
Feeling down 'n' dirty, feeling kinda mean
I've been from one to another extreme
This time I had a good time, ain't got time to wait
I wanna stick around till I can't see straight
Fill my eyes with that double vision
No disguise for that double vision
Ooh, when you get through to me, it's always new to me
My double vision gets the best of me
Never do more than I, I really need
My mind is racing, but my body's in the lead
Tonight's the night, I'm gonna push it to the limit
I live all my years in a single minute
Fill my eyes with that double vision
No disguise for that double vision
Ooh, when you get through to me, it's always new to me
My double vision always seems to get the best of me, yeah-ah
Fill my eyes with that double vision
No disguise for that double vision
Ooh, when you get through to me, it's always new to me
My double vision gets me
Ooh, when it gets through to me, it's always new to me
My double vision always seems to get the best of me
Yeah, the best of me
Cut and paste mirror link from previous article.. I'm going to fire him so hard when I get in to work Monday...
I just read half of it (thanks to the earlier posting ;)
The book is quite amusing imho. While the authors clearly have a lot of experience in the computing world, it's obvious to see that most of their stories are based on users not knowing that they are doing. Especially the part where the bash bash (huhu) and other shells was fun reading. The book could just as well have been written by Simon Travaglia as a manual for his users.
This pdf is 3.5MB. I really wonder how big it's Windows counterpart will be. I'd say approx 35MB then.
I'm not a complete idiot... Some parts are missing.
That's what we really need.
The dupes are a UNIX usability thing - it won't be cleared up until the slashcode port to another platform completes.
Oo, don't you just HATE *nix?
"Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac
Yes, Timothy, I'll bet you are.
You know, the fucking dupes are getting so fucking bad it's not even fun making fun of Taco anymore.
/. seriously.
How about, whenever there is a REALLY bad dupe, change the poster to CowboyNeal. That way, you can pretend it's a joke instead of another amazinly stupid fuckup.
With the dupes, trolls and all the fucking profanity, it's pretty fucking hard to get people to take fucking
Exactly, they need to move to Windows where everything has so many features duplication is near impossible, not matter how hard people try
- 10 C++. The COBOL of the 90s
Let me see. The document is at some microsoft developers homepage, they way I translate this is that "C++ is bad"?
And what language is most of Microsoft Windows written in? Oh, let me see, C++? Isn't this a bit self-contradictory?
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
At the top left corner of the dedication page a single word that reveals the ugly truth:
vi
NEO: Whoa. Deja vu.
/. article said "Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online" and then I saw another that looked just like it.
/. article?
TRINITY: What did you just say?
NEO: Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
TRINITY: What happened? What did you see?
NEO: A
TRINITY: How much like it? Was it the same
NEO: It might have been. I'm not sure.
NEO: What is it?
TRINITY: A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when CmdrTaco doesn't check previous posts!
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike
most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor
any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern
driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant "?" lights up in
the center of the dashboard. "The experienced driver," says Thompson,
"will usually know what's wrong."
i have placed it here in its entirety:
Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax
In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for more than 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:
Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&T, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, GTE, NCR, and DEC have refused comment at this time. Borland International, a leading vendor of Pascal and C tools, including the popular Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo C++, stated they had suspected this for a number of years and would continue to enhance their Pascal prod-ucts and halt further efforts to develop C. An IBM spokesman broke into uncontrolled laughter and had to postpone a hastily convened news confer-ence concerning the fate of the RS/6000, merely stating "Workplace OS will be available Real Soon Now." In a cryptic statement, Professor Wirth of the ETH Institute and father of the Pascal, Modula 2, and Oberon struc-tured languages, merely stated that P. T. Barnum was correct.In 1969, AT&T had just terminated their work with the GE/AT&T Multics project. Brian and I had just started working with an early release of Pascal from Professor Nichlaus Wirth's ETH labs in Swit-zerland, and we were impressed with its elegant simplicity and power. Dennis had just finished reading Bored of the Rings, a hilari-ous National Lampoon parody of the great Tolkien Lord of the Rings trilogy. As a lark, we decided to do parodies of the Multics environ-ment and Pascal. Dennis and I were responsible for the operating environment. We looked at Multics and designed the new system to be as complex and cryptic as possible to maximize casual users' frus-tration levels, calling it Unix as a parody of Multics, as well as other more risque allusions.
Then Dennis and Brian worked on a truly warped version of Pascal, called "A." When we found others were actually trying to create real programs with A, we quickly added additional cryptic features and evolved into B, BCPL, and finally C. We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:
To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that allowed such a statement was beyond our comprehension! We actu-ally thought of selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years. Imagine our surprise when AT&T and other U.S. corporations actually began trying to use Unix and C! It has taken them 20 years to develop enough expertise to generate even marginally useful applications using this 1960s technological parody, but we are impressed with the tenacity (if not common sense) of the general Unix and C programmer.
In any event, Brian, Dennis, and I have been working exclusively in Lisp on the Apple Macintosh for the past few years and feel really guilty about the chaos, confusion, and truly bad programming that has resulted from our silly prank so long ago.
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