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.

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Dupe!

[Corporate Troll]

Dupe!
Look six headlines down (assuming you don't block topics) and it's still here on the main page.

Removed from the web.

[DeadSea]

The link has been removed until the "brou-ha-ha on Slashdot to dies down". If you go to the google cache to get the link, you will get a "forbidden" error when you try to use it. Lucky, the pdf of the book is in the Google Cache.

Well...

[Squidgee]

Since Taco is seemingly trying to kill this company's hardware, I suggest you all (Who've not already seen this book, since, well, it's a dupe) head on over to the Google Cache and spare the poor company's servers.

Re:Well, we all know it's a dupe

[Col. Klink (retired)]

Maybe there's a good reason they rejected it. Like the first paragraph that says:

Andrew Busigin says: "The best advice I have, is to disregard the article entirely, until a more complete and competent analysis can be properly prepared, reviewed, and published."

or the followup article where they completely retract and apologize for the original.

Here's how to do it:

[Anonymous Coward]

$q_amIaDupe = mysql_query("SELECT FROM posts WHERE sid=$sid AND comment_text like '%DUPE!!!1!%'");

if(mysql_num_rows($q_amIaDupe) > 5)) {
move_story_to_dupe_queue($sid);
}

Mirror, and more information on the Lisp Machine

[andreas]

A mirror of the document is here.

And here is the master thesis of Tom Knight, describing the architecture of the Lisp Machine. If you want to see one in action, visit me on the Chaos Communication Camp.

One online Symbolics Lisp Machine museum is here.

And yes, UNIX royally sucks. It plays in the same suckage leage as Windows, of course, but still it sucks. It's a clone of technologies of the early 70ies, and a bad one.

The Windows Haters Handbooks

[Anonymous Coward]

I really wonder how big it's Windows counterpart will be. I'd say approx 35MB then.

It's a multi-volume set, published by O'Reilly, of course:

• Windows Annoyances (covering 95 and NT)
• Windows 98 Annoyances
• Windows ME Annoyances
• Windows XP Annoyances
• Office 97 Annoyances
• Excel 97 Annoyances
• Word 97 Annoyances
• Outlook Annoyances

ONLINE PDF

[MadAtGravity]

Hi everybody

Here's a copy of that infamous book : http://members.aol.com/Seb0013/uhh.pdf

Sorry for the delay, it took time to remember i had some disk space on a site which has decent bandwidth and which i don't mind being slashdotted.

Unix is the future.

Re:Dupe letter... Dear Mr. Weise, et. al.

[Apotsy]

That's a pretty uninformed assessment. See David K. Every's excellent essay on the subject for some relevant info.

Although one factor he fails to emphasize enough is that, for various political and business reasons, Apple was forced to start over several times (first Pink, then Copland, etc.)

I have this book

[Do not eat]

I actually have it in paperback form, and it comes with a Unix barfbag. A lot of the points made in the book are still quite valid, but a lot of them are things that have been fixed in the last 10 years. When placed at the appropriate time, you have to realize that it does a decent job of describing the worst parts of Unix from the views of VMS users, among others. Like /., it makes no pretense of being a balanced view.

My main gripe is that they confuse the Internet with Unix. So an entire chapter is devoted to Usenet. That was written before spam, I'm sure the author would be able to write even more vitriol in that category.

I'd love to see it updated, particularly given that so many of the gripes have been addressed and fixed in the world of FS/OSS.