Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"

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Interview With the Author of "Mastering Cat"

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 1, 2009 @05:01AM from the waste-of-words dept.

Shlomi Fish writes "O'Reilly is publishing a new book titled 'Mastering cat,' about the UNIX 'cat' command. Here is an interview O'Reilly-Net conducted with the author about it. Read it to see if this book should be part of your bookshelf of technical books."

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I tried mastering cat. by SuperBry · 2009-04-01 05:03 · Score: 5, Funny

But I kept on getting scratched...
Re:How about the followup? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-01 05:05 · Score: 5, Funny

I'd prefer the follow up "Mastering Pussy"
How hard is it to get CAT to work with HURD? by TinBromide · 2009-04-01 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny

I've been trying to get my cat to play nice with gnu Hurd for a while. It seems like it starts to work, but then starts to ignore all IO and proceeds to SLEEP(3600). I am eagerly awaiting someone who can get a cat Hurd to work.

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1. Re:How hard is it to get CAT to work with HURD? by mrogers · 2009-04-01 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The trick to controlling a cat Hurd is pipes... lots of pipes.
O HAI by Oxy+the+moron · 2009-04-01 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny

I CAN HAZ DIS BOOK NOW PLZ??

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1. Re:O HAI by Bob+The+Cowboy · 2009-04-01 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I CAN HAZ DIS BOOK NOW PLZ??
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  I knew it... lolcats is a grassroots movement started by the Libertarians to... uhh... get... cheezeburgers?
Neuter to decrease aggression by wonmon · 2009-04-01 05:17 · Score: 5, Funny

rm -r testes
1. Re:Neuter to decrease aggression by kg9ov · 2009-04-01 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  The cat probably won't be as open to that as you may think... I would suggest using the -f option as well, just to be sure.
Re:I use... by Tetsujin · 2009-04-01 05:34 · Score: 5, Funny

...Schroeder's cat. If it works, you don't know it, but if it doesn't you have to try again until you get it to work (if you can tell that it worked anyway). Then the pipe comes out to stop my mind frying.
That's "Schrodinger's cat". Your license to make quantum mechanics jokes is hereby revoked. To make sure you don't try to take your license back, we're going to keep you updated on its current velocity.

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Re:I'm more intersted in tail than cat. by drooling-dog · 2009-04-01 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

That would be useful. And if there was one on mastering head, I'd buy it for the GF...
Re:Frist Psot? by cayenne8 · 2009-04-01 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

"What is this "African Decent" you speak of? :)"
Well, it is like regular Descent, except rather than flying through caves, you are flying through a dry, arid desert area. And rather than lasers and smart bombs, you get a spear. If lucky, you get a power up weapon of a coke bottle that comes to you from the gods in the sky.

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Wrong cover by dlsmith · 2009-04-01 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

O'Reilly would never put a picture of a cat on a book about "cat". It's way too obvious. (Well, nevermind.)
Re:I'm more intersted in tail than cat. by fwice · 2009-04-01 06:27 · Score: 5, Funny

>---joke---> O \|/ <--- you / \ WHOOSH