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Unix Guru Evi Nemeth Missing, Feared Lost At Sea

Posted by Soulskill on from the get-home-safely dept.

14erCleaner writes "Retired Colorado professor Evi Nemeth has been missing between New Zealand and Australia since June 4, along with six others on their racing yacht. Nemeth, 73, is known as the primary author of the definitive Unix systems administration guide and for other works on Unix and Linux system administration and cryptography."

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  1. Oh-no by rainer_d · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I didn't understand much of Unix before I read her book. But then I got my hands on the (then already ancient) 1st edition of the Unix System Administration Handbook - and it felt like a fog being lifted.

    And I admit, I also thought she was a guy. She probably has baskets full of letters and emails with "Dear Mr Nemeth, ...".

    Evi Nemeth, we owe you!

    --
    Windows 2000 - from the guys who brought us edlin
  2. Re:Rawr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The more recent version is, um, foreshadowing:

    http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Administration-Handbook-Edition/dp/0131480057

  3. more information here by AndroSyn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just googled a bit for further information about the ship and came across a rather interesting thread: http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f121/schooner-nina-merged-3-threads-105498.html

    It appears the ship is equipped with an EPIRB that hasn't been activated apparently. Perhaps they really are just offcourse and not lost.