...as a newbie myself--the O'reilly Linux site, the LDP of course, &, since I'm using Slackware, their forums at slackware.com. Still, hardcopy is great to have, & the best of what I've looked at (which is alot, I work in a bookstore & go through the unix/linux stuff alot, but these 2 I mention are the ones I've gone to the trouble of buying):
--Running Linux, Matt Welch, et al., isbn 156592469x
--Think Unix, Jon Lasser, isbn 078972376x
Lasser's is especially fun, he has a unique approach. A simple approach really, but quite different from much of what's out there.
Sorry if I rambled a bit....
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Yep (already posted it somewhere above...I've always loved that story)...A.G. used to tell the story himself (cantankerous pride) & he put it in his memoir, released in '97 or so here (and about a year earlier in England) which was called My Name Escapes Me
I promise not to mention the "Genuine Class" anagram.
By all means, www.noamazon.com...and it's a good memoir, no matter where you get it. He tells the story of meeting a child who claimed to have seen Star Wars 100 times or something...I quote inaccurately, from memory, but it's in the memoir (entitled My Name Escapes Me, in case you want to find a copy):
Guinness: "Can you make me a promise?"
child: "YES!" (glad to help out Obi Wan)
Guinness: "Can you promise me that you will never again watch that film?"
The parent of the child apparently didn't appreciate this.
Is that not what the Eazel project is all about? Or do you envision something more (although it's perhaps hard to answer that, since there is no Eazel "product" yet)?
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...as a newbie myself--the O'reilly Linux site, the LDP of course, &, since I'm using Slackware, their forums at slackware.com. Still, hardcopy is great to have, & the best of what I've looked at (which is alot, I work in a bookstore & go through the unix/linux stuff alot, but these 2 I mention are the ones I've gone to the trouble of buying):
--Running Linux, Matt Welch, et al., isbn 156592469x
--Think Unix, Jon Lasser, isbn 078972376x
Lasser's is especially fun, he has a unique approach. A simple approach really, but quite different from much of what's out there.
Sorry if I rambled a bit....
Yep (already posted it somewhere above...I've always loved that story)...A.G. used to tell the story himself (cantankerous pride) & he put it in his memoir, released in '97 or so here (and about a year earlier in England) which was called My Name Escapes Me
I promise not to mention the "Genuine Class" anagram.
By all means, www.noamazon.com...and it's a good memoir, no matter where you get it. He tells the story of meeting a child who claimed to have seen Star Wars 100 times or something...I quote inaccurately, from memory, but it's in the memoir (entitled My Name Escapes Me, in case you want to find a copy):
Guinness: "Can you make me a promise?"
child: "YES!" (glad to help out Obi Wan)
Guinness: "Can you promise me that you will never again watch that film?"
The parent of the child apparently didn't appreciate this.
Is that not what the Eazel project is all about? Or do you envision something more (although it's perhaps hard to answer that, since there is no Eazel "product" yet)?