"The Eve of RUMOKO" by Roger Zelazny, included in _MY NAME IS LEGION_ . His "man off the grid" investigates who's trying to sabotage a project to use atomic bombs to artifically create an island chain by breaking through to the mantle.
That wasn't the reference intended: Steve Chen had just left Cray to start his own company. I told you it was obscure... but this was a big deal in late '80s computerdom, trust me.
material appears to be added to the book to pad out the chapter, including one of three separate ASCII Character charts
and
Now we enter into the Appendices -- we have another ASCII Character Chart as Appendix 1 (there are three total, if memory serves me correctly)
and
I found this book to be confused (no clear narrative/theme/idea), cluttered (why three ASCII charts?
So was this intended as an homage?:-)
This reminds me of Stan Kelly-Bootle's book parody (OK, it was a magazine column) called something like "Getting the Most Out of Your Cray" -- Appendix A was of course an ASCII table, but I thought the best tip was that you should be sure to save all the packing material in case you have to send it back for service.
(For what will surely be the most obscure bit of '80s computer industry insider humor you'll find on Slashdot today, the "book's" useful example program, instead of printing "Hello, world!" read "Goodbye, Steve!")
For Christ sake we have picture of Scott McNealy in a Penguin suit and Merril Lynch basically telling them "Buy RedHat or Novel".
Saying one likes Linux does not mean that one hates Solaris, nor vice versa.
Merrill Lynch telling Sun to buy Red Hat or Novell does not mean that Sun is backing away from Solaris, that Sun will buy Red Hat or Novell, nor even that Sun should buy Red Hat or Novell.
I know we're rather late in the life of this topic, but the "it's gotta be Linux or Solaris; there can be only one" rubric is worth taking at least a moment to debunk.
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"The Eve of RUMOKO" by Roger Zelazny, included in _MY NAME IS LEGION_ . His "man off the grid" investigates who's trying to sabotage a project to use atomic bombs to artifically create an island chain by breaking through to the mantle.
Fossil record
Ludacris
Ludicrous
Ironic
So was this intended as an homage? :-)
This reminds me of Stan Kelly-Bootle's book parody (OK, it was a magazine column) called something like "Getting the Most Out of Your Cray" -- Appendix A was of course an ASCII table, but I thought the best tip was that you should be sure to save all the packing material in case you have to send it back for service.
(For what will surely be the most obscure bit of '80s computer industry insider humor you'll find on Slashdot today, the "book's" useful example program, instead of printing "Hello, world!" read "Goodbye, Steve!")
- Saying one likes Linux does not mean that one hates Solaris, nor vice versa.
- Merrill Lynch telling Sun to buy Red Hat or Novell does not mean that Sun is backing away from Solaris, that Sun will buy Red Hat or Novell, nor even that Sun should buy Red Hat or Novell.
I know we're rather late in the life of this topic, but the "it's gotta be Linux or Solaris; there can be only one" rubric is worth taking at least a moment to debunk.ga-wha?
You can check the Solaris 10 release notes:
The download site will be changed shortly to reflect that the "x86" download is actually an "x64/x86" download. Sorry for the inconvenience.