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Weekend reading revisited

03 March 2008 in Engineering, Internet, Notes, Politics by Stilgherrian | 2 comments

Some things I found on the weekend which you might like. The UNIX-HATERS Handbook, which reminded me that for all the religious hype over Unix/Linux it really is just a kludge. (Hat-tip of the geekiest kind to Alastair Rankine.) A NY Times article How Dangerous Is the Internet for Children? Answer: not particularly. A fine Wired story about Titan Salvage, the smart, brave and somewhat scary guys who salvage ships. And Possums Pollytics’ wonderful response to an attack by The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan.

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Tags: dennis-shanahan, linux, paranoia, possum comitatus, titan salvage, unix

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Alastair on 03 March 2008 at 10:37 pm

Proud to say that I still have my dead-tree version of the Unix-Haters Handbook *with* the accompanying Unix Barf Bag (unused).

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Stilgherrian on 04 March 2008 at 8:31 am

@Alastair: A barf bag, eh? Now there’s some sensible packaging! And still we use *nix…

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