[geeks] New to Unix administration

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:53 , Lionel Peterson wrote:

> You must, IMHO, read the Unix Hater's Handbook - the material is  
> dated (1980's), but the humor is priceless...
>
> Google will help you find it on the web, it was an actual bound book  
> now freely available as a PDF from the author.
>
> I've read it 2+ times already, and there are still some parts I  
> giggle uncontrolably at.

Funny book, but much of it was outdated even when it was still being  
printed a lot.

Interesting that no one wrote a similar book pointing out the glaring  
idiocy that exists in VMS, MVS, and other systems, some of which make  
UNIX look pretty tame.

TCO anyone?

How about those VMS "shells"?

Oh, oh, oh... "BLISS".  Wait, that's not humor, that's tragedy, sorry.

I was talking with someone one day and mostly we only write humor like  
this about systems we interact with in some way.

For example, you'll never see a book poking fun at VxWorks, even  
though it has some pretty silly oddities itself, because you just  
don't really "use it", you just put it in place and write code on top  
of it.




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Shannon Hendrix
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