THe Unix Hater hand book is Released

[HPC GUY]

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/4/25/213558/957
Why am i not surprised?

[solo]

"Why am i not surprised?"

because
  a. hosted on microsoft.com
  b. rumoured to be a payed publishing of m$
 
this stuff is ooooolllldd.

pretty much none of the problems described from what I read are at all present in any modern UNIX-based or UNIX-clone system I've used. I dont think I'll get a all-caps command line if i log in with all caps, *because i cant* etc etc. It seems these problems are looking at the original UNIX code base.

[Pantso]

Same article on Slashdot a few days ago. Check out the comments. They're worth it.  

[Fett101]

Rumored to be large part comedy.

http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/uhh-download.html

 

quote:The UNIX-HATERS Handbook Download Page
Due to being announced on Slashdot.org, the book has gotten a lot of fresh attention. I've added this page so that those downloading the book can be aware of some history before starting their read.

• This book is ten years old . I started work on it in 1992 (maybe even 1991) while I was a professor at Stanford. My co-editors took over after I started work at Microsoft. (So no, it's not a Microsoft conspiracy.) A lot has happened in the intervening decade.
• This book's target audience was people who themselves have noticed certain weaknesses in Unix at that time and could relate to our stories. Our goal was humor. Many readers have told us we succeeded in this. Even Eric Raymond liked it (his name is in the acknowledgements).
• The book is not meant to be balanced, it is a screed, pure and simple. Is it over the top? Yes.

We wrote the contract with our publisher to have the copyright revert to us once the book went out of print. So yes, we have the right to publish it online. Feel free to mirror it where ever you want, print it out, and bind it.

• Do I have any regrets? Yes, that the funniest item in the book probably isn't anything we wrote, but is Dennis Ritchie's anti-forword. (We had asked Dennis to write a forword, thinking that since he was doing Plan 9 at that time, it would give him an opportunity to talk about how he had moved on from Unix and fixed its flaws in his next OS. (We were young and had a lot chutzpah then.) He read the Preface, and then sent back his essay. We thought it was great and tremendously funny, so we added it in (with permission). To this day, I don't know if he expected us to publish it.)

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[ April 30, 2003: Message edited by: fett101 ]