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  From: Ben Williams <benw@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : <ilox@airnet.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:03:32 +0930

Re: [OT] Unix-Haters Handbook?

On 29/04/2003 2:53 PM, Ian Loxton wrote:

> From the CompuServe Linux Forum:
> http://go.compuserve.com/linuxforum
> (accept the Guest option if you don't want to post any messages)
> 
> Cheers,  Ian
> 
>  The full text of the "Unix-Haters Handbook" was available
>  for about ten hours at
>  http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html. 
>  It is stated that the link was taken down because of the
>  load from SlashDot readers and it is implied that the link
>  will be restored after a while.
> 
>  This is a 305 page book in a 3.5GB PDF (ugh!!!) file.  Bits
>  and pieces can be found scattered around the web by
>  searching on "Unix-Haters Handbook".  It's a lengthy
>  collection of complaints and horror stories -- many of them
>  extremely funny.  While not everything applies to Linux,
>  some of the problems are still with us.


i actually downloaded this before it was on slashdot[1] - the proclaimed 
3.5GB pdf is in fact 3.5 *M*B, making it much more acceptable. and it's 
quite funny, in a steam-venting kind of way. there's still a download 
link tho, if people are after a bit of fun.

  - Ben

--
There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, 
and those who don't.

[1] i was into them before they were even popular, man.

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