FWIW, I am only done with the Free Tanks vs Station Waagon/ORV part, and
already I am laughing my arse off. What a great read. I can't wait to rip
into it some more. Great share, Paul. Thank you!
Gil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: prolinux-bounces /at/ leafe D.O.T com [mailto:prolinux-bounces@leafe.com]On
> Behalf Of Paul McNett
> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:20 PM
> To: ProLinux Email List
> Subject: [ProLinux] Hole Hawg (was:Re: Here comes a Newbie! (be
> gentle,he is so shy <g>...))
>
>
> So I was just cleaning out my closet and a little book fell out that I
> think everyone entering the Unix/Linux world should read. It is
> informative and entertaining at the same time, and perhaps would help
> people coming over from Windows or even Mac backgrounds to understand
> some things about why Linux is the way it is. The book is:
>
> _In the Beginning Was the Command Line_, by Neal Stephenson (and if you
> haven't read his works of fiction, specifically Cryptonomicon, you owe
> it to yourself to check that out, too!).
>
> Anyway, he has a great analogy of Unix-like systems: the Milwaukee Hole
> Hawg drill. Read on and prepare to laugh:
>
> http://www.spack.org/wiki/InTheBeginningWasTheCommandLine#head-620
39bc67006079c7cf85da7d41bfefe9f9a0bc7
His description of trembling a bit before picking up the Hole Hawg
reminds me of my feelings of trepidation after logging in as root on
someone's mission-critical Linux box for the first time, and seeing that
cursor blinking there waiting to execute my every command...
:)
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