From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 21 13:23:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11427 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:23:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11422 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA21630; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:22:57 -0700 (PDT) To: Sean Kelly cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix-haters In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:43:44 MDT." <335BC370.41C67EA6@fsl.noaa.gov> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:22:57 -0700 Message-ID: <21628.861654177@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I recommend _The Unix Haters Handbook_ (IDG Books 1994, ISBN > 1-56884-203-1) by Garfinkel et al. to even the most ardent Unix > aficionados. It's a great read, and filled with humor. But it also has Actually, I found it both dull and rather lacking in the humor department. :-) It made a few good points, but elsewhere it seemed to be _trying_ so damn hard to come up with legitimate grievances that the whole attempt just sort of fell flat for me. I expect my pointed satires to be done with a little more wit and finesse' before I'll award them good marks and Mark Twain this guy isn't. :-) Jordan