12 Feb
TAOUP
The Art of Unix Programming is Eric S. Raymond’s book explaining much of the Unix history, traditions and tools. Available from Addison-Wesley, the book can also be read online at the link above.
Archive for February 12th, 2004
12 Feb
Will I be Arrested if I End a Sentence with a Preposition?
I’ve driven a few technical editors to drink with my challenging writing: tenses and I don’t always see eye to eye, a few split infinitives add rhythm to an essay, and gender-correct “he or she” or “s/he” is correctly written as the singular “they” in my none so humble opinion. So I was enlightened to [...]
12 Feb
IOGear print server and Linux
I blogged back in July that I’d picked up a charming little Ethernet-to-USB print server from IOGear for $60, and needed to set it up with Linix. Leeman Strout wrote to ask if I’d ever had any success. I wandered over to the Linux workstation to check, and it wasn’t set up, so I set [...]
12 Feb
So, How do you make money doing this?
The most common question I am hearing from developers considering bringing Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) into their company is whether people make money doing this. They do. In yet another article where the headline writer should be flogged, CNET reports on Pandora’s box for open source. “As the demand for open-source software continues [...]
