In English

Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, May, 1984

ISBN: 1-56884-203-1 (Wikipedia Book Sources) (Wikipedian kirjalähteet)

This book has a home page at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html

This book is available electronically at http://www.devili.iki.fi/pub/misc/books/uhh.pdf

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Preface	xix
Who We Are	xxi
The UNIX-HATERS History	xxiii
Contributions and Acknowledgment	xxix
Typographical Conventions	xxxii
The UNIX-HATERS Disclaimer	xxxiii
Anti-Foreword	xxxv
Part 1: User Friendly?	1
1 UNIX	3
History of the Plague	4
Sex, Drugs, and Unix	9
Standardizing Unconformity	10
Unix Myths	14
2 Welcome, New User!	17
Cryptic Command Names	18
Accidents Will Happen	19
Consistently Inconsistent	26
Online Documentation	31
Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT!	31
The Unix Attitude	37
3 Documentation?	43
On-line Documentation	44
This Is Internal Documentation?	51
For Programmers, Not Users	54
Unix Without Words: A Course Proposal	56
4 Mail	61
Sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley Unix	62
Subject: Returned Mail: User Unknown	67
From: <MAILER-DAEMON@berkeley.edu>	74
Apple Computer s Mail Disaster of 1991	85
5 Snoozenet	93
Netnews and Usenet: Anarchy Through Growth	93
Newsgroups	96
Alt.massive.flamage	100
This Information Highway Needs Information	100
rn, trn: You Get What You Pay for	101
When in Doubt, Post	105
Seven Stages of Snoozenet	106
6 Terminal Insanity	111
Original Sin	111
The Magic of Curses	114
7 The X-Windows Disaster	123
X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster	124
X Myths	127
X Graphics: Square Peg in a Round Hole	141
X: On the Road to Nowhere	142
Part 2: Programmer s System?	145
8 csh, pipes, and find	147
The Shell Game	148
Shell Programming	155
Pipes	161
Find	166
9 Programming	173
The Wonderful Unix Programming Environment	175
Programming in Plato s Cave	176
"It Can't Be a Bug, My Makefile Depends on It!"	186
If You Can't Fix It, Restart It!	198
10 C++	203
The Assembly Language of Object-Oriented Programming	204
Syntax Syrup of Ipecac	208
Abstract What?	211
C++ Is to C as Lung Cancer Is to Lung	214
The Evolution of a Programmer	215
Part 3: Sysadmin's Nightmare	219
11 System Administration	221
Keeping Unix Running and Tuned	223
Disk Partitions and Backups	227
Configuration Files	235
Maintaining Mail Services	239
Where Did I Go Wrong?	241
12 Security	243
The Oxymoronic World of Unix Security	243
Holes in the Armor	244
The Worms Crawl In	257
13 The File System	261
What's a File System?	262
UFS: The Root of All Evil	265
14 NFS	283
Not Fully Serviceable	284
No File Security	287
Not File System Specific? (Not Quite)	292
Part 4: Et Cetera	303
A Epilogue	305
B Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax	307
C The Rise of Worse Is Better	311
D Bibliography	317
Index	319