The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. The book was edited by Simson Garfinkel, Daniel...
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1994 book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook, and has been referred to as the origin of the notion of a conceptual split between developers on the east and west...
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"daemons" and managed by init or inet The UNIX-HATERS Handbook covers some of these design features as failures from the user point of view. However, although...
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Sendmail (redirect from Sendmail (Unix))
2005. The UNIX-HATERS Handbook dedicated an entire chapter to perceived problems and weaknesses of sendmail. As of sendmail release 8.12.0 the default...
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Make (software) (redirect from Make (Unix))
Raymond as "one of the worst design botches in the history of Unix" and The Unix-Haters Handbook said "using tabs as part of the syntax is like one of...
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Don Hopkins (section The Sims)
chapter "The X-Windows Disaster" on X Window System in the book The UNIX-HATERS Handbook. Hopkins, supported by John Gilmore, adapted SimCity for the OLPC...
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X Window System (category Unix windowing system-related software)
typically provides the same functionality at the same, or lower, cost. The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) devoted a full chapter to the problems of X. Why...
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X Window System protocols and architecture (redirect from The X protocol)
Weise, Daniel; Strassmann, Steven (eds.). The UNIX-Haters Handbook (PDF). San Mateo, CA, USA: IDG Books. p. 126 The X-Windows Disaster. ISBN 978-1-56884-203-5...
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of the Unix operating system family's most egregious failures of security. Free and open-source software portal Mozilla Thunderbird The UNIX-HATERS Handbook...
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Criticism of Linux (redirect from Get the Facts)
criticism. Criticism of desktop Linux Criticism of Microsoft Windows The Unix-Haters Handbook "IDC: Smartphone OS Market Share". www.idc.com. "Gartner Says Tablet...
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Openbox — the default window manager used by LXDE and LXQt. vtwm wmfs xfwm xmonad The X-Windows Disaster Don Hopkins, UNIX-HATERS Handbook - [chat] Re:...
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Simson Garfinkel (category 2012 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery)
eds. (1994). UNIX-HATERS Handbook. IDG. ISBN 1-56884-203-1. Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (1993). NeXTStep Programming. The Electronic Library...
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Device file (category Unix file system technology)
In Unix-like operating systems, a device file, device node, or special file is an interface to a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were...
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646-NO for mapping of the Norwegian characters, which made them a pet hate among UNIX people. (Some users still humorously pronounce the vertical bar as "ø"...
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various Unix shells, they enclose a group of strings that are used in a process known as brace expansion, where each successive string in the group is...
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Generically known as a diff after the Unix diff utility, there are a range of ways to compare data sources and display the results. Some widely used file...
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Guy L., eds. (1996). The New Hacker's Dictionary. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-68092-0. Raymond, Eric S. (2003). The Art of Unix Programming. Prentice Hall...
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as the SDS 940. Concepts from Project Genie influenced the development of the TENEX operating system for the PDP-10, and Unix, which inherited the concept...
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the names of the interrobang, an unconventional typographic character, and a shebang, a feature of Unix computer systems. In the printing world, the exclamation...
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ISBN 1-56414-864-5. Drury, Nevill (2009). "The Modern Magical Revival: Esbats and Sabbats". In Pizza, Murphy; Lewis, James R (eds.). Handbook of Contemporary Paganism....
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[on UNIX UseNet World Wide Computer Network. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Published by the Social Democratic Party of Armenia. ISBN 9781877935015. The Middle...
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Personal computer (category Pages using the EasyTimeline extension)
minority share of the market; these include the Mac platform from Apple (running the macOS operating system), and free and open-source, Unix-like operating...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (redirect from List of people associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
architecture-independent system for graphical user interfaces that has been widely used for Unix and Linux systems. MIT alumni and faculty have founded numerous companies...
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2019. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p525 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7 "Inside Indonesia – Digest 86 – Towards a...
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Manfred Clynes (section Color and the brain)
via computer, using UNIX, HP gave Clynes' company, Microsound, Intl, a second development contract to bring this capacity into the burgeoning world of...
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