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The UNIX-Haters Handbook

I remember seeing this in a bookstore years ago, but I didn't buy it. Well, now it's free for download. http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html Mildly amusing. Some of the critiques are still true; others have long...
General

Playing with Plan 9

I thought it might be interesting to check out the Plan 9 operating system, since it's sort of the sequel to UNIX and is supposed to have cool new features (like better support for the "everything is a file" concept of UNIX)....
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More car trouble

Well, I just spent $1500 last month to fix my alternator and a few other things. Recently, a grinding sound became noticeable at idle so I took it to the shop and now they say it needs a new AC compressor for around $1000. Since...
Linux

OS/2 Warp 4 in QEMU on Linux

Well OS/2 does work in QEMU, though I guess you might say that I cheated a bit - I did this by doing the install in VMware Player and then using qemu-img to convert the file from a vmdk to a qcow....