[thechat] Whoo-hoo! 10.1.5

[Bob Davis]

On 6/5/02 3:56 PM, "Martin Burns" <martin at easyweb.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Something to download tonight while perusing my (hopefully arrived at
>>> home
>>> while I've been at the office) copy of Learning Unix on MacOSX (the new
>>> O'Reilly)
>>
>> It'll be interesting to see what that book is all about. I'm comfortable
>> with Unix, but not a pro.  I have the Unix in a Nutshell book
>> (actually, the
>> whole bookshelf CD thing - 5 nutshell books on  a cd is pretty cool)
>> and I
>> like that.
>
> Don't buy this one. It's waaaaaay too basic for you.
>

Ahhh...well, I'm sure there are some things that would be made easier in
this book than they are in the others. I'm still more likely to read the man
page than I am to actually get up, move 2 steps, open book, sit down, etc.,
etc..

> It's at the 'useful reference' stage for me - very little which is
> totally new, but lots of nice things like all the keyboard shortcuts for
> vi.
>

Ugh...I learned emacs first, so that's the one I use. Actually, now I use
BBEdit 6.5 for everything. The command line tools kick butt.

> Cheers
> Martin
>
> (annoyed that the OS update needs a restart. A month of problem-free
> uptime taken away :-( (would have been 3 months, but some person using a
> guest login on my machine decided to shut down))
>

Don¹t get hung up on uptime. The only reason uptime is cool is that now you
(more or less) get to decide when the machine will be shut down. I like to
think of it more in terms of "how long has it been since this computer
destroyed n hours or work with a crash?". Uptime means "how long since I
rebooted" now, which is all I ever want it to be.

My old boss once told me  a story about how he carried an old Sun machine
from the old machine room to the new one - still running, UPS's still
attached and screaming for a power outlet - just to keep the 400+ day uptime
going. I was impressed at first, but now I think he was an idiot for running
the risk of dropping the cpu, batteries, etc. in the rush just to feed his
ego.

bob