Micromania (good jokey book about the early beginnings of home computing; brings back the full horrors of membrane keyboards, the original Adventure game, and the earliest user-hostile computers before Linux was even a gleam in Linus Torvald's eye) XSLT for dummies (spent hours hitting head on XSLT, failed. Yet another thing Adrian says is a good & useful language I couldn't learn) Osborne Complete Reference to Unix (1000s of pages, most of which no use to me) Discover Linux (Steve Oualline, almost certainly out of date) Danny Goodman's book on Javascript (vast; failed to learn it even with Dashcode to make it approachable) Unix Hints & Hacks (can't remember who wrote this) Beginning XSLT (Jeni Tennison, recent)
Am keeping the Fish Book (bash) and my Applescript books as those are what I've written most in.
If anyone wants those books for the library, yelp. I may even come back to them if I feel brave...
Am not looking forward to lugging them to the meeting as some of them are 1000s of pages.
Regards, Ruth
On 10/25/07, Ruth Bygrave rbygrave@ntlworld.com wrote:
Micromania (good jokey book about the early beginnings of home computing; brings back the full horrors of membrane keyboards, the original Adventure game, and the earliest user-hostile computers before Linux was even a gleam in Linus Torvald's eye)
That's a bit harsh! The user identification chart is still relevant.
The cost calculator doesn't take into account the way computers and storage get cheaper per unit speed / capacity over time, but that doesn't matter as users always want more.
Tim.
Hi Ruth,
Your books will be gratefully received by the library, I am not sure when I can arrange collecting them, perhaps before or after the next Ipswich Meet if you are in that area.
Kind Regards Wayne
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