Foreword........................................................ xv
Preface......................................................... xix
Who We Are...................................................... xxi
The UNIX-HATERS History......................................... xxiii
Contributors and Acknowledgments................................ xxix
Typographical Conventions....................................... xxxii
The UNIX-HATERS Disclaimer...................................... xxxiii
Anti-Foreword................................................... xxxv
Part 1: User Friendly?.......................................... 1
Unix............................................................ 3
The World's First Computer Virus
History of the Plague........................................... 4
Sex, Drugs, and Unix............................................ 9
Standardizing Unconformity...................................... 10
Unix Myths...................................................... 14
Welcome, New User!.............................................. 17
Like Russian Roulette with Six Bullets Loaded
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
Documentation?.................................................. 43
What Documentation?
On-line Documentation........................................... 44
This Is Internal Documentation?................................. 51
For Programmers, Not Users...................................... 54
Unix Without Words: A Course Proposal........................... 56
Mail............................................................ 61
Don't Talk to Me, I'm Not a Typewriter!
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
Snoozenet....................................................... 93
I Post, Therefore I Am
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
Terminal Insanity............................................... 111
Curses! Foiled Again!
Original Sin.................................................... 111
The Magic of Curses............................................. 114
The X-Windows Disaster.......................................... 123
How to Make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC
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
csh, pipes, and find............................................ 147
Power Tools for Power Fools
The Shell Game.................................................. 148
Shell Programming............................................... 155
Pipes........................................................... 161
Find............................................................ 166
Programming..................................................... 173
Hold Still, This Won't Hurt a Bit
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
C++............................................................. 203
The COBOL of the 90s
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
System Administration........................................... 221
Unix's Hidden Cost
Keeping Unix Running and Tuned.................................. 223
Disk Partitions and Backups..................................... 227
Configuration Files............................................. 235
Maintaining Mail Services....................................... 239
Where Did I Go Wrong?........................................... 241
Security........................................................ 243
Oh, I'm Sorry, Sir, Go Ahead, I Didn't Realize You Were Root
The Oxymoronic World of Unix Security........................... 243
Holes in the Armor.............................................. 244
The Worms Crawl In.............................................. 257
The File System................................................. 261
Sure It Corrupts Your Files, But Look How Fast It Is!
What's a File System?........................................... 262
UFS: The Root of All Evil....................................... 265
NFS............................................................. 283
Nightmare File System
Not Fully Serviceable........................................... 284
No File Security................................................ 287
Not File System Specific? (Not Quite)........................... 292
Part 4: Et Cetera............................................... 303
Epilogue........................................................ 305
Enlightenment Through Unix
Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax................................ 307
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Rise of Worse Is Better..................................... 311
By Richard P. Gabriel
Bibliography.................................................... 317
Just When You Thought You Were Out of the Woods
Index........................................................... 319
