Hello ed, Tuesday, June 13, 2006, 3:18:37 PM, you wrote: e> In the words of Godwin "That was old 50 years ago"... ;) Heh! e> Here are some writings from some pest on comp.unix.programming: e> http://www.xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/freebooks.html e> On a slightly different note, for a fasinating read, may I suggest e> "The Cuckoo's Egg - Tracking a spy through the maze of computer e> espionage": http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1416507787 e> That is a seriously good read. I've avoiding using the computer this e> hot weekend and that book has successfully helped me achieve that aim. Thanks! e> p.s. The 'good' thing about books like that is that the readers can e> usually address all the problems outlined, and thus we develop an e> improved system. Who knows, maybe a lot of good has come from it? I don't know... I like reading historical stuff about computing, and when I first got serious about computing, I went back to 1980's DOS to get started, so I would have some background... I still have the old Lattice C compiler, and all the early Borland stuff, lying around somewhere. I did the same with hardware, messing with 8086, 286 and 386 machines, and got a lot of practice setting up non-PnP boxes. When I got into *nix, I did more or less the same thing, and have a nice pile of early Linux and BSD distributions lying around, too. In my opinion, it was a tremendous learning experience. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ -- You are receiving this message as part of your subscription to the "ringzero" mailing list at freelists.org. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to ringzero-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe