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I went on a long vacation. Now I'm working through a digital stack of programming and computer books. What are your favorites or recommendations?

This seems a good place to start:
http://web.deu.edu.tr/doc/oreily/unix/index.htm

I know this is controversial, but I'd say these fellows are the most underrated band (or at least up there):

THE SOUND


fast & loud

slow & sweet

a good album

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
how about the T420? Are the lenovo ones significantly worse?

I haven't bought a new computer in five years,

Firefox Aurora / Developer Edition & Surf

Why? Aurora for work and for sane, square tabs! Surf for that pure webkit high.

So, my "bloat-work needs" include inkscape, gimp, firefox, and chromium (for testing). Right now I have two main machines, a tiny netbook and a rehabbed desktop: Lappy386 Atom w/ 2gb ram Debian sid netinst dwm Glenda Core 2 Duo w/ 4gb ram (recent upgrade!) OpenBSD 5.6 cwm + plan9port I alw...

two vim tricks I learnt today:

need to style a long line of text into a sensible (>80 char) paragraph?
So, not only can vim edit files remotely itself, it will also pull the source code of a webpage for you:
:o

^ it's amazing how ignorance can fuel unnessecary, inelegant design :)))

there's nothing like wrangling and then realizing oh, there's pgrep... 0_o

updated

@wux: I checked it out, but it seems fine. I couldn't find a real difference in using pidof or pgrep. Thoughts?

@machinebacon: added & updated

@rho: thanks for the feedback. I'll try the numbers and sorting by signal strength. I'll look for a way around iwlist too.

So, I did pull in a haskell dependency --- to use shellcheck. Looks like the last post of code was a bit messy, instead of putting up a wall of text again I'm just going to edit that post with the correction.

Thanks & thanks!

anything to add? perhaps systemd, qt, gtk, and texlive dependencies? B)

Update After fiddling with it for a few days, I've improved the UI, added better errors and exceptions, and of course ascii art ! #!/bin/sh echo echo "# # # ## # " echo "# # # " echo "#### #### #### # # # # ## # " echo "# # # # # # # # # # # # " echo "##...

^ per the idea of sandy (that is, a simple editor that gets out of your way) I've read that GNU zile is now no longer an mg-esque minimal emacsen but a sort of meta-editor. I've not investigated it fully, but a low-resource basic editor that emulates emacs, vi, windows (C-c & C-v), and CUA based...

all this fucking "arena folk" OooOooOoOOoo mumford & sons bullshit

*sweating*

vi improved ;)

sandy is a little rough around the edges, but has the neat feature of detecting emacs or vi controls :o

so, I really like ranger's interface but I don't like its bloat. lately I've been using netrw (vim's default file manager plugin) per a tip ( http://is.gd/tDKwCB ) from bayberry. The best part is that if you use vim you don't have to install anything or learn a new tool. Just vi /somedir . cool! hon...

Russ Cox recorded a helpful video for learning Acme: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M.

Now if only I could find a the button mouse...

I've read that some people use Acme as their Plan 9 wm, ditching rio altogether. I've never really got Plan 9 working with my hardware, it would install but always have some problem. I'd be interested in your assessment of Acme, 9fs, and the effectiveness of the attempt to move beyond Unix. Who know...

Sid development machine:
I have lots of fonts...

#SHELLSHOCK made me reconsider using bash and zsh as I had done. I think OpenBSD's version of the public domain korn shell is a nice balance of beard and bloat. It's in Debian as oksh I think. I've also been investigating rc from Plan 9, it seems similarly useful if strange.

Thanks everybody for the input. @wux: It seems like networking is one of the more arcane aspects of linux, at least to me. @bacon: Thanks for the suggestions and tips. Apparently select is found only in bash, ksh, and zsh. Maybe I'll suck it up, but for now I'm looking for a more portable workaround...