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Re: e-BOOK!

Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Jun 16, 2015 9:44 am

While still pondering about an e-book reader, I'm with this at the moment:

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Using Geiser and Chicken Scheme for the exercises, of course. :)

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Unread post by machinebacon » Tue Jun 16, 2015 10:39 am

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And if you are a fan of LISP, click that:
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Unread post by GekkoP » Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:51 pm

^ Thanks for both!

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Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:48 am

Ok, finally got me a Kindle Paperwhite. I already uploaded many books, there isn't much I could add to the reviews out there: it's really good. Calibre does wonders too. Thanks for the tips, guys.

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Unread post by machinebacon » Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:59 am

^ Thanks for the feedback. So you can read PDFs straight or do you have to convert and crop? :)
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Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Jun 19, 2015 11:03 am

^ Some of them just works out of the box. When I'm not that lucky, I convert them.
So far only one PDF didn't work, despite all the conversion tricks I tried. I guess it's because of its layout: multi-column pages, huge images. 1 out of more than 20, though, so I won't rant about it. ;)

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Hopefully the missing link between the basic knowledge and the real world experience.

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:45 pm

Not sure if I already posted this, not an e-book per se but you can download everything to PDF or just read online, a fantastic source of history.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0826760/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

Read this article some days ago, especially for Bacon ;):

http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads ... e-caucasus

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Unread post by machinebacon » Thu Jun 25, 2015 4:45 am

^ Thank you, oldie but goldie! :)
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HOWTO Debian Administrators Handbook (link)

Unread post by opt1k » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:43 am

This looks like it may contain useful information

https://debian-handbook.info/download/s ... ndbook.pdf

What are your thoughts?

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:17 pm

^ We already posted the handbook in this thread, not really a how-to. I keep it organized. ;)

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Re: e-BOOK!

Unread post by simgin » Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:50 am

^ Waaaait, a minute, wasn't that pidsley's avatar at some point? Where is he btw? :(
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Unread post by pidsley » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:08 am

simgin, thanks for asking -- see my sig. Also see here. I often use Oppenheimer as my avatar -- he is a personal hero of mine, as much for his flaws as for his achievements. My current avatar is Roscoe G. Dickinson, who was Linus Pauling's doctoral advisor.

GekkoP, that is one of the better Oppenheimer biographies. If you want to read more about the history of the Manhattan project, go here first:

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Richard Rhodes is (IMO) one of the best documentary writers out there. He got the Pulitzer Prize for that book, so I must not be alone in that opinion.

And, as it happens, the Trinity test was 70 years ago last week (July 16, 1945.) It is hard to believe that we haven't blown ourselves up yet.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Jul 23, 2015 7:34 am

^ Thank you for the tip, added to my list. I'm around chapter 9 of the Oppenheimer biography: beautifully written and very, very interesting.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Fri Jul 31, 2015 9:58 am

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A classic I've ignored for so many years. Essential reading for anyone interested in getting better at writing in English.

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Unread post by GekkoP » Thu Aug 13, 2015 5:07 pm

Unix System Programming Guide

Available here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ ... _Jan83.pdf

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