the book thing

[Erik Price]

Michael Bovee wrote:

> b) I grew up on Macintosh (groans from the peanut gallery :0) and so I 
> expect to be able to get work done pretty quickly, and learn finer ways 
> of doing things as I go.

Hey me too.  I only first used Unix in college because that's how you 
checked email.  My first forays beyond that were using vi to write text 
file-based auction listings to upload to rec.games.card.magic.trade or 
whatever.

> c) I have resigned myself to learning the most universal unix skills 
> through MacOS X, and I'm doing pretty well.

Me too.  The nice thing about it is that you're not forced to wrestle 
with the hard stuff until you invite it onto yourself.  Want to run a 
web server?  Click.  It's running.  But if you want to learn more about 
what's really going on, you can custom-compile your own with mod_perl 
etc to really get your hands dirty with it.  Yadda yadda.


Erik