Re: [PLUG] PLUG W: In the Beginning was the Command Line

[Aubrey Jones <aubrey@htssoft.com>]

I adore that book. My favorite thing in it is the comparison of BeOS
to the Batmobile. Got me to throw Haiku in a VM a few years ago.
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---ARJ
Chief Engineer, Hit the Sticks, LLC


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:15 AM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:
> PLUG W had a well attended and very cool "Raspberry Pi" preso by Jason Plum
> (not Steven Shim as listed), thanks Jason!  I was checking out the Adafruit
> starter pack for ideas, but I already have a lot of that stuff, so I'll
> probably do an alacart thing.
>
> Also, someone was talking about doing a Kiosk kind of thing with a Pi. This
> might be handy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_WebKiosk (found under
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Operating_systems)
>
>
> At dinner after the talk, I had mentioned "In the Beginning was the Command
> Line" was was drawing a blank on the author, Neal Stephenson. Duh...
>
> Anyway, for any Linux, CLI and/or power tool fan, you must go read (or
> re-read) this.  You will be on the floor, hysterical.
>
> Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line"
> http://adam.shand.net/iki/library/in_the_beginning_was_the_command_line/
> (HTML)
> --or--
> http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html     (ZIP)
>
> Enjoy,
> JP
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