Table of Contents

• Foreword, by Donald Norman
• Preface
• Anti-Foreword, by Dennis Ritchie
• Part 1: User Friendly?
  • 1 Unix. The World's First Computer Virus
  • 2 Welcome, New User! Like Russian Roulette with Six Bullets Loaded
  • 3 Documentation? What Documentation?
  • 4 Mail. Don't Talk to Me, I'm Not a Typewriter
  • 5 Snoozenet. I Post, Therefore I Am
  • 6 Terminal Insanity. Curses! Foiled Again!
  • 7 The X-Windows Disaster. How to Make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC
• Part 2: Programmer's System?
  • 8 csh, pipes, and find. Power Tools for Power Fools
  • 9 Programming. Hold Still, This Won't Hurt a Bit
  • 10 C++. The COBOL of the 90s
• Part 3: Sysadmin's Nightmare
  • 11 System Administration. Unix's Hidden Cost
  • 12 Security. Oh, I'm Sorry, Sir, Go Ahead, I didn't Realize You Were Root
  • 13 The File System. Sure It Corrupts Your Files, But Look How Fast It Is!
  • 14 NFS. Nightmare File System
• Part 4: Et Cetera
  • A Epilogue. Enlightenment Through Unix
  • B Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax
  • C The Rise of Worse is Better, by Richard P. Gabriel
  • D Bibliography