Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous “expert” left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!

  • 0xED@lemm.eeEnglish
    34·
    5 months ago

    Is this just my copy? The cover was put on backwards, so all the text is upside down…

    Edit: Pics or it didn’t happen. Edit-2: Formatting.

    Book 'Unix in a Nutshell' with cover folded to demonstrate cover was printed upside-down from text. Book is placed sideways on a kitchen countertop

    • magikmw@lemm.ee
      11·
      5 months ago

      In polish we have an idiom for rare books that directly translates to ‘white crow’. Incidentally French say ‘merle blanc’ - ‘white blackbird’. French influenced polish a lot during late modernity. Anyway where was I.

      Ah, yeah likely not very rare, they must have messed a whole print run and decided to sell it off anyway, maybe at a discount, since it’s not a limited hardback illuminated Shakespeare’s works in 5 tomes.

      Then again… Weirder things have collection value.