From: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder (avbidderfortytwo.ch)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 12:42:36 CDT

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On Thursday 18 September 2003 19:16, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

> An up-to-date well written specialist technical book is always worth the
> money. A badly written one is a waste of money.

Hmmm. I have quite a library of tech books sitting here, but I've come to the
conclusion that the combination of HOWTO's, original program documentation,
README files etc. concerning the vendors/distributions (Debian in my case)
specialties, where applicable, google and the mailing lists beats a book in
most cases. Even for totally new areas, there are good tutorials and
introductions available most of the time.

The only thing is that reading from the screen is a PITA, so I end up printing
out a lot of things when I start working on a new Subject (until I know
exactly where to look when I need to know something). So a book might be more
convenient in some cases. And of course you can take it with you, and it
doesn't run out of battery, and it doesn't break if you let it drop in the
bath, ...

cheers
-- vbi

--
A good man always knows his limitations.
                -- Harry Callahan

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