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I still type `ps ax` because that's the syntax I picked up from Cuckoo's Egg. Learnt that command several years before I installed Linux for the first time. <3

I still type `ps ax` because that's the syntax I picked up from Cuckoo's Egg. Learnt that command several years before I installed Linux for the first time. <3 IMO, the second lesson of Google is to never trust the first Google hit, or the second or the third... the Internet doesn't really teach you how to investigate questions on your own - then again, what does but experience - but it does teach you the art of detecting bullshit. Even on sites like Stack Overflow, I find myself looking at the top answer, going "no, that's obviously wrong, next, next, next... ah, this answer added two years late at zero votes looks promising." If you just follow the first thing Google tells you, you'll fall on your face pretty reliably.

CliffStoll 4y ago
My fingers, too, were trained so long ago. The ls command? -lastF no matter what version. Still find myself using /more/ rather than /less/ or any of the more modern versions. Yep, there are still a few dinosaurs left… Behind a pi-hole, those first google hits tend to be blocked ads, so some people follow follow your advice by default.
- hyperman1 4y ago
  I got your book before I got my first 80386 based computer. I upgrade from ps ax to ps axu, but apart from that, you learned me some UNIX before I got a computer. What I remember most of the book is the talks with Luis Alvarez, and the influence it had on how you examined the attacker. So while you didn't turn me into a (professional) astronomer, you might have managed to turn me into a scientist. BTW, even if the computer stuff is completely outdated, the problem solving attitude that speaks out of the book is a reason why I still recommend it to youngsters. I recently bought an English edition to read it in the original language, too. BTW2, regarding dinosaurs, my old professor could never get the hang of this new-fangled windows stuff. We always saw him struggling with notepad, typing stuff like :wq in it and cursing when it didnt work. One day, we took pity on him and installed cygwin and a windows-compatible vi. Good times ;-)

CliffStoll 4y ago

My fingers, too, were trained so long ago. The ls command? -lastF no matter what version. Still find myself using /more/ rather than /less/ or any of the more modern versions. Yep, there are still a few dinosaurs left… Behind a pi-hole, those first google hits tend to be blocked ads, so some people follow follow your advice by default.

hyperman1 4y ago
I got your book before I got my first 80386 based computer. I upgrade from ps ax to ps axu, but apart from that, you learned me some UNIX before I got a computer. What I remember most of the book is the talks with Luis Alvarez, and the influence it had on how you examined the attacker. So while you didn't turn me into a (professional) astronomer, you might have managed to turn me into a scientist. BTW, even if the computer stuff is completely outdated, the problem solving attitude that speaks out of the book is a reason why I still recommend it to youngsters. I recently bought an English edition to read it in the original language, too. BTW2, regarding dinosaurs, my old professor could never get the hang of this new-fangled windows stuff. We always saw him struggling with notepad, typing stuff like :wq in it and cursing when it didnt work. One day, we took pity on him and installed cygwin and a windows-compatible vi. Good times ;-)