These are sadly, not even close to full. There are some amazingly hilarious rants missing, like the proper portable way to figure out your hostname (iirc, getho

These are sadly, not even close to full. There are some amazingly hilarious rants missing, like the proper portable way to figure out your hostname (iirc, gethostname or something was allowed to always return localhost), which at one point, someone suggested bouncing mail off sun's mail server and parsing out the response.