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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!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

White housefly in Portuguese.