Finally had the time and inclination to set the Ultra 5 up.
Apart from changing a few things around in my SDF home directory, I didn't
do much. Hell, I don't really remember what I've installed on the
machine, it's been a few months since I installed Solaris 10. I know I
have my notes somewhere, but I suspect they're buried in the home office.
I picked up a few books on programming at Value Village today,
mostly O'Reilly books, for five bucks a pop. Granted, they are anything
but current, but I'm sure most of the information will still be relevant.
The books I picked up were:
Lex and Yacc (O'Reilly)
DNS and BIND (O'Reilly)
Programming Perl (O'Reilly)
Perl Cookbook (O'Reilly)
Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (Addison Wesley)
Pretty heavy stuff for me, a non-programmer, but I'm planning to
spend my self-imposed year off learning C, Perl, Python, et cetera.
Since my Unix skills are improving and I can do pretty much anything I
need to do without much bother, I thought learning some basic programming
skills would do me a bit of good. Lord knows, it'll make building stuff
from source a lot easier when I fully inderstand what's going on. As it
stands, I have a 30% success rate when it comes to compiling from source.
Hoping to improve that rate...
