Publsihed by O'reilly. You'll find it on amazon no problems.

     [Heather] The book I got started with was "Unix as a Second Language" by
     Sobell, which has now become several books, for different flavors of UNIX.
     The current one of the Linux flavor shows a penguin belly flopping down a
     snow bank :) It also got renmaed though ... the name escapes me at this
     hour ... Any of the series though, will definitely make your starting out
     a little more fun.

     Readers: more good book suggestions?
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More Cool Answers

   Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:35:38 -0800
   Heather Stern ([22]The Answer Gang's Editor Gal)

   There's some dark chocolate waiting in the Answer Gang's back lounge for new
   folk inclined to send in their good tips or a nice long chat about how some
   useful part of Linux really works. You don't have to join the TAG list
   either -- just send your bits in to [23]tag@linuxgazette.net.
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     * [24]My sig, and Linux Gazette... :)
     * [25][cc] Looking for Stephen Bint
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My sig, and Linux Gazette... :)

   Mon, 8 Mar 2004 02:18:52 -0800 (PST)
   Dave Bechtel ([26]kingneutron from yahoo.com)
   Question by carla (carla from bratgrrl.com)

   re: [27]http://linuxgazette.net/100/lg_mail.html

   Glad you liked my .sig. :) I have fond feelings for the original Muppets,
   including the Sesame Street ones. Even have some mpeg's of them, such as two
   aliens and a hippie singing "Manomonot" on the Muppet Show, as well as the
   Intro  to  the  Fraggle Rock show -- in Swedish (I think - it's called
   "Fragglarna".)

   IIRC, I saw a similar 1337 .sig on [28]Slashdot or somewhere a few years
   ago, and adapted it for the Muppets. I got a real charge out of seeing it
   posted in LG.Net (twice now, no less!) and the response it generated. LOL.

   ;-)

   (You  have  my  permission to publish this letter or share with LG.Net
   colleagues if you see fit.)

   Best wishes. (And LG, please tell Thomas Adam I'm sorry for being so short
   with him. I was going through a bad time, and ended up having to move in
   order to get away from the situation.)

     Linux, making Sesame Street more fun... -- Heather
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[cc] Looking for Stephen Bint

   Thu, 1 Apr 2004 00:20:47 -0500
   Ben Okopnik ([29]LG Technical Editor)
   Question by Heather (star from starshine.org)

   Hello Heather, 

   Hi, Gianfranco -

   I'm not Heather, but I'm the fellow who receives mail at the editor@ address
   these days. :)

   I lost contact to Stephen Bint who used to be a member in the Answer Gang.
   Messages to him are bouncing. 

   Please be so kind and let him know that he should get in touch with me. 

   Thank you very much. 

   -- gianfranco accardo gfa2c gmx.net 

   Stephen Bint was never a member of The Answer Gang; he wrote a couple of
   articles for LG. I'm afraid we have no way to contact him beyond his email,
   and given his own statement of his lifestyle:

     Stephen is a homeless Englishman who lives in a tent in the woods. He eats
     out of bins and smokes cigarette butts he finds on the road. Though he
     once worked for a short time as a C programmer, he prefers to describe
     himself as a "keen amateur".

   - losing track of him is not an unlikely occurence. I'll CC Heather on this,
   but I doubt that she'll be able to help you any more than I could.

     Presuming that he occasionally sneaks into a cybercafe to read LG and
     write an article now and then, we'll pub the request in the Gazette and
     see if he responds. To which end, I've left gianfranco's address visible.
     I apologize in advance if the spambeasts find it too. :( -- Heather
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