Unix in a Nutshell animal--what is it?
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by Daniel Gilly?
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Warren Jones
> Anyone know what the animal is on the cover of the "Unix in a Nutshell"
> by Daniel Gilly?
See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unutv/errata/unutv.598:
"The animal featured on the cover of Unix in a Nutshell is a tarsier,
a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur. Its generic name, Tarsius,
is derived from the animal's very long ankle bone, the tarsus.
The tarsier is a native of the East Indies jungles from Sumatra to
the Philippines and Sulawesi, where it lives in the trees, leaping
from branch to branch with extreme agility and speed.
A small animal, the tarsier's body is only six inches long, followed by
a ten-inch tufted tail. It is covered in soft brown or grey silky fur,
has a round face, and huge eyes. Its arms and legs are long and slender,
as are its digits, which are tipped with rounded, fleshy pads to improve
the tarsier's grip on trees. Tarsiers are active only at night, hiding
during the day in tangles of vines or in the tops of tall trees. They
subsist mainly on insects, and though very curious animals, tend to be
loners."
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Tad McClellan
: Anyone know what the animal is on the cover of the "Unix in a Nutshell"
: by Daniel Gilly?
Those are football referee "animals".
Though it is usually the players, rather than the officials,
that are called "animals"...
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Kevin John Dean
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>Anyone know what the animal is on the cover of the "Unix in a Nutshell"
>by Daniel Gilly?
>
>ME
>
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The animal is a Tarsius a native of Sumatra/Philippines.
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bma...@iglou.com
Perhaps there are different editions of this book with different pictures on
the cover? My copy is "System V Edition, Revised and Expanded for SVR4 and
Solaris 2.0", and the cover shows five men in football referee uniforms.
Maybe it's different on books sold outside the United States.
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Christopher J. Mattern
>> Anyone know what the animal is on the cover of the "Unix in a Nutshell"
>> by Daniel Gilly?
> See http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unutv/errata/unutv.598:
> "The animal featured on the cover of Unix in a Nutshell is a tarsier,
> a nocturnal mammal related to the lemur. Its generic name, Tarsius,
> is derived from the animal's very long ankle bone, the tarsus.
> The tarsier is a native of the East Indies jungles from Sumatra to
> the Philippines and Sulawesi, where it lives in the trees, leaping
> from branch to branch with extreme agility and speed.
> A small animal, the tarsier's body is only six inches long, followed by
> a ten-inch tufted tail. It is covered in soft brown or grey silky fur,
> has a round face, and huge eyes. Its arms and legs are long and slender,
> as are its digits, which are tipped with rounded, fleshy pads to improve
> the tarsier's grip on trees. Tarsiers are active only at night, hiding
> during the day in tangles of vines or in the tops of tall trees. They
> subsist mainly on insects, and though very curious animals, tend to be
> loners."
Huh? The tarsier is on "Learning the vi Editor". "Unix in a Nutshell",
as someone else pointed out, has several football referees on it.
Chris Mattern
Lew Pitcher
by Daliel Gilly & the Staff of O'Reilly & Associates can be found
at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/unutv.s.gif
It clearly does not portray a bunch of referees, but a wide-eyed furry
animal (which may *be* a referee - how can you tell?).
Also from their website (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unutv/errata/unutv.598)
comes this quote on the coliphon of the book:
"The animal featured on the cover of Unix in a Nutshell is a tarsier, a
nocturnal mammal related to the lemur. Its generic name, Tarsius, is
derived from the animal's very long ankle bone, the tarsus. The
tarsier is a native of the East Indies jungles from Sumatra to the
Philippines and Sulawesi, where it lives in the trees, leaping from
branch to branch with extreme agility and speed.
A small animal, the tarsier's body is only six inches long, followed
by a ten-inch tufted tail. It is covered in soft brown or grey silky
fur, has a round face, and huge eyes. Its arms and legs are long and
slender, as are its digits, which are tipped with rounded, fleshy pads
to improve the tarsier's grip on trees. Tarsiers are active only at
night, hiding during the day in tangles of vines or in the tops of
tall trees. They subsist mainly on insects, and though very curious
animals, tend to be loners."
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:01:02 GMT, "Christopher J. Mattern" <sys...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu>
wrote:
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant
Toronto Dominion Financial Group
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
Lew Pitcher
interesting...
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 17:26:23 GMT, pit...@tdbank.ca (Lew Pitcher) wrote:
>The cover of "Unix in a Nutshell: System V Edition, 2nd Edition"
>by Daliel Gilly & the Staff of O'Reilly & Associates can be found
>at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/unutv.s.gif
>
>It clearly does not portray a bunch of referees, but a wide-eyed furry
>animal (which may *be* a referee - how can you tell?).
>
>Also from their website (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unutv/errata/unutv.598)
>comes this quote on the coliphon of the book:
>
>"The animal featured on the cover of Unix in a Nutshell is a tarsier, a
> nocturnal mammal related to the lemur. Its generic name, Tarsius, is
> derived from the animal's very long ankle bone, the tarsus. The
> tarsier is a native of the East Indies jungles from Sumatra to the
> Philippines and Sulawesi, where it lives in the trees, leaping from
> branch to branch with extreme agility and speed.
>
> A small animal, the tarsier's body is only six inches long, followed
> by a ten-inch tufted tail. It is covered in soft brown or grey silky
> fur, has a round face, and huge eyes. Its arms and legs are long and
> slender, as are its digits, which are tipped with rounded, fleshy pads
> to improve the tarsier's grip on trees. Tarsiers are active only at
> night, hiding during the day in tangles of vines or in the tops of
> tall trees. They subsist mainly on insects, and though very curious
> animals, tend to be loners."
"... are active only at night, hiding during the day..."
"... and though very curious animals, tend to be loners."
The best descriptions of a Unix sysadmin I've ever read.
Could the choice of animal be somehow related to either the
subject matter or the author?? Nah..... :-)
Christopher J. Mattern
> The cover of "Unix in a Nutshell: System V Edition, 2nd Edition"
> by Daliel Gilly & the Staff of O'Reilly & Associates can be found
> at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/unutv.s.gif
> It clearly does not portray a bunch of referees, but a wide-eyed furry
> animal (which may *be* a referee - how can you tell?).
> Also from their website (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unutv/errata/unutv.598)
> comes this quote on the coliphon of the book:
> "The animal featured on the cover of Unix in a Nutshell is a tarsier, a
> nocturnal mammal related to the lemur. Its generic name, Tarsius, is
> derived from the animal's very long ankle bone, the tarsus. The
> tarsier is a native of the East Indies jungles from Sumatra to the
> Philippines and Sulawesi, where it lives in the trees, leaping from
> branch to branch with extreme agility and speed.
> A small animal, the tarsier's body is only six inches long, followed
> by a ten-inch tufted tail. It is covered in soft brown or grey silky
> fur, has a round face, and huge eyes. Its arms and legs are long and
> slender, as are its digits, which are tipped with rounded, fleshy pads
> to improve the tarsier's grip on trees. Tarsiers are active only at
> night, hiding during the day in tangles of vines or in the tops of
> tall trees. They subsist mainly on insects, and though very curious
> animals, tend to be loners."
My copy of "Learning the vi Editor", which I actually have in my
hands open to the colophon, has that exact passage. Has O'Reilly
started recycling animals?
I do not, alas, have my Unix in a Nutshell book directly to hand,
but I remember the referees on it very clearly.
Looking at the gif you directed me too, it appears that O'Reilly
has started recycling animals for the second edition of Unix
in a Nutshell. See "Learning the vi Editor"'s cover in
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/covers/vi6.s.gif
Cover's slightly different from my fifth edition,
but still the same tarsier. You get to see the whole
illustration instead of the just the head, though.
Chris Mattern
Benjamin J. Robinson
>Perhaps there are different editions of this book with different pictures on
>the cover? My copy is "System V Edition, Revised and Expanded for SVR4 and
>Solaris 2.0", and the cover shows five men in football referee uniforms.
>Maybe it's different on books sold outside the United States.
I have that same edition. Curiously, when I bought it, it was being
sold side by side with the tarsier version. From what I could tell, the
two had identical content -- they were both second edition, they both
had the same printing history, and they had the same date (I think) in
the lower right-hand corner of the printing history page. Also, the
page numbers seemed to be in sync when I spot-checked, suggesting that
no new material was added or deleted. Yet, the referee version was a
couple bucks cheaper, so I bought it.
I guess the O'Reilly folks wanted to make "Nutshell" consistent with
the rest of their line. People now associate exotic animal covers
with that publisher, and the tarsier version makes it obvious at a
glance that "Nutshell" is part of the respected O'Reilly stable.
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bma...@iglou.com
On 1999-09-28 afn4...@freenet2.afn.org(BenjaminJ.Robinson) said:
>I guess the O'Reilly folks wanted to make "Nutshell" consistent with
>the rest of their line. People now associate exotic animal covers
>with that publisher, and the tarsier version makes it obvious at a
>glance that "Nutshell" is part of the respected O'Reilly stable.
Or maybe we should look for the rare foil hologram cover edition on ebay. :)