>>>Yep, Nick. In each joke there is a little bit of true. (÷ ËÁÖÄÏÊ ÛÕÔËÅ ÅÓÔØ ÄÏÌÑ ÛÕÔËÉ?) :) What do you think about collecting UT wisdom in some sort of written material? It would be a tough job, of course... But it probably would worth it.
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>>And by the time it gets done, it'll be obsolete...
>>...or maybe not - with the great level of compatibility with previous versions, these things wouldn't rot that fast.
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>Hi Dragan,
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>The simplest way to create such a book: goto FAQ section, filter obsolete FAQs, combaine other FAQ entries in a book and get paid for it :))))

I'm working on a different, um, book at this moment - "Programming jokes". Those are regular, real-world jokes, which have something to do with programming only as a second thought. I've often told them to my apprentices, and eventually decided to gather them at my website (don't click yet, nothing there).

In the theoretical case of someone creating the FAQ book (as you mentioned in #437383) there are several major obstacles:
1) by the time it's finished, it's partly obsolete, just like any other computing book
2) getting paid by whom? If that means finding a publisher, it'd also take more time, learning some legalese (consider the rights of the various authors, UT, the collection's author), and possibly wasting more time in endless negotiations.

So let's KISS, keep it here in the FAQ section. I'd rather opt for some sort of stimulus for authors here, more meaningful article titles, and other minor improvements. I actually like it as it is.