From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

The True-GNU philosophy is more extreme than I care for, but it certainly laid a foundation for the current scene, as well as providing real software.

Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.

Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.