Safari
I’m being tempted to buy a subscription to O’Reilly’s Safari Service. I was looking for a good book on X Window programming using Xt/Xlib/Motif, any kind of fundamental non-GTK/QT based, and hence more portable, architecture. Amazon.com had nothing, so then I visited O’Reilly.com, where I made a detour to Safari. The idea isn’t half bad at all, but in looking through the listings, I didn’t see anything about X-Window programming, which leads me to wonder what other omissions I could be glossing over in buying that service. All of that is moot however, my main reason for not subscribing to Safari is the fact that it doesn’t provide access to math books. Probably the only service like that I would subscribe to would have to provide access to my triumvirate of interests: computers, math, and science fiction/ fantasy. Fat chance of that happening anytime soon.
Possibly relevant posts:
- Meta Category setup (1/23/2005)
- Caltech’s subpar library system, or there’s an ILL fee?! (8/19/2007)
- Switched servers (tangentspace.net is now at a new IP address) (9/17/2008)