Suggested Reading

The following are texts that i found well worth my time knowing about and reading.

Man pages

hier(7), queue(3), scan_ffs(8), style(9)

Standards, RFCs

Rules for Unix programming
rfc1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
rfc1178: Choosing a Name for Your Computer
rfc2549: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

Articles, Speeches, Short Stories

The Right to Read
2nd State of the Onion
Letter from 2020
A Love Song For Napster
Megabits Among the Homeless
A portrait of J. Random Hacker
What's Wrong With Content Protection
Reflections on Graphical User Interfaces

Books

Amazing grace: the lives of children and the conscience of a nation, by Jonathan Kozol (info)
The Art Of Unix Programming
Cuckoo's Egg, by Cliff Stoll (info)
Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Open Sources
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing, by Steven W. Smith
Why I escaped from Soviet Russia, by Alexander Evstifeef

Book Listings

The Assayer
The On-Line Books Page
Project Gutenberg

Scientific paper archives

CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library
arXiv Prints for physics, math, and computer science