Ever wished you could spy on your computer with a handy incantation or bewitch your programs to debug themselves - now you can by becoming a Linux wizard! Okay, reading these zines won't actually make you a wizard, but you'll sure feel like one after you learn some neat Linux tricks. With this collected edition of Julia Evans's wildly popular Linux zines, you'll view programming in a way you never have before - now on fancier paper!

Provides dozens of specific debugging strategies that you can use in any programming language to investigate your hardest programming challenges.... [teaches you to] "learn from your bugs, so that you can often skip straight to 'oh, I’ve seen this before!' ; have a million different ways to make progress, so that you always have something to do next continuously run experiments to gather information (in debugging, even failed experiments are progress!) ; understand exactly why the bug happened, which makes it very easy to fix it ; and ultimately, learn from your bugs to become an expert on the things that went wrong." --Publisher's website

"This zine explains some of the most useful Unix command line tools in 1 page each"--Page 2 of cover.

"When her grandmother Rosamond dies, Sheila inherits a box of secret love letters from Harold C. Carr--a man who is not her grandfather. In spite of herself, Sheila gets caught up in the legacy of the affair, piecing together her grandmother's past and forging bonds with Torrey and Vinnie as intense and fragile as the crumbling pages in Rosamonds shoebox ... Sheila grows almost as obsessed with the letters as the man who wrote them. Somewhere, there's an answering stack of letters--written in Rosamond's hand--and Sheila can't stop until she uncovers the rest of the story"--Amazon.com.

What are those computers saying to each other? With tcpdump you can find out!