gernotk

Babylon 5 rulez.

For a start, aptitudes command line options are less confusing and more powerful.

Furthermore:

http://superuser.com/questions/93437/aptitude-vs-apt-get-whi...

This is not Ubuntu.

Better use 'aptitude':

  sudo aptitude update && aptitude full-upgrade

This talk by Douglas Crockford is quite informative:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkZFtimgAcM

Also take a look on "Let Over Lambda" by Doug Hoyte about advanced macro techniques:

http://letoverlambda.com/

It's a pretty enjoyable book if you don't mind its preachiness. :-)