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- From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
- Subject: Re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.141923.11144@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
- Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
- Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
- References: <Mf30lBO00VI=41tGYT@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:19:23 GMT
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- From article <Mf30lBO00VI=41tGYT@andrew.cmu.edu>, by Geoffrey Spear <gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu>:
- > Also, read the jargon file and start using obscure hacker jargon all
- > the time. It will at least make you *seem* to be a wizard of some sort,
- > at least to those who have no idea what you're talking about and who are
- > afraid to admit it :)
-
- Plus there's the fact that some poet (Auden?) said that we all pretend to
- be something before we really are it, so yeah, pretending to be a Unix
- wizard is a step in the right direction.
-
- > "You're redlining my bogometer!"
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Hey! You making fun of my name??!
-
- -John D. Boggs uunet!erato!jdb
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