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- From: davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: How does a mortal become a UNIX WIZARD ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.173738.1953@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:37:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.001512.72408@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <Mf30lBO00VI=41tGYT@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <Mf30lBO00VI=41tGYT@andrew.cmu.edu>, Geoffrey Spear <gs32+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- | 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 :)
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- I think it mainly takes a big ego to call yourself a wizard (like one
- person who has UNIXGURU vanity plates). The best people I know are still
- willing to admit they don't remotely know it all.
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- Most people who look like wizards have an indepth knowlege of some
- phase (for which they may be famous) but an overview at best on other
- areas. The folks with the big ego dismiss what they don't know, ignoring
- things like xenix or even all of sysV, or knowing only streams but not
- sockets, etc. The people who are really good tend to avoid bragging.
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