On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 08:09, Greg Meyer wrote: > I thought this would be a fun question to discuss. > > How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore?
When you start to do more work from a console than from a GUI - or when you get rid of GDM/KDM/XDM so that you can boot faster...or when you start X with only and xterm...or when you go through someone's code because the program you're trying to compile doesn't work, or because you want to customise the code to your liking...or when your desktop has been changed so much as to not be recognisable in the least compared to what your distro originally plopped on your drive... Meanwhile, everyone's a newbie. Even if you're into it knee deep - doesn't matter. No one can ever know enough. Expert are experts in fields they know - but there are still more fields. Gurus that I've met both here and back home in the US still admit they don't know something about a particular thing - but that's the joy of it all. No matter what you know, someone knows more, or something different. Besides, if anyone looses the mentality that they're a newbie about something or another, then they've most certainly got their head stuck up somewhere where the sun doesn't shine. I get a really bad attitude on the RH list when you get heaps of complete idiots that think they're God's gift to linux...they're so "beyond" the newbie that they don't want to give good information or they flame the daylights out of the poor "noob" - but when searching into past archives, you can yank out a message they've requested help with and throw it back at 'em...damn - everyone needs some humility and everyone's been there. Ain't met one person yet that was born knowing anything about computers... ...off my soapbox I shall get... -- Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:00:00 +1100 9:00am up 2 days, 18:06, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.10 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * RH 8.0 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.
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