et wrote:
On Friday 14 February 2003 09:31 pm, mycal62 wrote:
Greg Meyer wrote:
I thought this would be a fun question to discuss.
How can you tell you are not a Newbie anymore?
All this humility is very nice. ;-)
that aside, it's interesting how the responses have been. with anything
and especially with opinion
it's really a matter of perspective, and It becomes a relative thing as
well.
When I first tried Linux RH 5.2 ( I think ) I would say I was an
absolute Newbie. Now after several
years can I say I am an Expert? Most definitely NOT, but I don't feel I
am a true Newbie either.
I would call myself a "User in perpetual training" ( I really don't
think I'll ever be an expert though
because that would take more brains than I have left. )
But then , That's purely from MY perspective, < massive grin >
I Like a saying of Confucius : " to know that what you know is what you
know, is not knowledge,
But to know that what
you do not know is what you do not know ....
That is the beginning
of understanding"
somethng like that.
I often say the one thing I learned about computers in 1992 that I still use,
and is still true, is that what ever you buy today will be obosolete in 3
years, and the same goes with software, (actully I have one program that was
written for win95 and I bought in 1995, that I still use almost every day,
and that is winfax for win 95, since I have kept my hourly billing on it as a
faxed document since 1995 but the OS it ran on is no longer avail, good thing
it still runs using other M$products) and I still use pine when I ssh into a
shell account, and it has been around (without much change that I can see)
Et,
Pine does gorgeous threading now-a-days.
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