And in a similar vein, there's the eight levels of Unix knowledge: http://www.komputado.com/haha/unixguru.htm, of which the most advanced is:
Wizard - Fixes bugs by patching the binaries. - Writes his own troff macro packages. - Writes device drivers with *cat>*. - Can answer any question before you ask. On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Clarke Echols <cla...@verinet.net> wrote: > On 06/10/2012 06:16 PM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> "By day, I struggled with getting dot leaders into adjusted text with >> troff..." -- >> http://article.olduse.net/173@**populi.UUCP<http://article.olduse.net/1...@populi.uucp> >> >> Cheers, Ralph. >> >> >> > That brings back memories, though it's a bit before my time. My first > encounters with Usenet News was about 1985, as I recall. I don't use > 'dd' and 'tr', but 'find' is a regular, along with that new marvelous > Linuxism: 'locate -i'. > > And oh the ecstasy of 'firefox <URL> from a terminal window instead of > having to open a browser window, double-click on the address bar, then > type in a URL. > > Linux users who don't run terminal windows are missing the boat. > > And 'vim' -- even better than 'vi' which I started using in 1984! And > it's still my editor of choice. And building a website from components > with a simple shell script -- who needs a Content Management System that > gives you 181 files for a single page (WordPress does that all the time, > including 8 CSS files!) when I can do the same with an HTML file, a CSS > file, and two image files to give it artistic appeal. > > All done from the Bash command line. > > 'Tis true. Microsoft software is the crabgrass on the lawn of life. > > Clarke > >
