I've gone too far

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 23:29:23 CDT 2007


Doc Shipley wrote:
>   Then there was one young lady whose fine arts degree wasn't paying her 
> bills, so she signed up to be an RHCE.  She'd never seen a Linux or UNIX 
> system, had no admin experience even in Windows, and since she plainly 
> ignored the printed prerequisites (Administrative experience with Linux 
> or Unix), I can only assume she also couldn't read.  She really did 
> expect to take the 6-week 2-nights-a-week class, pass the RHCE, and go 
> get a $50K job.
> 
>   She did stick it out through the course.  After it ended, she sent me 
> a 3-page email that expressed, in prose, her bitter disappointment in 
> the strangeness of "the Linux Mindset".  The term "megalodorks" was used.

Was she cute?

Peace...  Sridhar


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