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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