14 Oct
2007
14 Oct
'07
9:20 p.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Sunday 14 October 2007 22:01, Doc Shipley wrote:
Yes. Among other problems, he really really wanted RedHat to be
Debian. Can't blame him, but it wasn't a Debian course. :)
That class was an amazing experience.
There was a group of Netware admins who had been told that Netware
Version Next would run on a linux kernel, so they signed up. They spent
the entire course explaining to me that Linux will never be the OS that
Netware should have been.
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.
Doc
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
So, was he? :-) On Saturday 13 October 2007 17:45, Tony Duell
wrote:
>> This morning my wife complained to me that every time she opened a door
>> to a cupboard something with qwerty written on it falls out !!!
>> oops
> Oh that's easy to solve. Change all your keyboards to the Dvorak (?spel)
> layout.
I once taught an "RHCE review" night course for the local
community
college.
There was one student that I *knew* was going to be trouble when he
walked in the door. He was wearing an Atari T-shirt, had zero tan, and
was carrying a Genuine Dvorak Keyboard under one arm.