From owner-voxers-at-large@specter.usa.net Sat Jul 15 01:18:05 1995 Subject: NuVAL: yo yo (fwd) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-voxers-at-large@specter.usa.net Reply-To: voxers-at-large@specter.usa.net one of my users sent this to me. i laughed, i cried, i identified myself in several catagories. GCS/E -d+(?) H++ s-: !g p? !au a-- w+ v- C++ ULS++++$ P+>++ L++@ 3 E- N++(+) K W M- V- po Y+ t S- j R G' tv>- b>+ D+ B- e(+) u+(*) h! f r>+++ n-@ y+ [forwarding lines deleted - sig remains] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- These lands are ours. No one has the right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries. -Tecumseh, 1810 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Guru versus wizard--explained People who come into contact with the Unix system are often told, "If you have trouble, see so-and-so, he's a guru", or "Bob there is a real Unix hacker." What is a "Unix Wizard"? How does s/he differ from a "guru"? To explore these and other questions, here is a draft of the "Unix Hierarchy": NAME DESCRIPTION AND FEATURES beginner - insecure with the concept of a terminal - has yet to learn the basics of vi - has not figured out how to get a directory - still has trouble with typing after each line of input novice - knows that "ls" will produce a directory - uses the editor, but calls it "vye" - has heard of "C" but never used it - has had a bad experience with rm - is wondering how to read mail - is wondering why the person next door seems to like Unix so very much user - uses vi and nroff, but inexpertly - has heard of regular expressions but never seen one. - has figured out that '-' precedes options - has attempted to write a C program but decided to stick with Pascal - is wondering how to move a directory - thinks that dbx is a brand of stereo component - knows how to read mail and is wondering how to read the news knowledgeable - uses nroff with no trouble, and is beginning user to learn tbl and eqn - uses grep to search for fixed strings - has figured out that mv(1) will move directories - has learned that "learn" doesn't help - somebody has shown her how to write C programs - once used sed but checked the file afterward - watched somebody use dbx once - tried "make" but used spaces instead of tabs expert - uses sed when necessary - uses macros in vi, uses ex when necessary - posts news at every possible opportunity - is still wondering how to successfully reply to mail - writes csh scripts occasionally - writes C programs using vi and compiles with make - has figured out what && and || are for - uses fgrep because somebody said it was faster hacker - uses sed and awk with comfort - uses undocumented features of vi - writes C code with "cat >" and compiles with "!cc" - uses adb because she doesn't trust source debuggers - figured out how environment variables are propagated - writes her own nroff macros to supplement the standard ones - writes Bourne shell scripts - installs bug fixes from the net - uses egrep because she timed it guru - uses m4 and lex with comfort - writes assembler code with "cat >" - uses adb on the kernel while the system is loaded - customizes Unix utilities by patching the source - reads device driver source with breakfast - uses "ed" because "ex" is a Berkeleyism - can answer any unix question after a little thought - uses make for anything that requires two or more commands - has learned how to breach security but no longer needs to try - is putting James Woods/Henry Spencer egrep into her next Unix release wizard - writes device drivers with "cat >" - fixes bugs by patching the binaries - posts her changes to Unix utilities to the net -- and they work - can tell what question you are about to ask, and answer it - writes her own troff macro packages - is on a first-name basis with Dennis, Bill, and Ken Thanks to Dave Coble :-) Blind to many -72674.226@COMPUSERVE.COM@inet#,mikef@psy.com@inet#, larrygoss@aol.com@inet02#,murrayl@mciunix.mciu.k12.pa.us@inet02#, GAILTIER@AOL.COM@INET02# -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Voxers-at-Large: Your Psycho Friends Network. Nutty Professor: "[support] joel boutros"