First you get your cocky ass kicked by some Windows fanboi.
Then you go up onto the mountain to train with a bearded Unix guru. He forces you through a brutal training regimen with obscure CLI utilities, each with its own brain-flayingly inconsistent command line switches.
When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
By the time you come down the mountain, you're in your 30's, living with your parents, grossly overweight, and have less of a social life than the kitten on the cover of the book. Sure, you know Ubuntu kung-fu, but at what price?
Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
First you get your cocky ass kicked by some Windows fanboi.
Then you go up onto the mountain to train with a bearded Unix guru. He forces you through a brutal training regimen with obscure CLI utilities, each with its own brain-flayingly inconsistent command line switches.
When you can debug, at a glance, Perl scripts that look like core dumps, you come down from the mountain and beat the crap out of the Windows guy with your esoteric skilz.
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
By the time you come down the mountain, you're in your 30's, living with your parents, grossly overweight, and have less of a social life than the kitten on the cover of the book. Sure, you know Ubuntu kung-fu, but at what price?
Re:Nah, everybody knows how this one goes. (Score:5, Funny)
Sure, you know Ubuntu kung-fu, but at what price?
$34.95 or $43.75 with the PDF.
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What?
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$34.95 or $43.75 with the PDF.
Or, you can go to isohunt.com
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Mastering the wuxi finger grep: Priceless.
There is no charge for awesomeness...
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