Though I cannot consider myself a Unix veteran having only worked around 5 years on Unix-like systems, I admire the hardworking Unix veteran geek. I try to understand why they seem arrogant at times. I hope to be one day be like them…except that I would want to be a customer centric Unix geek.
In summary, here are their traits:
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 1: We don’t use sudo
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 2: We use vi, not emacs, and definitely not pico or nano
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 3: We wield regular expressions like weapons
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 4: We’re inherently lazy
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 5: We prefer elegant solutions
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 6: We generally assume the problem is with whomever is asking the question
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 7: We have more in common with medical examiners than doctors
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 8: We know more about Windows than we’ll ever let on
- Veteran Unix admin trait No. 9: Rebooting is almost never an option
See the full post of Paul Venezia from InfoWorld.
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