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[Steve Parkes]

Deusiah wrote:

>How can you use something for 10 years and still be a newbie? 
>
because with such a broad area as linux there is always a vast area of 
knowledge you don't even know exists.

> What about Guru status? 
>
Gurus are people who have a narrow band of knowledge that goes extremely 
deep.  They are worse than newbies once they leave that band of 
knowledge and generally acknowledge this fact.

The only thing I know is that I know nothing at all.

>You have to be extremely
>knowledgeable but they don't know everything.
>  
>
it's impossible to know everything but important to know that you don't 
know everything.  If someone claims to be an expert it's easy to shoot 
them down my finding one chink in their armour everyone should try to 
keep the newbie nature and use it to explore and learn new areas.  Gurus 
are the people most likely to ask silly questions outside of their 
chosen arena but they don't get any problems doing this because they ask 
questions extremely well ;-)

>Chris
>  
>
just like the discussion about forums where my use of the term 
accessibilty differed from yours I think we have a difference in the way 
we are currently using newbie.  I am not using newbie to describe 
someone who is new to a subject but someone who has something new to 
learn about a subject.  I think my definition is a little more subtule 
than the one commonly used and is probably where our views differ.

sparkes
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