On Tuesday 25 November 2003 19:24, Anthony Anson wrote:
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(Wymondham Town Centre resident. Willing to join up to jointly bang heads against screens.)
I say old chap, that's jolly decent of you.
Enough of the "old" (how did you find out?)
As for levels of competence, after "using" Linux for about 5 years it was only yesterday I finally managed to move a couple of centuries of accumulated emails from Outlock Excess to KMail and actually leave Windoze switched off for 24 hours. Impressively slow rate of progress, doncha think? Which for reasons I can't fathom reminds me of the following:
"A generalist (e.g. a manager) starts by knowing a little about a lot, and goes on learning less about more until he ends up knowing nothing about everything.
Whereas,
An expert starts off knowing a lot about a little, and goes on learning more about less until he ends up knowing everything about nothing."
-- GT