unix n00bs

unix n00bs (i.e. most of you here) make me shit my pants

for the love of god, people, using unix for a month is not enough to make you knowledgeable in its ways and give advice to others. please refrain from making yourself look like complete utter idiots (mind you, this is hard to achieve since idiots are the norm in CS) by giving horribly shitty authorative-sounding suggestions based on shit you read two days ago on linuxtoday and newsforge.

discuss.

Oh, great. One of the myopic elitists shows up.

Most people think the CDROM drive is a coffee mug holder.

No, they don't. Don't be an idiot.

There's more to life than fucking around with a computer. As much as it may surprise you, a computer is a tool. Why should anyone waste time with such an obtuse system when there's one that mostly works, and another that really does work?

My time is valuable. I know the machine inside out already, and chances are high I know it better than you do. So why do I have to fix stupidities to get the system working? Who is going to reimburse me for the time lost? And what about people who earn excess of $200 an hour? People who don't need to know the minutiae of some fancy calculator with memory to do their vocation?

Do you know your car inside out? Can you fix your cellphone? Do you do all the electrical wiring and plumbing in your house? Do you do all your taxes yourself, after reading the tax code? Do you do your own legal opinions? Do you give a shit about these things?