[nflug] what's your linux admin IQ?

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Wed Nov 5 09:12:35 EST 2008


maybe we should do a "man man" ;)

Robert Meyer wrote:
> Been there, done that.  The only things I had to learn from in the 
> "Days Before Fire" were the man pages and the original Bell Telephone 
> white papers...  I actually read the Bill Joy paper on 'vi'.  I read 
> all of the man pages in the system (Version 7), including sections 2, 
> 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.  So, without looking, who can name the 8 original 
> sections of the man pages (not you, Ken.  You can get this one in your 
> sleep :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
>  
> --
> "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth 
> with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you 
> will always long to return."
> --Leonardo da Vinci
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com>
> *To:* nflug at nflug.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 4, 2008 11:21:09 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [nflug] what's your linux admin IQ?
>
> As your punishment I sentence you to read the man(1) pages for every
> command on the system!
>
> Robert Meyer wrote:
> > Nuts... I got a 75, too...  Of the questions I missed, one I had no idea
> > 'cuz it talks about financial contributions, one was the trick question,
> > one what the windowing environment question, the video driver Open
> > Source one (I haven't been following this at all) and the kernel code
> > one (didn't read the question *really* carefully).
> >
> > Crud...  I feel like an ex-guru... I'll crawl back into my corner now
> > and whimper... nobody's going to respect me any more (wait, they never
> > did... never mind)...
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Bob
> > 
> > --
> > "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with
> > your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will
> > always long to return."
> > --Leonardo da Vinci
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com 
> <mailto:peter at thecybersource.com>>
> > *To:* nflug at nflug.org <mailto:nflug at nflug.org>
> > *Sent:* Monday, November 3, 2008 2:17:31 PM
> > *Subject:* [nflug] what's your linux admin IQ?
> >
> > Interesting little 20 question quiz. Let's test our Linux knowledge! No
> > googling!!
> > I got a 75. Be careful, READ the questions carefully, a few are trick
> > questions!
> > 
> http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-11-03 
> <http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-11-03>
> > 
> <http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-11-03 
> <http://www.infoworld.com/tools/quiz/news/IQ2008linux-news-quiz.php?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-11-03>>
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> Darin Perusich
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> Cognigen Corporation
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