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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Wed,  4 May 2011 15:57:35 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] lenovo or other laptop support
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On Wed May  4 15:32:42 EDT 2011, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> In article <271f1d4632de477f20e2dfe627cfd3f4@brasstown.quanstro.net> you write:
> >at coraid, we're considering asking new hires use ed for
> >a week exclusively.
>
> As the only real Unix/Linux expert at my previous company, I used to tell
> people that the way to really learn to become comfortable as a command line
> user was to disconnect the mouse for a month.
>
> Not that anyone actually bothered to do it, but I think they understood
> my point.
>
> Erik, if you do ask your new hires to use ed, make it 2 weeks or a month.
> That will cement regular expressions into their heads really well.

we'll see how much they know, that's for sure!

- erik