What a typically west-coast attitude!! ;^) *ducks*
(No problem, this is mostly an oral tradition, where everyone learns the weird stuff by word-of-mouth. There's probably a really slick sociology paper in there somewhere, on the oralist traditions of cutting-edge technology, looking at the lag between knowledge being word-of-mouth and its becoming written gospel. And then how long for that to be truly obsolete versus just forgotten, like poor neglected 'vmstat' =)
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Date: 2005-07-13 02:49 am (UTC)(No problem, this is mostly an oral tradition, where everyone learns the weird stuff by word-of-mouth. There's probably a really slick sociology paper in there somewhere, on the oralist traditions of cutting-edge technology, looking at the lag between knowledge being word-of-mouth and its becoming written gospel. And then how long for that to be truly obsolete versus just forgotten, like poor neglected 'vmstat' =)