atw: Re: Tiny vocab suggestion

I think we all knew that Hedley.

The term has long (a few years now?) been used in more colloquial sense,
without any resulting confusion or collapse of the IT profession.

Within the context of the Internet, it seems to be a handy shorthand
expression, causing no harm to anyone.

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Hedley Finger
<hfinger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>
> On UNIX and Linux systems, superuser is the person who has total access to
> all aspects of the machine and operating system, especially for configuring
> security and network geometry, a.k.a. root, and Administrator on Windows.
>
> As long as we are working in the software industry, it might be wise to use
> another term for knowledgeable users in the appropriate end-user domain:
> expert, expert user, power user (yech!), experienced user, peer, colleague,
> or whatever.
>
> Regards,
> Hedley
>
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>
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