High end PC/workstation users...

[Demon-Xanth]

...why is it that it seems like high end PC/workstation users either tend to know just enough about software to get them in trouble while being pretty much clueless in regards to hardware, or they're virtual gods in computer knowledge. There's almost no inbetween.

An example:
At my work a CAD guy said he had a dual CPU machine running Win98 but AutoCAD could still use the second CPU and some guy just got in a triple CPU machine. (reality: He had a P2, the other guy had a P3). He gets a recurring virus that "doc control" keeps giving him (though he's the only one showing any symptoms and refuses to check his own backups), causing him to have to reinstall windows every 3 months from scratch (I'm on a two and a half year old install that is running pretty good). Has the inate ability to convince people who are admittedly clueless that he is a guru. (even though until I showed him, he didn't know how to work a ZIF socket)

Another guy knows the ins and outs of hardware easily being able to descern the differences between 440BX, 440GX, and HeSL chipsets and can administer a server with ease.


There's not too many people that are in between these two groups of people. Why is this?

 

[777php]

Aren't we generalizing a little bit? Everybody at my work uses a high end workstation and most have an expansive knowledge of technology not specific only to computers.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Group #1 - A little knowledge is dangerous:disgust:

Group #2 - We know that we do not know everything and do not need to prove what we know

Group #3 - Specialists and feel the need to prove it.



This can apply to most things in life.