h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Then you can be just 'superior' to the Linux geeks. And so superior to absolutely everyone - How?

Get to know Linux inside out - use it secretly at home - put your web site on a Linux server than you fully manage remotely - use only the command line to edit & test your code - become the expert but keep the existance of your knowledge to yourself.

Then one day the well known Linux guru is strugling with a Linux problem - that is a problem that you have deliberately created related to his current project that you know you can fix later & can hide all evidence of you being there.

After a few hours ask him what the problem is and he'll try to confuse the hell out of you explain it in great depth.

In a loud voice say 'Its only Linux I'll sort it out - givem me a few minutes - and from your terminal remotely login and sort it out in a few flashes of typing - then watch him puzzled as it now all suddenly works - then go over & in a equally loud voice menioning Linux & any Linux terminology you can in every sentance tell him how your sorted it out in great detail.

Don't forget to add in a loud voice as you walk away - "I thought you knew this Linux stuff!"

Then never mention Linux again - in fact when Linux is mentioned for two minutes only start raving about the new expert system based Linux Kernal based on DNA replication patterns that you are putting together - add some major benefits of this new approach and then never mention that again unless you find yourself once again in a Linux conversation.

...and so become superior to absolutely everyone and liked by no one - as no one likes a smart arse let alone a superior smart arse!