OT: It's arrived!

[Bob Walker]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Dean Wilson wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:25:46PM +0000, Lyle - CosmicPerl.com wrote:
>> would you recommend a book or maybe site that I could skim through to
>> fill gaps in my sysadmin knowledge?
>

grow a beard. all sysadmins need a beard.

> 'The Practise of System and Network Administration' (2nd edition is out)
> and 'Blueprints for High Availability' are both good for getting the
> mindset right. At the moment I'm reading (and enjoying) 'Security
> Metrics'. None of those are tech books as such.
>
> Beyond that it depends on what areas you actually have an interest in.
> - Curtis Preston for backups.
> - Evi Nemeth and Aeleen Frisch for Linux/Unix books that compare OS to OS and distro to distro
> - Stevens and Radia Perlman for networking (Craig Hunt is also quite good)
>

and dont be afraid to play with things. if you dont break it. you wont 
learn. books are great. practice is better.


> Then you get to dive in to OS / tool level books. Or you go along the path
> of the DBA. Or SAN expert. Or V12N. Or... It's a big world.
>

or not. nowt wrong with being a genralist. ( well apart from the possibly 
smaller pay packets)


> And that's not even mentioning Windows, VMS or anything else niche like
> that ;)
>

vms admins have the best beards.

>  Dean
> PS I don't have a clue when it comes to OSX or Novell. Always avoided both.
>

os/2 ?


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