Re: A new project
  By: Sean Dennis to Kurt Weiske on Mon May 07 2018 07:05 pm

SD> I know very little about either, honestly. But I do scour Google for 
SD> information. Once I have my own place and a dedicated computer room, I'd
SD> like to get a few books on things like sed and awk because I know how
SD> terribly handy they are.

As much as I love physical books (especially the O'Reilly books, I jumpstarted
a couple of stages in my career with them) the Safari membership I have through
work is nice - the entire ORA catalog available on the web, and loadable on
demand. Have a new project? Check out the book and scour it.

DNS and BIND, by Cricket Liu was one of those books that changed my career. I'd
putzed around with UNIX and could do shell admin stuff, but hadn't gotten much
deeper than that. My company's DNS server was on loan from the local university
and had to go back. My PFY and I bought the book, took an unused desktop,
booted it with PC/BSD, installed the OS, and started reading the book front to
back. By 2pm we had finished the book and had a working DNS server.

We did the same thing to replace a SMTP gateway a few weekends later.

That got me started administering UNIX boxes for some time until Windows 2000
and Exchange came out. Learning about Exchange and Windows was much more
difficult.
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