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    • DustinB3403

      IT Documentation Helpers
      IT Discussion • documentation general it knowledge • • DustinB3403

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      @scottalanmiller said in IT Documentation Helpers:

      Problem with SYDI is that it is limited to Windows servers, no Linux or other support. Not bad, but an important limitation. Mostly it is Windows that is needing to be documented so it covers a lot of ground, though.

      SYDI has a Linux tool. I haven't used it, so I don't know it's limitations though.

    • scottalanmiller

      How Do You Teach Everything in IT?
      IT Careers • general it knowledge education • • scottalanmiller

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      So my question, I think, is how do we:

      Catalogue the knowledge needed for IT? I know of this done, literally, nowhere. Create a path or curriculum for learning these things? Create a means to present comprehensive basic, foundational IT knowledge?

      Very valid points and questions, but in today's "IT age", even if we could catalog and/or collect all of this info into one place, it could still take years to review and learn from it, especially for "beginners". IT has become so vast and diverse that it's impossible for a true "renaissance man" to exist; nobody can "know it all".

      It's unfortunate that someone with SAM's experience level and understanding could ever be seen as "stupid" for not knowing one little thing in a sea of information, but in general, that's one of the coolest things about IT: because it's so vast, "masters" always have an opportunity to learn things from beginners.

    • scottalanmiller

      System Administration: On using BASH, vi and no aliases
      IT Discussion • system administration sam linux administration general it knowledge essay sam system administration • • scottalanmiller

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      Very good read. I'm sharing your philosophy and like I said yesterday, I'm a console fetishist. You just need to use what you have when you are in a recovery console or when your server just does not have access to that NFS export or SMB share where all your fancy tools and scripts are.

      I think it's way more important to understand how things actually work. This will also help a lot when it comes to tracking down errors.

      PS: This is not about necro'ing an old thread, but the topic just came up once more.

    • scottalanmiller

      Cores and Processor Speed: What Do I Need?
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      DustinB3403

      @Dashrender Thx

    • scottalanmiller

      UNIX SSH Key Management Approaches
      IT Discussion • unix linux ssh key management 2fa two factor security general it knowledge nfs dns dnssec devops • • scottalanmiller

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      @scottalanmiller You should also include cloud-init

      https://cloudinit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

    • scottalanmiller

      What To Do when RAID Has a Hard Drive Failure
      IT Discussion • raid best practices general it knowledge storage hard drive how to • • scottalanmiller

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      MattSpeller

      I usually just power off the server, yank all the drives out, mix em all up and put em back in. I also enjoy testing my backups quite often.

      I'll have to try your method next time!

      😉