Comments on: Three Books Every System Administrator Should Read http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Ghanima http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-149643 Ghanima Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:14:39 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-149643 i want to read about system administrator and all functions that he/she must deal with their i want to read about system administrator and all functions that he/she must deal with their

]]> By: dblaylock http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-6621 dblaylock Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-6621 <p>As I am looking for \"The Unix Philosophy\" I also find \"Linux and the Unix Philosophy\" also by Mike Gancarz. Is this a good follow up to the original? </p> As I am looking for \”The Unix Philosophy\” I also find \”Linux and the Unix Philosophy\” also by Mike Gancarz. Is this a good follow up to the original?

]]> By: jacksinn http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-6622 jacksinn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-6622 <p>Thanks for the tip. I picked up some copies on Amazon. </p> Thanks for the tip. I picked up some copies on Amazon.

]]> By: mxyzplk http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-6623 mxyzplk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7400/#comment-6623 <p>Darn it I saw the article title and thought \"Ha ha, I get to be a smartypants by going there and plugging Time Management for System Administrators\" but already it\'s one of your three. Props for another good article. I made my whole team pass it around and read it. So much of the usual project management/time management advice/techniques don\'t work well when applied to a sysadmin kind of workload.</p> <p>In fact, the one criticism I\'d make of the book is that it approaches the topic purely from a \"one guy\" perspective - we had already developed team-wide schemes to formally do interrupt shielding, for example. It seems to take the understandable but sad assumption that there won\'t be any meaningful team management or leadership that can help with wider adoption of these ideas, because IMO they get bigger and better if you have the synergy of a whole team doing it this way. </p> Darn it I saw the article title and thought \”Ha ha, I get to be a smartypants by going there and plugging Time Management for System Administrators\” but already it\’s one of your three. Props for another good article. I made my whole team pass it around and read it. So much of the usual project management/time management advice/techniques don\’t work well when applied to a sysadmin kind of workload.

In fact, the one criticism I\’d make of the book is that it approaches the topic purely from a \”one guy\” perspective – we had already developed team-wide schemes to formally do interrupt shielding, for example. It seems to take the understandable but sad assumption that there won\’t be any meaningful team management or leadership that can help with wider adoption of these ideas, because IMO they get bigger and better if you have the synergy of a whole team doing it this way.

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