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Author: Joseph Beckenbach {Adapter Softw...
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:00

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Greetings, all!

        I'm putting together a bibliography called "Towards a Better Sysadmin".
It's to be a listing of books, articles, and resources which have helped some
sysadmins be better sysadmins -- but not limited to specifically system
administration-related resources.  What resources have made you a better
system administrator?  
 
        Reply with titles, any other information which comes to hand, and
short annotations explaining what it is, and why it helped.  For instance:
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Strunk and White, _The Elements of Style_.  Handbook for writers to encourage
tighter and more precise writing.  Useful when stuck for ideas while editting
documentation and policy statements.
 
USENET newsgroup comp.admin.policy.  Discussions of system administration
policy.  Commiseration, learning what goes on at other sites, problem solving
and problem prevention.  Helped me become more aware of legal issues involved
with "private" networks and systems.
 
British comedy group Monty Python.  General silliness and weirdness.
Good way to distract users during lunch, an excuse to be less of a hermit,
and source of jokes leading to exploration of language and application
oddities.  I find it a great writer's-block breaker.
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        This bibliography, should it reach critical mass, will become an
article for SAGE (a USENIX Technical Group, "System Administrators' Guild").
Regardless, I'll make it available for you and others, so that you can see
what others thought was useful.  Your contribution will be creditted;  any
philosophy behind your choices, and other random thoughts, are welcome as well.
 
        I'd like contributions by the end of January, for the first draft of
the bibliography.
 
                Joseph Beckenbach
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Joseph Beckenbach	jerbil@ultra.com	408-922-0600 x246
	(speaking from, but not for, Ultra Network Technologies)

fully-employed students

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Author: Todd Wallace
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:37

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I am a grad student in the computer science program at George
Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington
DC.  I also work full time as a Systems Administrator at a
consulting firm in DC.  Until recently, George Mason had a good
reputation among fully-employed students because it offered most
of its graduate classes at night.  However, this spring
semester, all computer science graduate classes have been
scheduled at 4:30pm, making it very difficult if not impossible,
for fully-employed students like me.

Several fellow students and I are attempting to make our
university more sensitive to the needs of the fully-employed
student, particularly in these times of extreme competition in the
workplace when so many people are going back for advanced
degrees while they are employed.

It would help our case a great deal if we could collect examples
from around the world about how other universities have
structured programs to make them more accessible to students who
have to schedule their school around their work.  I am looking
for any sort of example that would strengthen my case that my
university needs to sit up and take fully-employed students
seriously.

It seems especially ironic to me that now that I have the money
and the motivation for advanced education, that I would be
denied my dream of a master's degree and beyond simply because
of insensitive scheduling.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Todd Wallace
twallace@gmuvax2.gmu.edu

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