Comments on: Inspect what you Expect http://www.cmdln.org/2009/10/07/inspect-what-you-expect/ a system administrators mutterings Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nick Anderson http://www.cmdln.org/2009/10/07/inspect-what-you-expect/comment-page-1/#comment-1005 Nick Anderson Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:31:00 +0000 http://www.cmdln.org/?p=499#comment-1005 Yeah, he is a pretty cool guy. I do not belong to LOPSA anymore. I used to but for me the usefulness wayned. I really want to see a good mentoring program somewhere. Its taken countless hours for me to gain my knowledge and unfortunately I've had to do it mostly on my own. I have never had the luck of having a mentor. In some ways its been a blessing. Its forced me to learn how to get the knowledge with little assistance. On the other hand I expect its taken me longer to gain the knowledge. Yeah, he is a pretty cool guy. I do not belong to LOPSA anymore. I used to but for me the usefulness wayned. I really want to see a good mentoring program somewhere. Its taken countless hours for me to gain my knowledge and unfortunately I’ve had to do it mostly on my own. I have never had the luck of having a mentor. In some ways its been a blessing. Its forced me to learn how to get the knowledge with little assistance. On the other hand I expect its taken me longer to gain the knowledge.

]]> By: Ryan Sears http://www.cmdln.org/2009/10/07/inspect-what-you-expect/comment-page-1/#comment-1004 Ryan Sears Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:17:33 +0000 http://www.cmdln.org/?p=499#comment-1004 Hi there, First of all thanks for the connection, I am also very interested in seeing other sys-admin's blogs, they're a great place to learn! Your boss sounds like a smart guy, I just had a run in like this with virtualbox haha. It's defiantly never fun to have to reverse-engineer everything that someone has done. In my opinion you waste more time trying to figure out all the little details then just starting over and being intimately familiar with the system. Then its just as simple as working from backups of the original system to restore its functionality. Sure you can overlook things but with a new system admin on a re-done system thats to be expected. Do you belong to LOPSA? I'd like to get to know a little more about you, as I don't really know too many people in the field other then those I work with. BTW, I dig your captcha :) Hi there,

First of all thanks for the connection, I am also very interested in seeing other sys-admin’s blogs, they’re a great place to learn!

Your boss sounds like a smart guy, I just had a run in like this with virtualbox haha. It’s defiantly never fun to have to reverse-engineer everything that someone has done. In my opinion you waste more time trying to figure out all the little details then just starting over and being intimately familiar with the system. Then its just as simple as working from backups of the original system to restore its functionality. Sure you can overlook things but with a new system admin on a re-done system thats to be expected.

Do you belong to LOPSA? I’d like to get to know a little more about you, as I don’t really know too many people in the field other then those I work with.

BTW, I dig your captcha :)

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