Re: Mac OS X Internals Book

I'm working at a university myself. They are cutting our funds every year a bit more - education doesn't seem to be worth as much as it used to be. But that's politics, and there's not much we can do about it, at least not in a short term range. So what should we do, go back to typewriters? Of course not, so we try to do our best, even if we are not trained sysadmins, but biologists. I don't mean to be whining. Just stating the facts.

When it came to setting up a new server system , my colleague and I tried to get it done by "real", professional IT people. In our opinion, it would have been a good deal and well worth its money and much, much less hassle for us, the students and the scientists. Absolutely NO chance. Too expensive, please do it yourself... and so I'm glad that there is a list like this one, though I try to avoid asking too stupid questions :-) I usually RTMF (sic!), but well, sometimes the Apple server manuals don't tell you much more than "click here, pull down that menu, click there...". Or they say "For more information, refer to the Command Line Administration Guide", and when I "refer to it", it simply says "Read the manpage" (which I had already done in that case). So yes, they could be more informative.

We both would really like to get some training to become "real" sysadmins instead of "makeshift" ones, but, well, the money.... (though I think that "sysadmin" is a position, not a profession). Don't get me wrong, I like my job and I think I'm not too bad at it. But I'd also like to be able to do it even better, of course!

Tina