1. Document everything you do ; You or someone else would come accross the same issue sometime else and from my long experiance; if you dont document you probably would have to start over again!
2. Face the issue from the head and tackle it from the tail! . The best sysadmin practice would be to tackle every issue by studying the issue from its outputs and visual errors and tackling the issue by checking the logs and the internals
3.Do not delete anything as far as possible.These days disks comes very cheap.But data recovery is a costly affair
4.Keep your Os as clean as possible.A clean and tidy place is a lott better to work and troubleshoot
5. Love and respect your operating system and i am sure it will respect you back.Remember the dialog by Nicolas Cage in “Gone in 60 seconds” > Baby if you take care of me…I will take care of you.That should be your relationship with your OS
6. Drop your ego’s. Share with others.Take others advise.Give others credits for their work
7.Feel proud of what you do .Enjoy what you do .You know after all we make the INTERNET work!
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This post was written by Anoop Alias on May 26, 2008
