Which websites should a system administrator read? [closed]
Since every modern System Administrator should be using a feed reader, here's my selections from Google Reader [NOTE: These are RSS feeds, not the standard viewable sites themselves!]:
System Administration and Storage:
- Boiling Linux and Windows - http://feeds.feedburner.com/BoilingLinuxAndWindows
- Everything Sysadmin - http://www.everythingsysadmin.com/atom.xml
- High Scalability - Building bigger, faster, more reliable websites. - http://highscalability.com/rss.xml
- Kevin Closson's Oracle Blog: Platform, Storage & Clustering Topics - http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/feed/
- Last In - First Out - http://lastinfirstout.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
- Observations from a Tech Architect: Enterprise Implementation Issues - http://rss.ittoolbox.com/rss/eai-implementation.xml
- Services for UNIX - Interoperability - http://blogs.msdn.com/sfu/atom.xml
- Standalone Sysadmin - http://feeds.feedburner.com/standalone-sysadmin/rWoU
- StorageMojo - http://storagemojo.com/?feed=rss
- The Lone Sysadmin - http://feeds.feedburner.com/lonesysadmin/mkpe
- Planet CentOS - http://planet.centos.org/atom.xml
Security:
- Red Hat Errata - https://rhn.redhat.com/rpc/recent-errata.pxt
- Debian Security - http://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long
- Schneier on Security - http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf
Tech/IT News:
- Techdirt - http://feeds.techdirt.com/techdirt/feed
- LWN.net - http://lwn.net/headlines/newrss
- Slashdot Firehose Stories - http://slashdot.org/firehose_stories.rss
- TechCrunch - http://feedproxy.google.com/TechCrunch
Others that are important and popular among sysadmins:
- Cool Tools - http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoolTools
- xkcd.com - http://xkcd.com/rss.xml
- ThinkGeek :: What's New - http://www.thinkgeek.com/thinkgeek.rss
- The Daily WTF - http://syndication.thedailywtf.com/TheDailyWtf
- Official Gmail Blog - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml
- The official update feed from the Google Apps team - http://feeds.feedburner.com/GoogleAppsUpdates
- What Would Tyler Durden Do - http://www.wwtdd.com/feed/atom/
I'm subscribed to the following in my feed reader:
- The Blog of Ben Rockwood - excellent Solaris blog
- Commandlinefu - subscribe to one of the 3 or 10 vote feeds for useful command line tips.
- Unix admin corner
- Sun Bigadmin updated feed - occasionally has some useful links, but there is a lot of noise
- Daily Vim - Learn your editor and learn it well
There are a few others I have in my sysadmin category, but they may not be generally applicable. I'd also suggest reading a lot of sites that would be considered 'sites programmers should read' - hacker news, programming.reddit etc., but then I tend to have an interest in both programming and systems administration.
On a regular basis? None.
In the end, most sites just end up being a time suck (like Server Fault?)
For some light reading you can't beat BOFH ;->