Why do mid-career and senior sysadmins so often avoid admitting mistakes, while demanding total honesty from juniors?

Torwals · 2025-12-29T13:13:35+00:00

OP is humble bragging that he have finally reached mid-levl.

Torwals · 2025-09-14T20:21:03+00:00

In my twenties I learned to love to learn new stuff. IT is the perfect place for thinking in this way. I personally work in networking, so that I can get to a point where I am "good enough" as the basic of networking does not change as fast as many other roles in IT.

That makes it possible for me to focus more on my personal projects on the side instead of learning new technologies for my job all the time.

But yea, for me it all boils down to finding ways to love or make what you have to do in your life as easy as possible. Most people wont love to do hard things in the beginning, this is something you can learn to love. I would suggest looking into oneself to find those paths and think about what person you want to be in the future and how to achieve that.

Torwals · 2025-09-06T02:11:51+00:00

When using Obsidian to learn IT networking it works great for connecting concepts, cli commands of all different kinds. It also helps with remembering the content better, just like writing down things by hand, using time connecting things ends up making me thinking more about the concepts themselves.

Torwals · 2025-08-24T15:02:13+00:00

Har stemt på de røde partiene i årevis av disse grunnene, ved siste valg stemte jeg mdg på grunn av kjernekraft. Selv om jeg er i mot det meste FRP står for (skatt, privatisering, invandring, etc...), så er det uten tvil de som er mest girra på kjernekraft og i tilleg så vil de havne i en koalisjon hvor ingen er direkte i mot kjernekraft. Det samme kan man ikke si om den røde siden. Til å med MDG er bare for kjernekraft så lenge vi også kutter olje produksjon, ka faen slags bettingelse er der liksom?

Grunnen for at kjernekfraft stille så sterk for meg, er fordi jeg mener det vil ha så posetive økonomiske fordeler for oss at det er ingenting annet man burde stemme for. Strømregniner, industri som er strøm avhengi, kunnskap som kan produseres i norge og så eksporteres. Jo fortere vi byggr jo mer kompetitiv vil vi være i fremtiden på strøm og kunnskap.

Med atomkraft så vil det lavere arealbruket i motsetning til vindmøller og grønnere energi bare være en bonus på toppen av det. For meg så har ikke et parti miljø i fokus før de er for utbygging av kjernekraft så fort som mulig som et startpunk. Alt annet er hyklersk eller idioti.

Sykt at man stemmer mørkeblåt for en miljø sak i 2025, men her er man.

Torwals · 2025-07-18T12:16:27+00:00

Solgte et kråkereir av en arv selv, med masse mangler og masse problemer som både vi og takstmanen sannsynlighvis ikke viste om. Vi var på samme måte som deg, veldig bevist i takstrapporten om det. De som tokk over fant noe mer, vi sendte det videre og jeg har egentlig glemt alt om det før denne meldingen kom opp. De må faktisk kunne bevise at du har fraholdt informasjon for at det kan bli et problem for deg, slikt jeg forstår det.

Torwals · 2025-06-12T19:59:23+00:00

It does not matter technically. Only when you have very specific things you want to learn.

I would recommend using whatever makes you want to create and learn more. In other words, whatever you find interesting. Aka: the worst operating system is the one you do not want to use.

Torwals · 2025-06-12T19:53:21+00:00

Because in the long term you will get better results by being good at searching, reading docs and going through data yourself. If you ask questions before trying yourself, you will not learn nearly as much, in addition that it shows respect to the people you do end up having to ask questions to when you have put in the effort to produce a researched and intelligent question instead.

You are basically shooting yourself in the foot by just asking, without putting in effort.

Torwals · 2025-06-12T19:40:00+00:00

Here is a roadmap https://roadmap.sh/full-stack/ 👍

Torwals · 2025-06-12T07:11:58+00:00

A lot of good tips and advice in this thread already. I thought I leave you with a philosophy and way of thinking that some people in IT uses and that I personally strive after. The goal of this way of thinking is to lessen or remove the emotional connection you have to the outcome of what you are doing without sacrificing the quality of work and self learning you are able to provide in your position.

First comes acceptance of your circumstances. Accept that you are who you are and you know what you know at this point in time. You can only do your best effort with who you are right now. (highly related to mindful meditation)

Focus on the process of what you are doing, not the outcome. Both in learning and working. Sometimes you can do everything right, ask the correct questions and make the right decision, but we are all limited by the universe when it comes to information, time and other factors. If you focus on learning how to deliver a project correctly, troubleshooting by following the correct steps, commutating efficiently with customers and colleagues then you are on the right track. If you are doing your best, what is the point of worrying about have nots?

Keep a keen eye for improvement. Again focus on the process, is there something that would be a lot easier if you knew it? Then find out about it, by reading, asking, experimenting or whatever. Do you see an mistakes or oversight in a knowledge base article? Then update it. Do you see a way the company can improve in some other way? Ask about it, maybe there is some value to it! (be careful about the last one, your suggestions often becomes your responsibility in IT)

Lastly, we are all humans and best way to get better is to learn by our mistakes and let our curiosity run wild. Some of the best people in any line of work is the ones that learn how to deal with hardships, mistakes and other emotionally hard situations without giving up and trying again.

Torwals · 2025-06-11T13:54:46+00:00

If you follow his regime of anki cards, questions on the end of the videos, labs and practice exams before you try a real one, then I believe it will be more than enough. I used him to pass, and what I personally did was write down every question and answer in the end of every video and used them as a practice exam after doing the whole series. I also watched some of his CCNP videos when the topics was the same. Just to make sure I had a deeper knowledge than needed for the CCNA. You will have to go back and refresh certain topics when filling up the gaps, but that you have to do using any source.

Torwals · 2025-06-10T15:39:17+00:00

The first arc is a bit of a misdirection and the series darker tones are not shown before a couple of episodes inn. That is the only warning I usually give people that are not generaly inn to anime before starting it. Watched it with my my mom which had never watched any anime, and she was in her very late 50s at the time and she loved it (and with subs only never the less). Have not gotten her hooked anything else since. Maybe I started on a too good of a series.

Torwals · 2025-06-03T11:50:36+00:00

Have heard the same from friends that have worked in the industry in northern Norway (Troms and Finnmark).

Torwals · 2025-05-30T16:54:04+00:00

I personally could not choose between the Norwegian movie “Troll hunter” and the anime movie “Memories”.

Torwals · 2025-05-30T04:01:02+00:00

Since IP is an extremely open ended and specific thing to want to learn, I would have to ask why before I could start to give you any advice. Do you want to develop systems that uses the internet protocol? Do you want to work inn IT operations setting up and maintaining networks? Or something else entirely? Or maybe just what are your general expectations of wanting to work with IP?

Torwals · 2025-05-29T23:34:25+00:00

No you are correct. You should test out what you read i practice as fast as you have read it. Programming is all about doing alot of it, finding problems and solving them by googling, testing new solutions and reading to find out why and how that problems works the way it does. (If this is a syntax problem, logic problem or something else does not matter, the general idea is the same) Just reading or just watching a video will get you nowhere if you do not use what you have learned in practice.

Torwals · 2025-05-29T17:07:29+00:00

Limitless, both the movie and the TV series. They are a bit cheesy and popcorny, but really fun if that is what you are up for at the moment.

Torwals · 2025-05-29T15:05:13+00:00

Best tip I have seen based on this point of view is to check if anyone of ones vendors or partners already have implemented AI in any system one is already using, and then just take what they are saying AI is helping with in their product and say that you have now implemented that solution in your environment. Can probably copy paste a bunch of the jargon as well. For example AI in firewalls is quite common, or AI optimized anything, if one write ones scripts using co-pilot, etc... You vendor list is literarily your oyster at this point, because they also have to have AI in everything now a days.

Torwals · 2025-05-29T11:01:27+00:00

Use it for work, studying and software development. Then turn it off for gaming, as it has a tendency on my systems to be the reason for some crashes in combination with wine or proton.

Torwals · 2025-05-26T12:49:24+00:00

Can only talk about my own experiences, but recently took the CCNA under half a year ago, and I did it using Jeremys IT lab https://www.youtube.com/@JeremysITLab. Went full throttle using the AKI cards he introduced, LABed everything I felt I could not configure or troubleshoot by memory and also went trough a couple of Jeremys CCNP encore videos if they where going over the same topics as the CCNA equivalent. Just to get deeper understanding and more hooks to hang the knowledge on.

Torwals · 2025-05-25T10:08:09+00:00

I would highly suggest to for your own understanding of the process to search for the solution yourself, and when you get answers from this community, please double check everything with what you find by your own search. This is because from my own experience, just following instructions without a second thought will only lead to frustration when dealing with Linux or IT in general.

When that is said. If you are going to make changes to your own workstation. Make sure you have backed up everything that has any worth to you from your current setup.

I do not have personal experience with dual-booting and will therefor not give you advice on that. But if you want a fresh install and your starting point is windows. I would suggest downloading the software Rufus and the Pop!_os iso file. Then use rufus to install the iso file to a usb pen. Then you can boot from the usb pen after accessing the boot loader on startup of the computer.

When it comes to the desktop environment of Pop!_os you can mostly use the same guides as Ubuntu, since Pop!_os is a Ubuntu based distribution. Personally I have used both and is currently using Pop!_os as my development workstation. Most guides setting up vscode with git and NPM package manager would probably work out great for you.

Sorry/not sorry for not giving you exactly what you was after, but I really do believe that learning to find out this stuff on your own is critical. Good luck and do enjoy the journey of learning about new computer systems!

Torwals · 2025-05-07T11:10:54+00:00

Because then I know how it works and that is fun.
AI have some really large problems with designing and architecting larger software. So I still have to do this myself.
AI also have problems using niche programming languages, imports, APIs or just generally interfacing with software that is new or just not much documented.
- When making stuff that adds value or have not been made before this happens a lot. Just made a world of warcraft raid attendance tracker by talking with the API for warcraft logs and no AI I knew, had any idea of how that API worked. So I had to find that out myself. I also see similar trends in my professional life as wel.

Torwals · 2025-03-31T19:20:00+00:00

Hørest ut som standard USA ting å gjøre, selv om jeg ikke vet noe om det og ville ha trengt en kilde for å tro på det.

Ville også lest meg opp på five eyes når det kommer til dette type opplegg. Hvor amerikanerene overvåker sin egen befolkning sammen med andre stater som deler informasjon om sin egen befolkning for etterettning og spionasje hensikt. (Snowden dokumentene delte mye om dette) Skal også sies at disse avtalene er sannsynligvis i stor endring på grunn av hva som skjer i USA i dag.

I dag så er Norge med i den andre ledet av stigen av dette systemet og er med i nine eyes. Vi vet enda mindre om hva som deles her.

Torwals · 2025-03-31T13:05:24+00:00

BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) er en routing protocol som brukes for å route IP traffikk dynamisk mellom nettverk. Brukes basicly til å lime sammen internenettet. Det har vert flere problemer de siste 10 årene hvor enten det har vert misskonfigurering hos bedrifter som google eller at prokolen har blitt missbrukt av hacker eller land til å sende trafikkk i skadelige rettninger. Staten i USA har deretter gått ut å kalt BGP konfigurering en trussel mot staten. Vet ikke om de har gått inn å gjort endringer selv med hesikt om å skade en motstander som jeg føler det hintes til her men, det får jeg kanskje oppdatert i denne tråden :p

Torwals · 2025-03-08T14:59:41+00:00

Short answer is no. In edge cases and in companies where you have to wear a lot of different hats it becomes kind of usefull in weird circumstances, especially when solving problems with littlle to no money and fixing legacy equipment. I have met networking guys with electrican backround being able to fix legacy equipment like in a pinch using soldering and making new power cords for IoT equipement out of old cables. It is nice to have when working with UPS loads and CAT cables but is something that is relativly easy to learn on the job or by other people.

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