To learn tricks like this what resource do you recommend I read? System administrators handbook? (Still on my TOREAD queue)
- hardware, networks, monitoring, provisioning, server room locations in existing buildings, how to prepare server rooms
- and so on up to hiring and firing sysadmins, salary negotiations[2], vendor negotiations and the first book even had a whole chapter dedicated to "Being happy"
[1] There is a third author as well now, but those two were the ones that are on the cover of my book from 2005 and that I can remember
[2] Has mostly worked well after I more or less left sysadmin behind as well