Paul's email got me thinking... His commment about 'figuring something out' really hit home because recently I've run into situations where consultants have 'solved the wrong problem' for some big clients.
We often see two kinds of 'good' consultants out there:
1) The kind with great experience and thus the ability to solve problems that relate to their experience. 2) The kind with great experience AND troubleshooting skills and thus the ability to solve problems that relate to their experience AND problems they have never seen before.
I've seen situations where consultant type one has put together the solution to a problem based on their experience but totally missed the boat when it came to a solution that someone would really want to use.
I'm not sure if you could really have a class on 'troubleshooting', but if someone could figure that out it would be VERY valuable.
Something that might be kind of fun would be to 'sort of break' a linux installation (mis-configure something, 'degrade' a needed library, etc.) and then have folks 'try to figure it out'. Just the experience of watching folks go through the various possibilities and applying their troubleshooting skills could be very interesting.
Rich
Paul Lussier wrote:
It's the tinkering and debugging that I think hooks most
of us, so it would be fun to actually do some tinkering and debugging
rather than just talking about it. This list has always been rather
heavy in the sysadmin area, so there are plenty of us who do this stuff
everyday all day specifically because it's fun *and* they pay us for it.
Unfortunately, when it's your job, you seldom get the chance to tinker
on stuff your interested in just because it looks neat.
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