What are your favorite online learning sites?

[Kelli Ward]

As someone who is always looking for new learning experiences, I frequently hear about good web sites from friends and associates.

So beyond this great forum, where do you go on the web (and/or in books) to learn all that technical stuff.

Administration links and favorite programs, perls of wisdom, new things to C, tips on HP(UNIX), scripts in kourne! (Okay that last one was a terrible non-pun, but you get the idea.)

Anything that in the end teaches us to be better techinically-minded.

I will check all responses and points will be generously awarded for that good stuff.

Thanks,
Kel

[Sajid_1 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

This is one of them from my collection:

http://www.unixguide.net

rgds,

[Jeffrey S. Sims]

Kelli,

Here are a few I have bookmarked:

http://www.interex.org/tech/index.html (kinda partial since it is my company's site)
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/
http://www.antionline.com (security)
http://www.unixreview.com/ (unix)
http://www.linux-firewall-tools.com/linux/ (linux security)
http://www.tldp.org/ (linux)
http://www.linuxguruz.org/z.php?id=90 (linux)
http://docs.hp.com/index.html
http://www.rexswain.com/perl5.html (perl)
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/unix/sed.html (sed one-liners)
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ (BASH)
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html (AWK)
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html (SED)

(All these worked when I posted this, I swear I checked them)

Have lots lots more, but I gotta get back to work. Hope you find something you didn't already have.

[harry d brown jr]

Kel,

My favorite: http://forums.itrc.hp.com

I've learned more here than anywhere else!

live free or die
harry

[Ian Kidd_1]

The top is:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com

When I first started UNIX, I liked:
http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/unix.html

For a bit of news regarding UNIX:
http://www.unixreview.com

If I need some info on SAP:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_40b/helpdata/en/42/51b3144a1211d182b80000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

If I want a bit of info about backup tools:
http://www.backupcentral.com/

But if I'm not at the itrc, I'm usually at:
www.google.com

[Kelli Ward]

Thanks all for the responses.
Sorry, I didn't post points sooner, didn't have much time yesterday.
There's some good stuff.
Any more?
Kel

[BFA6]

Hi,

Book wise
Unix in a Nutshell & Essential System Administration - both O'Reilly.

Also an excellent (IMO) korn shell book - The Korn Shell by Anatoile Olczak.

Regards,

Hilary

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I learnt all my stuff either via:

docs.hp.com
forums.hp.com
or
linux (readme + OS!)
+ a few interesting jobs!

You'll find that alt.binaries.cbts can be quite good too (if your newserver allows it)

Later,
Bill

[Kelli Ward]

Any more?

[Sajid_1]

hello,

For Perl:
http://www.perl.com/
http://www.perl.org/

A collection of good books:
http://unix.oreilly.com/
http://unix-books.com/

gl,

[Jean-Luc Oudart]

The forum of course mentioned so far about 1000 times but I have a few extra that I used in the past (before the forum ;-) )
Last one is for Friday evening !


http://www.hp-partners.com/tcl_public/html/technical_support/tuning.html
http://www.introcomp.co.uk/examples/index.html
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/security/inetd.html
http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/unix_configuration_guidelines.html
http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html

Jean-Luc

[Ceesjan van Hattum]

Here are some of my favorite URL's:

C-programming:
http://www.geocities.com/capitalware/unix_faq_toc.html

Shell-programming:
http://www.shelldorado.com/

HPUX:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/FamilyHome/1,,117,00.html

Regards,
Ceesjan

[Deshpande Prashant]

HI
Here are some of my book marks.
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/
http://secinf.net/info/unix/secureHP-UX.html
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/pubs/pdfs/redbooks/sg245470.pdf
http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?ugu
http://adminschoice.com/
http://www.introcomp.co.uk/examples/index.html

Thanks.
Prashant Deshpande.

[Victor_5]

It is a very good idea to collect those web sites, I have a very cool web site which I got a couple of days ago, sharing with you, enjoy!

http://www.searchhp.com

[Tom Maloy]

Had a lot of fun (when it was free) at
www.brainbench.com

I usually get to learn right after I get a new assignment, so I've had to use:
www.samba.org
www.sendmail.org
unix.ittoolbox.com
hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/
www.sage.com

Tom

[Kelli Ward]

Hi all,

This is great!
Keep it up!
I'll post the next batch of points on Monday.
I'm goin' campin'!

Thanks,
Kel

[Kelli Ward]

Okay,
I'm greedy.
Any more?
Thanks,
Kel

[Alan Casey]

www.cert.org - For internet security

www.sans.org/newlook/home.ph - security training

[Alan Casey]

Nearly forgot:

http://www.auscert.org

http://www.auscert.org.au/Information/Auscert_info/Papers/usc20.html

[Rita C Workman]

I stick with just 2 sites:
Here...and HPUX-Admin mailing list:
At both of these you will find many of the same folks...providing great information and education.

I like to bookmark some places I find I use often..like particular threads from ITRC and things like http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/oracle/errmsg803/A54625_01/toc.htm

But even before these .. I like best of all to get some book/old school textbook, or white paper .. and make my own notes and scribbles and thoughts. (..cause you just can't worthwhile make notes on your monitor..) I have one cabinet dedicated to just that..and I use it still !!

Rgrds,
Rita

[Wodisch_1]

Hi Kelly,

how about the "news" part of learning - you know, what's happening and will concern our work?
So I am subscribed to quite some mailing lists. Some of them are (from my recent inbox):

majordomo@dutchworks.nl (HPADM)
lyris@ovforum.org (OVFORUM)
security@hp.com
Majordomo@ejl-mail.fc.hp.com (devresourcenews)
hpux-devtools@cxx.cup.hp.com
Majordomo@listserv.cs.utwente.nl (Simple Times)
discuss@opennms.org (OpenNMS)
ignite-ux-notify-request@hpfcdn.fc.hp.com (Ignite/UX)
http://www.antivirus.com/subscriptions/
linux-security-discuss@lists.securityportal.com
apacheweek@redhat.com
http://www.vnunet.com/Registration/

the german/non-hp/sw-development/misc ones have been omitted, of course ;-)

Happy reading,
Wodisch (who spends quite some time with his *inbox* ;-)

[Greg Stark_1]

Hello,

Here is a sed one-lines page I often use:
http://www.ptug.org/sed/one_liners.html

Also, www.tek-tips.com has a lot of good forums including a perl forum I search quite often.

Greg

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Kel,

My learning site is "my office" and ofcourse forums.

:-)

I spend most of my internet time at www.ugu.com and www.geek-girl.com

-Sri

[Alan Deger]

Hope this isn't too stale to get some gratuitous points. Anyway, for ITO and NNM stuff I'm often at:

www.mibcentral.com

which is a huge lookup of OIDs etc. Very handy when troubleshooting SNMP stuff.

For (somewhat more advanced) Perl I'm snooping into "Object-Oriented Perl" a lot lately. It's not just about OO in Perl and is a great general resource.

HTH,
ard

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

My favourites are:

forums.itrc.hp.com
docs.hp.com
The old E-Class server I have here in which I can mess around with, (learning some HP-UX tricks)

You'd be surprised with how much you can learn here without even posting questions!

HTH,
Vince