As a SysAdmin, my job more-or-less exists by knowing miscellaneous arcana that most software engineers aren’t aware of.
When a particular co-worker here at Agora has a problem with his Linux machine, I provide advice and show him how to fix it. Some months after he had joined Agora, I discovered that after each troubleshooting session, he copy-and-pastes the entire text terminal log into a text file that he keeps on his desktop. He has dozens of transcripts at this point; I bet if I were to look through it, it would read something like the Tao te Ching or Bhagavad Gita, only concerning UNIX instead of right living.
(Of course, there’s not much of a difference between UNIX and right living, but that’s a topic for another day.)
In the spirit of allowing you to build your own little collection, here is a simple trick that came in handy to me yesterday.
