I'm a programmer, but believe it's important to be well-rounded. To balance my programming skills with sysadmin skills, I've started reading "The Practice of Sy

I'm a programmer, but believe it's important to be well-rounded. To balance my programming skills with sysadmin skills, I've started reading "The Practice of System and Network Administration": http://everythingsysadmin.com/aboutbook.html http://everythingsysadmin.com/aboutbook.html http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration-Second/dp/0321492668 http://www.amazon.com/Practice-System-Network-Administration... The book was praised by multiple HN commenters ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665915 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665915 for example), and I'm glad I listened to their advice. I've only read a few chapters so far (it's a big book!), but I already like it. It contains a lot of good insights, and I like that it's not focusing on a specific OS / platform. Also, you don't have to read it in a linear fashion, you can pick and choose chapters depending on your current needs (moving into a new data center? implementing a security policy?). Thumbs up.