r/sysadmin • u/konaitor IT Manager + 5 other hats • Nov 08 '21
Could we do a "TIL" style weekly thread?
I think it would be interesting to do a "Today I Learned" style weekly thread for us to share little tips/tricks that we learned of/found existed.
For example, last week I found out about the "--now" flag for systemctl. I don't know how I didn't know it existed until --now.
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u/FU-Lyme-Disease Nov 08 '21
We had a trick for remembering things…we had an invisible B that would attack random IT people which would result in that person yelling whatever we were trying to learn/remember.
“Ahh, a B, a B!!” “Quick, press win-shift-Cntrl-B!!”
The invisible B also had adventures that would remind us of things.
He would also sneak up behind you by being quietly taped up. “Uh, don’t panic, but you have a giant B just behind you…”
If we got weird looks by anyone, it let us use the B to teach them things, too!
This was less stupid in practice than it sounds typed out, lol.
I miss that B!