Increasing your value in the technical industry

After reading Dr. Masha Petrova article about Increasing your value as a professional in the technical industry, I thought it's worth to share it as it's the same in here in the middle east zone.

It's all about who you know not what you know, I just would highlight associations or groups in the middle east may be will help you out.

-Linkedin, as mentioned in her article is full of groups in technical field and other field as well.
-Facebook, also have it's own world of associations, groups and organizations.
-Techwadi, yet another site for associations related to Arab professionals.
-the Information Technology Association of Jordan.
-The Arab Science and Technology Foundation.

This was gathered from a small research, You are most welcomed to add more if have some.

Windows 7 is out !

Today Microsoft has announced the global lunch of Windows 7, W7 is the latest operating system from Microsoft which came after Vista, after trying W7 it's much better than Vista.

Do you think W7 will replace XP or vista and be the primary OS in Microsoft environments ?

Questions to Systems Administrator

Every Sys admin performing an interview should be asked well known questions to show up his technical skills, No doubt hand on experience is much harder but there is a few concepts must be understood well.

Here is a few examples on this questions, which from my view we should review it before going to any interview.

http://www.freshershome.com/interview-questions/windows/windows-system-admin-questions/

http://www.petri.co.il/mcse_system_administrator_networking_interview_questions.htm

If you have more examples, don’t be shy to share it J

Disk Quota management

Almost in every organization users need storage to save data, share data and the company need to protect its resources as well, I did a small search on the subject plus my experiment.

In windows OS we can use disk quota option from the disk properties > Quota tab.

But it has some limitation, First you have to use NTFS file systems, second windows quota is done on volume level which has it's own limitation as well.

Another solution was found and applied SpaceGuard SRM from my view it was what we need, some features like file type-filter, Folder quota although Microsoft has it's own developed storage management solution, SpaceGuard was the choice.

I know there are many other solution available and open source projects as well, as for linux environment StandAlone Admin has mentioned small hint on the subject, you also can share your experiment with us, I am sure you have a unique one.

Gmail the online Email MASTER

If you are a user of Gmail (Google Mail) then you know what I am talking about already, The most powerful email system online.

Here is some of the features you can do with Gmail that you can’t find it in other providers.

1. More than 7 G.B. and increasing mailbox size.
2. Free POP3 & IMAP forwarding ( Features to forward your emails to email clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird)
3. Daily new features developed by other users.

And there is more, For help.

So if you are not using it yet, You are far behind.

Give it a try you won’t regret it.