Computer Basics and the world of the Computerguru.
On a professional level technology is a big part of my life, and has been for many years. In 1998, while teaching technology for a community college I decided to take the construction of a technology web site a little more seriously. After searching for an appropriate name for the site, I was surprised to find out that www.computerguru.net was available, and registered it.
Orginally when done as a flat HTML site content was split into two sections. The first section was the Webmaster's Portal for self help and tutorials for learning web building, general technology and the Internet.
The technology study guides and tutorials portal containing Study Guides and Tutorials on Basic Technology and Networking Technology was the second section. Initially just used to store some notes, I tried to maintain it for use in teaching networking basics. I did not do anything to market or promote this area, and amazingly the internet has found it, and uses it, as I receive positive feedback from all over the world about my technology study guides.
The topics here are presented more from a personal "lessons learned" perspective than a text book perspective. I am reworking the old content and mixing it in with the new as time permits. I hope to do my best to maintain the theme, "Geek Speak Made Simple."
I taught for at the community college level for many years, Questy's Webmaster's Portal, formerly at Questy.com, was used as outline for students to review material covered in the classes that I taught.
Webmaster Site Designer is a series on how to implement and maintain hypertext-based websites using authoring and scripting languages, use web management tools and digital media tools, and apply human factor principles to design.
Site designer skills are a combination of minimal technical and non-technical skills required by a website designer that are not product- or system specific. While we will discuss various software packages, and use available software to illustrate concepts, the focus is the understanding of the concepts and issues rather than any particular software.
On a small to mid size network there may be little, if any, distinction between a Systems Administrator and a Network Administrator, and the tasks may all be the responsibility of a single post. As the size of the network grows, the distinction between the areas will become more well defined.
In larger organizations the administrator level technology personnel typically are not the first line of support that works with end users, but rather only work on break and fix issues that could not be resolved at the lower levels.
Network administrators are responsible for making sure computer hardware and the network infrastructure itself is maintained properly. The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing components and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms.
The typical Systems Administrator, or sysadmin, leans towards the software and NOS (Network Operating System) side of things. Systems Administrators install software releases, upgrades, and patches, resolve software related problems and performs system backups and recovery.