What resources do you use for your IT job?

[StarsMars]

I'm looking to gather a list of good resources that are useful in IT roles

 

We all use google constantly

Virustotal.com is a good resource

 

What are some sites that you use?

[Kazooduck]

Constant repost of dontasktoask.com

[Wolly9102]

ninite.com

[Eigenvektor]

10 minutes ago, StarsMars said:

Totalvirus.com is a good resource

Typo? Because that domain is for sale.

[StarsMars]

2 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Typo? Because that domain is for sale.

Ahh, I meant VirusTotal.com lol

[LAwLz]

I think it depends on what you mean by "IT role". 

 

Is it just general tools for troubleshooting or making your life easier? Is it for work? Is it for helping friends and family? 

 

I got an Ubuntu live cd and a bunch of portable apps on a USB stick. It is pretty handy whenever someone has issues or I need to use someone else's computer. It got programs like Firefox, notepad++, IrfanView, LibreOffice, PuTTY, WinDirStat and WinSCP on it. 

[WhitetailAni]

Google

[danomicar]

Personal favorite is the "Restart" feature that some computers have sometimes. It restarts the computer. 

[da na]

I'll often just do simple Windows commands for cleaning up slow HDDs or stuff like sfc/scannow for fixing some windows errors

[StarsMars]

55 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

I think it depends on what you mean by "IT role". 

 

Is it just general tools for troubleshooting or making your life easier? Is it for work? Is it for helping friends and family? 

 

I got an Ubuntu live cd and a bunch of portable apps on a USB stick. It is pretty handy whenever someone has issues or I need to use someone else's computer. It got programs like Firefox, notepad++, IrfanView, LibreOffice, PuTTY, WinDirStat and WinSCP on it. 

Really anything that you use personally or professionally that relates to IT.

So if you use a flash drive with PuTTY on it. That's a perfect example.

 

Ideally I'd like to put a list together of sites, tools and tips that anyone can refer to.

 

[Vishera]

I use Hiren's Boot CD PE - It's a live CD with most of the tools you will need

[gergy008]

An actual helpful one for anyone that's working in softw dev and handles JSON objects

https://quicktype.io/

 

Extremely helpful. Discovered not long ago. Converts JSON objects into complete classes/properly declarations in your language of choice. Love it.

[Slayerking92]

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/

[RockSolid1106]

As a hobbyist programmer, Stackoverflow, documentations and other websites which provide how-to's for something, are stuff that I use regularly.

And sometimes a library is so old I have to go to some weird reddit page to get the syntax for the commands, or someone's blog where someone very kindly posted their project.

 

Yeah, basically DDG and Google which bring you to all this stuff. If DDG doesn't do it, copy the search text, F6, @google ctrl v.

[Ja Krispie]

Well my job the resources aren't something you can google, we have our own internal system we can use to find out information on common errors and potential fixes, otherwise we work with each other if we need a second set of eyes or someone with more experience

[flowalex]

A lot of things aren't available on google for me as well, but we have a GitHub Instance, Jira, artifactory, custom built tools, new relic, splunk. I use google/stackoverflow for some things coding related, but observability tools are what we use the most. 

 

Note: My Job title is site reliability engineer

[iruixos]

On 3/10/2022 at 10:29 AM, Slayerking92 said:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/

 

Seconded.

Also some useful programs here Apps | built by Bel ❤︎

[pr1vatepiles]

I'm in Education for my IT role in UK. http://www.edugeek.net/ has been a great resource for years for me.

[Ultra_Kaiju]

Google and StackOverflow have come in handy many times.