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## Background
When I start a new jobs somewhere, the biggest challenge in the beginning
is to find out, what, where, when and how to do. In most companies this
When I start a new job somewhere, the biggest challenge in the beginning
is to find out, what to do, where, when and how. In most companies this
becomes clear after a few days. In ETH, it's a bit different: There are
many internal service providers with very different focus. To find out
many internal service providers, each with very different focus. To find out
which are the machines I have to take care of, where they are located
and which services are running on them took me about a year.
@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ to the right places.
### /sans/: Sysadmins home
This is still a pretty youg project, but unique at ETH: It is a
This is still a pretty young project, but unique at ETH: It is a
regular sysadmin meeting and information exchange, without the formal
stuff or the the borders of departements. You may find a lot of
sysadmin related information directly on the website or find out more
@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ to get in contact with them: In case the network is not working anymore,
they are the right ones to ask for help.
There's a "little" trap though: The ID combine a lot of "smaller"
departements, of which one has to find the right one for the right problem.
departements and one has to find the right one for the right problem.
## Step three: Not offering your own services
While after some time a sysadmin will find out that a particular service
is missing in the group, it is probably worth *not* to offer it yourself:
is missing in the group, it is probably worth **not** to offer it yourself:
Although one may get the impression that this particular service is not
available at ETH, you may almost always be wrong: