What are the top 3 sources of IT information you rely on?

lauren-brother · 2015-09-08T17:29:33.000Z

Of course, we’re looking for sources other than Spiceworks For example, specific blogs,

magazines, news sites, etc.

ianhendry · 2015-09-08T17:34:47.000Z

Google

Powershell.com

Netowrking associates

jasonketchmark · 2015-09-08T17:35:07.000Z

Google is my very best friend

kptim · 2015-09-08T17:38:21.000Z

Fox news of course, oops, now I have eboli.

sqlrage · 2015-09-08T17:44:53.000Z

Whatever Google brings up. Usually that will be sites like:

Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow - Where Developers Learn, Share, & Build Careers

Stack Overflow | The World’s Largest Online Community for Developers

w3schools.com

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.

learn.microsoft.com

Microsoft Learn: Build skills that open doors in your career

Gain technical skills through documentation and training, earn certifications and connect with the community

Those are for specific problems though. Otherwise I stick to Spiceworks.

Colts · 2015-09-08T17:51:27.000Z

Google, MSDN, and TechNet

Son.of.Jor-El · 2015-09-08T18:06:06.000Z

Obviously Google

My brain

Documentation

Mike400 · 2015-09-08T18:08:25.000Z

DuckDuckGo (doesn’t track you like Google)

I don’t even use any other sources to find information.

kosta-colorado-it-geezer · 2015-09-08T18:23:11.000Z

In addition to the (excellent!) responses above, I will (depending on the product, of course) often glance at user reviews on Amazon.

I tend to avoid their “vine” reviews - and look at the distribution among the 1-2-3-4-5-star ratings - especially if there is a sufficient number of reviewers.

Like Mike, I like DuckDuckGo too - except that I wish it had “search within timeframe.” It seems I have to be careful that it’s bringing up an article from 5 years ago or something. Might as well be from the dark ages. Maybe it has that option and I haven’t found it yet?

travisfinch · 2015-09-08T18:41:55.000Z

Spiceworks of course first hence IT PROS.
Google
Toms Hardware

Bud-G · 2015-09-08T18:59:18.000Z

Google, DarkReading, The Register

ceez · 2015-09-08T19:00:44.000Z

google

spiceworks

anywhere else that the above two refer me to

ianhendry · 2015-09-08T19:10:50.000Z

The force
Star trek
NSA

techtornado · 2015-09-08T19:16:50.000Z

I Google/search for issues that aren’t stored in my internal knowledgebase (brain)

Spiceworks to keep up on the news and security issues with the pros.

Apple technology, MacRumors/9to5Mac for the inside story and to vet rumors that circulate in the office.

Krypted for Apple in IT

PC, it’s somewhat static, hands-on with windows 10 and Server 2016, I haven’t gotten around to playing with powershell yet.

chris9821_1 · 2015-09-08T19:54:10.000Z

Google

Spiceworks (of course)

I cant think of a third…

toodamax · 2015-09-08T20:35:54.000Z

Google

Spiceworks

IT Jungle

toodamax · 2015-09-08T20:42:08.000Z

Mike400:

DuckDuckGo (doesn’t track you like Google)

I don’t even use any other sources to find information.

Realistically, unless you are doing something illegal, does it really matter if Google knows you went to tomshardware.com, which means you weren’t doing anything illegal except maybe overclocking your CPU!!

Unless it was tomshardware.biz, which is known to sell adult ‘novelty’ items and you don’t want the missus to know you bought black leather pumps in a size 12.

trelstadtech · 2015-09-08T20:47:33.000Z

Google news always has articles from several IT related sources.

Mike400 · 2015-09-08T23:02:42.000Z

TOODAMAX:

Mike400:

DuckDuckGo (doesn’t track you like Google)

I don’t even use any other sources to find information.

Realistically, unless you are doing something illegal, does it really matter if Google knows you went to tomshardware.com, which means you weren’t doing anything illegal except maybe overclocking your CPU!!

Unless it was tomshardware.biz, which is known to sell adult ‘novelty’ items and you don’t want the missus to know you bought black leather pumps in a size 12.

I just prefer to not be tracked.

butterflymoon · 2015-09-09T06:53:42.000Z

Google

Spiceworks

Edugeek