ajay_walia's Journal: Taking Your System Administration Skills to the Nxt Level?

Had seen a Similar post few days back on /.
I work as a System admin with IT Services Company. Most of the Work which I do is related to the General Administrative work of the Infrastructure which is Handled by me, It does not throws many Challenges and new Opportunities. I want to take my skills to next Level . I try many ways through which I can achieve it Like Web casts at MS (Which I find very Basic many times) , Tech Documents , newsgroups and of course Google etc .
Is there something else / Resources anybody can Suggest which can be Helpful in Upgrading the Knowledge?

Pick a project

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an open source project that maybe needs their network module worked on. To start with documenting the code and minor bug fixes and work on that.

Real hands on stuff. Looks good on resume. If a company you apply for a job at uses the software - that is one edge you haveover everyone else.