Personally I tend to learn things most effectively (and most quickly) by doing. I think most of my colleagues are similar in that regard. I would suggest finding one good introductory source and one good reference source, and then spend as much time at the keyboard as possible. I think that total immersion is the fastest way to learn something.
Of course, realistically speaking no one is going to gain any significant mastery of something like VMS in just a couple of days. Especially if you're working on a security project where the people you're up against (i.e. blackhats and evil-doers) have probably spent enormous amounts of time uncovering obscure holes and configuration problems.
And, as a previous respondent said, tear yourself away from/. !
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Personally I tend to learn things most effectively (and most quickly) by doing. I think most of my colleagues are similar in that regard. I would suggest finding one good introductory source and one good reference source, and then spend as much time at the keyboard as possible. I think that total immersion is the fastest way to learn something.
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Of course, realistically speaking no one is going to gain any significant mastery of something like VMS in just a couple of days. Especially if you're working on a security project where the people you're up against (i.e. blackhats and evil-doers) have probably spent enormous amounts of time uncovering obscure holes and configuration problems.
And, as a previous respondent said, tear yourself away from