Softpanorama (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society

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Books, Papers and  Bulletin

Softpanorama unique collection of OSS humor

Nikolai Bezroukov's e-books:

• Introduction to Perl for Unix System Administrators
• Portraits of Open Source Pioneers -- a slightly skeptical view of the main figures of OSS movement (includes chapters about Knuth,  Stallman, Torvalds,  Cox,  Wall,  Ousterhout)
• Orthodox Filemanagers Paradigm
• Labyrinth of Software Freedom
• Bad Linux Advocacy FAQ
• Malware Defense History  (fragments)

Nikolai Bezroukov's recent papers:

• Unix Find Tutorial
• "IT does not matter" fallacy and the commodization of IT technology
• Solaris vs Linux
• Keep it simple stupid: Notes on 401K investment strategies for middle-class professionals
• A Slightly Skeptical View on Norton Ghost
• A Slightly Skeptical View on Scripting Languages
• Solaris vs Linux Security in Large Enterprise Environment
• Intrusion Prevention and Detection Roadmap for Large Enterprises in 2005-2007

  Older papers:

  • A Second Look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar -- my second paper about OSS hype and reality
  • Open Source Software as a Special Case of  Academic Research
  • A Short Introduction to Lysenkoism
  • Skeptical View of Unix Security
  • Note on Virus Paranoia
  • more

Softpanorama CS Education Directory

Algorithms

General : Compilers : Decompliers
 

Administration :

General : Certification : Perl Admintools : Perl  : Shells :  Kernel : Config_management : Tivoli
 

Access control

General : RBAC : Sudo

 

Authentication

General : PAM :  SecurID :

Password Checkers/Crackers

 

Copyright

Social aspects of the BSD vs. GPL debate : BSD vs. GPL : Professor Samuelson 

Certification

General issues : Softpanorama Exam Strategy : Solaris Certification : Red Hat Certification : Security Certifications

 

Commercial Linuxes

General issues : RHEL  : Suse
 

Commercial Unixes

General issues : AIX  : HP-UX : Solaris
 

Databases

General: Mysql  : SQL

Editors

General : Eastern Orthodox (THE/Kedit) : Western Orthodox(vi.vim) : TCL-based :  Win32-super-lightweight :  Alt Office

History

The History of Computer Science

Unix Scripting History

OS History
 

Links

General : Humor : Organizations :  Discounted bookstores :  Computer Books Publishers :  Magazines : Russian Links : Selected Reviews : Softpanorama archive

 

Languages

Assembler : C : C++ : Java : Pascal  : Algorithms : Compilers : Debugging

Logs

General : Log Analyzers : Log Management : Log Rotation in Solaris  : Perl Log Management Tools : Solaris Syslog Configuration : Remote Syslog in Solaris : Syslog-ng for Solaris
 

Ethernet Protocol

Mail

General  : Mta : Mua : UUCP  : SMTP : Spam  : Procmail filtering

 

Malware

General : Spyware : Spyware Removal Using Spybot S&D : Non-Scanner AntiSpyware Tools : Spyware Scanners : Malware_ Defense_Secrets
 

Micromanagement in IT

General : Understanding Micromanagers :

Surviving Micromanagers : Rules of Communication with Micromanagers : Coping with the micromanagement induced stress :  Anger trap
 

Networking 

General :  TCP Protocol Layers  :  OSI Protocol Layers :Network Sniffers : Tools :  Troubleshooting :  Firewalls and Firewall Rules Auditing Application Layer  :
    DNS : FTP : Telnet : Samba
Transport Layer  
    NAT : Subnetting and VLSM  :  TCP : TCP handshake : UDP

Internet Layer  :
    ARP :  ICMP : Routing : IPv6
Network interface layer

Office

General : MS Word : Excel : FrontPage : Visio : Alternatives

Orthodox File Managers

OFM page : OFM book

Open Source Software Problems

 

Index : Copyright : BSD vs GPL : Open Source Chronicle : ERS_Quotes : Raymondism FAQ : Webliography : OSS humor

OS design

OS history : Internals : Filesystems : System_calls
Solaris : Linux : FreeBSD : Hardware : Linux MiniDistributions :

Scripting 

General : Javascript : Perl : Shells : True Python : Tcl : TCL-based editors : PHP : Regex : Pipes : Perl Admintools

Shells

Bash : BASH Debugging  : Command completion : bash Tips and Tricks : bash Control Structures

Security

General  : Papers : Integrity_checkers : Intrusion detection : DNS Security :  Perl scripts : Audit tools  : Classic security tools  : Port Scanners  : Port Scan Detectors : Log_analysers : Antivirus :  Malware  Defense_Secrets

SE

Literate Programming : Architecture : Testing : Program understanding  : Reverse engineering : Anti-OO

 

Skepticism 

General : Lysenkoism : Pseudoscience and scientific fraud : CS_skeptic: Overload  OSS skeptic : Notes on 401K investment strategies for middle-class professionals

 

Social aspects fo working in IT environment

General : Toxic managers: Micromanagers : Psychopaths : Toxic stress: Overload :  Burnout : Open_Source : Copyright : BSD vs GPL : OSS in Developing  Countries :  OSS Pioneers  Softpanorama SNDP links

Solaris

General :  Open Source  :  Whitepapers : Certification : Internals  :  Installation  : Solaris Zones : Solaris Packages : Controlling System Processes :Swap Space  : Process Scheduling : Virtual Memory : Solaris Books : Solaris Security : Intrusion Detection :  CD burining : Solaris Patching : Documentation map :BluePrints : Man Pages :  Humor : Solaris history : Stanistlav Lem Solaris : Tips

Tivoli

General : .TEC :  TFM :  ITM : Tivoli Redbooks :

TEC Rules : Testing TEC rules

Tools

Shells : Awk :  Sed :  Diff  : Pipes : Find  : Grep  : vi 

University Education

General :

Unixification of Windows 

General : SFU : Reskits : Process viewers :   Dual Boot : Windows Scripting Host Monad Shell
 

Virtualization

General : Light-weight virtualization : VMware : Xen on Suse 10 : Notes on five different types of virtualization
 

Windows

General : Registry Tools : Edit_win32 : Process viewers : Norton Ghost : Filesystems Recovery : Alternatives to Norton Utilities : Windows XP Slow Startup and Shutdown : VBA : Windows Security
 

WWW  

General Maintenance Scripts :  Logs : CGI : CGI Security : Authoring : SSI : Mirroring : HTTP Protocol :  Apache on Solaris : Web Server Security
 

Xwindows

General :  VNC : VNC on Linux : VNC on Solaris

Last modified:  May 01, 2008