Softpanorama (slightly skeptical) Open Source Software Educational Society

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This is a very simple Spartan site that tries to avoid overcomplexity trap and the mistakes made in other similar, but more complex costly projects. 

Not all pages are current: the site develops as a living tree and active area migrate with time delending on the current interest fo the author. Many links are broken.

Bookshelf
(reviews of CS books)

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

Education

General : SAT

 

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 :  Russian Music Oldies : Selected Reviews : Softpanorama archive :  microCHP

 

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

Muiltimedia

General : VOIP  : Working with computer sound
 

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 :

Performance tuning

General : Performance Monitoring: Linux Performance Tuning : AIX performance tuning :  NFS performance tuning : Oracle Performance Tuning : Database Performance Tuning : Tivoli Performance Tuning

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: Obscurantism in Information Technology : Overload  OSS skeptic : Swimming in Fiat Currency Waters : Notes on 401K investment strategies for middle-class professionals :

Financial Skeptic Humor

 

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

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

Utilities

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 : Content management :  Maintenance Scripts :  Logs : CGI : CGI Security : Authoring : SSI : Mirroring : HTTP Protocol :  Apache on Solaris : Web Server Security : Perl Blogs  : Perl Wiki :
HTML Pretty Printing and Beatifying

Xwindows

General :  VNC : VNC on Linux : VNC on Solaris