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[May 20, 2013] Solaris : Solaris network configuration : Solaris Inetd Services : Solaris SMF : Solaris ifconfig : Serial Console on Solaris

[May 19, 2013] Insufficient Retirement Funds Problem : Russian Music Oldies : Vladimir Matetsky : Masha Rasputina : Foreign songs popular in Russia

[May 18, 2013] Social Problems in Enterprise Unix Administration : Information Overload : The psychopath in the corner office : Female Sociopaths : Libertarian Philosophy : Neoliberalism as a New Form of Corporatism

[May 17, 2013] TCP/IP Network Troubleshooting : Troubleshooting NTP on Red Hat Linux : Troubleshooting NTP on Solaris /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny : Configuring Solaris sendmail : Sharing NFS Resources in Solaris : Solaris Multipathing

[May 16, 2013] Tablets with Wacom digitizer and stylus : Programmable Keyboards : Fighting RSI by using programmable mouse

[May 15, 2013] Linux route command : String Operations in Shell : Syslog Configuration and /etc/syslog.conf : AWK one liners : "Can't open display" Error in X11 : Solaris Snoop Packet Sniffer

[May 14, 2013] Surviving a Bad Performance Review

[May 13, 2013] Obscurantism in the Cloud: Nicholas Carr's "IT Does not Matter" Fallacy and "Everything in the Cloud" Utopia : Research Materials on Nicholas Carr's "IT Does not Matter" Fallacy : IT Obsurantism Humor

[May 12, 2013] Toxic Managers : The psychopath in the corner office : Female Sociopaths : Borderline Psychopaths : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Bureaucracies : Negative Politeness : Diplomatic Communication

[May 11, 2013] Insufficient Retirement Funds Problem : Financial Sector Induced Systemic Instability of Economy

[May 10, 2013] Orthodox File Managers Standard 1999(OFM1999) - basic OFM requirements : The Orthodox File Managers Standard 2004(OFM2004). Advanced OFM requirements : The Orthodox File Managers Standard 2012(OFM2012) -- Cutting Edge Features of Orthodox File Managers

[May 09, 2013] Russian Music Oldies : Russian Songs of the Wartime : Klavdiya Shulzhenko : Bulat Okudzhava : Vladimir Visotskij : Leonid Kharitonov

[May 08, 2013] HERE documents : SSH Usage in Pipes : Unix System Monitoring

[May 07, 2013] "Can't open display" Error in X11 : du : Shell Input and Output Redirection

[May 06, 2013] HPOM Instrumentation Categories : Open Message Interface Policies : Policies troubleshooting : Health Checks using itochecker : itochecker

[May 05, 2013] Insufficient Retirement Funds Problem : Economics of Peak Energy

[May 04, 2013] Russian Music Oldies : Lubov Kazarnovskaya : Sati Kazanova : Alexey Chimakov

[May 03, 2013] HP Operations Manager : HPOM Policies : Open Message Interface Policies : HPOM Instrumentation Categories

[May 02, 2013] Obscurantism in the Cloud: Nicholas Carr's "IT Does not Matter" Fallacy and "Everything in the Cloud" Utopia : Parallel command execution : Slurping: copying a file from multiple hosts : pssh : parallel : pslurp -- parallel slurp : File distiribution: copying a file to multiple hosts

[May 01, 2013] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : PseudoScience Related Humor

[Apr 30, 2013] Tablets with Wacom digitizer and stylus : Fighting RSI by using programmable mouse : Troubleshooting OMU agents : W32.Conficker

[Apr 29, 2013] Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Expression Web : Frontpage Tips : Frontpage Keyboard Shortcuts : FrontPage 2003 Cheatsheet

[Apr 28, 2013] Economics of Peak Energy : Insufficient Retirement Funds Problem : 401K planning, Financial Groupthink and 401K Investors Delusions : Junk Bonds For 401K Investors

[Apr 27, 2013] Neoliberalism as a New Form of Corporatism

[Apr 26, 2013] itochecker

[Apr 25, 2013] The Evolution of a Programmer, from High School to CEO : IT quotes : The Peter Principle Proven : THE TOP 25 THINGS PROGRAMMERS SAY : Murphy's laws and corollaries

[Apr 24, 2013] Two Party System as Polyarchy : Libertarian Philosophy : The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 : Elite Theory And the Revolt of the Elite : Media-Military-Industrial Complex : Russian experience in "white Revolution" of 2011-2012 : Neo Trotskyism aka Neoconservatism : American Exceptionalism : Who Rules America : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2010

[Apr 23, 2013] Corporatism : Russian Fifth column Humor : America’s Financial Oligarchy : Corporatist Corruption: Systemic Fraud under Clinton-Bush-Obama Regime : Tea Party and right wing rage : Frustrated underachievers : New American Militarism : Media as weapons of mass deception : Politically Incorrect Humor : Machiavellism : Inside "democracy promotion" hypocrisy fair : Neo-theocratic Movements : Neo-fashism : Inverted Totalitarism : F-scale

[Apr 22, 2013] Mayberry Machiavellians : Compradors : Fifth column : Neocolonialism as Financial Imperialism : Color revolutions : Foreign Agents Registration Act

Antiamericanism : Diplomacy by deception : Predator state : Super Capitalism as Imperialism : War is Racket

[Apr 21, 2013] Programmers and sysadmins health issues

[Apr 20, 2013] Russian Music Oldies : Philip Kirkorov

[Apr 19, 2013] Access Control in Operating Systems : Introduction to Access Control

[Apr 18, 2013] Tablets with Wacom digitizer and stylus : Microsoft Office Suit and its Alternatives : Command Line in Windows 7 : Social Sites as intelligence collection tools

[Apr 17, 2013] ovdeploy : Linux Hardening : Vulnerabilities In Linux Environment : Warning banners : Linux PAM : Password synchronization : Softpanorama Laws of Computer Security

[Apr 16, 2013] sudo : RBAC and Role Engineering : Groups administration

[Apr 15, 2013] Introduction to Unix ACLs

[Apr 14, 2013] Russian Music Oldies : Alla Pugacheva : Metodie Bujor

[Apr 13, 2013] Neoliberalism as a New Form of Corporatism : Fifth column : Color revolutions

[Apr 12, 2013] itochecker : opcragt : Troubleshooting OMU agents : Changing coreid of the node due to mismatch : Undefined certificate state

[Apr 11, 2013] Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks : Less is More: Orthodox File Managers as Sysadmin IDE

[Apr 10, 2013] Access Control in Operating Systems : Introduction to Access Control : Unix permissions model : Introduction to Unix permissions model : The /etc/group file

[Apr 09, 2013] Unix Access Control Lists (ACL) : Introduction to Unix ACLs : Solaris ACLs : The Solaris ACL Mask

[Apr 08, 2013] Troubleshooting OMU agents : itochecker : Health Checks using itochecker

[Apr 07, 2013] Russian Music Oldies : Klavdiya Shulzhenko

[Apr 06, 2013] Password synchronization: Change password for a given user or set of users in multiple servers : chpasswd : Parallel command execution : Frontpage Tips

[Apr 05, 2013] Upgrade of SLES SP1 to SLES 11 SP2 : Migrating to SLE 11 SP2 Using Zypper : zypper : Upgrade to SLES 10 SP4

[Apr 04, 2013] Audio device is disabled in Windows 7 : Dragon Naturally Speaking

[Apr 03, 2013] Logwatch

[Apr 02, 2013] Tablets with Wacom digitizer and stylus : Selected Free and Low Cost Android Apps

[Apr 01, 2013] Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society : Ten Commandments of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection : BSD Logo Story : The Cuckoo's Egg : C++ Humor : ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? : Object oriented programmers of all nations : C Humor : Financial Humor : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Richard Stallman Related Humor : Admin Humor : Perl-related Humor : Linus Torvalds Related humor : PseudoScience Related Humor : Networking Humor : Shell Humor: Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2012 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2013 : Java Humor : Software Engineering Humor : Sun Solaris Related Humor : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church : Education Humor : IBM Humor : Assembler-related Humor : VIM Humor Computer Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer Humor : Best Russian Programmer Humor : Russian Musical Humor : The Perl Purity Test : Politically Incorrect Humor : GPL-related Humor : OFM Humor : IDS Humor : Real Programmers Humor : Scripting Humor : Web Humor : Programming Language Humor : Goldman Sachs related humor : Greenspan humor :

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This is a self-education oriented site that contains resources for the independently minded IT folks, critical of mainstream fads related to programming and Unix system administration. While attending university has its value in itself, as a good university cultural environment can't be replicated elsewhere, for talented people independent study might save some money and can help to avoid excessive feeding of education sharks. Nevertheless, lifelong self-education is important and should be a goal in itself.

The main purpose of the "slightly skeptical" approach (which is a signature of the site) is to stimulate critical thinking about system administration and software development as professions, to reveal hidden elegance of Unix and its concepts and to stress the importance of scripting languages such as Perl and Python. We try to eschew the conventionally favored obfuscations about IT workplace and related propaganda (for example about IT outsourcing) and expose the theater of absurd which often both academic and, especially, corporate IT represents (sometimes in the form of humor). It also warns about psychopathic bosses (toxic managers) such as micromanagers, bullies, narcissists and authoritarians as well as a standard corporate torture chamber called performance reviews.

In a way this is a site of the "resistance movement" against "disposable IT workers". Still this is an educational site, not a propaganda site, and unlike propaganda that manipulates people emotions and prejudges to impose propagandist's views, education tends to develop the ability of critical thinking.

Internet is a tool that gave us vast new opportunities of information exchange while at the same time tremendous possibilities of degrading of quality of this exchange in all major areas -- social, cultural, political and technical. In the latter role Internet serves as a spam channel, producing waterfalls of textual and visual spam fueled by advertising fees. Information overload is a real problem and in this sense filtration of information became much more important. You can use this site as one of such filters as links it provides for each topic are carefully evaluated.

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