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He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond

 It tries to counter brainwashing dominant in mainstream IT media. Due to resources limitation this is a very limited and incomplete effort.  Layout of the site Spartan with mostly plain vanilla HTML and design tries to avoid overcomplexity trap even if at some expense of readability. Some pages are long, some very long.

Not all pages are current: the site develops as a living tree and active area migrate with time depending on the current interest of the author. Many links are broken, but using Google one can find new location for probably 80% of them. The rest is gone: electrons have some weaknesses in comparison with paper as for long term storage of information :-).

Softpanorama is a very simple in layout, Spartan site that does not use any Web 2.0 technologies. It's primary focus is self education and in this area content is the king. So based on limited resources we have sophisticated layout was sacrificed. The site is only one of the few "compiled' web sites where target pages are not generated on request but are precompiled when a change arrives.

In 2012 open source is really old concept and computer science education that once was flourishing, now is a neglected area in deep crisis. Sp few people remember the fact that computer science (CS) education is one important area were open source really shines: the academic value of open source software (OSS) cannot be overestimated ( "free/open for education"  is one of the most important meanings of "free software".).  The site promotes deeper understanding of open source development viewing it as a special type of academic research (with the same pitfalls and limitations involved) and understands "free" mainly as in "free for education". Open source like love is a very complex subject and we reject  romantic ideas inherent in both Stallmanism and Raymondism. For example, I see nothing wrong with using open source development as a career jumpstart, the stage on which talented programmers can demonstrate to themselves and the world the level of their talent before moving on to other, possibly closed source, projects. And vice versa, after  such person works in corporate environment for several years, the frustration can reach level when some level of participation in related to work environment open source project might be a good safety valve, the best way to preserve sanity :-).

Old News ;-)

[May 08, 2012]  Scriptorama -- a slice of links devoted to scripting was created as an expriment

[Apr 18, 2012]  Buss section of About was created as an experiment. It contains Softpanorama related links that were mostly sent to the Editor by readers in the feedback...

[Jan 5, 2012] Due to excessive volume links to new items are now duplicated on softpanorama.info

Recent updates

Bookshelf

Books, Papers and  Bulletin

See also Softpanorama unique collection of OSS humor The best medicine against conformism, stress, toxic managers (including micromanagers) and overload. It includes:

BSD logo story : Cuckoo Egg Review  : Hired Magazine Interviews Good Software Group Founder : Hoax Quiz : Linux sucks collection : Twenty-five Signs of a Completely Americanized Russian Programmer : Russian programmers : Drug Dealers vs. Software Developers

Recent papers updates:

[Feb 20, 2012] Solaris vs Linux

[Feb 17, 2012] Skeptical View on Unix Security

[Feb 16, 2012] Softpanorama Laws of Computer Security

[Jul 15, 2011] Using disk images to fight spyware: Softpanorama Spyware Defense Strategy  (version 2.0)

Softpanorama CS Education Directory

Algorithms

General : Sorting Algorithms : Searching Algorithms : Bit Tricks : Control Structures : Compilers : Decompliers : Graph Algorithms : Pattern Matching
 

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

Hardware

General : Dell : HP : Sun  : Programmable Keyboards  : Mice

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 : Solaris Performance Tuning : AIX performance tuning :  NFS performance tuning : Oracle Performance Tuning : Database Performance Tuning : Tivoli Performance Tuning : Unix System Monitoring
 

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 :  Process Scheduling : Virtual Memory :
Disk and Filesystems   : RAID :  Solaris UFS : Solaris TMPFS  :  ZFS : Swap Space

Solaris Books : Solaris Security :  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 : xargs :

Utilities

General alias : at :  beautifiers :cp  : cron :curl  : diff. : diff_tools : eval : expect : expr : ln : ps  : rpm :  screen  : screenrc_examples :script  : Teraterm : Teraterm_macros :top. :  touch :vmstat :  YUM : zip

 

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 : Cheap Web hosting with SSH access

Xwindows

General :  VNC : VNC on Linux : VNC on Solaris

Last modified: May 09, 2012