Softpanorama Switchboard
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
The main purpose of the site is to promote "slightly skeptical" approach to IT, to stimulate
critical thinking about system administration and software development as professions. To increase resistance
to media brainwashing. Skepticism is generally any questioning attitude towards knowledge, facts, or
opinions/beliefs stated as facts, or doubt regarding claims that are taken for granted elsewhere.
We try to eschew the conventionally favored obfuscations about IT workplace and related propaganda
(for example about "cloud computing" or
IT outsourcing) and expose
the theater of absurd which often
both academic and, especially, corporate IT represents (sometimes in the form of
humor; it's often
the best medicine against conformism,
stress, and
overload.). It is important to be aware about dangers
of the IT workplace such as psychopathic bosses (aka toxic managers). The latter have several varieties with
micromanagers,
bullies,
narcissists and
authoritarians as the most common. You also
need be aware of a standard under neoliberalism
corporate waterboarding procedure called
performance reviews ;-).
After all you are just a consumable resource.
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. It 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 one of the few "compiled' web sites where
target pages are not generated on request, but are precompiled when a change in content arrives.
In 2012 "open source" is really old overused and abused concept and computer science education that
once was flourishing, now is a neglected area in deep crisis. Very few people understand 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".)
This site promotes exactly this usage of open source and view
open source development
as a special type of academic research (with
the same pitfalls and limitations involved). 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 experience open source project might be a good safety valve, the
best way to preserve sanity :-).
- [Apr 19, 2019]
RHCSA: Text files processing
:
RHCSA: Basic and intermediate set of VIM commands for sysadmins
- [Apr 18, 2019]
RHCSA: Using redirection and pipes
- [Apr 17, 2019]
RHCSA: Use grep and extended regular expressions to analyze text files
- [Apr 16, 2019]
RHCSA: Finding files and directories; mass operations on files
- [Apr 15, 2019]
RHCSA: Connecting to the server via ssh, using multiple consoles and
screen command
- [Apr 14, 2019]
Russiagate -- a
color revolution against Trump :
Special Prosecutor Mueller and his fishing expedition
:
Trump 2020 compaign :
- [Apr 13, 2019]
Tulsi Gabbard: the only anti-war Democrat in 2020 elections :
Elizabeth Warren
- [Apr 12, 2019]
RHCSA: Using yum :
Using
rpm
- [Apr 11, 2019]
RHCSA: Managing Software Packages
- [Apr 10, 2019]
RHCSA: KVM networking
- [Apr 09, 2019]
RHCSA: Installation and configuration of KVM in RHEL7
- [Apr 08, 2019]
RHCSA: Three classes of virtualization
- [Apr 07, 2019] Computer and
System Administration Humor :
Know Your Unix System
Administrator :
IT Slang :
C++ Humor :
Perl-related
Humor :
The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related Humor
- [Apr 06, 2019]
Linus Torvalds Related humor
:
Richard Stallman Related Humor :
Classic Computer Humor :
Admin Humor :
Systemd Humor systemd
as Occupy Linux movement
- [Apr 05, 2019] Tao Of Programming :
Assembler-related Humor :
Computer Viruses Humor :
IBM Humor : Unix was a Program Gone Bad :
The Unix Hierarchy
- [Apr 04, 2019] Software Engineering Humor :
Hired Magazine interviews Good Software
Group founder
- [Apr 03, 2019] Murphy's Laws :
The Worst Job in the World
- [Apr 02, 2019] A variation of Steve Baldwin's NETSLAVE QUIZ :
The Corporate Jungles Of Cubonia :
Communication Skills and Basic Competencies Courses for
Programmmer's Wives : Office Diplomacy Lesson :
Pagers induced car crash :
The Peter Principle Proven
- [Apr 01, 2019] Top 10 Classic Unix Humor Stories :
BSD Logo Story : Wisdom for Grads :
Interview with a hacker :
Hired Magazine interviews Good Software Group founder :
Recently laid off IT employee tax form :
RFC 1925: The Twelve Networking Truths :
Stallman Cloned to Finish his Job on Hurd : The Unix Cult
-
Older entries
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
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] Softpanorama Malware Defense
Strategy (version 2.0)
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- ...
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:
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Odnozuchno gremit kolokolcik :
My Star : Ya
vas lubil :
Only
Once (once in a lifetime) :
Evening Bells
- Russian Basso
Profondo :
Boris Shtokolov
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Famous Russian Cartoons
- Russian Choirs :
Red Army Choir :
Bolshoy Children
Choir :
Kuban Cossack Choir :
Choir of
Sretensky monastery :
Valaam monastery
choir : Peresvet
-
Russian Orthodox Choirs, Sacred Russian
singing Chesnokov's Gabriel Appeared Eternal Counsel : The night is light... with Levitan's
paintings : Vladimir Pasjukov - Do
not reject me in my old age (Remastered)
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: Configuring Solaris sendmail
: Sendmail
performance tuning :
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: Sendmail Log Formats
: Sendmail
file permissions :
Dual-instance
sendmail
- Postfix
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: Postfix
Connection Refused Problem
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- Malware
- General :
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Spyware Removal Using
Spybot S&D : Non-Scanner AntiSpyware Tools
: Spyware Scanners :
Malware_ Defense_Secrets
- Micromanagement in IT
-
General :
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- Surviving
Micromanagers :
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with the micromanagement induced stress :
Anger trap
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General : VOIP
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Layer :
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Transport Layer
NAT :
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and VLSM : TCP
: TCP handshake
: UDP
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:
ARP :
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: Suse network configuration
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Frontpage The server "" timed
out error :
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manage your site
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Notes on Kindle publishing :
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calibre :
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: Pipes
: Perl Admintools
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String Operations in Shell :
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- Bash
: BASH Debugging
: Command
completion :
bash
Tips and Tricks :
Bash history and bang
commands : Input and
Output Redirection : Customizing Shell Dot
Files: .profile, RC-file, and history :
IFS variable and Field splitting in the
Korn shell and Bash : Command
completion
-
-
bash Control
Structures
- if statements in
shell : Case
statement in shell : Loops
in Bash : Usage
of pipes with loops in shell :
Bash select
statement :
Double square bracket conditionals
-
-
- Security
- General :
Papers :
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Intrusion detection :
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Perl scripts :
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Port Scanners :
Port Scan Detectors :
Log_analysers :
Antivirus :
Malware Defense_Secrets
- Software Engineering
- Literate Programming :
Architecture :
Testing :
Program understanding :
Reverse engineering :
Anti-OO
- Skepticism
- PseudoScience :
Groupthink : Lysenkoism : CS_skeptic :
Obscurantism in Information Technology : Research Materials on Nicholas
Carr's IT Does not Matter Fallacy : Harvard
Mafia, Andrei Shleifer and the economic rape of Russia
-
- Financial skeptic
-
Corruption of Regulators
-
Neoclassical Pseudo Theories and Crooked and Bought Economists as Fifth Column of Financial
Oligarchy
-
Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks: The efficient markets hypothesis :
Invisible Hand Hypothesys The Theory of Self-regulation of the Markets :
Supply Side or Trickle down economics
:
Rational expectations scam
-
Twelve apostles of deregulation
-
Lawrence Summers :
Robert Rubin, the man who helped to convert the USA into banana republic
- Insufficient Retirement Funds Problem
- Casino Capitalism :
Financial Sector Induced Systemic Instability of Economy :
Neoliberalism as a Cause of Structural
Unemployment in the USA :
Lawrence Summers :
CDS -- weapons of mass financial destruction :
Slightly Skeptical Look at Oil Price Slump :
In Goldman Sachs we trust: classic example of regulatory capture by financial system hackers
-
- Unemployment
- Neoliberalism as a Cause of Structural
Unemployment in the USA :
Unemployment
Bulletin, 2010
- Financial Skeptic Humor
-
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008
- Peak
Cheap Energy and Oil Price Slump
- Energy returned on energy
invested (EROEI) : Russian
Ukrainian Gas Wars
-
Neoliberalism and rising inequality
-
Inequality Bulletin, 2009 :
- Casino Capitalism
-
Casino Capitalism : Corruption of Regulators :
Supply Side or Trickle down economics : Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks :
The efficient markets hypothesis :
Financial Sector Induced Systemic Instability of Economy :
In Goldman Sachs we trust classic example of regulatory capture by financial system hackers
: : Greenspan as the Chairman of Financial Politburo :
Helicopter Ben: Arsonist Turned into Firefighter : :
- Political skeptic:
- Who Rules America :
Media-Military-Industrial
Complex :
Two Party System as Polyarchy :
National
Security State / Surveillance State: Review of Literature :
Total Surveillance and Snowden Prism Revelations Saga :
Neo-theocratic
Movements : Corporatism
: American Exceptionalism
:
New American Militarism
- Neoliberalism
- Neoliberalism as a New
Form of Corporatism:
Political Skeptic
Bulletin, 2013 :
Two Party
System as Polyarchy :
Audacioues Oligarchy and Loss of Trust
Corporatist Corruption: Systemic Fraud under Clinton-Bush-Obama Regime :
Libertarian Philosophy :
Politically Incorrect Humor : Elite [Dominance] Theory And
the Revolt of the Elite :
America’s Financial
Oligarchy :
The Iron Law
of Oligarchy :
Neocolonialism as Financial Imperialism :
Fifth column :
Jokes about Russian
Fifth Column :
Predator state
: Tea
Party and right wing rage :
- Propaganda
- Corporate Media: Journalism
In the Service of the Powerful Few :
The Guardian Slips Beyond the Reach of Embarrassment
Neo-fashism :
Neoconservatism as a stage of development
of Neoliberalism : Ayn Rand and her
Objectivism Cult : Mayberry Machiavellians
: :
Media as a weapon of mass deception :
- Fifth column of neoliberal globalization
- Color revolutions Fighting Russophobia
: Compradors
:
Diplomacy by deception
- Social aspects fo working in IT environment
- General :
- Business Communication
-
Diplomatic Communication :Corporate
bullshit as a communication method :
Negative Politeness :
-
Socratic Questions :
Rules of Verbal Self Defense against Corporate Psychopaths :
Insubordination Threat :
Six ways to say No and mean it :
Talleyrand quotes :
Dictionary of corporate bullshit :
Minimize office gossip
- Toxic managers
-
Micromanagers : The
psychopath in the corner office : Narcissistic Managers :
Borderline Psychopaths
: Female Sociopaths
:
The Techniques of a Female Sociopaths :
Empty Suits
(Aggressive Incompetent Managers) :
Authoritarians
-
Fighting Corporate Psychopaths :
Observing and Documenting Behavior of Corporate Psychopaths :
Communication with Corporate Psychopaths
-
Surviving a Bad Performance Review :
Office Stockholm Syndrom :
The
Fiefdom Syndrome :
Learned helplessness
:
Signs that you might be dismissed soon
-
Quotes about
Psychopaths
- Bureaucracies
- Bureaucratic ritualism
: Bureaucratic alienation
: Bureaucratic
Inertia
-
Bureaucracy as a Political Coalition :
Meetings mania
- Absurdity
of bureaucracies :
Bureaucratic avoidance of responsibility :
Bureaucratic Collectivism
- Military
Bureaucracy : Military
Incompetence
- Overload
- Toxic stress: Burnout
- Information Overload :
Drinking from a firehose -- informing
ourselves to death :
- Mental Overload :
Sleep Deprivation :
Office Slaves: the rise of bullshit
jobs :
- Workagolism as escape path from social
problems
-
- 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 :
AWK Regular Expressions :
Sed :
Diff :
Pipes
: Grep :
vi
- exec command : sort command
: dd : tr command :
cut command : xargs :
tail command : split command
: uniq command : tar :
Recovery of lost files using DD
: paste command : tee
- Find
: Using -exec
option with find : Selecting files
using their age :
Finding Files based on size: largest, empty and within certain range :
Finding files using file
name or path :
Finding
World Writable, Abandoned and other Abnormal Files
- Unixification
- General : Cygwin
: Xming : Microsoft
Services For Unix : Hummingbird Connectivity
Suite :
- Windows 2000 Resource Kit :
Cygwin/X :
Dual Boot :
Working with dd Images
-
- 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
Society
Groupthink :
Two Party System
as Polyarchy :
Corruption of Regulators :
Bureaucracies :
Understanding Micromanagers
and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers :
Harvard Mafia :
Diplomatic Communication
: Surviving a Bad Performance
Review : Insufficient Retirement Funds as
Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime : PseudoScience :
Who Rules America :
Neoliberalism
: The Iron
Law of Oligarchy :
Libertarian Philosophy
Quotes
War and Peace
: Skeptical
Finance : John
Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand :
Oscar Wilde :
Otto Von Bismarck :
Keynes :
George Carlin :
Skeptics :
Propaganda : SE
quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes :
Random IT-related quotes :
Somerset Maugham :
Marcus Aurelius :
Kurt Vonnegut :
Eric Hoffer :
Winston Churchill :
Napoleon Bonaparte :
Ambrose Bierce :
Bernard Shaw :
Mark Twain Quotes
Bulletin:
Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient
markets hypothesis :
Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 :
Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :
Vol 23, No.10
(October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments :
Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 :
Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 :
Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan
(Win32/Crilock.A) :
Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers
as intelligence collection hubs :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 :
Inequality Bulletin, 2009 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 :
Copyleft Problems
Bulletin, 2004 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 :
Energy Bulletin, 2010 :
Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26,
No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult :
Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 :
Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification
of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05
(May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method :
Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law
History:
Fifty glorious years (1950-2000):
the triumph of the US computer engineering :
Donald Knuth : TAoCP
and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman
: Linus Torvalds :
Larry Wall :
John K. Ousterhout :
CTSS : Multix OS Unix
History : Unix shell history :
VI editor :
History of pipes concept :
Solaris : MS DOS
: Programming Languages History :
PL/1 : Simula 67 :
C :
History of GCC development :
Scripting Languages :
Perl history :
OS History : Mail :
DNS : SSH
: CPU Instruction Sets :
SPARC systems 1987-2006 :
Norton Commander :
Norton Utilities :
Norton Ghost :
Frontpage history :
Malware Defense History :
GNU Screen :
OSS early history
Classic books:
The Peter
Principle : Parkinson
Law : 1984 :
The Mythical Man-Month :
How to Solve It by George Polya :
The Art of Computer Programming :
The Elements of Programming Style :
The Unix Hater’s Handbook :
The Jargon file :
The True Believer :
Programming Pearls :
The Good Soldier Svejk :
The Power Elite
Most popular humor pages:
Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society :
Ten Commandments
of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection
: BSD Logo Story :
The Cuckoo's Egg :
IT Slang : C++ Humor
: ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? :
The Perl Purity Test :
Object oriented programmers of all nations
: Financial Humor :
Financial Humor Bulletin,
2008 : Financial
Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related
Humor : Programming Language Humor :
Goldman Sachs related humor :
Greenspan humor : C Humor :
Scripting Humor :
Real Programmers Humor :
Web Humor : GPL-related Humor
: OFM Humor :
Politically Incorrect Humor :
IDS Humor :
"Linux Sucks" Humor : Russian
Musical Humor : Best Russian Programmer
Humor : Microsoft plans to buy Catholic Church
: 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 :
Education Humor : IBM
Humor : Assembler-related Humor :
VIM Humor : Computer
Viruses Humor : Bright tomorrow is rescheduled
to a day after tomorrow : Classic Computer
Humor
The Last but not Least Technology is dominated by
two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand ~Archibald Putt.
Ph.D
Copyright © 1996-2018 by Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov. www.softpanorama.org
was initially created as a service to the (now defunct) UN Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP)
in the author free time and without any remuneration. This document is an industrial compilation designed and created exclusively
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