• [Nov 14, 2014] Arithmetic Expressions in BASH : String Operations in Shell : Bash history and bang commands : if statements in shell : Case statement in shell : Input and Output Redirection : Readline and inputrc : Usage of pipes with loops in shell
  • [Nov 13, 2014] SGE Queues : Installation of the Grid Engine Execution Host : Grid engine : SGE Parallel Environment : qsub
  • [Nov 12, 2014] Migrating to Son of Grid Engine 8.1.8 : Enabling scheduling information in qstat -j : sge_execd - Sun Grid Engine job execution agent
  • [Nov 11, 2014] The Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM) : Recovery of LVM partitions : Shrinking LVM logical volume with ext3/ext4 filesystem : LVM Cheatsheet : Resizing LVM logical partition : Linux Disk Partitioning
  • [Nov 10, 2014] History of Grid Engine Development : SGE implementations : Son of Grid Engine
  • [Nov 09, 2014] Secular Stagnation : Economics of Peak Energy : Obscurantism
  • [Nov 08, 2014] Nineteen Eighty-Four : Big Uncle is Watching You : Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Is Google evil ? : Two Party System as Polyarchy :Audacioues Oligarchy and Loss of Trust : Corruption of Regulators : Groupthink : Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013
  • [Nov 07, 2014] Linux root password recovery : Modifying ISO image to include kickstart file : Log rotation in RHEL/Centos/Oracle linux
  • [Nov 06, 2014] uptime command : TCP Performance Tuning : Suse network configuration
  • [Nov 05, 2014] Grid engine : SCE Installation :Installation of Master Host  : SGE Execution Host Installation : SGE implementations : Son of Grid Engine : Backup of SGE configuration 
  • [Nov 04, 2014] Diplomatic Communication : Negative Politeness : Socratic Questions : Corporate bullshit as a communication method : Rules of Verbal Self Defense against Corporate Psychopaths : Slackerism
  • [Nov 03, 2014] eMail Security : Six ways to say No and mean it : Soft propaganda : Minimize office gossip
  • [Nov 02, 2014] Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering : Language Design and Programming Quotes : Introduction to the Unix shell history : XENIX -- Microsoft Short-lived Love Affair with Unix : Donald Knuth : Part III. Stallman as a Prophet
  • [Nov 01, 2014] Two Party System as Polyarchy : US Presidential Elections of 2012
  • [Oct 31, 2014] Orthodox File Managers : GUI vs Command line interface : Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks : History of development of Midnight Commander
  • [Oct 30, 2014] Passwordless SSH login :  Parallel command execution : SSH Tips : Self Publishing
  • [Oct 29, 2014] SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) : SLES Service Packs : Suse network configuration : Suse /etc/sysconfig/network/route file
  • [Oct 28, 2014] Sorting Algorithms : The Art of Debugging
  • [Oct 27, 2014] Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : Donald Knuth Interviews : The Art of Computer Programming
  • [Oct 26, 2014] Two Party System as Polyarchy : Neoliberalism as a New Form of Corporatism : Audacioues Oligarchy and Loss of Trust : The Iron Law of Oligarchy  : Neoliberal Brainwashing: Journalism in the Service of the Powerful Few : Media as a weapon of mass deception : Who Shot down Malaysian flight MH17? : The Guardian Slips Beyond the Reach of Embarrassment
  • [Oct 25, 2014] Potemkin Villages of Computer Security : Blocking Facebook
  • [Oct 24, 2014] cut command : tr command : zip : unzip : lzip : xz
  • [Oct 23, 2014] The Unix Hater’s Handbook : The Peter Principle : Nineteen Eighty-Four : Parkinson Law : How to Solve It by George Polya : The Art of Computer Programming : The Mythical Man-Month : The Elements of Programming Style : The Jargon file : The Good Soldier Svejk : The Power Elite : Programming Pearls : The True Believer
  • [Oct 22, 2014] Piping Vim Buffer Through Unix Filters, ! and !! Commands
  • [Oct 21, 2014] SLES Service Packs : Swap file : Linux Swap filesystem : Suse /etc/sysconfig/network/route file  : Yast
  • [Oct 20, 2014] SSH SOCKS4 proxy : Perl Wiki as a System Administrator Tool
  • [Oct 19, 2014] Inflation, Deflation and Confiscation : Economics of Peak Energy
  • [Oct 18, 2014] Slightly Skeptical View on University Education : The Guardian Slips Beyond the Reach of Embarrassment
  • [Oct 17, 2014] Unix find tutorial : Finding Files based on size: largest, empty and within certain range : Unix find tutorial: Selecting files using their age : tmpwatch
  • [Oct 16, 2014] Unix Find Tutorial. Using -exec option with find : Unix xargs command
  • [Oct 15, 2014] eMail Security  : grep command : grepmail command
  • [Oct 14, 2014] logrotate  : Syslog Configuration and syslog.conf : Cron and Crontab commands : Unix at command : batch command
  • [Oct 13, 2014] Corruption of Regulators : Two Party System as Polyarchy :  Who Rules America : Greenspan humor 
  • [Oct 12, 2014] Hong Cong "Umbrellas" Color Revolution of 2014
  • [Oct 11, 2014] Virtual Software Appliances : VMware Cost Efficiency Problem : Xen on Suse
  • [Oct 10, 2014] Fifty glorious years (1950-2000) the triumph of the US computer engineering : Solaris : Serial Console on Solaris : Sun Solaris Related Humor : Swap Space and Virtual Memory : Solaris Mount Tutorial : Troubleshooting Solaris Network Problems : Solaris Packages : Solaris Tips : SPARC vs. X86 : Solaris Zones : Solaris RBAC
  • [Oct 09, 2014] Dell DRAC : iDRAC7 goes unresponsive - can't connect to iDRAC7 : RACADM Command Line Interface
  • [Oct 08, 2014] Command completion : Readline and inputrc : Bash history and bang commands
  • [Oct 07, 2014] Customizing Shell Dot Files: .profile, RC-file, and history : Examples of .bashrc files
  • [Oct 06, 2014] The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Audacioues Oligarchy and Loss of Trust
  • [Oct 05, 2014] Borderline Psychopaths : Female Sociopaths : Authoritarians
  • [Oct 04, 2014] Is Google evil ? : Android (in)security : Softpanorama Bulletin. Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments
  • [Oct 03, 2014] Cloud providers as intelligence collection hubs : Fighting Spyware  : Linux Hardening
  • [Oct 02, 2014] Softpanorama Bulletin Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification of sysadmin horror stories : Sysadmin Horror Stories : Creative uses of rm : Accidental Shutdowns/Reboot Blunders : Side effects of patching of the customized server : Mistakes made because of the differences between various Unix-Linux flavors
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  • [Oct 01, 2014] Social aspects of the BSD vs. GPL debate : Richard Stallman
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