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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 experience open source project might be a good safety valve, the best way to preserve sanity :-).

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Old News ;-)

[Dec 01, 2012] Architectural approaches for increasing Windows resistance against malware

[Nov 01, 2012] Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan interface of Orthodox File Managers

[Jul 27, 2012] Networking -- faster access from www.softpanorama.net . Please use this domain for network related links to offload the traffic form the main site.

General : TCP Protocol Layers : OSI Protocol Layers :Network Sniffers : Tools : Troubleshooting : Firewalls and Firewall Rules Auditing

Application Layer :

SSH : NFS : DNS : FTP : Telnet : Samba : Telnet Protocol : VNC : SMTP
Transport Layer
NAT : Subnetting and VLSM : TCP : TCP handshake : UDP

Internet Layer :
ARP : ICMP : Routing : IPv6

[Jul 27, 2012] Scripting -- faster access from www.softpanorama.info

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

[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

[May 22, 2013] Oracle ILOM : Oracle ILOM ports

[May 21, 2013] TCP/IP Network Troubleshooting

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

[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 :

Older entries

Bookshelf

Introduction Algorithms Software Eng Classic Books Compilers OS design Software Testing	C C++ Assembler Java Javascript Pascal Prolog Debugging	Excel Macro Programming Word Macro Programming FrontPage VBA	HTML FrontPage XML Web Commerce CGI Scripting Selected Reviews
RedHat Suse Solaris Classic Unix books	Unix Shells Unix Sysadmin Unix Security Unix Tools	Network Administration DNS Apache Web Server Firewalls Intrusion Detection Redbooks	Open Source Perl Unix Shells JavaScript VBA TCL/Tk Regular Expressions

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

[Dec 01, 2012] Architectural approaches for increasing Windows resistance against malware
[Nov 01, 2012] Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan interface of Orthodox File Managers
[Aug 15, 2012] Softpanorama Laws of Computer Security

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)

Nikolai Bezroukov's e-books	Nikolai Bezroukov's recent papers	Older Papers
Solaris vs Linux 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) Keep it simple stupid: Notes on 401K investment strategies for middle-class professionals (fragments)	Architectural approaches for increasing Windows resistance against malware Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan interface of Orthodox File Managers Softpanorama Malware Defense Strategy Softpanorama Laws of Computer Security Skeptical View on Unix Security Unix Find Tutorial "IT does not matter" fallacy and the commodization of IT technology Intrusion Prevention and Detection Roadmap for Large Enterprises in 2005-2007	A Slightly Skeptical View on IT offshoring (2002) A Second Look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999) -- my second paper about OSS hype and reality Open Source Software as a Special Case of Academic Research (1999) A Short Introduction to Lysenkoism (1998) Note on Virus Paranoia (1996) An Overview of The Seventh International Virus Bulletin Conference (VB’97). more

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

DNS

General: DNS Ports Usage : MX Records Checking for for Users of Web Hosting : DNS Security

Solaris DNS Server Installation and Administration : DNS Tools : DNS Troubleshooting : DNS Tutorials : History of DNS : DNS Tips :

Tools

Classic DNS Tools : dig : nslookup : hostname : DNS Zone Generators : Online DNS Tools : DNS Audit Scripts :

Tutorials

Solaris DNS Tutorial, part 1/3 : Solaris DNS Tutorial, part 2/3 : Solaris DNS Tutorial, part 3/3

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

Components: Low Cost PC Components : Intel CPUs Price/Performance Ratio : CPU Instruction Set Architecture : Memory; ...

Tablets: Tablets with digitizers : Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 with S-pen : Galaxy 10.1 S-pen
Dell: Dell E6330/E6430 : Dell E-Port

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 : eMail Security : MTA Log Analysers :
Sendmail: Sendmail : Minitutotial : Sendmail on RHEL : Configuring Solaris sendmail : Sendmail performance tuning : Sendmail Security : Sendmail Log Formats : Sendmail file permissions : Dual-instance sendmail
Postfix: Postfix : Postfix Troubleshooting : Postfix Connection Refused Problem
Spamfiltering: Spam : Email Etiquette : Email Overload
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 :

SSH : NFS : DNS : FTP : Telnet : Samba : Telnet Protocol : VNC : SMTP
Transport Layer
NAT : Subnetting and VLSM : TCP : TCP handshake : UDP

Internet Layer :
ARP : ICMP : Routing : IPv6

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 -- faster access from softpanorama.info

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

Etc

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 : 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 :

The Last but not Least

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