Open Source packages for AIX

IBM has one download site  for AIX RPMs with limited selection of pretty old packages (aix toolbox), but there are several other sites available (See  Recommended Links ).   The best is probably perzl.org

There is also IBM Wiki devoted to open source:  IBM Wikis - AIX 5L Wiki - aixopen. AIX itself probably will stay closed source in the foreseeable future (Timothy Prickett Morgan, Feb 2, 2006) :

Just for a moment, imagine that IBM was not embroiled in a $3 billion Unix intellectual property and licensing lawsuit with the SCO Group. Imagine that if IBM wanted to, it could go to SCO and, as Sun Microsystems did with its Solaris Unix variant, got permission to open source its own AIX operating system.

I know this is a stretch. SunOS and Solaris, having a hybrid BSD and AT&T SVR4 licensing status because Sun and AT&T partnered to make SVR4, has a unique position in the Unix market. And it is very likely that there was nothing in the world SCO could do to stop Sun from going open source with Solaris since Sun probably has more rights to Unix than anyone--including SCO. That is speculation, of course, because neither Sun nor SCO have ever said anything precise about how they worked this out. But for the purposes of a little thought experiment, imagine that IBM's AIX could get the nod from SCO--if it was even required--and that Big Blue could take AIX out as an open source platform.

Would IBM do it?

It would seem not. Satya Sharma, the distinguished IBM engineer who functions as the chief software architect for the AIX operating system, waved off the suggestion that IBM might follow Sun and take AIX to an open source, community-developed model.

"We have considered open source AIX, but we have decided that our current way of doing things is a better way to go," Sharma explained. IBM likes the fact that it controls the development of both the Power processors and all of the systems and peripherals that hang off the boxes and the AIX platform that is tightly integrated to the features in the box. "We do not have any plans at this stage to open source AIX, and we do not believe that OpenSolaris will give Sun a big advantage."

Many program are precompiled On IBM aix toolbox site all precompiled binaries on this site are in RPM format.  See AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications ReadMe.

If the program is not availble from IBM or other major AIX open source repositories (http://www.perzl.org/aix/, Bull AIX freeware site, pWare etc.,  see Recommended Links ) you need to compile it  See Compilation of open source on AIX. This not always easy and you first need to search Google for some recommendations. Below are very raw notes from my experience:

• Apache on AIX
• PHP on AIX

All major Open Source applications are available.

• Apache - web server the one that runs the web
• emacs - editor and so much more
• ethereal - network monitoring by packets, protocol, contents
• Ganglia - cluster performance monitoring and graphing
• GNC GCC - compiler collection particularly C and C++
• gimp - image manipulation
• Gnome - desktop
• KDE - desktop
• gzip - file compression utility
• MySQL - the database
• PHP - scripting, good for web servers
• rdist - file distribution
• Samba - Windows filesystem and printing and much more
• rxvt - colour xterm
• squid - proxy server
• vim - improved vi editor for colourised syntax highlighing
• VNC - Virtual Network Computing X windows on any machine (even Windows!!)
• wget - checking and copying websites

Where to get Open Source with AIX

The below websites have proved to be the most useful websites. If you know a good place to look for more then just one of two packages then please added here.

Google.com and Sourceforge are also excellent at finding additional applications and binaries for AIX.

More AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

This should be called Open Source Applications rather than Linux Applications but the name stuck! This should the first place you look for Open Source for AIX and there is a long list. These open source packages have been prepared for installation on AIX 5L using the RPM Package Manager. These packages, also known as RPMs, are "officially" available on an as-is basis for beta-level use. Please read the statement at the top URL below for details. From personal experience these RPMs are robust and better tested than any "home grown" version. Although they are not always at the latest level.

Support and Help for AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

• Although this project is not supported, a public mailing list is available to give users an opportunity to ask questions or provide feedback on the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications. The list can be accessed from SourceForge.net at http://sourceforge.net/projects/aixtoolbox

There is also a AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications Redbook (IBM's technical manuals written by subject matter experts) at Linux Applications on pSeries

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[Jul 29, 2013] Open Source Bootstrap on AIX = RPM dependencies from hell Fixed (AIXpert Blog)

May 2

Installing Open Source on AIX systems can be a little .... um .... frustrating and I have just been round that loop with installing Ganglia the excellent Performance Monitoring tool to demonstrate it and actually use it too on my own servers. The hard bit is that for every Open Source program, that you want to install, there is 10 to 20 prerequisite packages that you need to install first and you go round this the loop four times as the prerequisites have prerequisites .... This has got known as the "RPM dependencies form hell" problem.

So here is what to do: Download the AIX Toolbox version of wget as this version has no prerequisites - phew! This will act as our RPM fetching tool.

• This is on the IBM website called AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications - which is a poor name is so many ways. Let us call it historic!

1. Browse to http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html
2. Search for wget
3. Click the RPM link (assuming your lawyer approves)
4. And it downloads the file: wget-1.9.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
5. Move this to your repository or home AIX machine on which you can as root install this package.
6. Run: rpm -Uvh wget-1.9.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm

• I am assuming you have a recent AIX (AIX 6 TL7 or AIX 7 TL1 with service packs or later) and a Internet connection.
• This is an old wget version but that is outweighed by the fact it is statically linked and has no prerequisites that are not already in AIX.

Now the excellent techie Michael Perzl (who works hard on behalf of all AIX people wanting up to date Open Source packages) has come up with a way to list dependencies so you can download them all quickly (with wget) and then simply run one rpm command to install them all. He also compiles 100's of Open Source packages for us all and makes them available from his personal website. You can read more about this at Michael's website http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=FAQs.FAQs#rpm-dependency-hell and from here you can get the FTP list of dependency files.

Note: The below websites are not from IBM and IBM takes no responsibility for them

In the below we use, as an example, the Apache 2.4 webserver. When writing this Apache 2.4.3 is the latest version - that will change with time.

1. Find the dependencies file for Apache 2.4
   1. Browse to http://www.oss4aix.org/download/rpmdb/deplists/aix71/ (this is for AIX 7.1 - for AIX 6.1 it end in 61)
   2. Search for httpd - that is the package name for Apache (it is historic too).
   3. Download the dependency list file: httpd-2.4.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps - if you do this on your workstation, copy the .deps file to your AIX machine in a new directory or as it is small you can even cut'n'paste it in to your AIX terminal emulation window like Putty.
      
2. Download Apache and everything it needs using wget
   1. Apache with: wget ftp://www.oss4aix.org/everything/RPMS/httpd-2.4.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
   2. Prerequisites with: wget -B ftp://www.oss4aix.org/everything/RPMS/ -i httpd-2.4.3-1.aix5.1.ppc.deps
      - this reads the .deps file for all the files to download
      
3. Install Apache and everything it needs:
   • rpm -Uvh *.rpm

Job done - Michael, you are a genius.

For Ganglia, I did the same for adding other things it needs:

• PHP support into Apache (mod_php_ap24-5.4.13-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm) and
• rrdtool (rrdtool-1.2.30-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm)

For Ganglia itself - it is back to Michael Perzl's website http://www.perzl.org He has it compiled for AIX and actually developed all the POWER / AIX & Linux add-ons for Ganglia and has them ready for downloading and installing - perhaps more of that in another blog.

[Jun 22, 2009] AIX 5L Open Source Packages Main - Midnight Commander

Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only with many more features. It is a text mode application, but it also includes mouse support if you are running GPM. Midnight Commander's best features are its ability to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to poke into RPMs for specific files.

Homepage: http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/

Current version: v4.6.1

RPM:

• mc-4.6.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm

Source RPM:

• mc-4.6.1-1.src.rpm

[Sep 15, 2008] curl

curl is preferanble to use with Perl as standard modules are not supplied with IBM Perl rpm and installing them by yourself is not that easy.

curl-devel	7.9.3	License	RPM	Source	The includes, libs, and man pages to develop with libcurl
curl	7.9.3	License	RPM	Source	get a file from a FTP, GOPHER or HTTP server.

[Jul 22, 2008] Redbook: Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX

This IBM Redbook will help experienced UNIX application developers who are new to the AIX operating system. The book explains the many concepts in detail, including the following:

Enhancements and new features provided by the latest C and C++ compilers for AIX

Compiling and linking tasks required to effectively use and manage shared libraries and run-time linking

Use of process heap and shared memory in the 32- and 64-bit user process models

A new programming paradigm in a partitioned environment where resources can be dynamically changed

Parallel programming using POSIX threads and OpenMP

The following chapters are also useful for system administrators who are responsible for the software problem determination and application software release level management on AIX systems:

Chapter 3, Understanding user process models

Chapter 7, Debugging your applications

Chapter 12, Packaging your applications

This publication expands on the information found in the AIX 5L Porting Guide, SG24-6034.

[Mar 30, 2008] IBM Wikis - AIX 5L Wiki - aixopen

Where to get Open Source with AIX

The below websites have proved to be the most useful websites. If you know a good place to look for more then just one of two packages then please added here.

Source	Details	URL
IBM	AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications - Open Source packages available for installation on AIX 5L - There are about 385 packages.	http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html
UCLA - Retired	Public Domain Software Library for AIX University of California, Los Angeles	http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/index.html
BULL	Bull Open Software archive for AIX	http://www.bullfreeware.com/
BULL	Bull Gnome web site	http://gnome.bullfreeware.com/new_index.html
IBM	IBM Developerworks in general	http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/
IBM	IBM AlphaWorks	http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/
pWare	Open Source Software for AIX	http://pware.hvcc.edu/
perzl.org	Open Source software repository for AIX - more than 100 most recent packages available now	http://www.perzl.org/aix/

Google.com and Sourceforge are also excellent at finding additional applications and binaries for AIX.

More AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

This should be called Open Source Applications rather than Linux Applications but the name stuck! This should the first place you look for Open Source for AIX and there is a long list. These open source packages have been prepared for installation on AIX 5L using the RPM Package Manager. These packages, also known as RPMs, are "officially" available on an as-is basis for beta-level use. Please read the statement at the top URL below for details. From personal experience these RPMs are robust and better tested than any "home grown" version. Although they are not always at the latest level.

Useful Links	URL
Homepage	http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/
Homepage on Source Forge	http://sourceforge.net/projects/aixtoolbox
Licensing	http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/altlic.html
Downloads	http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html

Support and Help for AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

TekWire.Net - Building Apache & PHP on AIX 5.2

hints on Apache 2 and PHP on AIX

Please review http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache2.php, which contains information on using PHP with Apache 2 on Linux. The document you are reading will attempt to describe any special AIX nuances you may encounter.

Prereqs

PHP 4.3.4 tarball from www.php.net

working Apache 2.0.48 installation (see this document for hints)

Note: The PHP folks don't recommend using PHP with Apache 2 at all on any platform. Some people believe that it is safe to use PHP with Apache 2 as long as you are using the prefork MPM with Apache 2. Your mileage may vary.

Building PHP

configure

In this example, /home/trawick/2048gcc is where Apache is installed, /home/trawick/php434gcc is where I will install PHP, and I'm using gcc for the compiler.

$ CC=gcc ./configure --prefix=/home/trawick/php434gcc \
--with-apxs2=/home/trawick/2048gcc/bin/apxs

make

$ make

make install

make install failed for me. Instead, I manually copied the PHP DSO to the Apache modules directory:

$ cp -p .libs/libphp4.so /home/trawick/2048gcc/modules/

make sure the DSO will load

Add this line to httpd.conf:

LoadModule php4_module modules/libphp4.so

then see if apachectl configtest still works.

Configure Apache for a simple PHP test

Add this line to httpd.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml

Create this simple PHP page as file phpinfo.php under your Apache htdocs directory:

<html>
<head>
<title>PHPinfo</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=#FFFFFF>
<p><? phpinfo() ?></p>
</body>
</html>

Start apache

% apachectl start

Make sure Apache started and you didn't get any segfaults from a bad PHP build.

Load /phpinfo.php from your server

If you get a nicely formatted table describing PHP settings, PHP is working. If you get the PHP source code back to the browser then the Apache configuration to invoke PHP for *.php files isn't working right.

MC for AIX

• mc-4.6.0-AIX.tar.gz 12-Jun-2003 11:57 2.3M

• IXTLAN SYSTEMS - AIX - bash and Midnight Commander (same package as above plus shout installation instructiuons)

GCC on AIX

A full description of the options available for POWER and PowerPC targets can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/RS_002f6000-and-PowerPC-Options.html#RS_002f6000-and-PowerPC-Options.

Using the GNU C-C++ compiler on AIX

IBM should still give you tech support with gcc on your system, but with libraries-hell you may get into problems.

AIX 5L Binary Compatibility

IBM provides binary compatibility amongst AIX 5.1, AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.3 versions of the operating system. Therefore applications running on AIX 5.1 or on AIX 5.2 will run on 5.3 as-is if they follow the criteria listed in the IBM's AIX 5L binary compatibility statement at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/os/compatibility. With that said, ISVs vary wildly on the processes they use to add support of a new OS release level. Many of the top ISVs run their applications through some form of testing. In most cases they will run them through a subset of their final testing procedures prior to adding support. Many other ISVs, however, review our binary compatibility details and add support based on their applications compliance with our statement. In either case, there is no need to recompile the application to get them to AIX 5.3.

Installing GCC on AIX

... Make sure that you install a version of GCC that corresponds to the AIX release installed on the system. GCC installs private copies of some header files that have to integrate properly with AIX system header files for GCC to function correctly, otherwise running the compiler may produce error messages about header files. The header files should be rebuilt if they do not match. One can delete the header file cache to build a new release of GCC from sources with an old version, but GCC should not be operated without the header file cache.

Website links

For more information on the GNU project and the GCC compiler, see the official web sites at http://gcc.gnu.org/. A list of new features in GCC version 3.3 is at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html. Similarly, the list of new features in GCC version 3.4.3 is at: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html.

GCC compiler options

There's a wide variety of compiler options available on GCC, ranging from optimizing code, setting or suppressing ISO/ANSI standard code compilation, to debugging options, template code compilation options. GCC also provides some compiler options specific to the pSeries (formerly known as RS/6000) and PowerPC platforms.

A full description of the options available for POWER and PowerPC targets can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/RS_002f6000-and-PowerPC-Options.html#RS_002f6000-and-PowerPC-Options. Here we will go through a few of the options that we consider to be most relevant.

Of the options that set the processor type, such as -mcpu and -mtune, it is best to use the defaults that GCC provides. On AIX 4.3 and AIX 5.1, the default is -mcpu=common -- this code will work on all members of the pSeries (RS/6000) processor families. On AIX 5.2 and higher, the default is -mcpu=powerpc -- this code will work on pSeries PowerPC processors. GCC assumes a recent processor type associated with the AIX release as a processor model for scheduling purposes.

You should use -mcpu=power, -mcpu=power2, -mcpu=powerpc, -mcpu=power4, etc. to optimize for a specific processor or class of processors. Do not use the -mpower, -mpowerpc, -mpower2, or -mpowerpc64 options. Although they are available, they are not intended for end users. Using -mpower2 or other options in isolation may cause unpredictable results because the compiler may not be in a self-consistent state for that target processor.

To compile an application in 64 bit mode, one should use the option -maix64, which enables the 64-bit AIX ABI such as: 64-bit pointers, 64-bit long type, and the infrastructure needed to support them. Specifying -maix64 implies -mpowerpc64 and -mpowerpc, while -maix32 disables the 64-bit ABI and implies -mno-powerpc64. GCC defaults to -maix32.

If you get a linker error message saying you have overflowed the available TOC (Table of Contents) space, you can reduce the amount of TOC space used by using -mminimal-toc. By default GCC uses -mfull-toc which allocates at least one TOC entry for each unique non-automatic variable reference in your program. GCC also places floating-point constants in the TOC. However, only 16,384 entries are available in the TOC, and it's possible to overflow the TOC. By specifying -mminimal-toc GCC makes only one TOC entry for every function.

-pthread compiles and links your application code with the POSIX threads library, just as you would do in VisualAge (or XL) C/C++. With VisualAge (or XL) C/C++, you can also compile and link using xlc_r or xlC_r to get thread support, but this option doesn't exist with GCC. Threaded code should therefore be linked with -pthread for GCC. The -pthread option sets flags for both the preprocessor and linker.

The -g option generates debugging information, defaulting to -gxcoff+ at level 2. The debugging information may contain some extensions intended for the GNU Debugger (GDB). To produce debugging information more compatible with AIX dbx, one may use the -gxcoff option.

GCC for AIX does not support -msoft-float fully. It will turn off use of floating point registers within GCC, but GCC support libraries and AIX libraries will continue to use floating point registers.

-mlittle-endian and -mcall-linux are not valid in the AIX configuration. The documentation mentions all options for all GCC "rs6000" targets. Not all options are available in each configuration.

To pass options to the native AIX linker directly, use -Wl, <linker option>.

G++ and GCC Compiler Options

A description of g++-specific compiler options can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/C_002b_002b-Dialect-Options.html#C_002b_002b-Dialect-Options. These options are the same on AIX.

Similarly, a full description of gcc-specific compiler options can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/C-Dialect-Options.html#C%20Dialect%20Options. These options are also the same on AIX as other UNIX systems.

The list of optimization options can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options.

The most-common optimization option is -O2, which enables a number of optimizations to enhance performance of the resulting executable or library. -O3 enables more optimizations that can improve performance at the expense of additional compile time. -Os enables optimizations that increase performance, but tries to minimize code size.

Additional optimization options that are useful for computationally-intensive scientific applications include -funroll-loops and -ffast-math. -ffast-math allows the compiler allows the compiler to improve performance at the expense of exact IEEE and ISO conformance for math functions.

Open source software building on AIX

TekWire.Net - Building Apache & PHP on AIX 5.2

Compiling Apache2 and PHP 5.1 on AIX

July 9th, 2006 | FASherman

This build was accomplished on AIX 5.3 ML 03 with no IBM compilers installed. I highly recommend building and installing Apache 2 and PHP 5.1 together. Performing these separately can have unpredicted results.

Prerequisites

1. Make sure you have the necessary free space in the following filesystems:
   • /usr
   • /opt
   • /home
   • /tmp
2. Download the following:
   • Apache Web Server 2.2.2 source code from Welcome! - The Apache HTTP Server Project
   • GNU C compiler version 4 for AIX 5.3 from IBM AIX Toolbox Download Page - Alphabetical Listing
   • GCC library for AIX 5.3 from IBM AIX Toolbox Download Page - Alphabetical Listing
   • PHP 5.1 source code from PHP: Downloads
   • XML support – IBM's AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications is back rev'd. Use these instead
     • libxml2 2.6.21
     • libxml2-devel
   • General tools from IBM AIX Toolbox Download Page - Alphabetical Listing
     • LEX flex-2.5
     • XML support expat-1.95.7
     • Compression library zlib-1.2.2
     • Compression develoment zlib-devel-1.2.2
     • Compression library bz2-1.0.2-3
     • jpeg support libjpeg-6b-6
     • jpeg support development libjpeg-devel-6b-6
     • png support libpng-1.2.1-6
     • png development libpng-devel-1.2.1-6
     • Pixmap xpm-3.4k
     • Pixmap development xpm-devel-3.4k
     • Freetype2 fonts freetype2-2.1.7-2
     • Freetype2 fonts development freetype2-devel-2.1.7-2
     • Gettext support gettext-0.10.40
     • Any other libraries you might need for Apache or PHP
   • Install all the RPM files
3. Install libm.a from the AIX CDROM
4. Install the compiler and library
   
   rpm -Uvh gcc-4*.rpm
   rpm -Uvh libgcc-4*rpm

Compiling Apache2+ using GCC

1. Uncompress the Apache Web Server source into your home directory

   # gunzip httpd-2*tar.gz
   # tar xvf httpd-2*.tar
   # cd httpd*

2. Build the configuration file enabling shared object

   # ./configure -C --enable-so --prefix /usr/local/apache2

3. Compile the server

   # make
   

4. Install the server (/usr/local/apache2)

# make install

Compiling PHP using GCC

1. Uncompress the PHP source code file and untar the file

   # gunzip php*tar.gz
   # tar xvf php*.tar
   # cd php-5.1.4

2. Build the configuration file enabling shared objects

   # export PATH=/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
   # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/apache2/conf --with-gd --with-pear --with-gettext --with-mime-magic --with-zlib-dir=/opt/freeware/lib --enable-shared --disable-static --with-png --with-zlib --with-bz2 --with-xml --with-jpeg-dir=/opt/freeware/lib --with-png-dir=/opt/freeware/lib --with-xpm-dir=/opt/freeware/lib --with-freetype-dir=/opt/freeware/lib

3. Compile PHP with the following command:

   # make

   NOTE: There will be compiler warnings about pointers type mismatches. The can be disregarded.

4. Install PHP with the following two commands

# cp .libs/libphp5.so /usr/local/apache2/modules
# cp php.ini-recommended /usr/local/apache2/conf/php.ini

Configuring Apache2 with PHP

1. Stop Apache2

   # /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k stop

2. Edit /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf, adding the following at the end

   LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
   AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
   DirectoryIndex index.php

3. Edit the /usr/local/apache2/conf/php.ini file

   Change the php variable:
   ;date.timezone =
   to reflect your timezone

4. Restart Apache2

   # /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -k start

5. Now test PHP with Apache2
   • Create a test web page
     
     # vi /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/phpinfo.php

     <h1> PHP testing </h1>
     <?PHP phpinfo() ?>

   • Open the page in your browser: http://your_server/phpinfo.php
   • Verify the php data
   • Delete phpinfo.php
     
     # rm /usr/local/apache2/htdocs/phpinfo.php

hints on Apache 2 and PHP on AIX

IBM Wikis - AIX 5L Wiki - aixopen

This Wiki page contains the following sections:

• OpenSource with AIX
  • Where to get Open Source with AIX
  • More AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications
  • Does AIX come with compilers for compiling Open Source?
• Getting the latest Apache2 web server for AIX
  • Compiling Apache2.2 on AIX using the GNU GCC compiler - By Example
  • Configuring Apache2.2 on AIX - By Example
• Installing MySQL
• PHP and AIX
  **Compiling PHP on AIX using the GNU GCC compiler - By Example
  • Configuring PHP with Apache2.2 on AIX - By Example
• Once compiled moving Apache2+PHP to a new/production machine
• Samba running on AIX
  • Pre-compiled Samba binaries

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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

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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

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