• [May 01, 2022] Films depicting female sociopaths : Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks
• [Apr 30, 2022] Insufficient Retirement Funds as Immanent Problem of Neoliberal Regime
• [Apr 29, 2022] The Mythical Man-Month
• [Apr 28, 2022] TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : The second love -- typography : Literate programming
• [Apr 27, 2022] The AWK Programming Language
• [Apr 26, 2022] Slightly Skeptical View on John K. Ousterhout and Tcl
• [Apr 25, 2022] Slightly Skeptical View on Larry Wall and Perl
• [Apr 24, 2022] Donald Knuth
• [Apr 23, 2022] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Apr 22, 2022] Introduction to the Unix shell history
• [Apr 21, 2022] Unix History with some Emphasis on Scripting :
• [Apr 20, 2022] A Slightly Skeptical View on Linus Torvalds : Selling Bazaar to Cathedral: Linux Gold Rush
• [Apr 19, 2022] Multix OS
• [Apr 18, 2022] Programming Languages History
• [Apr 17, 2022] Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering
• [Apr 16, 2022] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Apr 15, 2022] Is DevOps a yet another "for profit" technocult?
• [Apr 14, 2022] Slightly Skeptical View on Extreme Programming
• [Apr 13, 2022] Agile -- Fake Solution to an Important Problem
• [Apr 12, 2022] Object-Oriented Cult: A Slightly Skeptical View on the Object-Oriented Programming
• [Apr 11, 2022] KISS principle and Fighting Software Overcomplexity : "Back to basics" movement against overcomplexity
• [Apr 10, 2022] Corruption of Regulators
• [Apr 09, 2022] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Apr 08, 2022] Writing and degugging Perl One-liners
• [Apr 07, 2022] Pipes in Perl
• [Apr 06, 2022] Perl as a command line tool
• [Apr 05, 2022] Perl as powerful and flexible tool for Unix system administrators
• [Apr 04, 2022] Shell Prompts Customarization
• [Apr 03, 2022] Short Introduction to Lysenkoism
• [Apr 02, 2022] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Apr 01, 2022] Command completion
• [Mar 31, 2022] cdpath : Manipulating the Directory Stack
• [Mar 30, 2022] Annoying colors on Linux command line
• [Mar 29, 2022] Bash history reuse and bang commands : Directory favorites
• [Mar 28, 2022] Bang commands
• [Mar 27, 2022] Casino Capitalism
• [Mar 26, 2022] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Mar 25, 2022] The Second System Effect
• [Mar 24, 2022] Brooks law : The Mythical Man-Month
• [Mar 23, 2022] Conway Law :
• [Mar 22, 2022] KISS Principle
• [Mar 21, 2022] Object-Oriented Cult: A Slightly Skeptical View on the Object-Oriented Programming
• [Mar 20, 2022] The Iron Law of Oligarchy : Negative Politeness : The psychopath in the corner office
• [Mar 19, 2022] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Mar 18, 2022] Shell Prompts Customarization
• [Mar 17, 2022] Unix Shells
• [Mar 16, 2022] Softpanorama Bulletin. Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments
• [Mar 15, 2022] Troubleshooting NTP on Red Hat Linux
• [Mar 14, 2022] Two Views on IT in Commercial Enterprises: Utility vs. Competitive Advantage
• [Mar 13, 2022] SARS-CoV-2 origins and "escaped from the lab" hypothesis
• [Mar 12, 2022] Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Mar 11, 2022] Attaching to and detaching from screen sessions
• [Mar 10, 2022] Connecting to HP iLO via SSH : How do I reset the HP iLO IP address and password : What TCP ports ILO3 uses
• [Mar 09, 2022] Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
• [Mar 08, 2022] Python for Perl programmers
• [Mar 07, 2022] Enterprise Unix Administration
• [Mar 06, 2022] Neoliberalism : Who Rules America : Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks -- The efficient markets hypothesis
• [Mar 05, 2022] Over 50 and unemployed : COVID-19 fearmongering
• [Mar 04, 2022] RHEL vs Oracle Linux pricing : The tar pit of Red Hat overcomplexity
• [Mar 03, 2022] High Performance Computing (HPC) : Torque
• [Mar 02, 2022] Back to basics -- Softpanorama sysadmin utilities
• [Mar 01, 2022] Bang commands
• [Feb 28, 2022] Bash history reuse and bang commands
• [Feb 27, 2022] Workaholism and Burnout : Slightly Skeptical View on Neoliberal Transformation of University Education
• [Feb 26, 2022] Harvard Mafia, Andrei Shleifer and the economic rape of Russia
• [Feb 25, 2022] iDRAC7 goes unresponsive - can't connect to iDRAC7
• [Feb 24, 2022] Software Engineering
• [Feb 23, 2022] Modifying ISO image to include kickstart file
• [Feb 22, 2022] SGE cheat sheet
• [Feb 21, 2022] SGE queue states and state codes
• [Feb 20, 2022] Neoliberalism : Neoliberal Propaganda- Journalism in the Service of the Powerful Few
• [Feb 19, 2022] Politically Incorrect Humor :Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : IT Slang Dictionary (sarcasm implied) : Classic Computer Humor
• [Feb 18, 2022] Unix System Monitoring
• [Feb 17, 2022] bash Tips and Tricks
• [Feb 16, 2022] Creating macros using the MR key
• [Feb 15, 2022] Systemd invasion into Linux Server space
• [Feb 14, 2022] Resetting frozen iDRAC without unplugging the server
• [Feb 13, 2022] Understanding Micromanagers and Control Freaks : Toxic Managers
• [Feb 12, 2022] Computer and System Administration Humor : Skeptic Quotations
• [Feb 11, 2022] The tar pit of Red Hat overcomplexity
• [Feb 10, 2022] Fighting Spyware
• [Feb 09, 2022] Usage of pipes with loops in shell : Unix Shells
• [Feb 08, 2022] Activating the gnome vino from the command line
• [Feb 07, 2022] Exporting DISPLAY in X Windows
• [Feb 06, 2022] Female Sociopaths
• [Feb 05, 2022] Diplomatic Communication
• [Feb 04, 2022] TeraTerm Macros
• [Feb 03, 2022] Attaching to and detaching from screen sessions : screenrc examples
• [Feb 02, 2022] Unix Shells : Usage of pipes with loops in shell
• [Feb 01, 2022] Perl Wiki as a System Administrator Tool
• [Jan 31, 2022] Connecting to HP iLO via SSH : Using HP ILO virtual CDROM
• [Jan 30, 2022] COVID-19 mutations and vaccines : Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test : COVID-19 Epidemic FAQ : COVID-19 in the USA
• [Jan 29, 2022] Over 50 and unemployed : COVID-19 epidemic as the second stage of the crisis of neoliberalism
• [Jan 28, 2022] Linux command line helpers
• [Jan 27, 2022] Enterprise Unix Administration
• [Jan 26, 2022] Perl as powerful and flexible tool for Unix system administrators
• [Jan 25, 2022] Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
• [Jan 24, 2022] Facebook = Spyware
• [Jan 23, 2022] Chronic Unemployment : Softpanorama Bulletin, Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks - The efficient markets hypothesis
• [Jan 22, 2022] Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010
• [Jan 21, 2022] Perl to Python translation
• [Jan 20, 2022] Language Design and Programming Quotes
• [Jan 19, 2022] Programmable keyboards
• [Jan 18, 2022] Commercial_linuxes/RHEL/Registration/pricing.shtml
• [Jan 17, 2022] Python for Perl programmers
• [Jan 16, 2022] Casino Capitalism
• [Jan 15, 2022] Stability is destabilizing - The idea of Minsky moment
• [Jan 14, 2022] Pure stupidity
• [Jan 13, 2022] Missing backup horror stories
• [Jan 12, 2022] Accidental Shutdowns/Reboot Blunders
• [Jan 11, 2022] Creative uses of rm
• [Jan 10, 2022] Sysadmin Horror Stories
• [Jan 09, 2022] Corruption at the SEC : Chronic Unemployment : Financial skeptic
• [Jan 08, 2022] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor : Sysadmin Horror Stories : Politically Incorrect Humor : Skeptic Quotations
• [Jan 07, 2022] Number of Servers per Sysadmin
• [Jan 06, 2022] System Activity Reporter (sar)
• [Jan 05, 2022] Dump and restore
• [Jan 04, 2022] Hybrid Cloud as Alternative to "Pure" Cloud Computing
• [Jan 03, 2022] Creative uses of rm
• [Jan 02, 2022] Peak Cheap Energy : Plato Oil as Hubert Peak in condition of rising oil prices : USA-Russia Gas War : Paper oil and record oil futures trading volumes
• [Jan 01, 2022] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor : Sysadmin Horror Stories : Politically Incorrect Humor : Skeptic Quotations
• [Dec 31, 2021] The /etc/passwd File
• [Dec 30, 2021] Wheel Group
• [Dec 29, 2021] Authentication token manipulation error
• [Dec 28, 2021] SecurID
• [Dec 27, 2021] Authentication and Accounts Security in "After Snowden" world
• [Dec 26, 2021] Neoliberalism : Populism as a social protest against neoliberalism : The Iron Law of Oligarchy
• [Dec 25, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor : Sysadmin Horror Stories : Politically Incorrect Humor : Skeptic Quotations
• [Dec 24, 2021] Over 50 and unemployed
• [Dec 23, 2021] Webliography of problems with "pure" cloud environment
• [Dec 22, 2021] Unix Sysadmin Tips
• [Dec 21, 2021] Unix System Monitoring
• [Dec 20, 2021] Enterprise Unix Administration
• [Dec 19, 2021] Stability is destabilizing - The idea of Minsky moment
• [Dec 18, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor : Sysadmin Horror Stories : Politically Incorrect Humor : Skeptic Quotations
• [Dec 17, 2021] RHEL vs Oracle Linux pricing : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle
• [Dec 16, 2021] Creating a boot ISO that is using a remote kickstart file to install Red Hat
• [Dec 15, 2021] Modifying ISO image to include kickstart file
• [Dec 14, 2021] The tar pit of Red Hat overcomplexity
• [Dec 13, 2021] Registering a server using Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM)
• [Dec 12, 2021] Financial skeptic : Peak Cheap Energy : Corruption at the SEC
• [Dec 11, 2021] Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Politically Incorrect Humor : Diplomatic Communication : Negative Politeness : Corporate bullshit as a communication method
• [Dec 10, 2021] Relax-and-Recover on RHEL
• [Dec 09, 2021] System Activity Reporter (sar)
• [Dec 08, 2021] Unix Configuration Management Tools
• [Dec 07, 2021] Shadow IT : Is DevOps a yet another "for profit" technocult
• [Dec 06, 2021] Unix Sysadmin Tips
• [Dec 05, 2021] Over 50 and unemployed : Stoicism : Surviving a Bad Performance Review : Workaholism and Burnout : Information Overload
• [Dec 04, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor : Sysadmin Horror Stories : Politically Incorrect Humor : Skeptic Quotations
• [Dec 03, 2021] DNA sequencing data compression
• [Dec 02, 2021] Environment Modules
• [Dec 01, 2021] OpenPBS, PBSpro and Torque : Grid engine : SGE queue states and state codes : SGE cheat sheet
• [Nov 30, 2021] Pdsh : dshbak - filter that normalizes pdsh output : pdcp - copy files to groups of hosts in parallel
• [Nov 29, 2021] High Performance Computing (HPC)
• [Nov 28, 2021] Diplomatic Communication : Female Sociopaths : The psychopath in the corner office
• [Nov 27, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor
• [Nov 26, 2021] vFlash for DRAC -- lifesaver in OS install via VPN and server recovery after crash
• [Nov 25, 2021] Updating the DRAC Firmware
• [Nov 24, 2021] iDRAC7 goes unresponsive - can't connect to iDRAC7
• [Nov 23, 2021] Resetting frozen iDRAC without unplugging the server
• [Nov 22, 2021] Dell DRAC
• [Nov 21, 2021] Financial skeptic : Over 50 and unemployed : Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008
• [Nov 20, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor
• [Nov 19, 2021] Attaching to and detaching from screen sessions
• [Nov 18, 2021] Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
• [Nov 17, 2021] Usage of pipes with loops in shell
• [Nov 16, 2021] Facebook = Spyware
• [Nov 15, 2021] Python for Perl programmers
• [Nov 14, 2021] Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 : Chronic Unemployment
• [Nov 13, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor : IT Slang Dictionary (sarcasm implied)
• [Nov 12, 2021] Modifying ISO image to include kickstart file
• [Nov 11, 2021] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle
• [Nov 10, 2021] The tar pit of Red Hat overcomplexity
• [Nov 09, 2021] Registering a server using Red Hat Subscription Manager (RHSM)
• [Nov 08, 2021] RHEL vs Oracle Linux pricing
• [Nov 07, 2021] Language Design and Programming Quotes : Eric Hoffer Quotes : Talleyrand quotes : Otto Von Bismarck Quotes : Propaganda Quotes
• [Nov 06, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Admin Humor
• [Nov 05, 2021] Troubleshooting HPOM agents : HP Operations Manager
• [Nov 04, 2021] Webliography of problems with "pure" cloud environment
• [Nov 03, 2021] Sysadmin Horror Stories
• [Nov 02, 2021] Unix System Monitoring
• [Nov 01, 2021] Firewalld setup that allows only selected IPs
• [Oct 31, 2021] The Peter Principle : Parkinson Law : The Power Elite
• [Oct 30, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor : Language Design and Programming Quotes
• [Oct 29, 2021] Network Troubleshooting Tools : Firewalld setup that allows only selected IPs
• [Oct 28, 2021] Linux route command
• [Oct 27, 2021] SSH Configuration
• [Oct 26, 2021] Network Troubleshooting Tools
• [Oct 25, 2021] Sudoer File Examples
• [Oct 24, 2021] Neoliberalism
• [Oct 23, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Oct 22, 2021] Oracle Linux administration notes
• [Oct 21, 2021] Converting CentOS to Oracle Linux with centos2ol script tutorial
• [Oct 20, 2021] RHEL vs Oracle Linux pricing
• [Oct 19, 2021] Python for Perl programmers
• [Oct 18, 2021] Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
• [Oct 17, 2021] Neoliberal war on reality
• [Oct 16, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Oct 15, 2021] Linux route command : Configuring network in RHEL7 : nmcli : nmtui
• [Oct 14, 2021] Bonding Ethernet Interfaces in Red Hat Linux : Bonding Multiple Network Interfaces in SLES
• [Oct 13, 2021] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle : Oracle Linux Administration Notes
• [Oct 12, 2021] RHEL vs Oracle Linux pricing
• [Oct 11, 2021] Converting CentOS to Oracle Linux : CentOS8 fiasco
• [Oct 10, 2021] NeoMcCartyism
• [Oct 09, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Oct 08, 2021] The Mythical Man-Month
• [Oct 07, 2021] Donald Knuth : TAoCP and its Influence of Computer Science : The second love -- typography : Literate programming
• [Oct 06, 2021] The AWK Programming Language
• [Oct 05, 2021] Slightly Skeptical View on John K. Ousterhout and Tcl
• [Oct 04, 2021] Slightly Skeptical View on Larry Wall and Perl
• [Oct 03, 2021] Nineteen Eighty-Four
• [Oct 02, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Oct 01, 2021] Introduction to the Unix shell history
• [Sep 30, 2021] Unix History with some Emphasis on Scripting : A Slightly Skeptical View on Linus Torvalds
• [Sep 29, 2021] Multix OS
• [Sep 28, 2021] Programming Languages History
• [Sep 27, 2021] Fifty glorious years (1950-2000): the triumph of the US computer engineering
• [Sep 26, 2021] Short Introduction to Lysenkoism
• [Sep 25, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Sep 24, 2021] Selling Bazaar to Cathedral: Linux Gold Rush
• [Sep 23, 2021] Is DevOps a yet another "for profit" technocult?
• [Sep 22, 2021] Slightly Skeptical View on Extreme Programming
• [Sep 21, 2021] Agile -- Fake Solution to an Important Problem
• [Sep 20, 2021] Object-Oriented Cult: A Slightly Skeptical View on the Object-Oriented Programming
• [Sep 19, 2021] KISS principle and Fighting Software Overcomplexity : "Back to basics" movement against overcomplexity
• [Sep 18, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Sep 17, 2021] Writing and degugging Perl One-liners
• [Sep 16, 2021] Pipes in Perl
• [Sep 15, 2021] Perl as a command line tool
• [Sep 14, 2021] Perl as powerful and flexible tool for Unix system administrators
• [Sep 13, 2021] Shell Prompts Customarization
• [Sep 12, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Sep 11, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor :
• [Sep 10, 2021] Command completion
• [Sep 09, 2021] cdpath : Manipulating the Directory Stack
• [Sep 08, 2021] Annoying colors on Linux command line
• [Sep 07, 2021] Bash history reuse and bang commands : Directory favorites
• [Sep 06, 2021] Bang commands
• [Sep 05, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Sep 04, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor
• [Sep 03, 2021] The Second System Effect
• [Sep 02, 2021] Brooks law : The Mythical Man-Month
• [Sep 01, 2021] Conway Law :
• [Aug 31, 2021] KISS Principle
• [Aug 30, 2021] Object-Oriented Cult: A Slightly Skeptical View on the Object-Oriented Programming
• [Aug 29, 2021] The Iron Law of Oligarchy
• [Aug 28, 2021] Financial Humor : Politically Incorrect Humor : Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Aug 27, 2021] Shell Prompts Customarization
• [Aug 26, 2021] Unix Shells
• [Aug 25, 2021] Softpanorama Bulletin. Vol 23, No.10 (October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments
• [Aug 24, 2021] Troubleshooting NTP on Red Hat Linux
• [Aug 23, 2021] Two Views on IT in Commercial Enterprises: Utility vs. Competitive Advantage
• [Aug 22, 2021] Negative Politeness
• [Aug 21, 2021] Computer and System Administration Humor
• [Aug 20, 2021] Attaching to and detaching from screen sessions
• [Aug 19, 2021] Connecting to HP iLO via SSH : How do I reset the HP iLO IP address and password : What TCP ports ILO3 uses
• [Aug 18, 2021] Midnight Commander Tips and Tricks
• [Aug 17, 2021] Python for Perl programmers
• [Aug 16, 2021] Enterprise Unix Administration
• [Aug 15, 2021] Neoliberalism : Who Rules America : Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks -- The efficient markets hypothesis
• [Aug 14, 2021] Over 50 and unemployed : COVID-19 fearmongering
• [Aug 13, 2021] RHEL vs Oracle Linux pricing :
• [Aug 12, 2021] The tar pit of Red Hat overcomplexity
• [Aug 11, 2021] High Performance Computing (HPC) : Torque
• [Aug 10, 2021] Exporting DISPLAY in X Windows
• [Aug 09, 2021] Female Sociopaths
• [Aug 08, 2021] Diplomatic Communication
• [Aug 07, 2021] TeraTerm Macros
• [Aug 06, 2021] Attaching to and detaching from screen sessions : screenrc examples
• [Aug 05, 2021] Unix Shells : Usage of pipes with loops in shell
• [Aug 04, 2021] Perl Wiki as a System Administrator Tool
• [Aug 03, 2021] Connecting to HP iLO via SSH : Using HP ILO virtual CDROM
• [Aug 02, 2021] COVID-19 mutations and vaccines : Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test : COVID-19 Epidemic FAQ : COVID-19 in the USA
• [Aug 01, 2021] Over 50 and unemployed : COVID-19 epidemic as the second stage of the crisis of neoliberalism
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