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Red Hat Certification Program

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RH133 (old, RHEL6 based info) Red Hat Linux Essentials New Page 1 Sysadmin Horror Stories Understanding and using essential tools Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax Finding Help Managing files in RHEL Working with hard and soft links
Working with archives and compressed files Using the Midnight Commander as file manager Text files processing Using redirection and pipes Use grep and extended regular expressions to analyze text files Finding files and directories; mass operations on files Connecting to the server via ssh, using multiple consoles and screen command Introduction to Unix permissions model Managing users and groups
          Tips Unix History with some Emphasis on Scripting Humor Etc

Introduction

Red Hat has three major certifications for RHEL: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), and Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA).

To quote the Red Hat site:

RHCSA is a subset of RHCE and defines the "slightly above entry level" sysadmin set of skill and Linux knowledge, a sysadmin without knowledge of scripting, but with solid knowledge of classic Unix utilities and command line, as well as booting process, basic networking and somewhat deeper understanding Red Hat idiosyncrasies. The holder of this certification is expected to possess the core Linux system administration skills (heavily tilted toward Red Hat, as you can expect ;-)  which gives him a possibility to install, maintain and troubleshoot servers with RHEL or CentOS installed.    To quote the Red Hat site:

As Red Hat states

An IT professional who has earned the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA�) is able to perform the core system administration skills required in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments. The credential is earned after successfully passing the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Exam (EX200).

It focuses instead on such routine systems administration topics as well as RHEL installation and configuration. The required skills include

  1. Understand and use essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation
  2. Operate running systems, including booting into different run levels, identifying processes, starting and stopping virtual machines, and controlling services
  3. Configure local storage using partitions and logical volumes
  4. Create and configure file systems and file system attributes, such as permissions, encryption, access control lists, and network file systems
  5. Deploy, configure, and maintain systems, including software installation, update, and core services
  6. Manage users and groups, including use of a centralized directory for authentication
  7. Manage security, including basic firewall and SELinux configuration

RHCE is the next level and approximately corresponds to senior sysadmin level of qualification. It requires minimal knowledge of scripting (just bash, no  requirements for Perl or Python.) You must be RHCSA to become RHCE. The number of topics is wider and complexity of problems is higher too and includes installation and configuration of some applications such as MySQL and Apache.  To you need to accomplish more in the same amount of time.

See more at Notes on RHCSA Certification for RHEL 7

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RH133 Red Hat Linux System Administration and RHCSA Exam

(this is RHEL6 outline)

Course Outline

The following is an outline of the skills and knowledge represented in the training elements (four days) and in the RHCSA Certification Lab Exam (one-half day) of the RH133 Red Hat Linux System Administration course.

The RHCSA training elements and Certification Lab Exam will also review and test on certain prerequisites for the course, listed on the RH133 course page.

This outline, together with the prerequisites listing, can serve as a study outline for those planning to attend the RH133 course and take the RHCSA Certification Lab Exam. It is highly recommended that all prospective RHCSA participants review these outlines in preparation for the course and exam.

Note: Technical content subject to change without notice. Significant changes in course content will generally be available in posted outlines at least two months prior to being implemented in scheduled courses, to allow enrolled students adequate prep time. Reload this page regularly to insure up-to-date information.

Unit 1 - System Initialization

Unit 2 - Package Management

Unit 3 - Kernel Services

Unit 4 - System Services

Unit 5 - User Administration

Unit 6 - Filesystem Management

Unit 7 - Advanced Filesystem Management

Unit 8 - Network Configuration

Unit 9 - Installation

Unit 10 - Virtualization with Xen

Unit 11 - Troubleshooting

Red Hat Linux Essentials

A Tour of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Note: Technical content subject to change without notice. Significant changes in course content will generally be available in posted outlines at least two months prior to being implemented in scheduled courses, to allow enrolled students adequate prep time. Reload this page regularly to insure up-to-date information.

Unit 1 - Linux Ideas and History

Unit 2 - Linux Usage Basics

Unit 3 - Running Commands and Getting Help

Unit 4 - Browsing the Filesystem

Unit 5 - Users, Groups and Permissions

Unit 6 - Using the bash Shell

Unit 7 - Standard I/O and Pipes

Unit 8 - Text Processing Tools

Unit 9 - vim: An Advanced Text Editor

Unit 10 - Basic System Configuration Tools

Unit 11 - Investigating and Managing Processes

Unit 12 - Configuring the Bash Shell

Unit 13 - Finding and Processing Files

Unit 14 - Network Clients

Unit 15 - Advanced Topics in Users, Groups and Permissions

Unit 16 - The Linux Filesystem In-Depth

Unit 17 - Essential System Administration Tools

Unit 18 - So... What Now?

RH300 Curriculum

Below I annotated the program with links available on the Softpanorama site. Probably some of them are useful, although most are very raw.

  1. Basic hardware knowledge
    Intel and Intel clone architectures /Hardware/architecture
    IRQs and IRQ settings for standard serial ports /Lang/assembler, /Hardware/index
    Disk subsystems (IDE, EIDE, SCSI) /Hardware/architecture
    Disk partitioning /Internals/filesystems, /Hardware/architecture
  2. Basic UNIX/Linux knowledge
    1. Basic vi usage 
      1. Opening, closing, writing, and abandoning files
      2. Moving around in vi
      3. Basic text editing
    		../Tools/vi
    1. Understanding simple Bourne shell scripts [essentially Shell101 -- nnb]
      1. Script execution, permissions, and file magic
      2. Variables and parameters
      3. The inherited environment
      4. The if, else, elsif constructs
      5. Conditional tests
      6. The case statement construct
      7. The for construct
    		../Scripting/shells
  3. UNIX Filesystem Hierarchy and Structure ( ../Internals/filesystems)
    UNIX/Linux filesystems: main directories  
    SCSI, floppy, CDROM, and IDE devices  
    Partitioning and referencing /dev devices  
    ISA and PCI hardware issues  
    Filesystem formatting and checking, fdisk, mkfs, fsck  
    Span multiple partitions with root filesystem  
    Mount misc partitions with mount  
  4. Basic file operations and manipulation [essentially Unix101 -- nnb]
    1. Basics: cp, mv, ls, more, less, cd, pwd, tar, find, etc. 
    2. Filters: cat, grep, egrep, wc, cat, tail, head, sort, etc.
    3. Editors: Basic file editors like vi, emacs, vim, etc. ----------------------------- ../Editors/vi.shtml
    4. File Name wildcards: *, ?, [ ], etc. ----------------------------------------------../Scripting/regex
  5. Printing
    1. lpq, lprm, lpr, lpstat, lp, printercap
    2. adding local and remote printers
  6. UNIX/Linux Shell [essentially Shell101 continuation --nnb] (../Scripting/shells)
    1. Basic Shell Programming
    2. Piping, I/O and error redirection ../Scripting/pipes.shtml
    3. Loops, exit codes, etc.
  7. Basic shell configuration for Bourne and bash shells [essentially Shell101 continuation --nnb]
    1. ~/.bashrc
    2. ~/.bash_profile
    3. ~/.profile
  8. Basic kernel configuration and recompiling (internal, kernel)
    8.1. Kernel concepts  
    8.2. The kernel source tree and documentation kernel
    8.3. Obtaining the kernel tar file from ftp.kernel.org  
    8.4. Recompiling a kernel  
  9. Basic security [essentially Unix security 101 --nnb]---------------------------------- ../Security/index
    9.1. Shadow passwords ../Security/shadow_passwords.shtml
    9.2. File permissions  
    9.3. Understanding users, groups and umask  
    9.4. Suid  
  10. UNIX System Administration [essentially Unix admin 101 --nnb] (index)
    10.1. /etc/skel/... and home directories  
    10.2. Daemons  
    10.3. Cron  
    10.4. Superuser  
    10.5. Syslogd and logging  
    10.6. Backup and Restore Tasks  
    10.7. Control of Network Services and Daemons  
    10.8. System crontab  
    10.9. Using and managing the system log files  
    10.10 Basic system backup and restore operations  
  11. TCP/IP Fundamentals  [essentially TCP/IP 101 --nnb]  
    1. TCP/IP vs OSI layer model............................................. TCP Protocol Layers  OSI Protocol Layers
    2. TCP and UDP packet internals .......................................TCP Protocol  User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
    3. ICMP Packet types ..........................................................Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
    4. Priveleged and unpriveleged ports
    5. Standard service ports and /etc/services
  12. Basic TCP/IP Networking  [essentially TCP/IP 101 --nnb] -------------------------
    1. IP numbers and classes
    2. The network address, broadcast address and subnet mask
    3. Understanding CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) --------------------../Net/routing.shtml
    4. Tools and commands for tracing network problems -----------------------------../Net/net_tools
      1. ping
      2. traceroute
      3. ifconfig
      4. route
    5. Understanding static routes ---------------------------------------------------../Net/routing.shtml
    6. The netcfg tool and network interface configuration
    7. Name resolution configuration  -----------------------------------------------../Net/nfs_links.shtml
      1. /etc/hosts
      2. /etc/resolv.conf
      3. /etc/host.conf
      4. /etc/nsswitch.conf
  13. IP routing - [essentially continuation of TCP/IP 101 --nnb]  ---------------------------- ../Net/routing
    1. CIDR (Classless InterDomain Routing)
    2. IP sub-networking
    3. arp, rip and rarp
    4. ICMP packet types
    5. Static routing
    6. The default route
  14. Standard Networking Services  [TCP/IP Application protocols 101 --nnb]
    1. NFS and remote filesystems-------------------------------------------------------- ../Net/nfs_links
    2. Sendmail -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------../Mail/mta
    3. POP, IMAP
    4. FTP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ../Net/ftp
    5. DNS  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------../Net/dns_links
    6. DHCP---------------------------------------------------------------------------------../Net/dhcp
    7. Samba ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ../Net/samba
    8. httpd ---------------------------------------------------------------------------../WWW/http_and_cgi
    9. YP, Nis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ../Net/nis_links
    10. Inetd
  15. Basic Network Security (continuation of security isuues) ----------------------------- ../Security/index

Reviews

As a person who just returned from RedHat, after completing the RHCE course, I think I have to put forth my opinion to those who are making theirs known here. 

The RHCE training course is well-designed, well-rounded and complete with a mildly-difficult lab exam. The RedHat employees are friendly and helpful, the amenities are gracious and complete. Over all, the experience was great. 

The concerns that I and others in my class had regarding course material (ambiguous questions and the occasional too easy lab) were listened to by the Training Coordinator (Peter Childers, a very intelligent and good person) personally, and all concerns were met with questions that showed intent to change the course material to the better. The course is in a state of continual improvement, and each class will be better than the last. Soon, there may be divergent levels of difficulty to accomodate the wide spectrum of Linux users. This is a good thing. 

To those who believe that the RHCE is a bad thing, take the course and decide unbiasedly. You cannot shout from the rooftops to the Linux community (slashdot) about something that you have no credible knowledge of. Go visit RedHat and talk to the people there. It will surprise you to find how much work puts into the Linux community, that is outside the scope of RedHat. They evidently have their heads screwed on straight, they are out to make a profit (what company is not?) and are doing it the right way. 

In conclusion, I recommend that people of all skill levels go and take the RHCE course. If you are a knowledgeable user, the class will teach you quite a bit. If you are a very well versed Linux developer, you might not learn quite as much, but it will be a good experience, and it will confirm your knowledge, not to mention give you "RHCE" after your name. 

History

RedHat was one of the first Linux distributors that introduced a certification program. It is oriented mainly on corporate clients and resellers. The exam for RedHat Certified Engineers is $749 --  quite expensive (more expensive than all 6 Microsoft certification exams). Tuition is even more expensive ($2500) -- it is oriented on Certified Resellers, not Certified Engineers. But on positive side probably as there will be more and more RedHat Certified Resellers, more people would trust in Linux at the enterprise environment. So even if your cannot afford it and/or your company will not pay for it, it makes sense to prepare yourself for this exam, anyway.

RH considers training as one of the most important avenues of growth (see Dan Barkin A price of going public and http://www.sec.gov). For a company that had almost no money two years ago, Red Hat has made a tremendous progress. It now has more than $10 million in cash (mostly from preferred stock sales). The IPO is expected to raise a hundred million dollars. 

And Red Hat plan to spend a lot of them for building-up of its training program. Red Hat's needs to convince investors that it has a strong business model based on impressive market share, while assuring Linux fans that it's not like "some other companies." 

Until recently the company has grown very quickly: from March 1, 1998, to the end of last month, its work force tripled (from 36 to 127). Now Red Hat is paying $900,000 a year in rent -- nearly as much as its revenue in 1996. In the fiscal year 1998, Red Hat had revenue of about $10.8 million, much of it from sales of its retail boxes. Whither this revenue stream possess big potential for growth remains to be seen, but the company clearly need a diversification and training is a perfect candidate here. 

The course includes 4 days of training and 1 day Certification Lab Exam. The course and certificate are based on Red Hat Linux 6.0.

RH recommends that all prospective RHCE participants review prerequisites in preparation for the course and exam.

Technical content

Introduction

  1. Open Source Software
    1. History
    2. Linux
  2. Free Software Foundation
    1. GPL
    2. GNU
    3. Services and applications
  3. About Linux
    1. Current support for all networking services and protocols
    2. Flexibility of OSS
    3. R & D processes and practices
    4. Future development
  4. Starting out
    1. What are your needs? What do you want to do?
    2. Types of servers, workstations, uses
      1. WWW, FTP, NEWS, ISP, Intranet/Internet
      2. development workstation
      3. thin client
      4. enterprise server, application, db
    3. Choosing your hardware
      1. Intel flavors, clones
      2. HW compatibility lists
      3. What to avoid
      4. Reference sources on hardware that is compatible
      5. Planning your installation and configuration

UNIT 1: Installation (Intel architecture)

  1. Deciding how you will use your system
  2. Planning your installation
    1. What packages will you be installing?
    2. How to partition your drive
  3. Intel CPU hardware selection and configuration issues
    1. Hardware compatibility issues
      1. The Linux hardware HOWTO
      2. The Red Hat supported hardware list
    2. RAM sizing and cache issues
    3. Disk subsystems (IDE, EIDE, SCSI)
      1. Primary, extended and logical partitions
      2. Cylinder/head/sector geometry and re-mapping issues
      3. Multiple controllers
      4. RAID and MD systems
    4. IRQ settings
      1. Planning the IRQ layout - standard IRQs
      2. IRQs and the PCI architecture
    5. Plug and Play
      1. Plug and play support in Linux
      2. Handling jumperless cards
    6. IRQs and standard serial ports
    7. Serial and other interface mice
    8. PC-Card (PCMCIA)
      1. Supported chip sets
      2. Supported cards
  4. Disk partitioning strategies for server and workstation installations
    1. Linux filesystems: /tmp /boot /usr/local /var /home
    2. Why separate file systems?
    3. Possible target file systems for separate file system placement
    4. Swap space partition sizing and placement
    5. disk drive, fdisk LBA
  5. The LILO boot process and Intel hardware/BIOS issues
    1. LILO parameters
    2. LILO errors
    3. /etc/lilo.conf
  6. Using loadlin
  7. Choosing an installation class: workstation, server, custom
  8. The installation processes in detail
    1. CDROM installation
    2. FTP installation
    3. NFS installation
    4. SAMBA installation
    5. Hard disk installation
    6. The installation log file
    7. Viewing boot time information
      1. dmesg and using page up/page down at the console
      2. the console install screens
      3. Virtual console
  9. Understanding the standard boot process
    1. The /boot directory and files
  10. Validating the installation
    1. Login as root
    2. View dmesg
    3. How you know when your hardware is not supported

UNIT 2: Basic Configuration and Administration

  1. The basic user environment
    1. /etc/skel/... and home directories
    2. Window manager configuration file locations
  2. File system configuration
    1. File system types
    2. /etc/fstab layout and meanings
  3. Using rpm
    1. Validating a package signature
    2. To add and remove components
    3. To add updates, security fixes etc.
    4. To verify one of more packages
    5. To see what packages are installed
    6. To see what package a file is in
    7. Creating and Using Custom RPMs
      1. Installing source rpms
      2. The /usr/src/redhat/... directory structure
      3. Changing compile time options for a source RPM
      4. Rebuilding custom source and binary rpms
      5. Building an rpm from a tar archive
  4. Basic networking
    1. The /etc/sysconfig/... files used in network set up
      1. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ files (parameter files and scripts)
      2. /etc/sysconfig/ files for clock, mouse, static-routes, keyboard, network and pcmcia
    2. ifup / ifdown
    3. ifconfig
    4. netstat -r
    5. arp as a diagnostic tool
  5. Adding, deleting, and modifying users
  6. Daemons; netsysv; chkconfig
  7. virtual consoles
  8. kbdconfig; time config; mouseconfig
  9. mounting floppy disks and removable media
  10. Sounds cards sndconfig utility

UNIT 3: Advanced Installation

  1. Dual boots: Linux and NT
  2. Raid configuration
  3. Using kickstart to automate installation
  4. Hardware conflicts
  5. Plug and play
  6. Laptops
    1. PCMCIA
    2. X caveats
    3. Automatic Power Management system (APM)
  7. Understanding /etc/inittab
    1. Run levels and the default run level
    2. System start-up script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
  8. Understanding kernel modules
    1. The kernel daemon
    2. /etc/conf.modules and module parameters
    3. The /lib/modules/... directory structure and contents

UNIT 4: Advanced Configuration

  1. Setting up and managing disk quotas
    1. Kernel configuration
    2. The installing the quota RPM
    3. The /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit quota handling section
    4. Modifications to /etc/fstab
    5. Creating the quota.user file for each partition
    6. Using edquota to set up per user disk quotas
    7. Creating default quota settings
    8. Quota reports
    9. Quotas on nfs filesystems
  2. System initialization scripts
    1. /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
    2. /etc/rc.d/rc.local
    3. /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net
    4. /etc/rc.d/rcl.d ... /rcl2.d ... (discuss entire tree)
    5. Starting up to X windows automatically
  3. Kernel re-compilation and installation
    1. Best practices
    2. Kernel concepts:
      1. Monolithic vs modular
      2. Relation to rest of system
      3. Updating the kernel
    3. /boot partitions
    4. /etc (most files not otherwise covered should be talked about here)
    5. The kernel source tree and documentation
    6. The kernel rpm's and the Linux kernel tar file
    7. Understanding kernel version numbers
    8. The kernel configuration scripts
    9. Understanding kernel configuration options
      1. The standard Red Hat kernel configuration
      2. Code maturity level options
      3. Loadable module support options
      4. General set up options
      5. Floppy, IDE and other block device options
      6. Non IDE/SCSI CDROM support options
      7. Networking and network device options
      8. SCSI support options and low level drivers
      9. ISDN options
      10. File system options
      11. Character device options (serial and parallel ports, mice, QIC tapes, APM)
      12. Sound system support options
      13. Kernel profiling support
    10. Compiling and installing a custom kernel
    11. Compiling and installing kernel modules
    12. Mkinitrd
    13. Updating LILO
    14. mkbootdisk
  4. PAM
  5. The Cron system
    1. The system crontab and components
    2. User crontabs
  6. System-wide shell configuration for Bourne and bash shells
    1. /etc/bashrc
    2. /etc/profile
    3. /etc/profile.d

UNIT 5: X Windowing System

  1. X Server
    1. Supported hardware
    2. Hardware: X server selection
      1. different servers of XFree86.org
    3. Tools for X configuration
      1. RH Xconfigurator
      2. XF86setup
    4. /etc/X11
  2. X clients
    1. Windows managers
    2. fvwm, Windows Maker
    3. Desktops, Gnome, KDE
  3. Startup
    1. startx
    2. XDM
    3. X security
  4. Remote display of X apps
    1. X security
    2. x remote

UNIT 6: Standard Networking Services

  1. HTTP / Apache
    1. Basic Apache configuration for a simple web server
    2. Configuring ftpd for a simple (anonymous) ftp server
    3. Time synchronisation
    4. PPP configuration (as a client) using netcfg and the files generated
    5. Basic SMB configuration to act as a client and server for file and print services
    6. Basic NFS configuration as a client and server
  2. Mail services
    1. SMTP
      1. Basic sendmail configuration for a work station or simple mail hub
      2. Where is sendmailm file for Red Hat Linux
      3. anti-spam turned on, turning it off
      4. Do not tinker with /etc/sendmail.cf
    2. POP
    3. IMAP
  3. DNS (Bind)
  4. FTP wu-ftpd
  5. NFS
    1. Configuring a server to act as a boot and NFS host for Linux clients
    2. starting and stopping nfs services
    3. /etc/exports
    4. nfs options
    5. nfs version 3
    6. bootp and dhcp operational overview (including client issues)
    7. exporting and mounting critical file systems via NFS
    8. File locking issues
  6. Other filesharing
    1. SMB (Samba)
    2. IPX (mars_nwe)
  7. DHCP / Bootp
  8. Printing (LPD)
    1. The printing subsystem
      1. The /etc/printcap file
      2. Adding local and remote printers
      3. The /etc/hosts.lpd file
      4. The print filter system for local printers
      5. Using lpc, lpq and lprm
    2. SAMBA printing
    3. Mars-nwe
  9. Configuring innd (leafnode service)
  10. Time services
    1. xntp
    2. rdate
  11. Squid proxy server, web cache
  12. NNTP

UNIT 7: Systems Administration and Security I

  1. Configuring NIS (Yp)
    1. NIS components on Red Hat Linux
    2. /etc/nsswitch.conf
  2. Basic host security
    1. tcp_wrappers and /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
    2. /etc/securetty and PAM
    3. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and the /etc/pam.d/... files
    4. Buffer overruns and security problems
    5. Configuring and using process accounting
  3. Inetd
  4. IP aliasing and virtual hosts
  5. Firewall policies--elements ipfwadm
  6. NAT Network Address Translation
    1. IP masquerading
    2. IP forwarding
  7. Routing, static routes

UNIT 8: Systems Administration and Security II

  1. Services should run as users or nobody, not root
  2. Sgid redhat scheme
  3. cops
  4. Interaction of CMOS clock time and Linux system time
  5. System logging
    1. syslog and klog
    2. /etc/syslog.conf
    3. Remote logging
    4. Monitoring logs (swatch)
    5. Managing logs (log rotate)
  6. tmpwatch
  7. Emergency boot procedures
  8. Understanding the system log entries
  9. Understanding and tailoring /etc/syslog.conf
  10. Using syslog for debugging and tracking problems
  11. Obtaining encryption packages in rpm format
    1. Import and export restrictions on encryption software
    2. The ftp.replay.com site
    3. Validating RPMs with pgp
  12. Linuxconf

Note: Technical content subject to change without notice. Significant changes in course content will generally be available in posted outlines at least two months prior to being implemented in scheduled courses, to allow enrolled students adequate prep time. Reload this page regularly to insure up-to-date information.

Etc

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:

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