Less is More: The Orthodox File Manager(OFM) Paradigm
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Less is More: The Orthodox File Manager (OFM) Paradigm
by Dr Nikolai Bezroukov
Content :<br>Foreword :<br>Ch01 :<br>Ch02 :<br>Ch03 :<br>Ch04 :<br>Ch05 :<br>Ch06 :<br>Ch07 :<br>OFM1999 :<br>OFM2004 :<br>OFM2012
Less is More: The Orthodox File Manager (OFM) Paradigm
By Dr. Nikolai Bezroukov
Copyright 1998-2012 Nikolai Bezroukov.
Note: this ebook is "work in progress'' (unpublished manuscript). The current version is 4.3 (November,<br>2012. See also more resent introductory article<br>Less is More: A rich functionality behind Spartan<br>interface of Orthodox File Managers and the main page Orthodox File Managers and<br>OFM Standards
Contents
Preface
Ch 1. Introduction
Ch. 2: The Current Status and the Directions of the Development of the OFM Paradigm
Ch. 3: The History of DOS Orthodox File Managers
Ch. 4: The History of UNIX Orthodox File Managers
Ch. 5: History of Windows Orthodox File Managers
Ch. 6: The fistory of Scripting language based OFM implementations
Ch. 7: The history of client-server and Web-based OFM implementations
Supplement 1. OFM standard 1999 (basic OFM requirements)
Supplement 2. OFM standard 2004 (advanced OFM implementations)
Supplement 3. OFM standard 2012 (cutting edge features)
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War and Peace<br>: Skeptical<br>Finance : John<br>Kenneth Galbraith :Talleyrand :<br>Oscar Wilde :<br>Otto Von Bismarck :<br>Keynes :<br>George Carlin :<br>Skeptics :<br>Propaganda : SE<br>quotes : Language Design and Programming Quotes :<br>Random IT-related quotes :<br>Somerset Maugham :<br>Marcus Aurelius :<br>Kurt Vonnegut :<br>Eric Hoffer :<br>Winston Churchill :<br>Napoleon Bonaparte :<br>Ambrose Bierce :<br>Bernard Shaw :<br>Mark Twain Quotes
Bulletin:
Vol 25, No.12 (December, 2013) Rational Fools vs. Efficient Crooks The efficient<br>markets hypothesis :
Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2013 :
Unemployment Bulletin, 2010 :<br>Vol 23, No.10<br>(October, 2011) An observation about corporate security departments :
Slightly Skeptical Euromaydan Chronicles, June 2014 :
Greenspan legacy bulletin, 2008 :<br>Vol 25, No.10 (October, 2013) Cryptolocker Trojan<br>(Win32/Crilock.A) :<br>Vol 25, No.08 (August, 2013) Cloud providers<br>as intelligence collection hubs :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2010 :
Inequality Bulletin, 2009 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2008 :<br>Copyleft Problems<br>Bulletin, 2004 :
Financial Humor Bulletin, 2011 :
Energy Bulletin, 2010 :<br>Malware Protection Bulletin, 2010 : Vol 26,<br>No.1 (January, 2013) Object-Oriented Cult :
Political Skeptic Bulletin, 2011 :<br>Vol 23, No.11 (November, 2011) Softpanorama classification<br>of sysadmin horror stories : Vol 25, No.05<br>(May, 2013) Corporate bullshit as a communication method :<br>Vol 25, No.06 (June, 2013) A Note on the Relationship of Brooks Law and Conway Law
History:
Fifty glorious years (1950-2000):<br>the triumph of the US computer engineering :<br>Donald Knuth : TAoCP<br>and its Influence of Computer Science : Richard Stallman<br>: Linus Torvalds :<br>Larry Wall :<br>John K. Ousterhout :<br>CTSS : Multix OS Unix<br>History : Unix shell history :<br>VI editor :<br>History of pipes concept :<br>Solaris : MS DOS<br>: Programming Languages History :<br>PL/1 : Simula 67 :<br>C :<br>History of GCC development :<br>Scripting Languages :<br>Perl history :<br>OS History : Mail :<br>DNS : SSH<br>: CPU Instruction Sets :<br>SPARC systems 1987-2006 :<br>Norton Commander :<br>Norton Utilities :<br>Norton Ghost :<br>Frontpage history :<br>Malware Defense History :<br>GNU Screen :<br>OSS early history
Classic books:
The Peter<br>Principle : Parkinson<br>Law : 1984 :<br>The Mythical Man-Month :<br>How to Solve It by George Polya :<br>The Art of Computer Programming :<br>The Elements of Programming Style :<br>The Unix Hater�s Handbook :<br>The Jargon file :<br>The True Believer :<br>Programming Pearls :<br>The Good Soldier Svejk :<br>The Power Elite
Most popular humor pages:
Manifest of the Softpanorama IT Slacker Society :<br>Ten Commandments<br>of the IT Slackers Society : Computer Humor Collection<br>: BSD Logo Story :<br>The Cuckoo's Egg :<br>IT Slang : C++ Humor<br>: ARE YOU A BBS ADDICT? :<br>The Perl Purity Test :<br>Object oriented programmers of all nations<br>: Financial Humor :<br>Financial Humor Bulletin,<br>2008 : Financial<br>Humor Bulletin, 2010 : The Most Comprehensive Collection of Editor-related<br>Humor : Programming Language Humor :
Goldman Sachs related humor :
Greenspan humor...