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Anonymous In This Issue\ldots . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Marcus J. Ranum The Network Police Blotter . . . . . . . ?? Stefan Norberg Building a Windows NT Bastion Host . . . ?? Bob Gray Source Code UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? John Nicholson Politeness in Computing . . . . . . . . ?? Dave Clark Interviewing for Sysadmins . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Chunks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Joseph N. Hall Effective Perl Programming . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Review: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Clyf Flynt Book Review: \em Applying UML and Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton A New Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blackwood Introductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Josey POSIX Revision Project . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Hume The Times, They Are A'Changin' . . . . . ?? Gale Berkowitz New Projects Funded . . . . . . . . . . ?? Gale Berkowitz and Ellie Young Board Meeting Summary . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Salus 20 Years Ago in USENIX . . . . . . . . . ?? Evi Nemeth Report of the Nominating Committee . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Ready! Set. No? . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Barbara Dijker From the SAGE President . . . . . . . . ?? Gale Berkowitz SAGE Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Announcement: \em 14th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2000) ?? Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Oleg Kiselyov Speaking HTTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? John Nicholson Electronic Privacy in the Workplace . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Bob Gray Performance Tuning with Source Code UNIX ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Joseph N. Hall Effective Perl Programming . . . . . . . ?? Marcus J. Ranum The Network Police Blotter . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad An Interview with Mudge . . . . . . . . ?? Christopher M. Russo The Magic, Art, and Science of Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Eljakim Schrijvers Application Note . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Lenny Liebmann Dot-Coms' Newest Secret Weapon Doesn't Have a Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White ``This Company Doesn't\ldots'' . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? David Blackwood Standards Report: The POSIX Bookshelf ?? Andrew Josey Standards Report: Austin Group Update ?? Andrew Josey Standards Report: Recent Publications from The Open Group . . . . . . . . . . ?? Noel N. Kriftcher Tomorrow's Scientist and Urban Planners Create the City of the Future . . . . . ?? Roland J. Cole Software Patent Institute Report . . . . ?? Peter Salus 20 Years Ago in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . ?? The USENIX Awards Committee Call for Nominations for Two Awards . . ?? Gale Berkowitz and Ellie Young Board Meeting Summary . . . . . . . . . ?? Barbara Dijker From the SAGE President . . . . . . . . ?? Barbara Dijker Certification 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Barbara Dijker System Administrator Occupational Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Announcement: \em 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta . . . . ?? Anonymous Announcement: \em 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Program . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Announcement: \em 6th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS '01) . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? J. C. Hernández Castro and J. M. Sierra Cámara and A. Ribagorda Garnacho and B. Ramos álvarez and A. Muñoz Cuenca A Methodology for Studying Untrusted Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marcus J. Ranum The Network Police Blotter . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess System Administration Research . . . . . ?? Paul Lemberg Ten Things to Consider . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Yep! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? John Nicholson The Hostile Workplace . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Keld Simonsen News About Standardization . . . . . . . ?? Alain LaBonté FAQ: ISO/IEC 106461 Versus Unicode . . . ?? David Blackwood The POSIX Bookshelf . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Election Results . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Hume So long, and thanks for all the fish . . ?? Peter Salus 20 Years Ago in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Notice of Annual Meeting . . . . . . . . ?? Peg Schafer Perspectives on the SAGE Salary Survey ?? Anonymous Announcement: \em 3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Announcement: \em Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (JVM '01) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Smart-Space Researchers: An Interview with Kevin Mills and Alden Dima . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings on Embedded Systems . . . . . . ?? Bob Gray Teaching Operating Systems with Source Code UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Joseph Hall Effective Perl Programming . . . . . . . ?? John Sinteur Firewalls at Home . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess System Administration Research, Part 2 ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White I Don't Have the Resources . . . . . . . ?? Christopher M. Russo Resumé Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David G. Sullivan Isolation with Flexibility . . . . . . . ?? D. Scott McCrickard Agentk: a Toolkit for Enhancing Agent Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Daniel Geer Message from the President . . . . . . . ?? Don Piele Balkan Olympiad in Informatics . . . . . ?? Barbara Dijker What's in a Name? . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Miscellaneous News . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Bruce Alan Wynn Growing SysAdmin as a Profession; Local Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Announcement: \em 2001 USENIX Annual Conference Call . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marcus J. Ranum The Network Police Blotter . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? John Sellens System and Network Monitoring . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess System Administration Research, Part 3 ?? Daniel Singer Toolman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? William S. Annis Pithy Sayings for the UNIX Sysadmin . . ?? John Nicholson Taming the Wild West . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White To the Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Christopher M. Russo Keeping Employees by Keeping Them Happy ?? Virginia Rezmierski and Adriana Carroll and Jamie Hine A Study on Incident Costs and Frequencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Josey Austin Group Status Update . . . . . . . ?? Joe Gwinn POSIX System Services Working Group --- Realtime (SSWG-RT) . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Daniel Geer From the President . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Salus $N$ Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad The 1999--2000 USACO Report . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Sun Comes Through for USENIX . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em USENIX 2000 Annual Technical Conference . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Barbara Dijker Use Your Local Tools . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marcus J. Ranum The Network Police Blotter . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad An Interview With Geoff Halprin . . . . ?? Geoff Halprin An Ode to Risk Management . . . . . . . ?? Strata Rose Chalup Vendor Contract Services . . . . . . . . ?? David K. Z. Harris and Bryan Stansell Finding Time To Do It All . . . . . . . ?? David Parter Sysadmin Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Just Presuppose\ldots . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Evi Nemeth Securing the DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Brumley Repeatable Security . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Romig Correlating Log File Entries . . . . . . ?? Renaud Deraison and Jordan Hrycaj Nessus: The Free Network Security Scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mudge Security Devices that Might Not Be . . . ?? Sven Dietrich Scalpel, Gauze, and Decompilers . . . . ?? Carole Fennely An Interview with Blaine Burnham . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX and SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? John Nicholson National Laws and the Net . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using Java . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marcus J. Ranum The Network Police Blotter . . . . . . . ?? Gary Bahadur Why Should You Enforce a Network Security Policy? . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dario Forte Using Trinux for Security Testing . . . ?? Brian Martin A Note on Security Disclosures . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins Mail Message Metering . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata Rose Chalup Technical Interviews . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White The First Miracle of Management . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Avi Rubin Security Considerations for Remote Electronic Voting Over the Internet . . ?? Mark Burgess Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brian L. Tierney TCP Tuning Guide for Distributed Application on Wide Area Networks . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using CORBA with Java . . . . . . . . . ?? Ray Swartz A New Twist on Random Number Generators ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Edgar Danielyan AES: Advanced Encryption Standard is Coming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Jobs vs. People . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Josey The Open Group Base Working Group Update ?? Glen Seeds Austin, October 2000 Plenary for D4 Issue Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 14th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2000) ?? Peter Salus Conference Report: \em COOTS 6 . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Bob Gray A Logging and Tracing Facility for an Embedded Source Code UNIX Product . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Java Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Using New Types and Values in C9X . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael Gilfix Introducing Peep: The Network Auralizer ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Do You Have Both ORs in the Water? . . . ?? John Nicholson You've Been Cracked \ldots and Now You're Sued . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ahmed Amer Mobile Hoarding and Dynamic Grouping . . ?? Keld Simonsen Standard Report: Some Standardization News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow A Report on the Linux 2.5 Kernel Developers Summit . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Declarations in C9X . . . . . . . . . . ?? Prithvi Rao Using CORBA with Java . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt Intrusion Detection . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dario Forte Using \tt tcpdump and Sanitize for System Security . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59 Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? John Sellens Designing an External Infrastructure . . ?? Mike Knell The Loneliness of the Long-Distance SysAdmin, or Where Geeks Gather . . . . ?? Strata Rose Chalup Writing a Good ``SysAdmin Wanted'' Ad ?? Richard Threadgill Easy Management . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Kick Those BUTS . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Wilfred Dittmer Research Exchange Program Update from the Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jennifer Rubenstein Women in Computing . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? James Caple Palm Pilots and the Point-to-Point Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Flexible Array Members and Designators in C9X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brent Chapman What Are Your Intentions? . . . . . . . ?? Timo Sivonen Setting Up BIND8 in a Change-Rooted Environment on Solaris . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Get My Goat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata Rose Chalup Contractors or Employees? It's Not That Simple! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Book Review: Three Book Reviews . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em The 3rd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '01) . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em GUADEC 2001 . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 1st Java VM Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (JVM '01) . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 5th Workshop on Distributed Supercomputing Scalable Cluster Software . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 1st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em Large-Scale Computing Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Thomas Sterling Beowulf Cluster Computing at the Third Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tom Throwe The RHIC Computing Facility Linux Farms ?? Martin Krzywinski Picking Cluster Parts: Cluster Construction at the Genome Sequence Centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Putchong Uthayopas and Somsak Sriprayoonsakul The PIRUN Cluster at Kasetsart University: The Most Powerful Supercomputer in Thailand . . . . . . . ?? Dave Lifka Special Purpose Clusters at the Cornell Theory Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Stephen Chan and Cary Whitney and Iwona Sakreja and Shane Canon Monitoring Tools for Larger Sites . . . ?? Don Holmgren and Ron Rechenmacher Large Clusters for Theoretical Physics at Fermi Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Brown \tt eden: a Home Beowulf . . . . . . . . ?? Andreas Boklund Home Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Richard Schilling Affiliated Health Services Information Systems Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ian Lumb Linux Clustering for High-Performance Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Josey Standard Report: Austin Group Status Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em The 13th Annual Computer Security Incident Handling Conference (FIRST) . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em USENIX 2001 Annual Technical Conference . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Sergei Babkin Writing the Tk Geometry Managers in Tcl ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Variable Length Arrays . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata Rose Chalup A Bit Off the Beaten Track . . . . . . . ?? John Nicholsonp The Corporate Policy Web . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Turf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 10th USENIX Security Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Keith J. Jones Incident Response . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brad Powell Forensics Lite . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Keith J. Jones Loadable Kernel Modules . . . . . . . . ?? Jon Lasser Implementing Snort in a Production Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Van Epp Psst, Wanna Buy Some Network Insurance? ?? Sven Dietrich Survivability with a Twist . . . . . . . ?? Oscar Bonilla A Secure OS-Based Firewall . . . . . . . ?? David Brumley A Crash Course in Managing Security . . 76--82 Abe Singer No Plaintext Passwords . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus and others Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Bob Gray Searching Through Your Files with Glimpse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Some New Numeric Programming Features in C9X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Richard Leyton A Quick Introduction to Database Systems ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Paco Hope Certification Revocation . . . . . . . . ?? Dave Zwieback High Availability Firewalls/VPN with VRRP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tom Limoncelli Do You Know What's in Your Firewall? . . ?? Steven M. Tylock If Computers Had Blood, We'd Be Called Doctors, Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Erin Kenneally Stepping on the Digital Scale . . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup Consulting Reflections . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Here Comes the Grooming . . . . . . . . ?? Carl Shogren Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of None . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editors . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey New Preprocessor Features in C9X . . . . 14--17 Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven M. Tylock GVSAGE Visits the Local Technology Show ?? Steven M. Tylock If Computers Had Blood, We'd Be Called Doctors, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup Consulting Reflections . . . . . . . . . ?? Christopher M. Russo What is Your Problem? That Email Was Fine! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Edgar Danielyan The Law Moves In . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Trey Harris Ask Mr. Know-It-All . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steve Johnson and Dusty White Judgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ray Swartz When Do You Plan to Retire? . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em LISA 2001 --- The 15th Systems Administration Conference ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray and Rob Kolstad Point/Counterpoint . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Math Library Functions in C9X . . . . . 9--13 Ofir Arkin A Remote Active OS Fingerprinting Tool Using ICMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rick Moen A Recipe for a Successful Linux User Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup Wiki, Blog, Zope, and Other Communicative Grunts . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ray Swartz Planning a Model Retirement . . . . . . ?? John Nicholson Data Privacy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Review: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Raymond M. Schneider Book Review: Alistair Cockburn: \em Agile Software Development . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Standards Reports . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '02) ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup Uncle Sam as Uncle Spam . . . . . . . . ?? Erin Kenneally Evolving Behavioral Boundaries in Cyberspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kragen Sitaker Python or Perl: Which is Better? . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey New I/O Features in C9X . . . . . . . . 31--35 Gunnar Wolf ProtoWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Paco Hope Using Jails in FreeBSD for Fun and Profit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Raymond M. Schneider Book Review: Tom Clark: \em IPSans: A Guide to ICSI and IFCP and FCIP Protocols for Storage Area Networks . . ?? Steve Johnson Book Review: Jim and Michele McCarty: \em Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em BSDCon 2002 . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Hobbit High Availability . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Erin Kenneally Computer Forensics . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Wide Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--15 Adam Turoff Practical Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Gary Cohen Securing FTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Foust Identifying and Tracking Unauthorized 802.11 Cards and Access Points . . . . . 32--43 Avishai Wool Combating the Perils of Port 80 at the Firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--45 Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Howard Owen The Problem of PORCMOLSULB . . . . . . . ?? David A. Patterson An Introduction to Dependability . . . . ?? Neil Ashizawa Monitoring Strategies for High-Availability Web Apps . . . . . . . ?? John Sellens Ten Reasons to Monitor Your System . . . ?? Steven M. Tylock If Systems Were Cars, Would Yours Be Doubled Parked? . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven M. Tylock The SysAdmin's Court: Liz Action vs. Jack Trades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Chuck Hardin Book Review: Brian Shea: \em Have You Locked the Castle Gates? . . . . . . . . ?? Nina Karhuluoma Book Review: John Viega and Gary McGraw: \em Building Secure Software . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em SANE 2002 . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup Vive la Révolution! Now Get Over It! . . ?? John Nicholson Software Licensing 101 . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey C99 and Compatibility . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt Generating Ethernet Packets . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings, Or What I Did on My Summer Vacation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPAdmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anton Chuvakin Book Review: Eugene Schultz and Russell Shumway: \em Incident Response . . . . . ?? Anton Chuvakin Book Review: Lance Spitzner: \em Honeypots: Tracking Hackers . . . . . . ?? Andrew Josey Standard Report: Report received August 2002 containing Austin Group (POSIX) Status Update (May 14, 2002) and Committee Maintenance Procedures for the Approved Standard (POSIX) (revised May 21, 2002) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2002 USENIX Annual Technical Conference . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2002 Linux Kernel Developers Summit . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2nd Java Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kevin Fu and Michael Kaminsky and David Mazi\`eres Using SFS for a Secure Network File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jared Allison Automated Log Processing . . . . . . . . ?? Lance Spitzner HOSUS (Honeypot Surveillance System) . . ?? George M. Jones The Case for Network Infrastructure Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ofir Arkin Security Threats to IP Telephony-Based Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tom Perrine The Kernelized Secure Operating System (KSOS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Erin Kenneally ``It Depends'': Defining Legal Values for Network Behavior . . . . . . . . . . ?? Sven Dietrich Active Network Defense: Some Concepts and Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Abe Singer The Regional Information Watch . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Secure from What? . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Dustin Puryear Book Review: Dave Sill: \em The qmail Handbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Raymond M. Schneider Book Review: Yukihiro Matsumoto with translated text by David L. Reynolds, Jr.: \em Ruby in a Nutshell . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 11th USENIX Security Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Appropriate Responsibilities . . . . . . ?? John Nicholson Common Problems with Outsourcing Deals and How to Avoid Them . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey An Introduction to C# . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: CPAN, Modules, and the CPAN SHELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peleus G. Uhley Web Browser Vulnerabilities 101 . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup Will the Real ``Sysadmin of the Future'' Please Stand Up? . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven M. Tylock Confessions of a Sysadmin Turned Salesman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Service Provider Book Reviews ?? Steve Simmons Symlinks and Hard Links Don't Belong in \tt /etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46 Jozef Skvarcek Remote Monitoring with SNMP: a Practical Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Greg Hankins Introduction to the Border Gateway Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous SAGE News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em LISA XVI . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Geer Comments of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Timo Sivonen IPv6 Configuration on Solaris 9 and FreeBSD-4.x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Examining the C# ``Hello World'' Program ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Fixing Broken Modules ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Hacking for Fun and Profit . . . . . . . ?? Anton Chuvakin Ups and Downs of UNIX/Linux Host-Based Security Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup Not on My Watch! Filtering Oprtions Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Stephen Pierzchala Compressing Web Output Using \tt mod\_gzip and Apache . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ray Swartz Isn't That a Little Risky? . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm: Reviews of Pavol Cerven's \em Crackproof Your Software and of Jenness and Cozens's \em Extending and Embedding Perl . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kragen Sitaker Microsoft: What's Next? . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Geer Getting the Problem Statement Right . . ?? Travis Howard \tt .profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey C# Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kragen Sitaker Non-Proprietary Flash Solutions . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot: Capturing and Analyzing IP Packets on the AX-4000 Using AxTcl ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Keeping it Simple . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Diomidis D. Spinellis Organized Pruning of File Sets . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins and Rob Kolstad ISPadmin: Bayesian Spam-Filtering Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven M. Tylock Private, HMO, and Group Support . . . . ?? John Nicholson Trends in the Outsourcing Industry . . . ?? Erin Kenneally Put Your Data Where Your Mouth Is . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm: Twenty Years Ago in USENIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2003 MIT Spam Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '03) . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Moskowitz On Choosing Usernames . . . . . . . . . ?? Nimrod Megiddo and Dharmendra S. Modha One Up on LRU . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray and Dan Appelman What's in a Name? . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ian Lumb Production HPC Reinvented . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Service Provider Book Reviews II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Geer Patch Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Matthew Hoskins Oracle Hot Backup . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Working with C# Classes . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot: Monitor Your System with \tt expect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Cleaning Up with Modules ?? Ray Swartz Where Can I Find a Good Investment? . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm; Twenty-Five Years Ago in UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Josey Standard Report: Updates . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News: 2003 USENIX Nominating Committee; Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meeting; USENIX Association's Financial Report for 2002 . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em MobiSys 2003 . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em HotOS-IX . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2003 European Tcl/Tk User Meeting . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohra Value Added . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ryan Kereliuk Introducing Voice Over Internet Protocol Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert D. Haskins ISPadmin: Managing and Providing ISP Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Moskowitz ``Eat Your Own Dog Food'' . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Using C# Properties and Static Members ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot: Client Server Sockets ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Using Object Factories ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews and History: The Bookworm: Networking Anniversaries . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX News: 2004 USENIX Nominating Committee; Membership News . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2003 . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 15th Annual FIRST Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow In This Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tom Perrine The End of \tt crypt() Passwords \ldots Please? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Chris Wysopal Learning Security QA from the Vulnerability Researchers . . . . . . . ?? Jason Damron Identifiable Fingerprints in Network Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Edward Balas Sebek: Covert Glass-Box Host Analysis ?? Markus Jakobsson and Filippo Menczer Untraceable Email Cluster Bombs . . . . ?? Mudge Insider Threat . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Abe Singer Life Without Firewalls . . . . . . . . . ?? Renaud Deraison and Ron Gula Nessus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dario Forte Coordinated Incident Response Procedures ?? Ryan Russell How Are We Going to Patch All These Boxes? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Erin Kenneally Evidence Enhancing Technology . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm: Nearly 20 Years Ago in U[SE]NIX . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young 2004 Election for Board of Directors . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 12th USENIX Security Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em BSDCon '03 . . . ??
Tina Darmohray motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Sean Kamath Commentary: Lisa '03 . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: An Interview with Paul Graham ?? Steven Alexander Avoiding Buffer Overflows and Related Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Christopher M. Russo Keeping Employees by Keeping Them Happy, Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Working with C# Interfaces . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Integration with Inline ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Salah M. S. Al-Buraiky Building a Virtual IPv6 Lab Using User-Mode Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glenn M. Brunette, Jr. Hiding Within the Trees . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anton Chuvakin Book Review: Kevin Mandia and Chris Prosise, \em Incident Response: Computer Forensics, 2nd Ed. . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Review: Is It 10 Years Already? . . ?? Anonymous Report from the Nominating Committee . . ?? Tara Mulligan and Ellie Young Summary of the USENIX Board of Directors Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Our Readers More Haikus! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em Cybersecurity, Research, and Disclosure Conference, November 22, 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 17th Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (LISA '03), October 26--31, 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Apropos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Qusay H. Mahmoud Wireless Java Applications Development ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Hernan Laffitte and Eric Anderson Document it with a Picture . . . . . . . ?? Christopher M. Russo Keeping Employees by Keeping Them Happy, Part III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Christine Bagwell Feng Shui for Computer Geeks . . . . . . ?? Peter Salus STUG 20 Years Ago . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Using C# Abstract Classes . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: An Introduction to Web Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Cliff Flynt The Tclsh Spot: Mobile Agents in Tcl . . ?? Dan Appelman CAN-SPAM: New Federal Anti-Spam Law Sets Nationwide Standards for Commercial Email Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Serge Egelman Suing Spammers for Fun and Profit . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Review: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anton Chuvakin Book Review: Ed Skoudis (with Larry Zeitser), \em Malware: Fighting Malicious Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Book Review: Cyrus Peikari and Anton Chuvakin, \em Security Warrior . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Book Review: Neal Stephenson, \em Quicksilver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? The USENIX Board of Directors An Open Letter from the USENIX Association Rebutting SCO's Position on Open Source Software . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Butler Certs for the Masses . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Appelman California Requires Disclosure of Database Security Breaches . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Talking to the Walls . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven Alexander Password Protection for Modern Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nicholas Weaver and Dan Ellis Reflections on Witty . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey C# Overloaded Operators . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Web Automation . . . . . ?? Cliff Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Review: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Book Review: Raphael C. Malveau and Thomas J. Mowbray, \em Software Architect Bootcamp, 2nd ed. . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes: Election Results; Summary of the USENIX Board of Directors Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em First Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '04) . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '04) . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina M. Darmohray Apropos: Sysadmin Jobs: The CIO . . . . ?? Anonymous USACO Correspondence . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kirk McKusick The Jail Facility in FreeBSD 5.2 . . . . ?? Travis Howard CFS Travails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Recent Spam-Fighting Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? John Nicholson and Rachel Wheeler California Online Privacy Act Has Widespread Effects . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Appelman OPPA and Web Site Operators . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Using C# Reflection . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Database Modeling with Class::DBI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews and USENIX History: The Bookworm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews and USENIX History: History and FUD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews and USENIX History: Twenty Years Ago \ldots and More . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USACO: The USA Computing Olympiad . . . ?? Rob Kolstad Alain Hénon Retires . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young The USENIX Association Financial Report for 2003 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kirk McKusick Restructuring of SAGE Governance . . . . ?? Anonymous 2004 STUG and FLAME Awards Go to M. Douglas McIlroy . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 3rd Virtual Machine Research and Technology Symposium (VM '04) . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USENIX Haiku Contest . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Stephen B. Jenkins Offline Programmatic Generation of Web Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Making Use of C# Collections . . . . . . ?? Clair W. Goldsmith and Rob Kolstad A Conversation About Identity Management ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Phil Pennock On IMAP Service for Customers . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Review: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Joel E. Natt Book Review: \em Planet Broadband . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tara Mulligan Summary of the USENIX Board of Directors Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Twenty Years Ago in \em ;login: . . . . ?? Tara Mulligan Membership News . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '04) . . . ??
Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Wireless Security: a Discussion . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Editor's Thoughts (a.k.a. Musings) . . . ?? James Butler and Sherri Sparks Spyware and Rootkits: The Future Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Chris Wysopal Putting Trust in Software Code . . . . . ?? Michael Rash Combining Port Knocking and Passive OS Fingerprinting with \tt fwknop . . . . . ?? Steven Alexander Improving Security with Homebrew System Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dario Forte and Davide Bertoletti and Cristiano Maruti and Michele Zambelli Sebek Web ``ITA'' Interface . . . . . . ?? Jennifer S. Granick Strike Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael B. Scher SSO/RSO/USO/Oh No? . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Eliot Lear Being Awash in Keys . . . . . . . . . . ?? Sanjay Goel and Stephen F. Bush Biological Models of Security for Virus Propagation in Computer Networks . . . . ?? Jonathan S. Shapiro Extracting the Lessons of Multics . . . 57--59 Peter H. Salus Book Review: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USACO: The International Finals . . . . ?? Ellie Young Thanks to Our Volunteers . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security '04) . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letters to the Editor . . . . . . . . . ?? Marcus Ranum Who Needs an Enemy When You Can Divide and Conquer Yourself? . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad SAGE-News Article on SCO Defacement . . ?? Heison Chak Voice over IP with Asterisk . . . . . . ?? Steven Alexander Why Teenagers Hack: a Personal Memoir ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tina Darmohray Firewalls and Fairy Tales . . . . . . . ?? Steven Alexander The Importance of Securing Workstations ?? Abe Singer Tempting Fate . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Thomas Sluyter Getting What You Want: The Fine Art of Proposal Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess The Profession of System Administration ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Error Handling Patterns in Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Clif Flynt The Tclsh Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glen McCluskey Working with C# Serialization . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow and Chuck Hardin Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus USENIX Notes: 20 Years Ago \ldots and More . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tara Mulligan Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '04) . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em EuroBSDCon 2004 ??
Rob Kolstad motd: Leverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven Alexander Finding Malware on Compromised Windows Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Programs to Write Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jason G. Andress IPv6: The Next Internet Protocol . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Interview with Vipul Ved Prakash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Hal Miller Customer Requirements Specifications for System Administrators . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton Standards: Update on Standards . . . . . ?? Æleen Frisch Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus USENIX Notes: Years and Years Ago . . . ?? Rik Farrow USENIX Notes: Short Topics Booklets . . ?? Peter H. Salus USENIX Notes: Thirtieth Anniversary, USENIX Association . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '04) . . . . . . . ??
Rob Kolstad motd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jon Finke When Worlds Collide, 2: The Two-Sided Sword of Technology Integration . . . . ?? Heison Chak More Asterisk Tricks . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anthony Howe Shoot the Messenger: Some Techniques for Spam Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Thomas Sluyter and Roland van Maarschalkerweerd When Disaster Strikes: Cailin and Roland Discuss Crisis Management . . . . . . . ?? Ofir Arkin Demystifying Passive Network Discovery and Monitoring Systems . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Hume How's Your OS These Days? . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Date and Time Formatting in Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Amr El-Kadi and Ahmed Nashed and Kareem El Gebaly and Mahmoud Abo Daoud and Noha El Sharawy and Rania Nazmi and Mostafa Mazen Architecture and Internal Design of the AUC-Abyss Web Server . . . . . . . . . . ?? Boris Loza Under Attack: Dealing with Missing UNIX Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven Alexander Defeating Compiler-level Buffer Overflow Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Æleen Frisch Book Reviews: The Bookworm . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young USENIX Notes: Vale, Rob, atque Ave, Rik ?? Tara Mulligan USENIX Notes: Summary of the USENIX Board of Directors Actions . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes: Annual Awards . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus USENIX Notes: Years and Years Ago . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Abe Singer Conference Password Sniffing: Legal and Ethical Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jon Crowcroft and Keir Fraser and Steven Hand and Ian Pratt and Andrew Warfield The Inevitability of Xen . . . . . . . . ?? Mark McCullough Secure Automated File Transfer . . . . . ?? Adam Levin SAN vs. NAS for Oracle: a Tale of Two Protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Adam Turoff Practical Perl: Defensive CGI Programming with Taint Mode and CGI::Untaint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Understanding and Mitigating DDoS Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Daniel L. Appelman Primer on Cybercrime Laws . . . . . . . ?? Sean Peisert Forensics for System Administrators . . ?? Steve Manzuik Your Defense Is Offensive . . . . . . . ?? Emily W. Salus and Peter H. Salus Marketing After the Bubble . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus USENIX Notes: 20 Years Ago in \em ;login: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Parter USENIX Notes: SAGE Update . . . . . . . ?? Tara Mulligan and Anne Dickison USENIX Notes: New Membership Benefits ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2nd Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '05) . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 6th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA 2004) . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael W. Lucas FreeBSD 5 SMPng . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marc E. Fiuczynski Better Tools for Kernel Evolution, Please! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Solaris 10 Containers . . . . . . . . . ?? Hobbit DNS-based Spam Rejection . . . . . . . . ?? Boris Loza Finding Trojans for Fun and Profit . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Embedded Hardware . . . . . . ?? David Malone Security Through Obscurity: a Review of a Few of FreeBSD's Lesser-Known Security Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Srikanth Kandula Surviving DDoS Attacks . . . . . . . . . ?? Geoffrey Mainland and Matt Welsh Distributed, Adaptive Resource Allocation for Sensor Networks . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and Adam Turoff Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus USENIX Notes: 25 Years Ago . . . . . . . ?? Chris Palmer USENIX Notes: SAGE Update . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USENIX Notes: USACO, the USA Computing Olympiad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes: The USENIX Association Financial Report for 2004 . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes: 2006 USENIX Nominating Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 2005 Linux Kernel Developers Summit . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em International Workshop on Wireless Traffic Measurements and Modeling (WitMeMo'05) ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em Workshop on End-to-End, Sense-and-Response Systems, Applications, and Services (EESR '05) ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em MobiSys 2005: The Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em HotOS X: Tenth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em VEE '05: First ACM/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet Workshop (SRUTI '05) . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Geer Monoculture on the Back of the Envelope ?? Gernot Heiser Secure Embedded Systems Need Microkernels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh Breaking the Ties That Bind: Application Isolation and Migration . . . . . . . . ?? Thorsten Holz Spying with Bots . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Raven Alder A Summary of Savvy Backbone Defense . . ?? Vassilis Prevelakis The Virtual Firewall . . . . . . . . . . ?? Massimiliano Adamo and Mauro Tabl\`o Linux vs. OpenBSD: a Firewall Performance Test . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Sam Stover and Matt Dickerson Using Memory Dumps in Digital Forensics ?? Luke Kanies Using Version Control in System Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Christopher Jordan (with Contributions from Jason Royes and Jesse Whyte) Writing Detection Signatures . . . . . . ?? Ming Chow Teaching Computer Security, Privacy, and Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky Book Reviews: Online Only! . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes: 2006 Election for Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter H. Salus USENIX Notes: Getting It Wrong . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USENIX Notes: USACO Team Brings Home the Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young USENIX Notes: Thanks to Our Volunteers ?? Ellie Young and Tara Mulligan USENIX Notes: Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous Conference Report: \em 14th USENIX Security Symposium . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Paul Anderson Why Configuration Management Is Crucial ?? Alain Hénon Extreme Makeover . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Narayan Desai and Rick Bradshaw and Joey Hagedorn System Management Methodologies with Bcfg2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Luke Kanies Puppet: Next-Generation Configuration Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marc Wallman Spam Filtering for the Enterprise . . . ?? Tom Limoncelli Delegating to the Web . . . . . . . . . ?? Dustin Puryear Consulting for Fun and Profit . . . . . ?? Thomas Sluyter Keeping Track of Time . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Configuration Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Blocking Non-Email Spam . . . ?? Michael Rash Single Packet Authorization with \tt Fwknop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven M. Bellovin and Bill Cheswick and Angelos D. Keromytis Worm Propagation Strategies in an IPv6 Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dave Brown MythTV: Some Assembly Required \ldots But the Results Can Be Spectacular . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anonymous USENIX Notes: 2006 USENIX Nominating Committee Report . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata R. Chalup USENIX Notes: ``Say Hello, Gracie.'' ``Hello, Gracie.'' . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tara Mulligan and Ellie Young USENIX Notes: Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2--4 Tom Haynes OpenSolaris: The Model . . . . . . . . . 5--8 Brian Kernighan Code Testing and Its Role in Teaching 9--18 Jorrit N. Herder and Herbert Bos and Ben Gras and Philip Homburg and Andrew S. Tanenbaum Modular System Programming in MINIX 3 19--28 Diomedis Spinellis Some Types of Memory Are More Equal than Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--36 Chaos Golubitsky Simple Software Flow Analysis Using GNU \tt cflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--41 Luke Kanies Why You Should Use Ruby . . . . . . . . 42--48 David Malone Unwanted HTTP: Who Has the Time? . . . . 49--54 Randolph Langley Auditing Superuser Usage . . . . . . . . 56--59 David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Programming, Ho Hum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--65 Heison Chak VoIP Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69 Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . 70--71 Nicholas M. Stoughton Standards: USENIX Standards Activities 72--75 Elizabeth Zwicky and Sam Stover and Rik Farrow Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--79 Ted Dolotta USENIX Notes: Letter to the Editor . . . 80--80 Anonymous USENIX Notes: Fund to Establish the John Lions Chair in Operating Systems at the University of New South Wales . . . . . 80--80 Anonymous Conference Report: \em LISA '05: The 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference . . . . . . . 81--98 Anonymous Conference Report: \em WORLDS '05: Second Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems . . . . . . . . . . 98--102 Anonymous Conference Report: \em FAST '05: 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--115
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Autonomic Computing --- The Music of the Cubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Kurt Chan A Comparison of Disk Drives for Enterprise Computing . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marshall Kirk McKusick Disks from the Perspective of a File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tom Haynes Introduction to ZFS . . . . . . . . . . ?? Stefan Büttcher and Charles L. A. Clarke Adding Full-Text Filesystem Search to Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Pablo Neira Ayuso Netfilter's Connection Tracking System ?? Markos Gogoulos and Diomidis Spinellis Using Linux Live CDs for Penetration Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Car 10.0.0.54, Where Are You? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Policy Enforcement . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak VoIP Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata Rose Chalup SAGE Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Uris DataMonster: Building a Cost-Effective, High-Speed, Heterogeneous Shared File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 1: Cabbage Patch Kiss . . . ?? Darrell Fuhriman Identity Management Identified . . . . . ?? Andy Seely System Administration of Command and Control Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? KyoungSoo Park and Vivek S. Pai CoBlitz: a Scalable Large-File Transfer Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ryan Peterson and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Eric Sorenson Enterprise Routing Sinkholes Using Linux and Open Source Tools . . . . . . . . . ?? Pete Herzog The Protocol Historian . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Part 1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Traffic Shaping . . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak Choosing IP Phones . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Vassilis Prevelakis Letter to the Editor . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young The USENIX Association Financial Report for 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Stephen C. Johnson Algorithms for the 21st Century . . . . ?? Mike Howard Maybe You Should Use Python . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 2: Babel, Babble, Toil, and Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brad Knowles It's About Time \ldots . . . . . . . . . ?? Richard McDougall and James Laudon Multi-Core Microprocessors Are Here . . ?? Timo Sivonen Measuring Performance of FreeBSD Disk Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael J. Freedman Automating Server Selection with OASIS ?? Rik Farrow WISPER: Open Source, Long-Distance Wireless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Part 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Anti-Spam Roundup . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak Echo in VoIP Systems . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton An Update on Standards: Diary of a Standard Geek . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Josey Why Get Involved in POSIX? . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USACO News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Strata Chalup SAGE Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow and Jane-Ellen Long Writing for \em ;login; . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Team Cymru The Underground Economy: Priceless . . . ?? Jan Göbel and Jens Hektor and Thorsten Holz Advanced Honeypot-Based Intrusion Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andy Ozment and Stuart E. Schechter The Security of OpenBSD: Milk or Wine? ?? Nicholas Weaver and Dan Ellis White Worms Don't Work . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael B. Scher On Doing `Being Reasonable' . . . . . . ?? Mike Howard How Often Should You Change Your Password? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dave Josephsen Homeless Vikings: Short-Lived BGP Session Hijacking --- a New Chapter in the Spam Wars . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 3: a Shocking Lack of Ad-Hocracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Give Me My Woobie Back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: Wireless . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak VoIP Watch: Security . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nicholas M. Stoughton An Update on Standards . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young Thanks to Our Volunteers . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Simson Garfinkel Commodity Grid Computing with Amazon's S3 and EC2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jorrit N. Herder and Herbert Bos and Ben Gras and Philip Homburg and Andrew S. Tanenbaum Roadmap to a Failure-Resilient Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Steven Hand and Andrew Warfield and Keir Fraser Hardware Virtualization with Xen . . . . ?? Mark Burgess Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 4: There's No I/O Without U ?? Leigh Griffin and John Ronan Xen Installation and Configuration . . . ?? Robert Marmorstein and Phil Kearns Debugging a Firewall Policy with Policy Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Spawning . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins ISPadmin: DHCP Services . . . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak Virtualizing Asterisk . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Hans Boehm and Bill Pugh and Doug Lea Multithreading in C and C++ . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jane-Ellen Long SAGE Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Glenn Fink and Deb Frincke Autonomic Computing: Freedom or Threat? ?? Chad Verbowski The Secret Lives of Computers Exposed: Flight Data Recorder for Windows . . . . ?? Brendan Quinn Lessons Learned from Living with LDAP ?? John Lloyd Introducing System Engineering to the System Admin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Promises, Promises: An Interview with Mark Burgess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Daniel L. Appelman Spam and Blogs. Part 1: Spam: a Balancing Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Thomas Sluyter All Quiet on the Western Front: a Discussion on the Necessity of Good Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: These Inodes Were Made for Walkin' . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert Haskins VoIP in an Internet Service Provider Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak Asterisk Appliance . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nicholas M. Stoughton Why Standardize? . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jane-Ellen Long and Alva Couch SAGE Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Marshall Kirk McKusick A Brief History of the BSD Fast File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Pawel Jakub Dawidek and Marshall Kirk McKusick Porting the Solaris ZFS File System to the FreeBSD Operating System . . . . . . 19--24 Avantika Mathur and Mingming Cao and Andreas Dilger Ext4: The Next Generation of the Ext3 File System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Geer A Quant Looks at the Future . . . . . . ?? Vassilis Prevelakis Supporting a Security Laboratory . . . . ?? Daniel L. Appelman Spam and Blogs. Part 2: Blogs, for Good or Ill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Alexander Muentz Script Kiddies with Briefcases: The Legal System as Threat . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Impractical Perl Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Alex Aiken In Memoriam: John W. Backus, 1924--2007 68--69
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael Piatek and Tomas Isdal and Tom Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy and Arun Venkataramani Building BitTyrant, a (More) Strategic BitTorrent Client . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Alva Couch Should the Root Prompt Require a Road Test? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Octave Orgeron An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Emin Gün Sirer and Rik Farrow Some Lesser-Known Laws of Computer Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Massimo Bernaschi and Francesco Casadei and Samuele Ruco Migration of Secure Connections Using SockMi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of PDFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--41 David Josephsen iVoyeur: a View from Someplace Nearby ?? Heison Chak Deviating Alternatives to Asterisk . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton An Update on Standards: Revision Fever ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Toni Veglia Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USACO Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young USENIX Association Financial Report for 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrey Mirtchovski and Latchesar Ionkov Why Some Dead OSes Still Matter . . . . 5--12 Cat Okita (Digital) Identity 2.0 . . . . . . . . . ?? Alexander Muentz Hardening Your Systems Against Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Octave Orgeron An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Hemant Sengar IP Telephony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Let Me Draw You a Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Josephsen iVoyeur: Opaque Brews . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nicholas M. Stoughton Whither C++? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dan Wallach Creating the EVT Workshop . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young 2008 USENIX Nominating Committee . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Dittrich and Sven Dietrich Command and Control Structures in Malware: From Handler/Agent to P2P . . . ?? Sam Stover and Dave Dittrich and John Hernandez and Sven Dietrich Analysis of the Storm and Nugache Trojans: P2P Is Here . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tal Garfinkel and Andrew Warfield What Virtualization Can Do for Security ?? Gernot Heiser Your System Is Secure? Prove It! . . . . ?? Gary McGraw with Rik Farrow Exploiting Online Games: An Interview ?? Mike Rash IDS Signature Matching with \tt iptables, \tt psad, and \tt fwsnort . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Perl Meets Nmap and p0f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Josephsen iVoyeur: Mystical Flows . . . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak Asterisk and LumenVox ASR . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young Thanks to Our Volunteers . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young 2008 Election of the USENIX Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USACO Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Joe Abley Fear and Loathing in the Routing System ?? Alva Couch From $x = 1$ to \tt (setf x 1): What Does Configuration Management Mean? . . ?? Eric Langheinrich http:BL: Taking DNSBL Beyond SMTP . . . ?? Justin Samuel and Jeremy Plichta and Justin Cappos Centralized Package Management Using Stork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jeannie Albrecht and Ryan Braud and Ren Dao and Nikolay Topilski and Christopher Tuttle and Alex C. Snoeren and Amin Vahdat Managing Distributed Applications with Plush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Octave Orgeron An Introduction to Logical Domains . . . ?? Aditya K Sood Insecurities in Designing XML Signatures ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Why I Live at the P.O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun (PATS): The Future of Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Josephsen iVoyeur: Permission to Parse . . . . . . 65--71 Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton Toward Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Æleen Frisch and Brad Knowles and Sam Stover Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael B. Jones and Dan Geer 2008 USENIX Nominating Committee Report ?? Ellie Young Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anne Dickison New on the USENIX Web Site: The Multimedia Page . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Kosters and Megan Kruse IPv6: It's Time to Make the Move . . . . ?? David Piscitello Are Commercial Firewalls Ready for IP Version 6? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Octave Orgeron An Introduction to Logical Domains, Part 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Matthew Sacks Linux Kernel Resource Allocation in Virtualized Environments . . . . . . . . ?? Aditya K Sood Hacking 802.11 Protocol Insecurities . . 38--44 Michael D. McCool Achieving High Performance by Targeting Multiple Parallelism Mechanisms . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Back in Timeline ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun (PATS): The Security Sheriff . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Josephsen iVoyeur: Comply . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak VoIP and IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Margo Seltzer The Present and Future of SAN/NAS: Interview with Dave Hitz and Brian Pawlowsky of NetApp . . . . . . . . . . ?? Lakshmi Bairavasundaram and Garth Goodson and Bianca Schroeder and Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau Data Corruption in the Storage Stack: a Closer Look . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark W. Storer and Kevin M. Greenan and Ethan L. Miller and Kaladhar Voruganti Pergamum: Energy-efficient Archival Storage with Disk Instead of Tape . . . ?? Weihang Jiang and Chongfeng Hu and Yuanyuan Zhou and Arkady Kanevsky Don't Blame Disks for Every Storage Subsystem Failure . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael Demmer and Bowei Du and Eric Brewer TierStore: a Distributed File System for Challenged Networks in Developing Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew Brownsword Driving the Evolution of Software Languages to a Concurrent Future . . . . ?? Dan Tsafrir and Dilma Da Silva and David Wagner The Murky Issue of Changing Process Identity: Revising `Setuid Demystified' ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: a Little Place for Your Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun (PATS): The State of ZFS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Josephsen iVoyeur: Admin, Root Thyself . . . . . . 77--62 Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton Update on Standards: Undue Influence? ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brandon Enright and Geoff Voelker and Stefan Savage and Chris Kanich and Kiril Levchenko Storm: When Researchers Collide . . . . ?? Chris Grier and Shuo Tang and Samuel T. King Building a More Secure Web Browser . . . ?? Colin Dixon and Thomas Anderson and Arvind Krishnamurthy Withstanding Multimillion-node Botnets ?? Diana Smetters and Brinda Dalal and Les Nelson and Nathaniel Good and Ame Elliott Ad Hoc Guesting: When Exceptions Are the Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rohan Murty and Jitendra Padhye and Ranver Chandra and Alec Wolman and Brian Zill Designing High-Performance Enterprise Wi--Fi Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Alva Couch `Standard Deviations' of the Average System Administrator . . . . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Hi-ho the Merry-o, Debugging We Will Go . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: Solaris System Analysis 101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Josephsen iVoyeur: Hold the Pixels . . . . . . . . ?? Heison Chak Media Resource Control Protocol . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Wenjin Hu and Todd Deshane and Jeanna Matthews Solaris Virtualization Options . . . . . ?? Edward Walker Benchmarking Amazon EC2 for High-Performance Scientific Computing ?? Alva L. Couch System Administration Thermodynamics . . ?? Robert Solomon A 36-User Asterisk Installation . . . . ?? Brad Knowles Building Scalable NTP Server Infrastructures . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Sandeep Sahore Reclaim Disk Space by Shrinking Files ?? Jason Dusek Concurrent Patterns: Parallels in System and Language Design . . . . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Attachments . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: Solaris System Analysis 102 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Josephsen iVoyeur: You Should Write an NEB Module ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton Update on Standards: The USENIX Standards Project . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad Report on USACO . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jane-Ellen Long Update on SAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Sam Small and Joshua Mason and Ryan MacArthur and Fabian Monrose Masquerade: Simulating a Thousand Victims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tim Yardley SCADA: Issues, Vulnerabilities, and Future Directions . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jian Zhang and Phillip Porras and Johannes Ullrich Highly Predictive Blacklisting . . . . . ?? Jeffrey Berg and Evan Teran and Sam Stover Investigating Argos . . . . . . . . . . ?? Calvin Ardi and Daniel Chen Architecture and Threat Analysis of a Campus Wireless Network . . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: This Column Is Password-Protected . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: The Death of Solaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--56 David Josephsen iVoyeur: You Should Write an NEB Module, Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Nick Stoughton Update on Standards: Diary of a Standards Geek, Part 2 . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young Thanks to Our Volunteers . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Justin Samuel and Justin Cappos Package Managers Still Vulnerable: How to Protect Your Systems . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Dehus and Dirk Grunwald STORM: Simple Tools for Resource Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Paul Anderson Programming the Virtual Infrastructure ?? Corey Brune Python: An Untapped Resource in System Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Be the Browser . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: Analytics for the Masses (of Storage Administrators) . . . ?? Dave Josephsen iVoyeur: Message in a Bottle --- Replacing Email Warnings with SMS . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad The International Olympiad on Informatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jane-Ellen Long Got a Minute? . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Anne Dickison USENIX Discussion List and New Videos Available! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Mark Burgess The Cloud Minders . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Arrvindh Shriraman and Sandhya Dwarkadas and Michael L. Scott Tapping into Parallelism with Transactional Memory . . . . . . . . . . ?? Diwaker Gupta and Sangmin Lee and Michael Vrable and Stefan Savage and Alex C. Snoeren and George Varghese and Geoffrey M. Voelker and Amin Vahdat Difference Engine . . . . . . . . . . . 24--31 John Douceur and Jeremy Elson and Jon Howell and Jacob R. Lorch and Rik Farrow Leveraging Legacy Code for Web Browsers ?? David Beazley Python 3: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rudi Van Drunen The Basics of Power . . . . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Polymourphously Versioned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: The Sun Virtualization Guide . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dave Josephsen iVoyeur: Top 5 2008 . . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young Tribute to Jay Lepreau, 1952--2008 . . . 87--87
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Alva L. Couch Is It Easy Being Green? . . . . . . . . ?? Ragib Hasan and Radu Sion and Marianne Winslett Secure Provenance: Protecting the Genealogy of Bits . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Andrew W. Leung and Minglong Shao and Timothy Bisson and Shankar Pasupathy and Ethan L. Miller Spyglass: Metadata Search for Large-scale Storage Systems . . . . . . ?? Weihang Jiang and Chongfeng Hu and Shankar Pasupathy and Arkady Kanevsky and Yuanyuan Zhou Storage System Problem Troubleshooting and System Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rudi Van Drunen Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: En Tableau . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun (PATS): AMPing Up Your Web Environment . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dave Josephsen iVoyeur: The Dangers of Marketing . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jane-Ellen Long USENIX Goes Greener . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Michael Vrable and Stefan Savage and Geoffrey M. Voelker Cumulus: Filesystem Backup to the Cloud ?? Leo Meyerovich Rethinking Browser Performance . . . . . ?? Tim Kaldewey Programming Video Cards for Database Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David Dittrich Malware to Crimeware: How Far Have They Gone, and How Do We Catch Up? . . . . . ?? Rudi Van Drunen A Home-Built NTP Appliance . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Scratch the Webapp Itch with CGI::Application, Part 1 . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: T Servers --- Why, and Why Not . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Dave Josephsen iVoyeur: Who Invited the Salesmen? . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young USENIX Association Financial Report for 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Thomas A. Limoncelli Hey! I Have to Install and Maintain This Crap Too, Ya Know! . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Christoph Hellwig XFS: The Big Storage File System for Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10--18 Kristaps Dzonsons Fixing on a Standard Language for UNIX Manuals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Brandon Salmon and Steven W. Schlosser and Lorrie Faith Cranor and Gregory R. Ganger Perspective: Semantic Data Management for the Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Tasneem G. Brutch Migration to Multicore: Tools That Can Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: VMware vSphere 4 vs. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 . . . . . . . . 58--67 David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Scratch the Webapp Itch with CGI::Application, Part 2 . . . ?? Dave Josephsen iVoyeur: Packet-Level, Per-User Network Access Control and Monitoring . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rudi van Drunen Chips and Static Electricity . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Rik Farrow Musings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Jeremiah Grossman Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques: `What's Possible, Not Probable' . . . . . . . . ?? David Dittrich The Conflicts Facing Those Responding to Cyberconflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Giorgio Maone Hardening the Web with NoScript . . . . ?? Gerwin Klein Correct OS Kernel? Proof? Done! . . . . ?? Perry Metzger and William Allen Simpson and Paul Vixie Improving TCP Security with Robust Cookies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? David N. Blank-Edelman Practical Perl Tools: Essential Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Peter Baer Galvin Pete's All Things Sun: Swaddling Applications in a Security Blanket . . . ?? Dave Josephsen iVoyeur: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Nagios Implementations . . . . . . . . . ?? Robert G. Ferrell \tt /dev/random: a Realist's Glossary of Terms Widely Employed in the Information Security Arena . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Elizabeth Zwicky and others Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Ellie Young 2010 Election for the USENIX Board of Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ?? Rob Kolstad USACO Teams Shine . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Shannon Cochran News and Views: Scientists Seek Immersive Reality; USENIX Names Lifetime Achievement Recipients [the GNU Project and the Kerberos network authentication system]; Robots Need Programmers; Evangelizing the Semantic Web; Get Your Supercomputer Software Free; Usenet Creator Jim Ellis Dies; DARPA Funds FreeBSD Security Initiative . . . . . . 18--18