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Volume 26, Number 1, February 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  MOTD.
• 
  Tina Darmohray:
  Apropos.
• 
  Avi Rubin:
  Letters to the Editor.
• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 2.

Networking

• 
  Brian L. Tierney:
  TCP Tuning Guide for Distributed Application on Wide Area Networks.

Programming

• 
  Glen McCluskey:
  Java Performance.
• 
  Prithvi Rao:
  Using CORBA with Java.
• 
  Ray Swartz:
  A New Twist on Random Number Generators.
• 
  Clif Flynt:
  The Tclsh Spot.

Security

• 
  Edgar Danielyan:
  AES: Advanced Encryption Standard is Coming.
• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.

Sysadmin

• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPAdmin.

The Workplace

• 
  Steve Johnson, Dusty White:
  Jobs vs. People.

Standards Reports

• 
  Andrew Josey:
  The Open Group Base Working Group Update.
• 
  Glen Seeds:
  Austin, October 2000 Plenary for D4 IssueResolution.

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  The Bookworm.

Volume 26, Number 2, April 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  MOTD.
• 
  Tina Darmohray:
  Apropos.

Conference Reports

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  14th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2000).

Computing

• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Part 3.

Open Source

• 
  Bob Gray:
  A Logging and Tracing Facility for an Embedded Source Code UNIX Product.

Programming

• 
  Glen McCluskey:
  Java Performance.
• 
  Glen McCluskey:
  Using New Types and Values in C9X.
• 
  Clif Flynt:
  The Tclsh Spot.

Sysadmin

• 
  Michael Gilfix:
  Introducing Peep: The Network Auralizer.
• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.
• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPAdmin.

The Workplace

• 
  Steve Johnson, Dusty White:
  Do You Have Both ORs in the Water?
• 
  John Nicholson:
  You've Been Cracked ... and Now You're Sued.

Usenix funded Projects

• 
  Ahmed Amer:
  Mobile Hoarding and Dynamic Grouping.

Standards Reports

• 
  Keld Simonsen:
  Some Standardization News.

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  The Bookworm.

Volume 26, Number 3, June 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  MOTD.
• 
  Tina Darmohray:
  Apropos.

Conference Reports

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  A Report on the Linux 2.5 Kernel Developers Summit.
• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Reports on the 4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2000).

Programming

• 
  Glen McCluskey:
  Declarations in C9X.
• 
  Prithvi Rao:
  Using CORBA with Java.
• 
  Clif Flynt:
  Intrusion Detection.

Security

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.
• 
  Dario V. Forte:
  Using tcpdump and Sanitize for System Security.

Sysadmin

• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPAdmin.
• 
  John Sellens:
  Designing an External Infrastructure.

The Workplace

• 
  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, Dusty White:
  Kick Those BUTS.

Usenix funded Projects

• 
  Wilfred Dittmer:
  Research Exchange Program Update from the Field.
• 
  Jennifer Rubenstein:
  Women in Computing.

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  The Bookworm.

Volume 26, Number 4, July 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  MOTD.
• 
  Tina Darmohray:
  Apropos.

Conference Reports

• 
  Mark Burgess:
  A report from Peter Salus on COOTS '01.

Nifty hacks

• 
  James Caple:
  Palm Pilots and the Point-to-Point Protocol.

Programming

• 
  Clif Flynt:
  The Tclsh Spot.
• 
  Glen McCluskey:
  Flexible Array Members and Designators in C9X.

Security

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.

Sysadmin

• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPAdmin.
• 
  Brent Chapman:
  What Are Your Intentions?
• 
  Timo Sivonen:
  Setting Up BIND8 in a Change-Rooted Environment on Solaris.

The Workplace

• 
  Steve Johnson, Dusty White:
  Get My Goat.
• 
  Strata Rose Chalup:
  Contractors or Employees? It's Not That Simple!

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  The Bookworm.

Volume 26, Number 5, August 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  MOTD.
• 
  Tina Darmohray:
  Apropos.
• 
  Thomas Sterling:
  Letters to the Editors.
• 
  Tom Throwe:
  The RHIC Computing Facility Linux Farms.
• 
  Martin Krzywinski:
  Picking Cluster Parts: Cluster Construction at the Genome Sequence Centre.
• 
  Putchong Uthayopas, 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, Cary Whitney, Iwona Sakreja, Shane Canon:
  Monitoring Tools for Larger Sites.
• 
  Donald J. Holmgren, Ron Rechenmacher:
  Large Clusters for Theoretical Physics at Fermi Lab.
• 
  Robert G. Brown:
  eden: A Home Beowulf.
• 
  Andreas Boklund:
  Home Clusters.
• 
  Richard Schilling:
  Affiliated Health Services Information Systems Clusters.
• 
  Ian Lumb:
  Linux Clustering for High-Performance Computing.

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  The Bookworm.

Standards Reports

• 
  Andrew Josey:
  Austin Group Status Update.

Volume 26, Number 6, October 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  MOTD.
• 
  Tina Darmohray:
  Apropos.
• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Letters to the Editors.

Programming

• 
  Sergei Babkin:
  Writing the Tk Geometry Managers in Tcl.
• 
  Clif Flynt:
  The Tclsh Spot.
• 
  Glen McCluskey:
  Variable Length Arrays.

Security

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.

Sysadmin

• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPAdmin.
• 
  Strata Rose Chalup:
  A Bit Off the Beaten Track.

The Workplace

• 
  John Nicholson:
  The Corporate Policy Web.
• 
  Steve Johnson, Dusty White:
  Turf.

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  The Bookworm.

Volume 26, Number 7, November 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  In This Issue.

Conference Reports

• 
  Keith J. Jones:
  10th USENIX Security Symposium.
• 
  Brad Powell:
  Forensics Lite.
• 
  Keith J. Jones:
  Loadable Kernel Modules.

Intrusion Detection

• 
  Jon Lasser:
  Implementing Snort in a Production Environment.
• 
  Peter Van Epp:
  Psst, Wanna Buy Some Network Insurance?
• 
  Sven Dietrich:
  Survivability with a Twist.

Best Practices

• 
  Oscar Bonilla:
  A Secure OS-Based Firewall.
• 
  David Brumley:
  A CrashCourse in Managing Security.
• 
  Abe Singer:
  No Plaintext Passwords.

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus, et al.:
  The Bookworm.

Volume 26, Number 8, December 2001

Table of Contents

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  MOTD.
• 
  Tina Darmohray:
  Apropos.
• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Letters to the Editors.
• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Epilogue.

Programming

• 
  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.

Security

• 
  Paco Hope:
  Certification Revocation.
• 
  Dave Zwieback:
  High Availability Firewalls/VPN with VRRP.
• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.

Sysadmin

• 
  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.

The Workplace

• 
  Strata R. Chalup:
  Consulting Reflections.
• 
  Steve Johnson, Dusty White:
  Here Comes the Grooming.
• 
  Carl Shogren:
  Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of None.

Book Reviews

• 
  Peter H. Salus:
  The Bookworm.