16th Systems Administration Conference & Tutorial Program, sponsored by USENIX and SAGE

Tue Aug 27 14:51:12 PDT 2002

Attend the 16th Systems Administration Conference & Tutorial Program,
sponsored by USENIX and SAGE
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LISA'02
November 3-8, 2002 - Philadelphia, PA

Take advantage of our early registration and student discounts!
http://www.usenix.org/lisa02/
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Learn from master practitioners and noted Authors at over 35
technical tutorials.  Topics include:

* UNIX, Solaris, and Linux system administration
* Performance tuning, disaster recovery planning, SANs, massive
upgrades, user request management, and other service challenges
* Monitoring, intrusion detection, firewalls, and Web security
* DNS administration and practical wireless networking

Hear practical solutions from expert speakers, including:

- Keynote: Jim Reese, Chief Operations Engineer of Google, on
Google's architecture and the challenges of running an Internet
search service
- Larry Wall, Perl 6
- Paul Vixie on Internet governance, peering, and legislation
- Curtis Preston, backup guru, on streamlining backup and recovery
- Len Sassaman on "the promise of privacy"
- Tim Nagle of TRW on his years with the NSA Red Team
- Daniel V. Klein on the constitutional and legal arguments against spam

Also featured:

- New approaches to automation, monitoring, security, and the
evolving theory of system administration (among other topics) in the
Refereed Paper sessions
- Answers to perplexing technical questions from experts at LISA's
unique "The Guru Is In" sessions
- The latest commercial innovations at the Vendor Exhibition

Please join us in Philadelphia and lend your skills, experience, and
opinions toward forging an exciting future for the profession.

For complete program information, and to register visit:
http://www.usenix.org/lisa02/

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Alex Walker
Production Editor
USENIX Association
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