Updated LISA Conference Info

Thu Oct 9 14:34:30 PDT 2003

** Added: Q&A sessions with conference speakers
** Pre-registration pricing extended to October 20
** Cheap SouthWest Fares to San Diego

Register for LISA at  http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/

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LISA '03 is a little over two weeks away, and the breadth and quality of
this year's tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and range of
participants make this one of the strongest LISA offerings ever.

The professional training by experts such as Marcus Ranum, Trent Hein,
Ned McClain, Gerald Carter, David Skoll, Mike DeGraw-Bertsch, and David
Rhoades will give you the information, techniques, tools, and strategies
you need to practice and implement effective system administration today
and tomorrow.

As the conference approaches, some sessions stand out as particularly
timely and relevant:

o Verisign vs. ICANN:  Paul Vixie, the chief architect of bind, will
speak at length about the controversy surrounding VeriSign's recent
modification of Internet behavior to redirect nonexistent URLs to an
advertising page. For a good backgrounder on the controversy, see
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/09/22/vixie.html.

o Extra Expert Access:  As a last-minute addition, we're organizing Q&A
events where session speakers meet with attendees in a more informal
and extended setting.

o Bid Now Know-How:  eBay's Director of Availability and Performance
Engineering, Paul Kilmartin, will discuss the challenges of the auction
site's highly complex real-time computing demands.

o Spam Spam Spam Spam:  A Spam Mini-Symposium will demonstrate emerging
spam-fighting techniques such as adaptive filtering and will feature an
all-star panel discussion on forthcoming spam advances.

o Look Ma, No Firewalls:  Abe Singer of the San Diego Supercomputer
Center (SDSC) will explain how SDSC has gone four years without an
intrusion, even though they don't use firewalls.

o In Search of Excellence:  Gene Kim will look at "Best of Breed"
audit, management, operations, and security practices, providing
examples of these practices as implemented in large organizations.

o Prime Time Penguin:  Moshe Bar will examine the growing trend of
building large, industrial-strength data centers inexpensively out
of Linux clusters.

o UL Approved?:  David Plonka will report on how a defect in a popular
consumer-grade router threatened the University of Wisconsin's
Internet connectivity.

Please make sure you attend this year's LISA: we've made it well
worth your while.

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WHAT:   LISA: The 17th Large Installation Systems Administration  
Conference
WHEN:   October 26-31, 2003
WHERE:  San Diego, CA, Town & Country Resort and Convention Center
WHO:    System administrators, network administrators, CIOs, CTOs,
         security researchers, tool providers, support personnel, etc.
WHY:    To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer system  
administration
HOW:    http://www.usenix.org/lisa03/
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Multiple Employee Discount: USENIX offers a $195 per-person discount
to organizations sending 5 or more employees to LISA.
Email lisa03_reg at usenix.org to get this discount for your group.

Feel free to contact me anytime with questions.

Cheers, -Peter

Peter Mui
USENIX Association
2560 9th Street STE 215
Berkeley, CA 94710
510 528 8649 ext. 28
pmui at usenix.org