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Subject: Last-Minute LISA Conference Program Update (53545) Date: Thursday 02 October 2003 01:18 From: AEleen_Frisch@usenix.org To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at
Register for LISA at http://www.usenix.org/lisa03/
LISA '03 is about three 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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------- 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@usenix.org to get this discount for your group.
Hope to see you there!
Regards,
AEleen Frisch, Program Chair LISA '03
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