[ale] Last-Minute LISA Conference Program Update

[Terry Countryman]

} From: AEleen_Frisch at usenix.org
} Subject: Last-Minute LISA Conference Program Update
} Date: 4 Oct 2003 01:57:57 -0400
} Organization: USENIX
} Keywords: LISA, USENIX
} 
} 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.
} 
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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. E-mail
} lisa03_reg at usenix.org to get this discount for your group.
} 
} Hope to see you there!
} 
} Regards,
} 
} AEleen Frisch,
} Program Chair
} LISA '03
}