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Volume 31, Number 1, February 2006

Opinion

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  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.
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  Paul Anderson:
  Why Configuration Management Is Crucial.
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  Alain Hénon:
  Extreme Makeover.

Sysadmin

• 
  Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, Joey Hagedorn:
  System Management Methodologies with Bcfg2.
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  Luke Kanies:
  Puppet: Next-Generation Configuration Management.
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  Marc Wallman:
  Spam Filtering for the Enterprise.
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  Tom Limoncelli:
  Delegating to the Web.
• 
  Dustin Puryear:
  Consulting for Fun and Profit.
• 
  Thomas Sluyter:
  Keeping Track of Time.

Columns

• 
  David N. Blank-Edelman:
  Practical Perl Tools: Configuration Files.
• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPadmin: Blocking Non-Email Spam.

Security

• 
  Michael Rash:
  Single Packet Authorization with Fwknop.
• 
  Steven M. Bellovin, Bill Cheswick, Angelos D. Keromytis:
  Worm Propagation Strategies in an IPv6 Internet.

Technology

• 
  Dave Brown:
  MythTV: Some Assembly Required ... But the Results Can Be Spectacular.

Reviews

• 
  Elizabeth Zwicky, et al.:
  Book Reviews.

Usenix Notes

• 
  Strata R. Chalup:
  2006 USENIX Nominating Committee Report.
• 
  Tara Mulligan, Ellie Young:
  Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions.

Volume 31, Number 2, April 2006

Opinion

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.
• 
  Tom Haynes:
  OpenSolaris: The Model.

Programming

• 
  Brian W. Kernighan:
  Code Testing and Its Role in Teaching.
• 
  Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Homburg, Andrew S. Tanenbaum:
  Modular System Programming in MINIX 3.
• 
  Diomidis Spinellis:
  Some Types of Memory Are More Equal than Others.
• 
  Chaos Golubitsky:
  Simple Software Flow Analysis Using GNU Cflow.
• 
  Luke Kanies:
  Why You Should Use Ruby.

Sysadmin

• 
  David Malone:
  Unwanted HTTP: Who Has the Time?
• 
  Randolph Langley:
  Auditing Superuser Usage.

Columns

• 
  David N. Blank-Edelman:
  Practical Perl Tools: Programming, Ho Hum.

Standards

• 
  Nicholas M. Stoughton:
  USENIX Standards Activities.

Reviews

• 
  Elizabeth Zwicky, Sam Stover, Rik Farrow:
  Book Reviews.

Usenix Notes

• 
  Ted Dolotta:
  Letter to the Editor.

Volume 31, Number 3, June 2006

Opinion

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.
• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Autonomic Computing - The Music of the Cubes.

Sysadmin

• 
  Kurt Chan:
  A Comparison of Disk Drives for Enterprise Computing.
• 
  Marshall K. McKusick:
  Disks from the Perspective of a File System.
• 
  Tom Haynes:
  Introduction to ZFS.
• 
  Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke:
  Adding Full-Text Filesystem Search to Linux.

Security

• 
  Pablo Neira Ayuso:
  Netfilter's Connection Tracking System.
• 
  Markos Gogoulos, Diomidis Spinellis:
  Using Linux Live CDs for Penetration Testing.

Columns

• 
  David N. Blank-Edelman:
  Practical Perl Tools: Car 10.0.0.54, Where Are You?
• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPadmin: Policy Enforcement.
• 
  Heison Chak:
  VoIP Watch.
• 
  Robert G. Ferrell:
  /dev/random.

Book Reviews

• 
  Elizabeth Zwicky, et al.:
  Book Reviews.

Usenix Notes

• 
  Strata R. Chalup:
  SAGE Update.

Volume 31, Number 4, August 2006

Opinion

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.

Sysadmin

• 
  Mark Uris:
  DataMonster: Building a Cost-Effective, High-Speed, Heterogeneous Shared File System.
• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 1: Cabbage Patch Kiss.
• 
  Darrell Fuhriman:
  Identity Management Identified.
• 
  Andy Seely:
  System Administration of Command and Control Systems.

Nsdi

• 
  KyoungSoo Park, Vivek S. Pai:
  CoBlitz: A Scalable Large-File Transfer Service.
• 
  Ryan Peterson, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Emin Gün Sirer:
  A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe.

Security

• 
  Eric Sorenson:
  Enterprise Routing Sinkholes Using Linux and Open Source Tools.
• 
  Pete Herzog:
  The Protocol Historian.

Columns

• 
  David N. Blank-Edelman:
  Practical Perl Tools: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Part 1).
• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPadmin: Traffic Shaping.
• 
  Heison Chak:
  Choosing IP Phones.

Book Reviews

• 
  Elizabeth Zwicky, et al.:
  Book Reviews.

Usenix Notes

• 
  Vassilis Prevelakis:
  Letter to the Editor.
• 
  Ellie Young:
  USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions.
• 
  Ellie Young:
  The USENIX Association Financial Report for 2005.

Volume 31, Number 5, October 2006

Opinion

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.

Programming

• 
  Stephen C. Johnson:
  Algorithms for the 21st Century.
• 
  Mike Howard:
  Maybe You Should Use Python.

Sysadmin

• 
  Mark Burgess:
  Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part2: Babel, Babble, Toil, and Grammar.
• 
  Brad Knowles:
  It's About Time...

Technology

• 
  Richard McDougall, James Laudon:
  Multi-Core Microprocessors Are Here.
• 
  Timo Sivonen:
  Measuring Performance of FreeBSD Disk Encryption.

Network

• 
  Michael J. Freedman:
  Automating Server Selection with OASIS.
• 
  Rik Farrow:
  WISPER: Open Source, Long-Distance Wireless.

Columns

• 
  David N. Blank-Edelman:
  Practical Perl Tools: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Part 2).
• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPadmin: Anti-Spam Roundup.
• 
  Heison Chak:
  Echo in VoIP Systems.
• 
  Robert G. Ferrell:
  /dev/random.

Book Reviews

• 
  Elizabeth Zwicky, et al.:
  Book Reviews.

Standards Reports

• 
  Nick Stoughton:
  An Update on Standards: Diary of a Standard Geek.
• 
  Andrew Josey:
  Why Get Involved in POSIX?

Usenix Notes

• 
  Rob Kolstad:
  USACO News.
• 
  Strata R. Chalup:
  SAGE Update.
• 
  Rik Farrow, Jane-Ellen Long:
  Writing for ;login;.

Volume 31, Number 6, December 2006

Opinion

• 
  Rik Farrow:
  Musings.

Security

• 
  Team Cymru:
  The Underground Economy: Priceless.
• 
  Jan Göbel, Jens Hektor, Thorsten Holz:
  Advanced Honeypot-Based Intrusion Detection.
• 
  Andy Ozment, Stuart E. Schechter:
  The Security of OpenBSD: Milk or Wine?
• 
  Nicholas Weaver, Dan Ellis:
  White Worms Don't Work.
• 
  Michael B. Scher:
  On Doing "Being Reasonable".
• 
  Mike Howard:
  How Often Should You Change Your Password?

Sysadmin

• 
  Dave Josephsen:
  Homeless Vikings: Short-Lived BGP SessionHijacking - A New Chapter in the Spam Wars.
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  Mark Burgess:
  Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part3: A Shocking Lack of Ad-Hocracy.

Columns

• 
  David N. Blank-Edelman:
  Practical Perl Tools: Give Me My Woobie Back.
• 
  Robert Haskins:
  ISPadmin: Wireless.
• 
  Heison Chak:
  VoIP Watch: Security.
• 
  Robert G. Ferrell:
  /dev/random.

Book Reviews

• 
  Elizabeth Zwicky, et al.:
  Book Reviews.

Standards Reports

• 
  Nicholas M. Stoughton:
  An Update on Standards.

Usenix Notes

• 
  Ellie Young:
  Thanks to Our Volunteers.