16. LISA 2002: Philadelphia, PA, USA

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/lisa/2002,
  title     = {Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Systems Administration
               (LISA 2002), Philadelphia, PA, November 3-8, 2002},
  booktitle = {LISA},
  publisher = {USENIX},
  year      = {2002},
  isbn      = {1-931971-03-X},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Opening Remarks, Awards, and Keynote

• Jim Reese:
  Keynote: Scaling the Web: An Overview of Google (A Linux Cluster for Fun and Profit).
  

Working Smarter

• Thomas S. Stepleton:
  Work-Augmented Laziness with the Los Task Request System. 1-12
  
• Deeann M. M. Mikula, Chris Tracy, Mike Holling:
  Spam Blocking with a Dynamically Updated Firewall Ruleset. 13-20
  
• Michael Gilfix:
  Holistic Quota Management: The Natural Path to a Better, More Efficient Quota System. 21-32
  

Service, Risk, and Scale

• Alain J. Mayer:
  Application Aware Management of Internet Data Center Software. 33-46
  
• Kevin Adams:
  Geographically Distributed System for Catastrophic Recovery. 47-64
  
• Jon Finke:
  Embracing and Extending Windows 2000. 65-74
  

Practical Theory

• Uri Guttman:
  Stem: The System Administration Enabler. 75-82
  
• Lionel Cons, Piotr Poznanski:
  Pan: A High-Level Configuration Language. 83-98
  
• Steve Traugott:
  Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration. 99-120
  

Short Subjects

• John Hart, Jeffrey D'Amelia:
  An Analysis of RPM Validation Drift. 155-166
  
• Robert Beverly:
  RTG: A Scalable SNMP Statistics Architecture for Service Providers. 167-174
  
• Mark Logan, Matthias Felleisen, David N. Blank-Edelman:
  Environmental Acquisition in Network Management. 175-184
  
• David A. Patterson:
  A Simple Way to Estimate the Cost of Downtime. 185-188
  

Security

• V. N. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sekar, T. Kamat, S. Tsipa, Zhenkai Liang:
  An Approach for Secure Software Installation. 219-226
  
• Atsushi Totsuka, Hidenari Ohwada, Nobuhisa Fujita, Debasish Chakraborty, Glenn Mansfield Keeni, Norio Shiratori:
  Network-based Intrusion Detection - Modeling for a Larger Picture. 227-232
  
• Steve Beattie, Seth Arnold, Crispin Cowan, Perry Wagle, Chris Wright, Adam Shostack:
  Timing the Application of Security Patches for Optimal Uptime. 233-242
  

General Track

Logging and Monitoring

• Adam Sah:
  A New Architecture for Managing Enterprise Log Data. 121-132
  
• Tetsuji Takada, Hideki Koike:
  MieLog: A Highly Interactive Visual Log Browser Using Information Visualization and Statistical Analysis. 133-144
  
• Jon Finke:
  Process Monitor: Detecting Events That Didn't Happen. 145-154
  

Service and Network Upgrades

• Alexander Keller, Heiko Ludwig:
  Defining and Monitoring Service-Level Agreements for Dynamic e-Business. 189-204
  
• Noel Burton-Krahn:
  HotSwap-Transparent Server Failover for Linux. 205-212
  
• Richard van den Berg, Phil Dibowitz:
  Over-Zealous Security Administrators Are Breaking the Internet. 213-218
  

Invited Talks

• Paul Vixie:
  "Who ARE These People?" Internet Governance, Peering, and Legislation.
  
• David N. Blank-Edelman: SysAdmin, Stories, and Signing: Learning from Communication Experts.
• Tim Nagle: My Years with the NSA Red Team.
• Panel: Nobody Notices Until It's Broken: Self-Marketing for Sysadmins.
  
• Larry Wall: Perl 6.
• Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christine Hogan: How to Write a Book with Someone You Don't Know: Internet Collaboration for the Truly Geeky.
• John Hurley: Security on Macintosh OS X.
• Lee Damon, Rob Kolstad: The Evolving Ethics of System Administration.
• Daniel V. Klein: The Constitutional & Financial Argument Against Spam.
• Paul Evans: Risk-Taking vs. Management.
• Eric Allman: So You Want to Do a Startup?
• Curtis Preston: Making Backups Easier with Disk.

Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)

Networking

• Brad Knowles:
  Domain Name Server Comparison: BIND 8 vs. BIND 9 vs. djbdns vs. ???
  
• Tony Bourke: Load Balancers.
• Tim Pozar: Large-Scale 802.11 Deployment.

Security

• Peter H. Salus: Internet Security: Beyond Firewalls, Passwords, and Crypto.
• Len Sassaman: The Promise of Privacy.
• Paul Proctor: The Intrusion Detection Timeline.

Guru Sessions

• Jeff R. Allen: Performance Tuning Guru.
• Douglas Hughes: System Monitoring Guru.
• Steve Traugott: Infrastructures Guru.
• Gerald Carter: SAMBA Guru.
• Esther Filderman, Garry Zacheiss: AFS Gurus.
• Nick Stoughton: Consulting Guru.
• W. Curtis Preston: Backups Guru.
• Daniel V. Klein, Mark-Jason Dominus: Perl/Scripting Gurus.
• Eric Allman: Email/MTAs Guru.
• Strata Rose Chalup: Project Management Guru.