16. LISA 2002: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Systems Administration (LISA 2002), Philadelphia, PA, November 3-8, 2002. USENIX 2002 ISBN 1-931971-03-X
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
Steve Traugott: Why Order Matters: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration. 99-120
Short Subjects

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.
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.
Nick Stoughton: Consulting Guru.
W. Curtis Preston: Backups Guru.
Eric Allman: Email/MTAs Guru.
Strata Rose Chalup: Project Management Guru.



