http://lisa.usenix.org All things related to the USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (LISA) Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:38:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bruce Schneier Speaks on Conceptualizing Security at LISA 2008 By Matthew Sacks Bruce Schneier, Chief Security Technology Officer, British Telecom, presented some abstract and cutting edge ideas about security at the LISA conference this year. The topic of re-conceptualizing security presented some new insights and perspectives into what we think of security. One ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=140 At this year's LISA Conference, Clem Cole, President of USENIX and I discussed some of the pressing issues for using software around the time of USENIX’s beginnings. Clem Cole was (and still is) one of the original hackers of the era and we spoke about some of their troubles writing software ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=126 Tobias Oetiker, the creator of MRTG and RRDTool, traveled from Switzerland to LISA this year for fun and to teach. He  delivered an array of training courses and talks on some of his software that has become the de-facto standard for open source monitoring and graphing solutions. In 1998 Oetiker came ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=119 Jordan Hubbard, Director of UNIX Technology at Apple gave a talk at LISA this year about OS X and how continues to come along as a robust, UNIX operating system. Many rare insights were revealed during the talk about recent developments powering the OS X operating system. Some topics discussed was ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=113 I gave a small talk at a BoF at LISA entitled J2EE / Java System Administration. This talk was mostly intended for system administrators at LISA who have not had experience with running J2EE application servers and wanted to get some insights into how it is set up and administered. ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=105 At the "Meet The USENIX Board and Staff" birds of a feather (BoF) the wine was flowing, the company good, and the mood predominantly jovial. The USENIX board and staff were present to field questions about the conference and organization and listen to feedback from their members. A large field ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=101 Tobias Oetiker presented training on how to build simple applications using the Qooxdoo framework at the LISA conference, and opened the doors to attendees to a new, innovative breed of application framework. Qooxdoo (pronounced kooks-doo) is an Ajax application framework, which is utilized to build standalone web applications solely with Javascript. ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=97 USENIX conferences are the premier location for computer science students to present their work such as thesis papers and research projects. Students also benefit from receiving feedback from the best minds in the system administration community. I spoke to a few students to get a better understanding of why computer science ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=93 LISA Insider: The Xen.org Team on Xen Training A new Xen training course was offered at LISA this year in San Diego. Wenjin Hu and Zach Sheperd of Clarkson University delivered the training course. Hu and Sheperd both contributed to the official “Running Xen” book and are both actively involved in ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=82 While wandering the corridors of the LISA conference I noticed that there are quite a few conference attendees wearing LISA shirts from previous years dating all the way back to 1998. In addition to the fantastic feat of maintaining a single article of clothing in a wearable state for over ... http://lisa.usenix.org/?p=77