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Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
 
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings
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Schedule as of October 17, 1997

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1997


6:00pm - 7:00pm
Software Asset and License Management
Besty Will, GLOBEtrotter Software

Desktop Administration with Java - Thin Client Management of Fat Clients
Dave Trowbridge, Hummingbird Communications Ltd

Implementing Mission Critical Applications on NT for the Enterprise
Rich Baldwin, Daryl Beeson, NTH Generation Computing, Inc.

Web Caching: The Most Important Web Technology of 1998?
Evi Nemeth, University of Colorado - Boulder

6:00pm - 8:00pm
Open Administration Project for Linux
Tim Bird, Olaf Kirch, Caldera, Inc.

Backup - Solutions for the Real World
Mark Bellinger, Concorde Technologies, Inc.

7:00pm - 8:00pm
The Usenet II Project
Ron Echeverri, Best Internet Communications

Design of a Good Net News System
Sven-Ove Westberg, University of Lulea - Sweden

7:00pm - 9:00pm
Auspex NeTservices deploying enterprise-level shared file services for mixed UNIX and NT/95 environments
Saqib Jang, Auspex Systems Inc.

Cross Platform System Administration: Problems and Solutions
Robert Goosey, ENlighten Software Solutions

8:00pm - 9:00pm
CommVault Users
Kenny Paul, Cisco Systems

INN BOF
James Brister, Internet Software Consortium

Automating the Publication of Business Documents on the Corporate Intranet
Steve McConaughey, Hummingbird Communications Ltd.

Starting and Keeping Alive a Local SAGE Group
Amy Kreiling, SAGE Executive Committee and Chair, North Aarolina Systems Administrator Group (NC*SA)

9:00pm - 10:00pm
BOFH
Sten Drescher, Tivoli Systems

Spam!
Dan Farmer, Earthlink

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1997


9:00pm - 10:00pm
A Management Approach to Choosing a Raid Vendor
Rich Baldwin, NTH Generation Computing, Inc.

PGP Key Signing Session
Christopher Davis, Kapor Enterprises, Inc.

CERT Coordination Center Update
Jeffrey J. Carpenter, CERT Coordination Center

9:00pm - 11:00pm
The State of Solaris
David Van Beveren, EIS Computers, Inc.

10:00pm - 11:00pm
Firewalls
Brent Chapman, Great Circle Associates

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1997


7:00pm - 8:00pm
Documentation Sucks!
Carolyn Hennings, Pencom Systems Administration

Implementing Gigabit Ethernet Within a UNIX Environment
John Hayes and Wayne Hathaway, Alteon Networks, Inc.

8:00pm - 9:00pm
GNU/cfengine: Herterogeneous System Administration for UNIX
Mark Burgess, Oslo College of Engineering

An Update on Standards Relevant to USENIX Members
Nick Stoughton, USENIX Standards Editor

8:00pm - 9:30pm
SAGE Public Meeting and Web BOF
SAGE Executive Committee

9:00pm - 10:00pm
Educational Institution BOF
Robyn Landers and Fraser Gunn, University of Waterloo

 
 


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