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The USENIX Magazine

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Titles in gold are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until October 2007. All articles are in PDF format.

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

PROGRAMMING
Algorithms for the 21st Century by Stephen C. Johnson

Maybe You Should Use Python by Mike Howard

SYSADMIN
Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 2: Babel, Babble, Toil, and Grammar by Mark Burgess

It's About Time . . . by Brad Knowles

TECHNOLOGY
Multi-Core Microprocessors Are Here by Richard McDougall and James Laudon

Measuring Performance of FreeBSD Disk Encryption by Timo Sivonen

NETWORK
Automating Server Selection with OASIS by Michael J. Freedman

WISPER: Open Source, Long-Distance Wireless by Rik Farrow

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Part 2) by David Blank-Edelman

ISPadmin: Anti-Spam Roundup by Robert Haskins

Echo in VoIP Systems by Heison Chak

/dev/random by Robert G. Ferrell

BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

STANDARDS REPORTS
An Update on Standards: Diary of a Standard Geek by Nick Stoughton

Why Get Involved in POSIX? by Andrew Josey

USENIX NOTES
USACO News by Rob Kolstad

SAGE Update by Strata Chalup

Writing for ;login; by Rik Farrow and Jane-Ellen Long

CONFERENCE REPORTS
2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

SRUTI '06: 2nd Workshop on Steps to Reducing Unwanted Traffic on the Internet

EVT '06: 2006 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop