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The USENIX Magazine
October 2008, Volume 33, Number 5
Titles in red are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until October 2009. All articles are in PDF format.
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OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow
SYSADMIN
Solaris Virtualization Options by Wenjin Hu, Todd Deshane, and
Jeanna Matthews
Benchmarking Amazon EC2 for
High-Performance Scientific Computing by Edward Walker
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System Administration Thermodynamics by
Alva L. Couch
A 36-User Asterisk Installation by Robert Solomon
Building Scalable NTP Server Infrastructures by Brad Knowles
Reclaim Disk Space by Shrinking Files by Sandeep Sahore
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PROGRAMMING
Concurrent Patterns: Parallels in System
and Language Design by
Jason Dusek
COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Attachments by David N. Blank-Edelman
Pete's All Things Sun:
Solaris System
Analysis 102 by Peter Baer Galvin
iVoyeur: You Should Write an NEB Module. by David Josephsen
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/dev/random by Robert G. Ferrell
STANDARDS
Update on Standards:
The USENIX Standards Project
by Nick Stoughton
BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews
by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.
USENIX NOTES
Report on USACO by Rob Kolstad
Update on SAGE by Jane-Ellen Long
CONFERENCES
2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference Reports
Third Workshop on Hot Topics in Autonomic Computing Reports
Findings from the First Annual File and Storage Systems Benchmarking Workshop
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