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OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

SYSADMIN
Package Managers Still Vulnerable: How to Protect Your Systems by Justin Samuel and Justin Cappos


STORM: Simple Tools for Resource Management by Mark Dehus and Dirk Grunwald

Programming the Virtual Infrastructure by Paul Anderson

Python: An Untapped Resource in System Administration by Corey Brune

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Be the Browser by David N. Blank-Edelman

Pete's All Things Sun: Analytics for the Masses (of Storage Administrators) by Peter Baer Galvin

iVoyeur: Message in a Bottle—Replacing Email Warnings with SMS by Dave Josephsen

/dev/random by Robert G. Ferrell

BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

USENIX NOTES
The International Olympiad on Informatics by Rob Kolstad

Got a Minute? by Jane-Ellen Long

USENIX Discussion List and New Videos Available! by Anne Dickison

CONFERENCES
22nd Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '08) Reports

Symposium on Computer Human Interaction for Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT '08) Reports

Report on the 8th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium