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The USENIX Magazine

Titles in teal are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until February 2011. All articles are in PDF format.

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

Whither LISA? by Sean Kamath

SYSADMIN
Configuration Management Phenomenology by Alva Couch

Puppet and Cfengine Compared: Time and Resource Consumption by Jarle Bjørgeengen

FILE SYSTEMS
Building and Installing a Hadoop/Mapreduce Cluster from Commodity Components: A Case Study by Jochen L. Leidner and Gary Berosik

The Case for Specialized File Systems, or, Fighting File System Obesity by Erez Zadok, Vasily Tarasov, and Priya Sehgal

SECURITY
A Look at VoIP Vulnerabilities by Angelos D. Keromytis

NETWORKING
Taming the Torrent by David Choffnes and Fabián E. Bustamante

SSR: Securing the Internet's Identifier Systems by David Piscitello

HARDWARE
Peculiarities of Radio Devices by Rudi van Drunen

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: You Never Forget Your First Date (Object) by David N. Blank-Edelman

Pete's All Things Sun: Crossbow by Peter Baer Galvin

iVoyeur: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do by Dave Josephsen

/dev/random: Project Management—A Primer by Robert G. Ferrell

BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

USENIX NOTES
Nominating Committee Report, 2010 Election for the USENIX Board of Directors by Rémy Evard

Thanks to Our Volunteers by Ellie Young

Corrigendum to Mark Burgess's "The Cloud Minders"

CONFERENCES
Reports on LISA '09: 23rd Large Installation System Administration Conference