Will you be at LinuxCon September 16-18 in New Orleans? We will. We've partnered with the Linux Foundation to offer a 25% registration discount with code "USENIX".
See you in New Orleans!
Did you miss attending USENIX Security '13 and miss the live streaming? Then you might want to check out some of the news coverage from the event:
I'm lucky enough to be able to catch the last day of the USENIX Security Symposium here in Washington, DC, and as soon as I hopped off the plane, I jumped into a session that was just starting, Measuring the Practical Impact of DNSSEC Deployment.
It's one of those moments that stays with you. Where you were when you heard Evi Nemeth, one of the original Unix Graybeards (she didn't actually have a beard, but the honorific still seems appropriate) being declared "lost at sea." I was, as I usually am in the mornings, at a computer. It was an especially bittersweet moment for me, being one of the few technical women in a landscape dominated by men.
At USENIX Security '13 tonight (Wednesday, August 14), attendees are invited to celebrate the life of Evi Nemeth. Attendees are encouraged to share their favorite memories and happy stories at tonight's Tribute to Evi.
Do you have a sys admin-related question you want answered on air (errr... G+ hangout)? If so, email them to me at rikki@usenix.org by 5pm Eastern today (Tuesday, August 6). If your question is chosen to be answered in tonight's hangout recording, you'll receive a free USENIX t-shirt.
Berkeley, Calif., July 31, 2013 — In keeping with its commitment to academic freedom and open access to research, the USENIX Association announced today that Roel Verdult, lead author of the academic paper, “
Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day!
USENIX thinks sysadmins are Kind of A Big Deal, which is why one lucky @LISAConference Twitter follower will win a tech session pass to attend LISA '13. (Yes, we really dig sysadmins!)
Thanks to support from USENIX members, we're able to provide open access to conference proceedings. Videos from our recent USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit (WiAC '13) are now online for your viewing pleasure. More videos will be added as they get edited.