[PLUG] [plug-announce] LISA Conference in Atlanta, November 14-19

["Michael C. Toren" <mct@toren.net>]

Peter Mui <pmui@usenix.org> of the USENIX Association asked me to forward
the following information regarding the upcoming LISA (Large Installation
System Administration) conference in Atlanta, November 14-19:

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Register now for LISA, the 18th Annual Large Installation System
Administration conference at: http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm

LISA comes to Atlanta November 14-19.  As always, the breadth and quality
of this years tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and participants
is excellent. Some highlights:

Professional TRAINING:  The biggest and best slate of tutorials we've
ever had: 36 instructors teaching 51 full-day and half-day tutorials,
30 of which are new.  Some quick examples:

   o  John Sellens: System and Network Monitoring
   o  David Rhoades: Securing Web-based Apps
   o  Eric Allman: Advanced Sendmail
   o  Rik Farrow: Thinking Like a Hacker
   o  Peter Baer Galvin: Advanced Solaris Administration
   o  James Mauro and Richard McDougall: Solaris Kernel Performance,
      Observeability, and Debugging

PAPERS and INVITED TALKS: luminaries such as Joshua Goodman, Esther
Filderman, Gerald Carter and Yi-Mon Wang will present cutting-edge
issues in topics such as:

   o  Looking at both symptom and state information for configuration faults
   o  Biology and Informatics for System Adminstrators
   o  Electronic Presidential Campaigning and the lessons learned
   o  How spammers are circumventing Bayesian filtering
   o  Information Security Laws
   o  Grid Computing

Birds-of-a-Feather sessions and Work-in-Progress reports give you a
preview of next year's news, or present fledgling work of your own
and get feedback from the audience.

Single- and multi-day registration options let you attend for
one day or several.  Register by October 22 and save up to $300.

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 WHAT: LISA - the 18th Large Installation System Administration Conference
 WHEN: November 14-19, 2004
WHERE: Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Marriott Marquis
  WHO: System Administrators, Network Administrators, CIOs, CTOs,
       Researchers, Tool Providers, Support and Help Desk personnel, etc.
  WHY: To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer system administration
  HOW: http://www.usenix.org/lisa04/progm
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