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The USENIX Magazine

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Titles in blue-green are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until August 2007. All articles are in PDF format.

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

SYSADMIN
DataMonster: Building a Cost-Effective, High-Speed, Heterogeneous Shared File System by Mark Uris

Configuration Management: Models and Myths. Part 1: Cabbage Patch Kiss by Mark Burgess

Identity Management Identified by Darrell Fuhriman

System Administration of Command and Control Systems by Andy Seely

NSDI
CoBlitz: A Scalable Large-File Transfer Service by KyoungSoo Park and Vivek S. Pai

A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe by Ryan Peterson, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, and Emin Gün Sirer

SECURITY
Enterprise Routing Sinkholes Using Linux and Open Source Tools by Eric Sorenson

The Protocol Historian by Pete Herzog

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down (Part 1) by David Blank-Edelman

ISPadmin: Traffic Shaping by Robert Haskins

Choosing IP Phones by Heison Chak

BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

USENIX NOTES
Letter to the Editor by Vassilis Prevelakis

The USENIX Association Financial Report for 2005 by Ellie Young

USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions by Ellie Young

2006 Flame and STUG Awards

CONFERENCE REPORTS
NSDI '06: 3rd Symposium on Networked Systems Design & Implementation

FreeBSD Developer Summit & BSDCan

HotMobile 2006: 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications