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The USENIX Magazine

August 2008, Volume 33, Number 4

Titles in purple are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until August 2009. All articles are in PDF format.

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

SECURITY
Storm: When Researchers Collide by Brandon Enright, Geoff Voelker, Stefan Savage, Chris Kanich, and Kiril Levchenko

Building a More Secure Web Browser by Chris Grier, Shuo Tang, and Samuel T. King

Withstanding Multimillion-node Botnets by Colin Dixon, Thomas Anderson, and Arvind Krishnamurthy

SYSADMIN
Ad Hoc Guesting: When Exceptions Are the Rule by Diana Smetters, Brinda Dalal, Les Nelson, Nathaniel Good, and Ame Elliott

Designing High-Performance Enterprise Wi-Fi Networks by Rohan Murty, Jitendra Padhye, Ranver Chandra, Alec Wolman, and Brian Zill

"Standard Deviations" of the Average System Administrator by Alva Couch

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Hi-ho the Merry-o, Debugging We Will Go by David N. Blank-Edelman

Pete's All Things Sun: Solaris System Analysis 101 by Peter Baer Galvin

iVoyeur: Hold the Pixels by David Josephsen

Media Resource Control Protocol by Heison Chak

/dev/random by Robert G. Ferrell

BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

USENIX NOTES

Flame and STUG Awards
USENIX Association Financial Report for 2007

CONFERENCES
NSDI '08 Reports

LEET '08 Reports

BSDCan Reports

BSDCan 2008 FreeBSD Developer Summit


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WOWCS '08: Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems


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