October 1999, Volume 24, Number 5
Table of Contents

IN THIS ISSUE . . .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE USENIX CROSSWORD PUZZLE

CONFERENCE REPORTS
Report on the 5th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS)

SAGE NEWS AND FEATURES
Better than Better by Tina Darmohray
SAGE AU '99 by Hal Miller
The Third SAGE! by Hal Miller
SAGE Certification Update by Barbara L. Dijker
System Profiles with Syssumm—A Follow-Up by Bruce W. Mohler
Securing an NT-Based DNS Server by William D. Kramp
Managing Network Security with Cfengine, Part 2 by Mark Burgess
Toolman: Revision Control Revisited by Daniel E. Singer
How-To: Set Up a Time Server by Hal Miller
Enough SNMP to Be Dangerous, Part 3 by Elizabeth Zwicky  

FEATURES
Ypmake: A Tool for NIS by Albert Chin-A-Young
Fundamentals of Troubleshooting TCP/IP by Timothy Hoff
Privacy in the Real World by Dan Geer
Email Archiving by Shane B. Milburn
The Tclsh Spot: Adding Hypertext Links and Image Display to htmlview.tcl by Clif Flynt
IMHO: Y2K by Lee Damon
FreeBSD: Tracking Stable by Rick Leir
Musings by Rik Farrow

STANDARDS REPORTS
The Open Group and IEEE to Develop Joint Revision to POSIX and UNIX Standards

BOOK REVIEWS
The Bookworm by Peter H. Salus

USENIX NEWS
2000 USENIX Nominating Committee by Evi Nemeth
LISA '99 by David Parter
30 Years Since 1969 by Peter H. Salus
Student Research Grants by Gale Berkowitz
Meet USENIX New Staff
USA Computing Olympiad Picks Final Four by Don Piele

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS
Workshop on Applications of Embedded Systems

motd by Rob Kolstad