December 1999, Volume 24, Number 6
Table of Contents

IN THIS ISSUE . . .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CONFERENCE REPORTS
Reports on the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

SAGE NEWS AND FEATURES
Wisdom of the Aged by Tina Darmohray
Moving Along by Hal Miller
Don't CPANic by Joseph N. Hall
How Now by Steve Johnson and Dusty White
Managing Network Security with Cfengine, Part 3 by Mark Burgess

FEATURES
IKE/ISAKMP Considered Harmful by William Allen Simpson
The Magic, Art, and Science of Customer Support by Christopher M. Russo
Using Java by Prithvi Rao
The Tclsh Spot by Clif Flynt
Source Code UNIX by Bob Gray
Java Performance by Glen McCluskey
Musings by Rik Farrow

BOOK REVIEWS
The Bookworm by Peter H. Salus

USENIX NEWS
A Tribute to Rich Stevens by Rik Farrow
2000 Election for Board of Directors by Ellie Young
20 Years Ago in USENIX by Peter H. Salus
IOI Report from Turkey by Don Piele
Report from a USENIX Student Grant Project: InDependence — Inferring Dependencies for System Components by Crispin Cowan

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS
7th USENIX Tcl/Tk Conference
4th Symposium on Operating Systems Design & Implementation (OSDI 2000)

motd by Rob Kolstad