August 1999, Volume 24, Number 4
Table of Contents

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

CONFERENCE REPORTS
Report on the Workshop on Embedded Systems

SAGE NEWS AND FEATURES
Wisdom of Words by Tina Darmohray
Truth, Justice, and the Sysadmin Way by Hal Miller
Sysadmin Tools Your Vendor Never Told You About — Revisited by Mike Nemeth
The SAGE Report by Gale Berkowitz
Call for How-To Authors and Reviewers by Melissa Binde
How-To: Configure DNS by Chris deLongpre
Webmaster's Toolbox: Apache Modules by Neil Kohl
Managing Network Security with Cfengine—Part 1 by Mark Burgess
On Reliability: Security and Reliability by John Sellens
Enough SNMP to Be Dangerous—Part 2 by Elizabeth Zwicky

FEATURES
Optimal Peripheral Access Using Pipe-Based Double-Buffering by Diomidis Spinellis
The Tclsh Spot by Clif Flynt
Source Code UNIX: What's Your Data Worth? by Bob Gray
Software Mini-Review: Red Hat Linux 6.0 by Bob Gray
The Trouble with Biometrics by Christopher Calabrese
Java Performance by Glen McCluskey
Using Java: Input and Output Streams by Prithvi Rao
Musings by Rik Farrow

STANDARDS REPORTS
POSIX Update by Nicholas M. Stoughton
POSIX.1h SRASS and POSIX.1m Checkpoint Restart by Helmut Roth
Whither the X Window System? by Finnbarr P. Murphy

BOOK REVIEWS
The Bookworm by Peter H. Salus
Handbook of Programming Languages Reviewed by Glenn Vanderburg

USENIX NEWS
Member Dues and 1998 Financial Statements by Gale Berkowitz
20 Years Ago in USENIX by Peter H. Salus
USENIX Annual Awards
Board Meeting Summary by Ellie Young
In Memoriam: Mark Weiser

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS
2nd Conference on Domain-Specific Languages
2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies & Systems
2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
motd by Rob Kolstad