February 2000, Volume 25, Number 1
Table of Contents

IN THIS ISSUE . . .
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

CONFERENCE REPORTS
LISA '99
DSL '99
USITS '99

SECURITY
The Network Police Blotter by Marcus J. Ranum
Building a Windows NT Bastion Host by Stefan Norberg

OPEN SOURCE
Source Code UNIX by Bob Gray

SYS ADMIN MANAGEMENT
Politeness in Computing by John Nicholson
Interviewing for Sysadmins by Dave Clark
Chunks by Steve Johnson and Dusty White
Musings by Rik Farrow

PROGRAMMING
Using Java by Prithvi Rao
Effective Perl Programming by Joseph N. Hall
Java Performance by Glen McCluskey

BOOK REVIEWS
The Bookworm by Peter H. Salus
Applying UML and Patterns reviewed by Clyf Flynt

STANDARDS REPORT
A New Editor by Nick Stoughton
Introductions by David Blackwood
POSIX Revision Project by Andrew Josey

USENIX NEWS
The Times, They Are A'Changin' by Andrew Hume
New Projects Funded by Gale Berkowitz
Board Meeting Summary by Gale Berkowitz and Ellie Young
20 Years Ago in USENIX by Peter Salus
Report of the Nominating Committee by Evi Nemeth

SAGE NEWS
Ready! Set. No? by Tina Darmohray
From the SAGE President by Barbara Dijker
SAGE Update by Gale Berkowitz

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS
14th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2000)

motd by Rob Kolstad