December 2001, Volume 26, Number 8
Table of Contents

MOTD by Rob Kolstad (PDF)
APROPOS by Tina Darmohray (PDF)
Letters to the Editors(PDF)

COMPUTING
Needles in the Craystack: When Machines Get Sick, Epilogue by Mark Burgess (PDF)

PROGRAMMING
Searching Through Your Files with Glimpse by Bob Gray (PDF)
Some New Numeric Programming Features in C9X by Glen McCluskey (PDF)
A Quick Introduction to Database Systems by Richard Leyton (PDF)
The Tclsh Spot by Clif Flynt (PDF)

SECURITY
Certification Revocation by Paco Hope (PDF)
High Availability Firewalls/VPN with VRRP by Dave Zwieback (PDF)
Musings by Rik Farrow (PDF)

SYSADMIN
Do You Know What's in Your Firewall? by Tom Limoncelli (PDF)
If Computers Had Blood, We'd Be Called Doctors, Part 1 by Steven M. Tylock (PDF)
ISPAdmin by Robert Haskins (PDF)
Stepping on the Digital Scale by Erin Kenneally (PDF)

THE WORKPLACE
Consulting Reflections by Strata R. Chalup (PDF)
Here Comes the Grooming by Steve Johnson and Dusty White (PDF)
Jack-of-All-Trades, Master of None by Carl Shogren (PDF)

BOOK REVIEWS
The Bookworm by Peter H. Salus (PDF)

USENIX NEWS (PDF)