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The USENIX Magazine

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Titles in green are open to everyone. The others require USENIX membership until February 2007. All articles are in PDF format.

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

Why Configuration Management Is Crucial by Paul Anderson

Extreme Makeover by Alain Hénon

SYSADMIN
System Management Methodologies with Bcfg2 by Narayan Desai, Rick Bradshaw, and Joey Hagedorn

Puppet: Next-Generation Configuration Management by Luke Kanies

Spam Filtering for the Enterprise by Marc Wallman

Delegating to the Web by Tom Limoncelli

Consulting for Fun and Profit by Dustin Puryear

Keeping Track of Time by Thomas Sluyter

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Configuration Files by David Blank-Edelman

ISPadmin: Blocking Non-Email Spam by Robert Haskins

SECURITY
Single Packet Authorization with Fwknop by Michael Rash

Worm Propagation Strategies in an IPv6 Internet by Steven M. Bellovin, Bill Cheswick, and Angelos D. Keromytis

TECHNOLOGY
MythTV: Some Assembly Required . . . But the Results Can Be Spectacular by Dave Brown

REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

USENIX NOTES
2006 USENIX Nominating Committee Report

"Say Hello, Gracie." "Hello, Gracie." by Strata R. Chalup

Summary of USENIX Board of Directors Meetings and Actions by Tara Mulligan and Ellie Young