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The USENIX Magazine

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

OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

OpenSolaris: The Model by Tom Haynes

PROGRAMMING

Code Testing and Its Role in Teaching by Brian Kernighan

Modular System Programming in MINIX 3 by Jorrit N. Herder, Herbert Bos, Ben Gras, Philip Homburg, and Andrew S Tanenbaum

Some Types of Memory Are More Equal than Others by Diomedis Spinellis

Simple Software Flow Analysis Using GNU Cflow by Chaos Golubitsky

Why You Should Use Ruby by Luke Kanies

SYSADMIN
Unwanted HTTP: Who Has the Time? by David Malone

Auditing Superuser Usage by Randolph Langley

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Programming, Ho Hum by David Blank-Edelman

New Column! VoIP Watch by Heison Chak

New Column! /dev/random by Robert G. Ferrell

STANDARDS
USENIX Standards Activities by Nicholas M. Stoughton

REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky, with Sam Stover and Rik Farrow

USENIX NOTES
Letter to the Editor by Ted Dolotta

Fund to Establish the John Lions Chair in Operating Systems at the University of New South Wales

CONFERENCE REPORTS
LISA '05: The 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference

WORLDS '05: Second Workshop on Real, Large Distributed Systems

FAST '05: 4th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies