USENIX ;login: - August 1998 Table of Contents

August 1998 Table of Contents

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Unique UIDs from Christopher J. Calabrese
Computer Attacks from Theo Van Dinter

CONFERENCE REPORTS

4th USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS)
7th Annual System Administration, Networking and Security Conference (SANS 1998)

SAGE NEWS AND FEATURES

A Trip to SANS by Tina Darmohray
The Case for Expansion by Hal Miller
Effective Perl Programming by Joseph N. Hall
Toolman: Sorting and Archiving Email by Daniel E. Singer
TCPDUMP: The Spanner Wrench of Network Monitoring by Phil Cox
On Reliability Restores and Recovery by John Sellens

FEATURES

Loading Source Code UNIX on the PC by Bob Gray
Small Tools for Automatic Text Generation by Diomidis Spinellis
Interview with John Stewart by Rob Kolstad
Java Performance by Glen McCluskey
Using Java by Prithvi Rao
Musings by Rik Farrow

STANDARDS REPORTS

An Update on Standards Relevant to USENIX Members by Nicholas M. Stoughton

BOOK REVIEWS

The Bookworm by Peter H. Salus
Tcl/Tk Tools Reviewed by Clifton Flynt
TCP/IP Network Administration, 2nd Ed. Reviewed by Rob Jenson

USENIX NEWS

Member Dues
USENIX PGP Key Signing Service to be Discontinued by Greg Rose
Riding in Style
1998 US Open USACO Programming Championships by Rob Kolstad
News From EurOpen.SE by Jan Saell
Twenty Years Ago in ;login: by Peter H. Salus

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS

3rd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce
6th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference
1st International SANE Conference
1st Conference on Network Administration
5th Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies &
Systems
USENIX 1999 Annual Technical Conference

motd by Rob Kolstad