USENIX ;login: - October 1998 Table of Contents

October 1998 Table of Contents

IMHO

Pulling on One End of the Rope by Jordan K. Hubbard

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Clarification from Jim Reid

CONFERENCE REPORTS

USENIX 1998 Annual Technical Conference

SAGE NEWS AND FEATURES

Home Sweet Home by Tina Darmohray
Flattening the Curve by Hal Miller
Taming the Certification Beast by David Conran, Barb Dijker, Tim Gassaway, and Kim Trudel
Speakers Bureau by Tim Gassaway and Helen Harrison
Please Quit by Tom Limoncelli
Effective Perl Programming: Simplicity Is a Good Object by Joseph N. Hall

FEATURES

Interview with L. Peter Deutsch by Stig HackVän
Source Code UNIX on the PC by Bob Gray
The Security Model of JDK 1.2 by Dario Forte
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
Java Network Security Reviewed by Terry Rooker
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet Reviewed by Andrew Hume
LDAP: Programming Directory-Enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Reviewed by George W. Leach
Managing Mailing Lists Reviewed by Rick Umali

USENIX NEWS

Letter from the President: Rainless in Seattle by Andrew Hume
Summary of USENIX Board Meetings by Ellie Young
Complete Set of CSRG BSD Releases Available by Kirk McKusick
Twenty Years Ago in ;login: by Peter H. Salus
USENIX Annual Awards
Torn Money
USACO Camp Completed
USACO Letters from Students

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS

LISA '98
2nd IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA '99)
1st USENIX Workshop on Intrusion Detection and Network Monitoring
2nd USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS '99)

motd by Rob Kolstad