LinuxPR: Timely Topics And Security Issues Top Sysadmin Conference Program

“Berkeley, CA, October 25, 2001 — The USENIX
Association and The System Administrators Guild (SAGE) today
announced the addition of speaker William LeFebvre of CNN to their
LISA, the 15th System Administration Conference in San Diego,
California in December. “CNN.com: Facing a World in Crisis” will
examine the need for vigilance in system administration and discuss
the trials CNN system administrators faced when their internet site
failed during the news deluge of the September 11th tragedy.

“Complacency during easy times can turn the unexpected event
into a calamity,” LeFebvre said. “Our site was brought back up by
talented administrators whose work is vital to the health of the
web site.”

The LISA 2001 conference has always been a popular learning and
networking venue for system administrators internationally. Its
program addresses technical problems and diverse levels of
experience combined with discussion on political, legal, and
business aspects of computing. It regularly attracts a stellar list
of industry luminaries such as Keynote Speaker and Science Fiction
Writer Greg Bear, Security gurus Avi Rubin and Marcus Ranum,
Sendmail creator Eric Allman, Perl expert Tom Christiansen, and Evi
Nemeth, co-author of the sysadmin’s bible “The UNIX System
Administration Handbook.”

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