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Sunday, December 4, 2005      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     S1 Royal Palms Salon 3/4 Rik Farrow Hands-on Linux Security Class: Learn How to Defend Linux/UNIX Systems by Learning to Think Like a Hacker (Day 1 of 2) S2 Sheffield James Mauro and Richard McDougall Solaris 10 Performance, Observability, and Debugging S3 Royal Palms Salon 1/2 Tina Darmohray and John Nicholson Surviving IT Compliance S4 Pacific Salon 1 Abe Singer Building a Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis for Security S5 Pacific Salon 2 John Sellens System and Network Monitoring S6 Pacific Salon 3 Don Bailey 802.11 Wireless Network Penetration Testing S7 Windsor Joshua Jensen Linux Systems Administration S8 Hampton Lee Damon Issues in UNIX Infrastructure Design S9 Royal Palms Salon 5/6 David Rhoades Network Security Assessments Monday, December 5, 2005      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     M1 Royal Palms Salon 3/4 Rik Farrow Hands-on Linux Security Class: Learn How to Defend Linux/UNIX Systems by Learning to Think Like a Hacker (Day 2 of 2) M2 Hampton Peter Baer Galvin Advanced Solaris System Administration Topics M3 Windsor Æleen Frisch Administering Linux in Production Environments M4 Pacific Salon 3 John Gannon and John Arrasjid Introduction to VMware ESX Server M5 Pacific Salon 1 John Sellens System and Network Monitoring: Tools in Depth  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)    M7 Sheffield Abe Singer Security Without Firewalls M8 Royal Palms Salon 1/2 Dan Appelman Intellectual Property Protection and the System Administrator M9 Royal Palms Salon 5/6 Chip Salzenberg Regular Expression Mastery M10 Crescent W. Curtis Preston Backup on a Budget  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)    M11 Crescent Deryck Hodge Google-Driven Web Development M12 Pacific Salon 2 Mark Burgess Introduction to Host Configuration and Maintenance with Cfengine M13 Royal Palms Salon 5/6 Chip Salzenberg Welcome to My ~/bin M14 Sheffield David Rhoades The Latest Hacking Tools and Defenses Tuesday, December 6, 2005      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     T1 Pacific Salon 1 Richard Bejtlich Network Security Monitoring with Open Source Tools T2 Royal Palms Salon 1/2 Joshua Jensen Linux Network Service Administration T3 Windsor Trent Hein and Ned McClain Advanced Topics in System Administration T5 Pacific Salon 3 Tom Limoncelli Help! Everyone Hates Our IT Department! T6 Pacific Salon 2 Gerald Carter Implementing LDAP Directories  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)    T7 San Diego David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Vol. 1 T8 Hampton Mark Burgess Advanced Topics in Host Configuration and Maintenance with Cfengine T9 Sheffield Jacob Farmer Disk-to-Disk Backup and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks T10 Royal Palms Salon 5/6 Strata Rose Chalup Taming the Wild Project  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)    T11 Sheffield John Sellens Databases: What You Need to Know T12 Hampton Peter Baer Galvin Solaris 10 Security Features Workshop T13 Royal Palms Salon 3/4 David Rhoades In-depth Topics for Web Application Security T14 Royal Palms Salon 5/6 Strata Rose Chalup RSS vs. Information Overload Wednesday, December 7, 2005      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     W1 Crescent Richard Bejtlich Network Incident Response W2 Windsor Marc Staveley System and Network Performance Tuning  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)    W3 Sheffield Gerald Carter Kerberos 5: Revenge of the Three-Headed Dog W4 Royal Palms Salon 3/4 Evan Marcus Sure, You Can Archive Data, But Will You Be Able to Retrieve It in Ten Years? W5 Hampton Strata Rose Chalup Practical Project Management for Sysadmins and IT Professionals  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)    W6 Sheffield Mike Ciavarella Advanced Shell Programming W7 Royal Palms Salon 3/4 Evan Marcus Disaster Planning (and Recovery): How to Keep Your Company (and Your Job) Alive W8 Hampton Gerald Carter Ethereal and the Art of Debugging Networks Thursday, December 8, 2005      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     R1 Pacific Salon 1 Richard Bejtlich Network Forensics R2 Pacific Salon 2 Tom Christiansen Advanced Perl Programming  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)    R3 Pacific Salon 3 Mike Ciavarella Pretty and Effective: Fast Wins with Graphical Monitoring R4 Royal Palms Salon 3/4 Theodore Ts'o Recovering from Linux Hard Drive Disasters R5 Hampton Tom Limoncelli Time Management for System Administrators: Getting It All Done and Not Going (More) Crazy!  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)    R6 Pacific Salon 3 Mike Ciavarella Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins R7 Royal Palms Salon 3/4 Andrew Cowie Mastering Massive Changes and Upgrades to Mission-Critical Systems R8 Hampton Mark Burgess Understanding Configuration Management Friday, December 9, 2005      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     F1 Windsor Gerald Carter Managing Samba 3.0 F2 Crescent Eric Allman Advanced Technology in Sendmail F3 Sheffield Mike Ciavarella and Lee Damon Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, & Tools of the Trade F4 Hampton Geoff Halprin Production Change Management: To Each, His or Her Own