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Sunday, December 3, 2006      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     S1 Cotillion N Peter Baer Galvin NEW! Solaris 10 Administration Workshop S2 Cotillion S Richard Bejtlich NEW! TCP/IP Weapons School (Day 1 of 2) S3 Washington 1 John Sellens System and Network Monitoring: Tools in Depth S4 Virginia A/B Æleen Frisch Administering Linux in Production Environments S5 Washington 2 Rik Farrow NEW! Linux Server Security Hands-On S6 Washington 3 Tom Christiansen Advanced Perl Programming  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)     S7 Virginia C William LeFebvre Introduction to Domain Name System Administration S8 Washington 5 Theodore Ts'o NEW! Bzr, Hg, and Git, Oh My! Distributed Source Code Management Systems S9 Washington 6 Gerald Carter NEW! So You Have Active Directory: Now What? (A Guide to AD Integration for UNIX Sysadmins)  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)     S10 Virginia C William LeFebvre Intermediate Topics in Domain Name System Administration S12 Washington 6 Gerald Carter Kerberos 5: Revenge of the Three-Headed Dog Monday, December 4, 2006      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     M1 Virginia A/B Marc Staveley System and Network Performance Tuning M2 Cotillion S Richard Bejtlich NEW! TCP/IP Weapons School (Day 2 of 2) M3 Cotillion N Lee Damon Issues in UNIX Infrastructure Design M4 Washington 1 Esther Filderman and Alf Wachsmann An Introduction to OpenAFS and Its Administration M5 Washington 2 Matt Larson Advanced Topics in DNS Administration  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)     M6 Washington 3 David Rhoades The Latest Hacking Tools and Defenses M7 Virginia C Daniel L. Appelman NEW! Blogs and Spam: Legal Issues for the System Administrator M8 Washington 4 Æleen Frisch NEW! Beyond Shell Scripts: 21st-Century Automation Tools and Techniques M9 Washington 5 Gerald Carter Ethereal and the Art of Debugging Networks  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)     M10 Washington 3 Mike Ciavarella Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins M11 Virginia C Adam Moskowitz NEW! How to Interview a System Administrator M12 Washington 4 John Sellens Databases: What You Need to Know M13 Washington 5 Strata Rose Chalup Project Troubleshooting Tuesday, December 5, 2006      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     T1 Virginia A/B James Mauro and Richard McDougall Solaris 10 Performance, Observability, and Debugging T2 Cotillion S Abe Singer Building a Logging Infrastructure and Log Analysis for Security T3 Cotillion N Mike Ciavarella and Lee Damon Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, & Tools of the Trade T4 Washington 6 Gerald Carter Managing Samba 3.0 T5 Washington 1 John Arrasjid and Stephen Sorota Introduction to VMware ESX Server  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)     T6 Washington 2 Murray Kucherawy NEW! Hitchhiker's Guide to Email Sender Authentication T7 Washington 3 Jacob Farmer Disk-to-Disk Backup and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks T8 Washington 4 David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Vol. 1 T9 Virginia C Rik Farrow NEW! Firewalls and Internet Security for Mac OS X  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)     T10 Washington 2 Murray Kucherawy NEW! Writing Filters Using "milter" T11 Washington 3 Jacob Farmer Next Generation Storage Networking T12 Washington 4 David N. Blank-Edelman NEW! Over the Edge System Administration, Vol. 2 T13 Virginia C Rudi van Drunen NEW! Enterprise Wireless Network Setup Wednesday, December 6, 2006      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     W1 Washington 1 Jeff Victor NEW! Resource Management with Solaris Containers W2 Coolidge Gerald Carter Implementing [Open]LDAP Directories  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)     W3 Washington 3 Mike Ciavarella Advanced Shell Programming W4 Washington 2 Ed DeHart NEW! Internet Security for UNIX System Administrators W5 Hoover David N. Blank-Edelman NEW! Hackingn Perl  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)     W6 Washington 3 Abe Singer Security Without Firewalls W7 Washington 2 Ed DeHart NEW! Setting Up a Data Center (or Data Closet) W8 Hoover Strata Rose Chalup NEW! Problem-Solving for IT Professionals Thursday, December 7, 2006      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     R1 Washington 3 Peter Baer Galvin and Marc Staveley Solaris 10 Security Features Workshop R2 Washington 1 Joshua Jensen Linux Systems Administration  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)     R3 Hoover Tom Limoncelli Time Management: Getting It All Done and Not Going (More) Crazy! R4 Washington 2 Strata Rose Chalup Practical Project Management for Sysadmins and IT Professionals R5 Coolidge Chip Salzenberg Regular Expression Mastery  Half Day Tutorials (p.m.)     R6 Washington 2 Evan Marcus Blueprints for High Availability R7 Hoover Gerald Carter NEW! Hot Swap File/Print Services from Windows to Samba R8 Coolidge Chip Salzenberg NEW! Higher-Order Perl Friday, December 8, 2006      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     F1 Washington 3 Richard Bejtlich Network Security Monitoring with Open Source Tools F2 Virginia C Don Bailey NEW! Wi-Fi, WiMAX, RFID, UWB, Zigbee, Bluetooth, et al. for Dummies . . . and You  Half Day Tutorials (a.m.)     F3 Washington 1 Evan Marcus Disaster Planning (and Recovery): How to Keep Your Company (and Your Job) Alive F4 Washington 2 Michael Cucchi NEW! Wide Area Storage Networking: Server Consolidation and Data Protection Over the WAN F5 Balcony B Chip Salzenberg Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags