Meeting History (reverse chronological order)

• June 12th, 2008 7:00pm – Using Puppet for Mac Workstation Configuration Management, by Ski Kacoroski
• May 8th, 2008 7:00pm – Introduction to Digital Forensics (aka Groveling Through File Systems), by Hal Pomeranz
• April 10th, 2008 7:00pm – Why Do We Need Infrastructure, by Lee Damon
• March 13th, 2008 7:00pm – The Guru Is In, Moderated by Lee Damon
• February 21st, 2008 7:00pm – Scaling Nagios to monitor large heterogeneous environments, by Dr Dave Blunt
• January 10, 2008 7:00pm – Lessons learned on implementing a large scale NAS, by Ski Kacoroski
• December 13, 2007 7:00pm – LISA 2007 Conference Report and PARTY!
• November 8, 2007 7:00pm -Fighting Spam with a Perimeter Mail System, by Garrett Honeycutt <ghoneycutt@hq.speakeasy.net> and Eric Heydrick <erichey@hq.speakeasy.net>
• October 11, 2007 7:00pm – Centralized logging using syslog-ng and SEC, by Leon Towns-von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com>
• September 13, 2007 7:00pm – Remote Access from Trusted Clients with OpenVPN and Linux LiveCDs, by James Affeld <jamesaffeld@yahoo.com>
• August 9, 2007 7:00pm – Economies of Focus: How Little Guys Compete in Big Spaces, by Daniel Lieberman <dlieberman@bitpusher.com>
• July 12, 2007 7:00pm – Why Sysadmins Should (Help) Professionalize Technical Support, by Jon Lasser <jon.lasser@isilon.com>
• June 14, 2007 7:00pm – Project Success: Science, Magic or Luck?, by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• May 10, 2007 7:00pm – Learning to Say “Yes”: Thinking of IT as a Service, by Brian Connolly <connolly@speakeasy.org>
• April 12, 2007 7:00pm – Big Lies in System Administration: Truths That Aren’t, by Lee Damon
• March 8, 2007 7:00pm – UNIX Process-Launching Mechanisms, by Leon Towns-von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com>
• February 8, 2007 7:00pm – Effectively Standing Out, by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com
• January 11, 2007 7:00pm – Alas, cancelled due to weather
• December 14, 2006 7:00pm – LISA 2006 Conference Report and PARTY!
• November 9, 2006 7:00pm – Minimal Perl for UNIX/Linux People, by Tim Maher <tim@TeachMePerl.com>
• October 12, 2006 7:00pm – OpenLDAP Experiences, by Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski@comcast.net> & Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com>
• September 14, 2006 7:00pm – Emerging Practices and Standards for Information Lifecycle Management, by Bill Pierce <bpierce@tcloud.com>
• August 10, 2006 7:00pm – The Guru Is In, Moderated by Lee Damon
• July 13, 2006 7:00pm – Windows Crash Dump Analysis, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• June 8, 2006 7:00pm – Intel’s Technical Roadmap for Dual and Quad Core Processors coming in 2006 & 2007, by Intel
• May 11, 2006 7:00pm – Conducted User Management, by Jeremy Mates <jmates@sial.org>
• April 13, 2006 7:00pm – Is Entropy Winning? – Drowning in The Data Tsunami, Lee Damon
• March 9, 2006 7:00pm – What’s New in Solaris 10?, by Leon Towns-von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com>
• February 9, 2006 7:00pm – Crypto: What it means, what it does, how to do it, and NONE of the math, by Robin Battey <zanfur@zanfur.com>
• January 12, 2006 7:00pm – Benchmarking Parallel Systems, by Joanna Gaski <jgaski@hydro.washington.edu>
• December 15, 2005 7:00pm – LISA 2005 Conference Reports and PARTY!
• November 10, 2005 7:00pm – Overview of LVS, Stan Lanning <stanlanning@hotmail.com>
• October 13, 2005 7:00pm – Network Security Monitoring with Sguil, by James Affeld <jamesaffeld@yahoo.com>
• September 8, 2005 7:00pm – Protecting email from SPAM and Malware, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• August 11, 2005 7:00pm – The Guru Is In, Moderated by Lee Damon
• July 14, 2005 7:00pm – Managing Windows with cfengine and unattended, by Alex Dioso <adioso@gmail.com>
• June 9, 2005 7:00pm – Managing 1500 workstations with cfengine, by Chris Kacoroski <kacoroski@comcast.net>
• May 12, 2005 7:00pm – iSCSI (ppt), or (zipped), by Steve Tegeler <stegeler@cisco.com>
• April 21, 2005 7:00pm – KickStart & cfengine, by Jeremy Mates <jmates@sial.org>
• March 10, 2005 7:00pm – Backing up 1500 Mac clients, by Chris Kacoroski <kacoroski@comcast.net>
• February 10, 2005 7:00pm – Installing a small Exchange Implementation in an all Unix Email and Calendar Environment, by Brian Connolly <connolly@speakeasy.org>
• January 13, 2005 7:00pm – Introduction to RT (Request Tracker), by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• December 9, 2004 7:00pm – LISA Conference Report and Potluck, Coordinated by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• November 4, 2004 7:00pm – Nagios Network Monitoring System, by Brian Smith <brian@dialupusa.net>
• October 14, 2004 7:00pm – Infrastructure Roundtable, Moderated by Justin Clayton <justincl@u.washington.edu>
• September 9, 2004 7:00pm – Networking Basics, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• August 12, 2004 7:00pm – Central Logging for UNIX, by Jeremy Mates <jmates@sial.org>
• July 8, 2004 7:00pm – I/O Performance Measurement (PPT), by Bill Pierce <systems_r_up@yahoo.com>
• June 10, 2004 7:00pm – Understanding Compression Algorithms without a PhD, by Mike Dorgan <mdorgan@griptonite.com>
• May 13, 2004 7:00pm – Implementing DDNS/DHCP, by Chris Kacoroski <kacoroski@comcast.net>
• April 8, 2004 7:00pm – What SAs Should Know, Part 2 of 6 – Politics (available as Power Point Slides (349KB) or PDF (soon), by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• March 11, 2004 7:00pm – Lessons Learned Implementing a SAN: From PO’s to Firmware Updates, by Brian Connolly <slooreact@yahoo.com>
• February 12, 2004 7:00pm – The Mac OS X Security Framework, by Leon Towns-von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com>
• January 8, 2004 7:00pm – What SAs Should Know, Part 1 of 6 – Documentation (available as Power Point Slides (1134KB) or PDF (soon), by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• December 11, 2003 7:00pm – SAN, NAS, DAS, and Storage Virtualization? All I wanted was TBs of fast storage!, Brian Connolly <slooreact@yahoo.com>
• November 13, 2003 7:00pm – SMTP Best (and Worst) Practices, Jeremy Mates <jmates@sial.org>
• October 9, 2003 7:00pm – AFS: An Introduction, Lee Damon
• September 11, 2003 7:00pm – Centralized User Management/Provisioning, by Jason Aspin <jason@omsinc.com>
• August 14, 2003 7:00pm – Scaling and Maintaining Linux RPM-Based Distributions with YUM, by Joe Sauer <jsauer@joesauer.org>
• July 10, 2003 7:00pm – An Introduction to Mac OS X for System Administrators, by Leon Towns-von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com>
• June 12, 2003 7:00pm – Shorewall Firewall, by Steve Herber <herber@thing.com>
• May 10, 2003 7:00pm – SysAdmins Anonymous, moderated by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com> & Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• April 10, 2003 7:00pm – Migrating from BIND to DJBDNS, by Brian Hatch <bri@ifokr.org>
• March 13, 2003 7:00pm – XML & Databases, by Don Shanks <dshanks@u.washington.edu>
• February 13, 2003 7:00pm – What SAs Should Know: Secure Shell (SSH), by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• January 9, 2003 7:00pm – Just Another Convicted Perl Hacker, by Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
• December 12, 2002 7:00pm – Practical XML, by Jeremy Mates <jmates@sial.org>
• November 14, 2002 7:00pm – “What I Did At LISA”, moderated by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• October 10, 2002 7:00pm – Protecting E-Mail From SPAM and Malware, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• September 12, 2002 7:00pm – Make Your Time by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• August 8, 2002 7:00pm – Promoting Yourself and SysAdmindom: A Panel Discussion, moderated by Lee Damon
• July 11, 2002 7:00pm – UNIX Development on OS X and the new XServe, by Beau Hunter
• June 13, 2002 7:00pm – Network Scanners, by Mark Foster <mdf@foster.cc>
• May 9, 2002 7:00pm – Effectively Standing Out, by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• April 11, 2002 7:00pm – CEO of Diddly Squat, by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• March 14, 2002 7:00pm – IPSec: Manageable & Interoperable Implementations, by Leon Towns-von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com>
• February 21, 2002 7:00pm – Replacing NIS with Kerberos and LDAP, by Jason Heiss <jheiss@ofb.net>
• January 10, 2002 7:00pm – “SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS”, by Jeremy Mates <jmates@sial.org>
• December 13, 2001 7:00pm – Was one fun PARTY! Sponsered by Hero Network LLC & 24×7 DNS, hosted by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• November 8, 2001 7:00pm – “What SAs Should Know Part 6 of 6, Administering Windows 2000/NT For Unix Admins”, by Brian Connolly <brianc@westside.com>
• October 11, 2001 7:00pm – “What SAs Should Know Part 5 of 6, Version Control & Synchronization, Tricks & Traps” (available as Power Point Slides (160KB) or PDF (190KB), Also the cvswrappers file is available), by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• September 13, 2001 7:00pm – “What SAs Should Know, Part 4 of 6 – Secure Shell (SSH)”, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• August 9, 2001 7:00pm – “What SAs Should Know, Part 3 of 6 – Ethics”, Lee Damon
• July 12, 2001 7:00pm – “What SAs Should Know, Part 2 of 6 – Politics” (available as Power Point Slides (252KB) or PDF (252KB)), by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• June 14, 2001 7:00pm – “What SAs Should Know, Part 1 of 6 – Documentation” (available as Power Point Slides (788KB) or PDF (168KB)), by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• May 10, 2001 7:00pm – “Centralized Printing using LPRng, Samba, and Netatalk”, by Jeremy Mates <jmates@sial.org>
• April 19, 2001 7:00pm – “Veritas VCS (introduction and/or advanced w/ gotchas)”, by James Mello <kingjamm@colltech.com>
• March 8, 2001 7:00pm – “A lightweight system for monitoring Unix”, by Richard Anderson <Richard.Anderson@raycosoft.com>
• February 8, 2001 7:00pm – Mac OS X and You, by Leon von Stauber <leonvs@jump.net>
• January 11, 2001 7:00pm – CVS and The SysAdmin, by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• December 14, 2000 7:00pm – DNS & Mail in the DMZ (available as ppt or zip of ppt & html), by Jason Heiss <jheiss@ofb.net>
• November 9, 2000 7:00pm – Real World Security Procedures for Web Server Farms, by Mark Allyn <allyn@well.com>
• October 12, 2000 7:00pm – Introduction & uses of free site monitoring tools, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• September 14, 2000 7:00pm – The Portolano Expedition in Invisible Computing, by Gaetano Borriello <gaetano@cs.washington.edu>
• August 10, 2000 7:00pm – Secure Site Administration through thinking like a Hacker (PPT or PDF), by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• July 13, 2000 7:00pm – Collecting and reporting data from remote computers (MAIN PAGE), by Bill Comegys <bcomegys@u.washington.edu>
• June 8, 2000 7:00pm – Managing System Adiministrators (PDF or Powerpoint), by Tom Blackerby <tblacker@colltech.com>
• May 11, 2000 7:00pm – Diskless beowulf for Monte Carlo (also available in PDF or Postscript) addition information can be found at the SourceForge ClusterNFS site, by “Gregory R. Warnes” <warnes@biostat.washington.edu>
• April 13, 2000 7:00pm – Introduction and uses of free secured web based email tools, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com>
• March 9, 2000 7:00pm – Service Level Agreements for System Administrators (online HTML), (PPT), (zipped html), by Matthew Lehman <mlehman@nwlink.com>
• February 10, 2000 7:00pm – A short update on IPv6 status & Introduction to XML for Systems Administrator, by Jeff Welty <weltyj@wdni.com>
• January 13, 2000 7:00pm – Version Control using CVS for System Administrators, by Leeland Artra <NWSailer at GreyDragon.com>
• December 9, 1999 7:00pm – Open Source, networks, and systems, by Peter H. Salus (peter@ssc.com), Editorial Director, SSC
• November 11, 1999 7:00 pm – Revision Management for Systems Administrators, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com), Senior Systems Researcher Cellworks Project, UW
• October 14, 1999 7:00 pm – Approaching the PetaByte, by Hal Miller <hal@vidar.mbt.washington.edu>, Senior Systems Administrator, MBT UW
• September 9, 1999 7:00 pm – Amanda Installation and Automation, by Darren/Torin/Who Ever…
• August 12, 1999 7:00 pm – Jumpstart Introduction & Enterprise Rollouts with JumpStart, by Scott McDermott <scottm@octaldream.com> & Jason Heiss <jheiss@ofb.net> respectively
• July 8, 1999 7:00 pm – Samba for production systems, by David Fetrow of Biostat UW
• June 10, 1999 7:00 pm – SSH Uses and Users, by Jeremy Mates (jmates@sial.org), MBT University of Washington
• May, 1999 Canceled due to majority membership attendence of SANS Conference in Baltimore, MD
• April 8, 1999 7:00 pm – The ABCs of AFS for SAs, Mike Wei, Collective Technologies
• March 11, 1999 7:00 pm – Oracle Security for Systems Administrators, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com), Cellworks Project UW
• February 11, 1999 7:00 pm – Year 2000 Problems for Systems Administrators, Richard Bond Sr., MBT UW
• January 14, 1999 7:00 pm – Secure Systems Administration Lecture 2, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com), Cellworks Project UW
• December 1998 7:00 pm – No SAGE Meeting due to Christmas schedules and the LISA NT Conference in downtown Seattle
• November 1998 7:00 pm – Maintaining Continuous Data Availability, by Scott Girvin & Eric Scollard, Veritas
• October 1998 7:00 pm – Windows Registry in Depth & Windows Interpretability, by Dan Pike, Microsoft
• September 1998 7:00 pm – The Other Lost Talk, by unknown
• August 1998 7:00 pm – The Lost Talk, by unknown
• July 9, 1998 7:00 pm – Samba File Sharing, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com) & Hal Miller (hal@vidar.mbt.washington.edu)MBT UW
• June 11, 1998 7:00 pm – An Overview of the MOSIX Multicomputer System for Cluster Computing, by Prof. Amnon Barak, Institute of Computer Science The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• May, 1998 Canceled due to majority membership attendence of SANS Conference in Monterey California
• April 9, 1998 7:00 pm – Issues in *Shared* Network Storage in Multiprotocol Environments, by Andy Watson Network Appliance’s Director of Technical Marketing
• March 12, 1998 7:00 pm – Unix Security Overview, by Dave Dittrich, CAC UW
• February 12, 1998 7:00 pm – Automated Mail Lists, by Mark McWiggins, Hermes & Associates
• January 8, 1998 7:00 pm – Java Programming for Systems Adminstrators, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com), Cellworks Project MBT
• December 11, 1997 7:00 pm – Enterprise Backup & Recovery, by W. Curtis Preston, Pencom Systems Administration/PSA
• November 13, 1997 7:00 pm – Attacking your site for security, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com), Cellworks Project UW
• October 9, 1997 7:00 pm – Just Another Convicted Hacker!, by Randal L. Schwartz
• September 11, 1997 7:00 pm – Service Level Agreements, by D. Matthew Lehman (Mlehman@sla.com)
• August 14, 1997 7:00 pm – Bulletproofing against Spam attacks, by Barb Dijker (barb@netrack.net)
• July 10, 1997 7:00 pm – Guru is in, Hal Miller (hal@vidar.mbt.washington.edu) and Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com)
• June 12, 1997 7:00 pm – IPv6 Intro & Advances, by Jeff Welty (weltyj@wdni.com) of Weyrhouser
• May 8, 1997 7:00 pm – Tacoma City Light plans for a fully redundant fiber, by Steve Roberts Tacoma City
• April 10, 1997 7:00 pm – Distributed Software Development with CVS, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com), Cellworks Project UW
• March 13, 1997 7:00 pm – Selecting a Firewall, by Carl Brown Pencom Systems Administration
• February 13, 1997 7:00 pm – Secured Systems Administration, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com), Cellworks Project UW
• January 9, 1997 7:00 pm – IMAP implementation, by Mark Fromm
• December 12, 1996 7:00 pm – CGI Programming, by James Walden (walden@fermi.phys.cmu.edu)
• November 14, 1996 7:00 pm – Making Sendmail Work, by Paul Forgey
• October 10, 1996 7:00 pm – Domain Name System: An Empirical Perspective, by Gordon C. Galligher
• September 12, 1996 7:00 pm – Pretty Good Privacy, by Bruce Alan Wynn (wynn@colltech.com)
• August 8, 1996 7:00 pm – Data collection via WEB pages with CGI, by Leeland Artra (NWSailer at GreyDragon.com)
• July 11, 1996 7:00 pm – initial meeting