LISA 06

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Anyone going?

There's still time. The annual LISA conference is less than 2 weeks away! On-line pre-registration is now closed. Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

LISA '06 will take place in Washington, D.C., December 3–8, 2006. Get the latest updates from the LISA '06 Blog. Don't forget that the schedule is available in iCal format: Subscribe here to find out what's happening when.

Learning from the best has never been so easy: the training program, designed for both beginners and experienced attendees, covers many administrative topics, including:

* Peter Baer Galvin on Solaris 10 Administration

* Richard Bejtlich on TCP/IP Weapons

* Theodore Ts'o on Bzr, Hg, and Git, Oh My! Distributed Source Code Management Systems

* Don Bailey on Wi-Fi, WiMAX, RFID, UWB, Zigbee, Bluetooth, et al. for Dummies . . . and You

* David N. Blank-Edelman on Over the Edge System Administration

* And more

Want more from of our instructors? Check out some of their blogs:

* Richard Bejtlich: http://taosecurity.blogspot.com

* Tom Limoncelli: http://www.everythingsysadmin.com/

The momentum continues with the 3-day technical program beginning on December 6. The program provides:

* The latest developments in system and network administration with the Refereed Papers track. The Best Papers will be awarded on Wednesday morning.

* One of the most impressive Invited Talks programs to date, including:

o Keynote: "Hollywood's Secret War on Your NOC," by Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing and former Director of European Affairs for the EFF

o "Corporate Security: A Hacker Perspective," by Mark "Simple Nomad" Loveless, Vernier Networks, Inc.

o "Everything You Know About Monitoring is Wrong," by Mazda Marvasti, Integrien

o "Virtualization: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly," by Michael Baum, Splunk

o And more

* A peek at next year's innovation as at the Work-in-progress reports (WiPs)

* Guru Is In and Hit the Ground Running sessions

Don't forget about the full-day workshops: Click here for the latest updates.

Plus:

* Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions: Want to schedule a BoF? Want to know what a BoF is? Find out more here.

* A Vendor Exhibition

* And more!

Don't miss LISA '06! Register on-site at the dates and times listed here.

See you in D.C.!

http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/index.html