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USENIX LISA 2005 roundup

I just got back from LISA 2005, and had a blast in San Diego! As with every conference I attend, there were some key highlights:

- Don Bailey did an awesome presentation on 802.11 security, and showed just how difficult it is to secure wireless networks.

- Matt Blaze showed numerous flaws in wiretapping technologies (I had no idea what A C-tone was prior to his talk).

- Dan Kaminsky showed how to correlate DNS data and provided the coolest realtime network interaction demo EVER!

- The RedHat BOF on Tuesday night showed that other admins where also having problems getting Linux issues fixed.

- Liane Praza of Sun Microsystems headed an awesome BOF on the current state of Solaris and OpenSolaris.

- Dan Price of Sun Microssytems headed an awesome BOF on the future of Solaris and OpenSolaris.

- Bill Moore from Sun Microsystems did an AWESOME ZFS presentation!

- The guys from Make magazine put on an awesome BOF! Check out their awesome magazine!!!

- The load-balancer BOF Thursday night was fun!

- I got to chat with Bryan Cantrill from Sun Microsystems on Thursday, and truly hope the DTrace team will add dynamic process support ( e.g., pid*httpd*::: ) to the DTrace pid provider.

- I got to see Wiliam LeFevre speak on DNS (this is the guy who wrote top).

The conference was a blast, and I got to meet a lot of cool people while I was there. Hopefully Lisa 2006 will be just as good!