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AUUG 98 Conference Information
AUUG98 Conference
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Dear Delegate,
Open systems is the common thread running through our industry. Open standards, technology, and freely available software are some of the key features that allow diverse products, applications, organizations and communities working in a wide variety of environments to cooperate in working towards common goals.
This year's programme brings you a wide variety of local and overseas speakers, giving you the chance to hear some of the well known names from overseas and people doing interesting work locally. The conference provides a place where you can meet your peers over a meal, see the latest technology in person, hear new ideas, and update your skills.
The programme contains case studies, behind the scenes views of technologies and their development, and a look at why's, wherefore's and future prospects. We look at technology and development issues. We look at free UNIX, which is definitely not just a toy for would-be hackers, but a serious business tool finding a place in many commercial situations. As soon as a technology is capable of doing something useful, there will be someone trying to twist it for their own end, so security is an essential theme which finds a place at this year's conference. Open systems is all about tying things together, so of course, another major theme has to be internetworking.
It is with great pleasure that I invite you to join me at the 1998 AUUG Conference and Exhibition where the strength of the open systems approach is demonstrated.
Lucy Chubb,
AUUG Inc.,
President.
Educated as an aeronautical engineer in the UK, Robert worked in thermo-fluids
research at Monash University, Melbourne Australia before moving to outback
Australia (the Pilbara WA) first as an academic and then as IT Manager.
In 1994, Robert started using Linux, first personally and then as a server
solution. In 1996 Robert started his own consulting company providing Linux
based solutions in Melbourne and moved to the USA to work at Red Hat in
February 1998 as part of their senior management team. Robert is also the
author of parts of the Linux Documentation Project.
He was a member of the technical staff in the research department of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1960 through 1986. His work was initially in Mathematics and Engineering which gradually changed to specialization in computer science, both software and hardware.
He spent the academic year 1966-67 as Visiting Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California at Berkeley.
He was one of the developers of the UNIX operating system, writing all of the numerical software and most of the security-related software, including the password encryption scheme.
He did the architectural design of a very large computer designed for signal processing for the Navy (primarily Sonar). This computer was, at the time it was designed, the largest computer in the world in processing capability.
On his retirement from Bell Laboratories in 1986, he began work at the National Security Agency as the Chief Scientist of the National Computer Security Center, primarily concerned with information security in computer systems.
From 1990 to his retirement in 1994, he was a senior advisor in the portion of NSA responsible for the protection of sensitive U.S. information from exploitation.
Mr. Morris has published about thirty research papers and has been issued two patents.
Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in widespread use. There are estimated to be over 10 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.
Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, a portable optimising compiler which was designed to support diverse architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over 30 different architectures and 7 programming languages. He also wrote the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs.
Stallman received the Grace Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for 1991 for his development of the first Emacs editor in the 1970s. In 1990 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and in 1996 an honorary doctorate from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. In 1998 he received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award along with Linus Torvalds.
Time | Monday 14 September 1998 |
9.00 - 5.00 PM |
Topics include:
Historical perspective
Brief introduction to cryptographic primitives
Useful tools: PGP, SSH, Tripwire, CFS
Cryptographic toolkits: SSLeay, Cryptlib
Export regulations
9.00 - 1.00 PM |
The tutorial covers: shadow passwords, pluggable authentication modules (PAM), /etc/securetty, using tcp_wrappers, security features of RPM (Red Hat Package Manager), Red Hat security update system, and establishing packet filter firewalls on Linux.
1.30 - 5.30 PM |
The tutorial covers:
Tying your systems together (Linux in heterogeneous networks)
Netware client/server capability, MS Windows family file and print client/server capability, Apple Macintosh server capability, and UNIX NFS and lpd services).
Built in Internet services such as Email, WWW, ftp and Usenet news.
The importance of the Open Source model
System reliability, system security, expertise requirements, and system costs.
Support options such as: documentation (books and online), mailing lists and newsgroups, and commercial support options.
Applications availabilty.
An overview of existing Linux uses
When to optimise.
Properties of the Java Platform.
Properties of Java Virtual Machines and JIT compilers.
Profiling techniques for Java programs.
Optimising for speed, space or maintainability.
Optimising Java I/O.
Using multithreading to improve perceived performance.
Assorted performance tips.
Time | Tuesday 15 September 1998 |
9.00 - 5.00 PM |
The tutorial is intended to be interactive, and participants are encouraged to submit specific questions on the subject matter to the AUUG in advance of the tutorial. Relevant questions may be selected for a more detailed coverage.
Basic installation of FreeBSD
Coexistence with other operating systems and Microsoft
Installation of XFree86
Network configuration, including PPP.
As a part of the tutorial handouts, a 4 CD-ROM set of FreeBSD 2.2.6
will also be provided to every tutorial attendee at no extra cost.
9.00 - 1.00 PM |
The material covered includes: Evolution of the GUI programming toolkits, Delegation event model, Geometry management, Menus, Dialogs, Applets and applications
A basic knowledge of Java will be assumed.
1.30 - 5.30 PM |
Lightweight components
Swing components
MVC model
Customisable user interface
Drag and drop
Event management
Text handling
List handling
The tutorial covers thread models supported by POSIX, Solaris, Java, and OSF/DCE. Multithreaded hardware architectures and multithreaded operating systems with example systems will also be discussed. Multithreaded programming examples will be given. This allows one to appreciate how multithreading will benefit high performance computing. At the end of this tutorial, you should be able to evaluate the suitability of threads to your application, use the literature/documentation supplied by your vendor and start the development of multithreaded code. The tutorial is targeted at academicians, application programmers, systems and server designers, operating systems and programming environment developers.
9.00 - 9.40 AM | Official Opening | |
Lucy Chubb, President AUUG Inc., Frank Crawford, Conference Chair | ||
9.40 - 10.20 AM | GNU and Improved | |
Richard Stallman, Free Sofware Foundation | ||
10.20 - 11.00 AM | Morning Break | |
11.00 - 11.30 AM | The State of Linux | |
Robert Hart, Red Hat Software | ||
11.30 - 12.00 PM | FreeBSD | |
Peter Wemm, DIALIX Internet Services | ||
12.00 - 12.30 PM | Panel Session - Freenix, a Viable Alternative ? | |
Robert Hart; Peter Wemm; Anthony Rumble, Electronic Commerce Manager, Corporate Express Australia Ltd.; Jim Manning, Joint Managing Director, National Credit Insurance (Brokers) Pty Ltd; Chaired by: Andrew McRae, Cisco Systems | ||
12.30 - 2.00 PM | Lunch & Exhibition Viewing | |
101 - Technical - File Systems & Storage | 102- Change Control & Management | |
2.00 - 2.25 PM | Storage Appliance Architecture | Scripts to Manage Change |
Alex Miroshnichenko, Veritas Software Corp. | Julie Jester, UNIX Consultant | |
2.30 - 2.55 PM | The Vinum Volume Manager | Experience Using CVS for Long-Running Projects |
Greg Lehey, Independant UNIX Consultant | Peter Chubb, Softway Pty. Ltd. | |
3.00 - 3.25 PM | Fibre Channel & Storage Area Networks | AutoInstall: Automating Platform Installation |
Steve Novak, StorageTek | Gordon Rowell, Independant UNIX Consultant | |
3.30 - 4.15 PM | Afternoon Break & Exhibition Viewing | |
4.15 - 5.00 PM | UNIX Scaling on Intel Architecture to the Merced(tm) Processor | |
Peter Van Deventer, Asia Pacific Server Director, Intel. | ||
6.00 - 8.00 PM | Networking Reception |
9.00 - 9.40 AM | How Not To Lose Information. | |
Robert Morris, Chief Scientist (retired), National Security Agency. | ||
9.40 - 10.20 AM | Panel - E-Commerce | |
Chris Long, Vice President, Interworld. Aseem Prakesh, Chief Executive Officer, Interactive Knowledge On-line. Michael Paddon, Technical Director, Australian Business Access. Chair: Phil McCrea, Business Development Manager, CSIRO. | ||
10.20 - 11.00 AM | Morning Break & Exhibition Viewing | |
201 - Security - Encryption | 202 - Security - Technologies | |
11.00 - 11.25 AM | A Current Perspective On Encryption Algorithms | IPsec Encryption |
Lawrie Brown, Australian Defence Force Academy | Phillip Yialeloglou. Cisco Systems | |
11.30 - 11.55 AM | Issues of Trust with Public Key Certificates | Unified Authentication Using PAM |
Yinan Yang, National Library of Australia | Anthony Baxter, connect.com.au | |
12.00 - 12.25 PM | Torn Money and the PGP Web of Trust | Mission Critical: A Review of "High-Availability" Open Systems |
Greg Rose, Qualcomm Australia | Mark White, Compaq | |
12.30 - 2.00 PM | Lunch & Exhibition Viewing | |
203 - Network Security | 204 - UNIX Architecture | |
2.00 - 2.25 PM | A SESAME Linux Environment | UNIX Systems Programming Using Java |
Paul Ashley, Queensland University of Technology | Jan Newmarch, University of Canberra | |
2.30 - 2.55 PM | A Comparison of SESAME and SSL | HP/UX on IA64 |
Gary Gaskell, Queensland University of Technology | John Knaggs, Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd. | |
3.00 - 3.25 PM | Remote Operating System Identification | UNIX Clustering Comes of Age |
Anthony Osborne, Softway Pty. Ltd | Bruce Walker, Compaq | |
3.30 - 4.15 PM | Afternoon Break & Exhibition Viewing | |
4.15 - 5.00 PM | Internet Infrastructure and Competition for E-Commerce | |
Ramin Marzbani, www.consult | ||
5.00 - 6.00 PM | AUUG Inc. - AGM | |
7.00 - 11.30 PM | Conference Dinner |
9.00 - 9.40 AM | The Architecture of the Olympic Web Site | |
Cameron Ferstat: IBM | ||
9.40 - 10.20 AM | Panel: NT vs UNIX, John Terpstra, Aquasoft Pty Ltd. Chair: Chris Maltby, Softway | |
10.20 - 11.00 AM | Morning Break & Exhibition Viewing | |
301 - Network Technologies | 302 - ISOC-AU | |
11.00 - 11.25 AM | Optical Networking | The Domain Name System: Engineering vs Economics |
Harry Dutton, IBM | Kate Lance, connect.com.au | |
11.30 - 11.55 AM | Building High Volume Distributed Applications Using CORBA | QoS in the Internet: Fact, Fiction or Compromise? |
Saul Cunningham, BEA Systems | Geoff Huston, Telstra Internet | |
12.00 - 12.25 PM | SAMBA | MARSHNet |
John Terpstra, Aquasoft Pty. Ltd | Shaun W. Amy, CSIRO Australia | |
12.30 - 2.00 PM | Lunch & Exhibition Viewing | |
303 - Network Management | 304 - Clustering | |
2.00 - 2.25 PM | Implementation of a User-Pays Library Printing System: A Case Study | Using Clustered Linux PCs For Parallel Processing |
Kay Darbyshire, Richard Jacewicz, Victoria University of Technology | Robert Hart, Red Hat Software | |
2.30 - 2.55 PM | An Architecture for Remote Network Management using the RMON MIB and Programmable Agents | Service Failover by Dynamic DNS Updates |
Brad Williamson, Australian Telecommunications Research Institute and the CRC for Broadband Telecommunications and Networking | Peter Gray, University of Wollongong | |
3.00 - 3.25 PM | Who's Sucking My Data | PARMON: Cluster Monitoring |
George Michaelson, DSTC Pty. Ltd. | Rajkumar Buyya, Queensland University of Technology | |
3.30 - 4.15 PM | Afternoon Break & Exhibition Viewing | |
4.15 - 5.00 PM | The War On Copying | |
Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation |
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Onsite Registrations:
Monday 14 September 1998 8.00 am - 5.30 pm for Tutorials Only
Tuesday 15 September 1998 8.00 am - 2.00 pm for Tutorials Only
3.00 pm - 5.30 pm for Conference
Wednesday 16 September 1998 8.00 am - 5.30 pm
Thursday 17 September 1998 8.00 am - 5.30 pm
Friday 18 September 1998 8.00 am - 5.30 pm
AUUG 98 Secretariat,
P.O. Box 468, Paddington, NSW, 2021.
70 Glenmore Road, Paddington, NSW, 2021.
Telephone: (02) 9332 4622 Facsimile: (02) 9332 4066
Email: auug98@acms.com.au
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