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AUUG2005—The Conference for UNIX, Linux and Open Source Professionals

Carlton Crest Hotel, Sydney
Conference 19-21 October
Tutorials 16-18 October

Conference Programme

Time
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
 
9:00am - 9:10am CONFERENCE OPENING Adrian Close
Conference Chair
AUUG Inc.

David Purdue
President
AUUG Inc.

9:10am - 9:50am KEYNOTE Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation

9:50am - 10:30am PLENARY Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems

OpenSolaris/DTrace

10:30am - 10:50am Morning Tea Break
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Crypto Systems and Documentation
10:50am - 11:30am Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland

Usability Issues for Security Application Developers

Aftab Alam, I.I.T Kanpur, India

Managing client services in a large computing environment

11:30am - 12:10pm Yi Gao, University of Wollongong

Preventing DoS Attacks with A New Client Puzzle Scheme

Michael Strong, Metaskills Pty Ltd

Systems Documentation for Fun and Profit!

12:10am - 12:50pm Steve Landers, Digital Smarties

Cryptkit - a high level crypto extension for Tcl

Malcolm Herbert, Monash University

An Introduction to Postscript

12:50pm - 1:50pm Lunch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Spam Countermeasures Real World
1:50pm - 2:30pm Tobias Eggendorfer, FernUniversitaet in Hagen

Stopping Spammers' Harvesters using a HTTP-tar pit

Greg Baker, Institute for Open Systems Technologies

It's nearly cheaper to build a smart apartment than a dumb one, but it's much harder work

2:30pm - 3:10pm David Purdue, Sun Microsystems

Adventures In The Tar Pit - Implementing OpenBSD's spamd

Martin Schwenke, IBM Linux Technology Centre

Recording a Rock Band with Linux

3:10pm - 3:50pm Enno Davids

Challenge/Response Email Filtering

Paul McGowan, Yawarra Information Appliances

Online security - mitigating the risks of identity theft

3:50pm - 4:10pm Afternoon Tea Break
4:10pm - 4:50pm PLENARY Damien Miller

Secure Portability

4:50pm - 5:30pm FOOTNOTE Brad Templeton, Foresight Institute

5:30pm - 6:30pm AUUG Inc - Annual General Meeting
6:30pm - 8:30pm NETWORKING RECEPTION
Time
Thursday, 20 October 2005
 
9:00am - 9:45am KEYNOTE Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland

Self-Sustaining Open Source Software Development

9:45am - 10:30am PLENARY Dejan Diklic, IBM

Challenges of Leveraging Linux in Corporate Offerings

10:30am - 10:50am Morning Tea Break
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
ISOC-AU Open Source OS
10:50 - 11:30am Andrew McRae, NetD

Building a Router on Linux

Luke Mewburn, The NetBSD Foundation

build.sh: Cross-building NetBSD

11:30am - 12:10pm Tony Hill, President, ISOC-AU

Ubiquitous Networks, Open Source and the Future of the Internet

Andrew Chalmers

An Introduction to GNU Hurd

12:10pm - 12:50pm Ian Peter, Ian Peter and Associates

Internet Protocols and Governance

Russell Coker, Red Hat

Multi Level Security (MLS) on NSA Security Enhanced Linux

12:50pm - 1:50pm Lunch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Networking Open Source Applications
1:50pm - 2:30pm Peter Yardley, University of Technology, Sydney

A Complete Network Management System Using Freeware Tools

Darren Skidmore, Melbourne University

Does a FOSS Repository for Tactical and Operational Management exist?

2:30pm - 3:10pm Joel Sing, Ionix

TCP Over Geostationary Satellite Links: Analysing the Impact of Latency, Delayed Acknowledgments and Initial Window Size

Julian Coyne, Unified Business Systems

Content Management System strategies for Business and Government

3:10pm - 3:50pm Frank Crawford, ac3

My Home Network

Mark Uemura

A business case for integrating Open Source into corporate IT infrastructures

3:50pm - 4:10pm Afternoon Tea Break
4:10pm - 4:50pm PLENARY Mark Uemura

Open Source Secure Wireless Networks in a Windows World

4:50pm - 5:30pm FOOTNOTE Greg Lehey, MySQL AB

Free as in free beer

7:30pm - 11:30pm CONFERENCE DINNER
Time
Friday, 21 October 2005
 
9:00am - 9:45am KEYNOTE Chris Green, Microsoft

Microsoft and UNIX Interoperability

9:45am - 10:30am PLENARY Arjen Lentz, MySQL AB

Confession Time - Deadly Sins Using MySQL and PHP

10:30am - 10:50am Morning Tea Break
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
Database Systems Administration
10:50am - 11:30am Stewart Smith, MySQL AB

An Introduction to MySQL Cluster: Architecture and use

Carl Makin, IP Australia

A light trip through the FreeBSD ports system.

11:30am - 12:10am Yi Mu, University of Wollongong

SQL Structure Rebuilder: Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory

Bcfg2: A Pay As You Go Approach to Configuration Complexity

12:10pm - 12:50pm Dan Kennedy, SQLite

Database As Application File Format

Dean Povey, Vintela

Kerberos, LDAP and Active Directory: Single Sign-On for UNIX and Beyond

12:50pm - 1:50pm Lunch
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
LAMP Applications
1:50pm - 2:30pm Luke Welling, Hitwise

Building a Simple PHP/MySQL Geographical Information System

Ahmed Bentiba, Etisalat University College, UAE

The Java Linux Administration Tool, JLAT

2:30pm - 3:10pm Laura Thomson, RMIT University

PHP Security

Troy Stevens, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc

Designing an Enterprise Print Solution

3:10pm - 3:50pm Edward Stow, Charles Sturt University

Web application benchmarking: An open source TPC-W implementation with LAMP

Joergen Skogstad, Sun Microsystems

Applied service- and application provisioning

3:50pm - 4:10pm Afternoon Tea Break
4:10pm - 4:50pm PLENARY Michael Paddon, Qualcomm

4:50pm - 5:30pm FOOTNOTE Reyk Floeter, Vantronix

"Because it has to be free" - Wireless support in OpenBSD

At time of going to press all programme details are correct.  Presentations are sometimes subject to change.  To ensure that you have up-to-date information, please collect a Daily Programme Update (available at the Registration Desk) for confirmation of presentations and start time.