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Sunday, November 11, 2007      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     S1 Reunion C Simson L. Garfinkel NEW! Computer Forensics S2 Landmark B John Arrasjid and Stephen Sorota Introduction to VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 S3 Reunion A Geoff Halprin NEW! Effective Change Management: Making System Integrity Easy S5 Landmark A Marc Staveley System and Network Performance Tuning  Half Day Tutorials (Morning: 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    S7 Reunion E Tom Limoncelli Time Management for System Administrators S8 Reunion G David Hankins NEW! Advanced DHCP (This Is Not Your Grandparents' DHCP) S9 Reunion F Mark Burgess NEW! Integrating Cfengine into Organizational Service Management  Half Day Tutorials (Afternoon: 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    S11 Reunion E Chris Page NEW! Systems Topics in Oracle Database Administration S12 Reunion G Michael W. Lucas NEW! Network Diagnosis and Improvement with Netflow S13 Reunion F Mark Burgess NEW! Implementing Some Autonomic Principles Using Cfengine Monday, November 12, 2007      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     M1 Landmark B Æleen Frisch Administering Linux in Production Environments M2 Reunion C Stephen Sorota and Dan Anderson NEW! Advanced Topics in VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 M3 Reunion A Lee Damon Issues in UNIX Infrastructure Design M4 Reunion B Steve VanDevender NEW! High-Capacity Email System Design M5 Landmark A Peter Baer Galvin & Marc Staveley Solaris 10 Administration Workshop (Hands-on)  Half Day Tutorials (Morning: 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    M6 Reunion F David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Volume 1 M7 Reunion E Tobias Oetiker NEW! RRDtool as a Communication Tool M8 Reunion G Strata Rose Chalup Practical Project Management for Sysadmins and IT Professionals M9 Reunion H Adam Moskowitz How to Interview a System Administrator  Half Day Tutorials (Afternoon: 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    M10 Reunion F David N. Blank-Edelman Over the Edge System Administration, Volume 2 M11 Reunion E Tobias Oetiker NEW! The Joy of Running Diskless Linux M12 Reunion G Strata Rose Chalup Problem-Solving for IT Professionals M13 Reunion H John Sellens NEW! Nagios in Depth Tuesday, November 13, 2007      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     T1 Reunion C Faisal N. Jawdat NEW! Introduction to Ruby, Rails, and Capistrano T2 Landmark B Alan Robertson NEW! Configuring and Deploying Linux-HA T3 Reunion A Marcus Ranum NEW! Thinking About Security (Because They Really Are Out to Get You) T4 Reunion B Patrick Koetter & Ralf Hildebrandt NEW! Postfix Configuration and Administration T5 Landmark A Peter Baer Galvin Solaris 10 Security Features Workshop (Hands-on)  Half Day Tutorials (Morning: 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    T6 Reunion H Mike Ciavarella Advanced Shell Programming T7 Reunion F Geoff Halprin & Elizabeth Zwicky NEW! Management 101: Effective Communication Tools for SysAdmins T8 Reunion G Æleen Frisch & Kyrre Begnum NEW! Virtualization: VMs! What Are They Good For? T9 Reunion E Jacob Farmer Disk-to-Disk Backup and Eliminating Backup System Bottlenecks  Half Day Tutorials (Afternoon: 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    T10 Reunion H Mike Ciavarella Documentation Techniques for Sysadmins T11 Reunion F Geoff Halprin & Elizabeth Zwicky NEW! Management 201: Effective Team Management of System Administrators T12 Reunion G Gerald Carter So You Have Active Directory: Now What? A Guide to AD Integration for UNIX Sysadmins T13 Reunion E Jacob Farmer Next-Generation Storage Networking Wednesday, November 14, 2007      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     W1 Reunion E Lee Damon & Mike Ciavarella Seven Habits of the Highly Effective System Administrator: Hints, Tricks, Techniques, & Tools of the Trade W2 Reunion H James Mauro Solaris 10 Performance, Observability, & Debugging  Half Day Tutorials (Morning: 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    W3 Moreno AB Ralf Hildebrandt & Patrick Koetter NEW! Postfix Anti-Spam Workshop W4 Reunion G Tom Limoncelli NEW! Climb Out of the "Bad IT" Hole W5 Cotton Bowl Gerald Carter Wireshark (Ethereal) and the Art of Debugging Networks  Half Day Tutorials (Afternoon: 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    W6 Moreno AB Patrick Koetter & Ralf Hildebrandt NEW! Cyrus SASL Authentication Workshop W7 Reunion G Hunter Matthews NEW! Setting Up a Server Room or Data Center (or Data Closet) Thursday, November 15, 2007      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     R1 Reunion H Jeff Victor NEW! Resource Management with Solaris Containers  Half Day Tutorials (Morning: 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.)    R2 Reunion E Bruce Potter NEW! RF Road Warrior: Secure Wireless Computing for Home, Work, and the Road R3 Reunion G Rudi van Drunen NEW! Hardware for the (Software-Oriented) Sysadmin R4 Cotton Bowl John Sellens Databases: What You Need to Know  Half Day Tutorials (Afternoon: 1:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m.)    R5 Reunion E Evan Marcus Disaster Preparedness (and Recovery): How to Keep Your Company (and Your Job) Alive R6 Reunion G Æleen Frisch Beyond Shell Scripts: 21st-Century Automation Tools and Techniques R7 Cotton Bowl John Sellens NEW! Performance Tracking with Cacti Friday, November 16, 2007      Full Day (9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)     F1 Reunion H Gerald Carter Implementing [Open]LDAP Directories F2 Reunion E Bruce Potter NEW! Wireless Networking, Security, Vulnerability Assessment, and Penetration Testing F3 Reunion G Evan Marcus Achieving High Availability (in Your Lifetime) F4 Moreno AB David Beazley NEW! Python in Action