9:00am - 10:30am
Config Management
Session Chair: Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh

An Anarchists Guide to Herterogeneous Configuration Management
Alva Couch, Tufts University

An Analysis of UNIX System Configuration
Remy Evard, Argonne National Lab

9:00am - 10:30am
A Technologist Looks at Management
Steve Johnson, Transmeta Corp.

Managers and employees have models in their heads for what the manager/employee relationship should look like. Unfortunately, no two people seem to have the same model. This causes tension as our boss fails meet our expectations, even as we fail to meet his or hers.

This is a somewhat irreverant look at management by someone who is a technical person, but has managed research and development in both large companies and startups. The aim is to present material that Dilbert would approve of.

We talk about common models, how to smoke out differences between your model and your boss's, and how to resolve those differences. We touch on job descriptions, dealing with deadlines and the resulting stress, dealing with bozos in your management chain, making your boss/employee look good, performance reviews, trust, teamwork, dealing with difficult employees or peers, squeaky wheels, planning, budgets, diversity, power, harassment, petty tyrants, and, after all this, how to decide whether you want to manage, and how to start to do it well.

10:30am - 11:00am
Break

10:30am - 11:00am
Break

11:00am - 12:30pm
Mail
Session Chair: Bill LeFebvre, Group sys Consulting

Tuning Sendmail for Large Mailing Lists
Rob Kolstad, BSDI

Selectively Rejecting Spam Using Sendmail check_Rulesets
Robert Harker, Harker Systems

A Better Email Bouncer
Rich Holland, Rockwell Collins

11:00am - 12:30pm
IPv6 Deployment on the 6bone
Bob Fink, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs.

This talk will cover real operational experiences learned from the 6bone, the test and early deployment network for the IPng (Internet Next Generation) IPv6 protocol. This will include an example of how to put a site up on the 6bone and operational experiences such as site renumbering (considered hard to do with IPv4, but easy with IPv6). The new and very promising Aggregator-based unicast addressing architecture will also be presented.

12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch (on your own)

12:30pm - 2:00pm
Lunch (on your own)

Panelists: Bill Howell, Glaxo Wellcome, Inc.; Wendy Nather, Swiss Bank Warburg; and Hal Pomeranz, Deer Run Associates