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North Carolina System Administrators
NC*SA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to furthering the professional education of computer system administrators.
Past Meetings
| 2010 | |||
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| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
| March 8 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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February 8 UNC-TV |
Implementing Backup Media Encryption Using Symantec NetBackup Software with IBM LTO-4 Tape Drives |
Len Boyle SAS Institute Inc. |
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| January 11 | [cancelled] | - | - |
| 2009 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 14 Shodor Education Foundation |
The Value of Virtualization |
David McCarty Hitachi Data Systems |
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November 9 UNC-TV |
Cloud Computing | Stephen P. Schaefer and Liyun Yu | - |
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October 12 UNC-TV |
What's Hot in System Administration? | panel discussion | - |
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September 14 UNC-TV |
Use Cases for Data De-Duplication and Backup |
Eric Melvin EMC Corporation |
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| August 10 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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July 13 UNC-TV |
SUNFREEWARE.COM: Past, Present, and Future |
Steven M. Christensen, Ph.D. Sunfreeware.com |
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June 8 UNC-TV |
Sun Solaris / OpenSolaris Roapmap and Conjugation with Oracle |
Mike Watkins Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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May 11 UNC-TV |
Deterministic System Administration (LiveStream from LISA2008) |
Andrew Hume AT&T Labs-Research |
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April 13 UNC-TV |
Using Microsoft Active Diretory for Unix Authentication: LDAP and Kerberos Challenges Overcome |
Stephen Schaefer RFMD, Inc. |
- |
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March 9 UNC-TV |
Reconceptualizing Security (LiveStream from LISA2008) |
Bruce Schneier BT |
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February 9 UNC-TV |
Virtualization (LiveStream from LISA2008) |
(various) |
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January 12 UNC-TV |
How to Proceed When 1000 Call Agents Tell You, "My Computer Is Slow": Creating a User Experience Monitoring System (LiveStream from LISA2008) |
Tobias Oetiker OETIKER+PARTNER AG |
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| 2008 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 8 UNC-TV |
A Month Later - What I Learned from LISA 2008 |
Liyun Yu Dept. of Radiation Oncology, UNC |
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November 10 UNC-TV |
Achieving Virtualization Nirvana | Citrix Systems | - |
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October 13 UNC-TV |
Apple IT Strategies |
Francis Shepherd Apple Inc. |
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| September 8 | [cancelled] | - | - |
| August 11 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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July 14 UNC GEC Auditorium |
Deploying DNS Security Extension (DNSSEC) in Six Minutes |
Alan Clegg Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. |
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June 9 Shodor Education Foundation |
High Availability Storage for Low Dollars |
Simon Karpen The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. |
slides (ODP), slides (PPT), slides (PDF) |
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May 19 UNC-TV |
PCI Protection |
Jeff Mercer USPS |
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April 28 UNC-TV |
System Admin Survival Series: Crossfire: Outsourcing | NC*SA members and guests | - |
| March 10 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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February 11 UNC-TV |
Avamar & Data De-Duplication Backup Technology |
Robert Bradish and Eric Melvin EMC Corporation |
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January 16 UNC-TV |
Amazon Web Services |
Mike Culver Amazon |
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| 2007 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 10 MCNC |
If Kubler-Ross Were Handling Vulnerabilities |
James N. Duncan BB&T |
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| November 12 | [cancelled] | - | - |
| October 8 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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September 10 MCNC |
Lenovo Overview |
George Reichert, Mary Peuler, George Dolicker Lenovo |
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August 13 MCNC |
Secure Data with LTO-4 Tapes |
Harlen Greene IBM |
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July 9 MCNC |
IBM and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): The Bigger Picture |
Ed Ungemach IBM |
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June 11 MCNC |
Privilege Messaging: An Authorization Framework over Email Infrastructure |
Brent ByungHoon Kang UNCC |
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May 14 UNC GEC Auditorium |
Site Reliability At Google |
Tom Limoncelli Google, Inc. |
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April 9 MCNC |
iSCSI Protocol Analysis and Tools |
Neeraj Kuppam Network Appliance, Inc. |
slides (PPT) |
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March 12 MCNC |
HIPAA and System Administration |
Dennis Schmidt OIS, UNC Medical School |
slides (PPT) |
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February 12 MCNC |
Introduction to Leo |
Stephen Schaefer RFMD, Inc. |
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January 8 MCNC |
Steering Committee Meeting and Open Forum | - | - |
| 2006 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 11 Satisfaction Restaurant (Durham) |
Server Hardening for Real Sysadmins |
Jeff Mercer Northrup Grumman |
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November 13 MCNC |
Secure Storage with Decru |
John Lavelle Network Appliance |
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October 9 MCNC |
The Iceberg - Used vs. Retained Data |
John Sapone and Greg Horsley Data Domain |
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September 11 MCNC |
The Marriage of Virtual Systems with Virtual Storage - VMware Infrastructure 3 and EqualLogic iSCSI PeerStorage |
Eric Hardcastle VMware Chris Mojica EqualLogic |
EqualLogic slides (PPT) |
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August 14 Tyler's Taproom (Durham) |
social gathering | everyone | - |
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July 10 MCNC |
Blade Technology and the IBM BladeCenter |
Scott Tease and Steven Hunter IBM |
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June 12 MCNC |
System Administration, Professionalism, and the State of the Profession |
David Parter Univ. of Wisconsin and LOPSA |
Sysadmin Top 10 List: slides (PDF) |
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May 8 MCNC |
SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Server and Desktop |
Gregory J. Pryzby Novell, Inc. |
slides-1 (PDF) slides-2 (PDF) |
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April 10 MCNC |
Trusted Network Connect - An Architecture for Endpoint Integrity |
Lisa Lorenzin Juniper Networks |
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| March 13 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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February 13 MCNC |
A Model for Comprehensive Protection of Sensitive Stored |
Mike Fleck Vormetric, Inc. |
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January 9 MCNC |
Embedded Linux |
Tom Billman Giant Shoulder Inc. |
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| 2005 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 12 Tyler's Taproom (Durham) |
holiday social gathering | everyone | - |
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November 14 MCNC |
Solaris 10 Service Management Facility |
Steve Jones Strategic Technologies, Inc. |
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October 10 RTI Intl. |
Radware for Continuous Business Operation |
Iztok Umek Radware |
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September 12 RTI Intl. |
Tools for Coding in the Dark |
Brad Oaks McClatchy Interactive |
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August 8 RTI Intl. |
Fundamental Elements of IT - What Folks Really Need to Know |
Jim Ray Neuse River Network, Inc. |
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| July 11 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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June 13 MCNC |
Bluetooth Wireless Technology |
Jamel Lynch IBM Strategic Consulting |
slides (PDF) |
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May 9 RTI Intl. |
Spam Prevention Using Maia Mailguard |
Tanner Lovelace Oculan |
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April 11 RTI Intl. |
Packet mangling with iptables and netfilter |
Lisa Lorenzin Juniper Networks |
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March 14 RTI Intl. |
NFSv4 |
John Scott Network Appliance |
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| February 14 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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January 10 RTI Intl. |
IPSec-based and SSL-based VPNs |
Lisa Lorenzin Juniper Networks |
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| 2004 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 13 RTI Intl. |
DNS |
Aaron Joyner Intrex.Net |
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November 8 RTI Intl. |
Voice Over IP |
Jon Carnes and Paul Levering FeatureTel, LLC |
slides |
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October 11 RTI Intl. |
Crossing the Bridge Before You Come To It - Securing Your Infrastructure |
Tim Crofton NEC Unified Solutions, Inc. |
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September 13 Redhat, Inc. |
Where the Heck is My Flying Car? | Tom Limoncelli | slides (PDF) |
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August 9 RTI Intl. |
IronPort - Email Infrastructure Products and Services |
John Nguyen Ironport Systems |
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July 12 RTI Intl. |
Outsourcing in the Information Technology Industry |
Joe Mack Lockheed Martin Corporation |
presentation |
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June 14 RTI Intl. |
An overview of IBM's Linux Technology Center |
Frank Novak IBM Corporation |
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May 10 RTI Intl. |
Fedora vs. RHEL |
Jeremy Hogan Red Hat, Inc. |
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April 12 RTI Intl. |
Novell Linux |
Dean Edwards Novell, Inc. |
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March 8 RTI Intl. |
Intrusion Prevention |
Lisa Lorenzin Netscreen Technologies |
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February 9 RTI Intl. |
Uninterruptible Power Supply Devices |
Stephen Schinkel Faulkner/Haynes & Associates, Inc. |
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January 12 RTI Intl. |
Linux 2.6 Kernel |
Hunter Matthews Duke Univ. BioScience |
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| 2003 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 8 RTI Intl. |
Automating System Administration |
Stephen Schaefer RF Micro Devices |
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November 10 RTI Intl. |
Wireless Security and WarDriving |
Alan Clegg HCS Systems, Inc. |
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October 13 RTI Intl. |
NC*SA Tenth Anniversary social gathering | - | - |
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September 8 RTI Intl. |
Internet2 and NSF Middleware |
Michael Gettes Duke Univ. Office of Information Technology |
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August 11 RTI Intl. |
How to Build a Linux Email Server |
Jason Tower Cerient Technologies |
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July 14 RTI Intl. |
How IPSec and VPNs Work (and Don't) |
Lisa Lorenzin Netscreen Technologies |
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June 9 RTI Intl. |
iSCSI and SAN Technology |
Toby Creek Network Appliance, Inc. |
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May 12 RTI Intl. |
Value of Ongoing Security Assessments |
Bill Gavin Secure Logic, LLC |
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April 14 RTI Intl. |
HP and Compaq: HP-UX After the Honeymoon |
Greg Fountaine Hewlett-Packard Corporation |
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March 10 RTI Intl. |
Solaris Resource Management - Today and Tomorrow |
Phil Kinslow Sun Microsystems, Inc. |
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February 5 NC School of Science and Math |
Freedom, Power, and Software: What the Internet teaches us about ethics and politics |
Eric S. Raymond Open Source Initiative |
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January 13 RTI Intl. |
Electrical Grounding and Power |
Curtis Leary Grounding Solution Services Inc. |
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| 2002 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
| December 9 | [cancelled due to weather] | - | - |
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November 11 RTI Intl. |
GPG keysigning and elections | - | - |
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October 14 RTI Intl. |
Securing Solaris | Michael Garvin | - |
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September 9 RTI Intl. |
Bare Metal Restore | Gray Clark | - |
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August 12 RTI Intl. |
GPG Encryption | Tanner Lovelace | - |
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July 8 RTI Intl. |
802.11b Wireless Security with Cisco LEAP | Lisa Lorenzin | - |
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June 10 RTI Intl. |
Compare/Contrast Solaris Jumpstart/JASS and Red Hat Kickstart | Stephen Schaefer | - |
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May 13 RTI Intl. |
Building Content Management Systems with Zope | Jim Fulton | - |
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April 8 RTI Intl. |
Computer Crime, Network Security, and Infrastructure Protection | SA Tom McGrath | - |
| March 11 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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February 11 RTI Intl. |
Linux for the Masses: It's Finally Here | Robin Miller | - |
| January 14 | [cancelled] | - | - |
| 2001 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 10 RTI Intl. |
Embedded Linux | Marc Curry | - |
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November 12 NC School of Science and Math |
The Fate of Free Software: Why the Battle is Now, What They'll Do, How We'll Win | Dr. Eben Moglen | - |
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October 8 RTI Intl. |
Tech Tracker application | James Oden | - |
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September 10 RTI Intl. |
contributed war stories of sysadmin experiences | attendees | - |
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August 13 RTI Intl. |
Gromit, an automated Unix configuration tool | Hunter Matthews | - |
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July 9 RTI Intl. |
Gnucash and double entry accounting | Joe Mack | - |
| June 11 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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May 14 RTI Intl. |
Continuous Availability In The Network Storage Arena | Stacy Jackson and George Hogshead | - |
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April 9 RTI Intl. |
How Stuff Works, and related topics | Marshall Brain | - |
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March 12 RTI Intl. |
SGML and DocBook | Mark Johnson | - |
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February 12 RTI Intl. |
EMC CLARiiON IP4700 Network-Attached Storage Systems | Tim J. Hicks | - |
| January 8 | [cancelled] | - | - |
| 2000 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
| December 11 | [S.C. meeting] | - | - |
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November 13 RTI Intl. |
CVS for System Administrators | Kevin Sonney | - |
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October 9 RTI Intl. |
IBM Special Events Web Hosting | Herbie Pearthree | - |
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September 11 RTI Intl. |
Storage Networking using NAS and SAN | Kevin Dawson | - |
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August 14 RTI Intl. |
Backups | Andrew Feldman | - |
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July 10 RTI Intl. |
Global Desktop Environment | Andrew Schretter | - |
| June 12 | [cancelled due to hardware failure] | - | - |
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May 8 RTI Intl. |
VERITAS Cluster Server | Bill May | - |
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April 10 RTI Intl. |
Network and Systems Management - An Open Source Revolution in Enterprise Management | Steve Giles | - |
| March 13 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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February 21 RTI Intl. |
Using LDAP (OpenLDAP in particular) as a Network Information System for UNIX Hosts as a Replacement for NIS/NIS+/files | Hunter Matthews | - |
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January 10 RTI Intl. |
LDAP and Perl - they do like each other | Stephen Schaefer | - |
| 1999 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
| December 13 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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November 8 RTI Intl. |
SGI's XFS File System | Pam Coffey | - |
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October 25 RTI Intl. |
Computer Crime and Security | Philip R. Reitinger | - |
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September 13 RTI Intl. |
NAS & SAN, and the Auspex NS2000 Data Server | Albert J. Valletta | - |
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August 10 RTI Intl. |
Year 2000 Discussion | Dawna Clephas | - |
| July 12 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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June 14 RTI Intl. |
Linux Virtual Server Project | Joe Mack | - |
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May 10 RTI Intl. |
Panel discussion: Security Is a Real Profession | Randall W. Bennett, Chris H arper, and Leonard Hight | - |
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April 12 RTI Intl. |
Using Multicast Traffic Effectively in Your Network | Bob Levy | - |
| March 8 | [cancelled] | - | - |
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February 8 RTI Intl. |
Privacy on the Web | Paul Jones | - |
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January 11 RTI Intl. |
The NC Networking Initiative: What It Is, Where We're Going | John C. Collins | - |
| 1998 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 14 RTI Intl. |
The Name Game: Domain Name Administration as Internet Governance | Lisa Lorenzin | - |
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November 9 RTI Intl. |
SAN: Networking for Storage | RB Hooks III | - |
| October 12 | ? | ? | - |
| September 14 | ? | ? | - |
| August 10 | ? | ? | - |
| July 13 | ? | ? | - |
| June 8 | ? | ? | - |
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May 11 RTI Intl. |
Linux: From the SysAdmin Perspective | Ernest Bowman-Cisneros | - |
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April 13 RTI Intl. |
SNMP and Network Management | Taurus Balog | - |
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March 9 RTI Intl. |
Scaleable Web Servers | Bill LeFebvre | - |
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February 9 RTI Intl. |
Students with Access to Technology: The Duke University SWAT Team | Philip Vergis, Kevin Cheung, and Bill Chen | - |
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January 12 RTI Intl. |
open discussion | - | - |
| 1997 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
| December 8 | ? | ? | - |
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November 10 RTI Intl. |
Enterprise Storage Management | Derek Gamradt | - |
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October 13 RTI Intl. |
DNS: A Practical Perspective | Gordon Galligher | - |
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September 8 RTI Intl. |
GE vs ATM vs FDDI: Gigabit Ethernet vs Asysnchronous Transfer Mode vs Fiber Distributed Data Interface | Dan Berglund | - |
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August 11 RTI Intl. |
Jaguar Component Transaction Server for Sybase. | Don Crenshaw and Mike Bleistein | - |
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July 14 RTI Intl. |
Single Protocol Networks Using TCP/IP | David Jordan | - |
| June 9 | ? | ? | - |
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May 12 RTI Intl. |
The Past, Present, and Future of FreeBSD | Jonathan Bresler | - |
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April 14 RTI Intl. |
? | Alan Clegg and John Rittelmeyer | - |
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March 10 RTI Intl. |
HAHTsite presentation | Jim Hebert | - |
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February 10 RTI Intl. |
UNIX-NT integration focusing on SAMBA | John Denis | - |
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January 13 RTI Intl. |
WebNFS | Rex Walters | - |
| 1996 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 9 RTI Intl. |
DHCP | Steve Winters | - |
| November 11 | ? | ? | - |
| October 14 | ? | ? | - |
| September 9 | ? | ? | - |
| August 12 | ? | ? | - |
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July 8 RTI Intl. |
Ask the Guru | - | - |
| June 10 | ? | ? | - |
| May 13 | ? | ? | - |
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April 15 RTI Intl. |
Storage Management & High Availability Systems | Juan Orlandini | - |
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March 22 RTI Intl. |
ISDN: Increasing Bandwidth for Today's "tele-client" | Tom Snyder | - |
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March 11 RTI Intl. |
Panel Discussion: Using the System to Locate Talent and Market Your Skills | Stan Briggs (moderator) | - |
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February 12 RTI Intl. |
Contemporary Questions in Networks & Storage | Dr. Bruce Nelson | - |
| January 8 | ? | ? | - |
| 1995 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 11 SAS |
Java - What is it and how we will use it? | Maureen Chew | - |
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November 13 SAS |
Fibre Channel vs UltraSCSI | Benjamin Monderer | - |
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October 9 Strategic Technologies |
Legato's Networker backup and data management product | Don Campell | - |
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September 11 RTI Intl. |
Tracking Hardware Configurations in a Heterogeneous Network Using syslogd | Rex Walters | - |
| August 14 | ? | ? | - |
| July 10 | ? | ? | - |
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June 12 RTI Intl. |
History of Unix Connectivity | Tom Truscott | - |
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May 8 MCNC |
Pong: A Flexible Network Services Monitoring System | Helen Harrison | - |
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April 10 Glaxo |
The Computer Crime Initiative: The Justice Department's Response to the Growing Threat Posed by Computer Criminals | Scott Charney | - |
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March 13 MCNC |
Disaster Recovery in a Client-Server Environment | Jim Murphy | - |
| February 13 | ? | ? | - |
| January 9 | ? | ? | - |
| 1994 | |||
| Date/Loc. | Topic | Speaker | Links |
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December 12 The Ginger Inn |
1st Annual NC*SA Holiday Party Buffet | - | - |
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November 14 Strategic Technologies |
Security Firewalls, elections held | Chris Swanson | - |
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October 10 RTI |
Advanced Internet | Paul Jones | - |
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September 12 RTI |
AFS and DFS | Audrey Dunning | - |
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August 8 Becton Dickinson Research Center |
Fast NSF File Servers | John Costa, Dave Hitz, Brian Wilson | - |
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July 11 Strategic Technologies |
CDE/COSE | Mike McMullen | - |
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June 13 UNC |
Introductory Internet | Stan Briggs, Scott Huler, Grant Parsons | - |
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May 9 UNC |
ATM Networks | Clark Abrams | - |
| April 11 | ? | ? | - |
| March 14 | ? | ? | - |
| February 14 | ? | ? | - |
| January 10 | ? | ? | - |