netmeister.org - miscellaneous

netmeister.org - miscellaneous

Of Headless User Accounts and Restricted Shells, ;login, The USENIX Magazine, December 2011
Headless Host Scanning -- a talk I gave at Twitter in April 2011 about scanmaster and sigsh and how to scan hundreds of thousands of hosts in minutes.
L3DSR -- Overcoming Layer 2 Limitations of Direct Server Return Load Balancing, NANOG 51, January 2011
Teaching System Administration in the Cloud, ;login, The USENIX Magazine, October 2010
Building Better Tools -- a talk on how system engineers and administrators, the people who maintain the infrastructure of the internet and who write a lot of code without (usually) having any training in software engineering practices, can improve their tools. Originally given at NYCBug in June 2009 (audio).
DST '07 @ Yahoo! -- a presentation on how changes in Daylight Saving Time were handled at Yahoo!; Originally given at BayLISA in May 2007. [Video]
Useless Use of * -- a presentation originally given at SCALE 2007.
Pondering Live CDs [slides] -- a paper presented at BSDCan 2006
NetBSD/Soc -- Google's Summer of Code within NetBSD -- a presentation given at NYCBug.
pkgsrc - The NetBSD Packages Collection -- a presentation given at NYCBug.
NetBSD/Desktop - Scalable Workstation Solutions [slides] -- presented at EuroBSDCon 2004.