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AUUG2006 Conference Programme

Time Wednesday, 11 October 2005
9:00am - 9:10am CONFERENCE OPENING Lawrie Brown Conference Chair AUUG Inc.
Adrian Close President AUUG Inc.
9:10am - 10:00am KEYNOTE Google Maps -- Organizing the World's Information, Geographically, by Lars Rasmussen (Google)
10:00am - 10:40am PLENARY Hacked slugs, solving all your problems with little NAS boxes, by Michael Still
10:40am - 11:00am Morning Tea Break
11:00am - 11:40am Maintainable PHP, Luke Welling BitTorrent, by Enno Davids
11:40am - 12:20pm Making Things Move: Finding Inappropriate Uses For Scripting Languages, by Jonathan Oxer "TCP: Past, Present and Future", Joel Sing
12:20pm - 1:00pm Building Web2 Applications with django, by Ian Holsman Security Issues Panel, chaired by Lawrie Brown
1:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm - 2:40pm Open Network Platform, by Andrew McRae Implementing a caching HTTP proxy with an anti virus content filter on a bridge, by Tobias Eggendorfer
2:40pm - 3:20pm Network Monitoring Tool to Identify Malware Infected Computers, by Navpreet Singh The Continued Evolution of OpenBSD's Packet Filter, by Ryan McBride
3:20pm - 4:00pm Address Management for Biggish Networks, by Karl Auer Pakistan's Open Source Initiative, by Muazzam Ali Mughal
4:00pm - 4:20pm Afternoon Tea Break
4:20pm - 5:00pm FOOTNOTE IPv6 Adoption, chaired by Andrew McRae
6:30pm - 8:30pm NETWORKING RECEPTION

Time Thursday, 12 October 2005
9:00am - 9:45am KEYNOTE The Convergence of Internet Security Threats, by Peter Gutmann (University of Auckland, NZ)
9:45am - 10:30am PLENARY Network stack randomness in OpenBSD, Ryan McBride
10:30am - 10:50am Morning Tea Break
10:50 am- 11:30am SMTP or HTTP tar pits?  Which one is more efficient in fighting spam?, by Tobias Eggendorfer Introduction to the MySQL Falcon OLTP storage engine, by Arjen Lentz
11:30am - 12:10pm A Linux Task Manager, Andrew McRae LDAP and The Holy Grail, by Nikolai Lusan
12:10pm - 12:50pm Operations Documentation Framework, by Michael Strong Fault Tolerance at Google, by Rob Pike
12:50pm - 1:50pm Lunch
1:50pm - 2:30pm Open Source ETL with Kettle, by Jonathon Coombes Economics of Open Source, by Lev Lafayette
2:30pm - 3:10pm Managing machines, by Michael Still VoIP security, by Julien Goodwin
3:10pm - 3:50pm Developing Efficient Backup Strategy For Centralized User File System, by YDS Arya Software Freedom: Pragmatic Idealism?, by Jonathan Oxer
3:50pm - 4:20pm Afternoon Tea Break
4:20pm - 5:00pm FOOTNOTE Can Open Systems lower your car insurance ... AND save your life?, by Paul McGowan
7:30pm - 11:30pm CONFERENCE DINNER

Time Friday, 13 October 2005
9:00am - 9:45am KEYNOTE The Consumer is Dead - Long Live the Consumer!, by Arjen Lentz (Lentz Internet Services)
9:45am - 10:30am PLENARY Wireless Insecurity, Neal Wise
10:30am - 10:50am Morning Tea Break
10:50am - 11:30am Technology commercialisation and the Internet, by Greg Adamson Phishing Tips and Techniques: Tackle, Rigging, and How & When to Phish, by Peter Gutmann (University of Auckland, NZ)
11:30am - 12:10pm Asterisk Tools for OSX, by Devraj Mukherjee Dynamic obfuscation of email addresses ? a method to reduce spam, by Tobias Eggendorfer
12:10pm - 12:50pm Principles of Software Configuration Management, by David Purdue A Consistent Approach to Measuring System Hardening, by Neal Wise and Adam Pointon
12:50pm - 1:50pm Lunch
1:50pm - 2:30pm Service-Oriented Architecture: A look under the hood, by Jonathon Coombes Building the Australian Grid, by Frank Crawford
2:30pm - 3:10pm L4/Darwin: Evolving UNIX, by Charles Gray Data Center Management, by Stephen Boucher
3:10pm - 3:30pm Afternoon Tea Break
3:30pm - 5:00pm Annual General Meeting