Papers and Presentations

Paper

Reference

File System Call Accounting: Measuring Different Workloads

To be submitted to Computers And Their Applications '08.

Linux Computer Security: Fighting Off the Hackers

Penguicon, April 18-20, 2008, Troy Michigan

Today's Software ... Is It Really Bloated?

United Kingdom Unix Users Group, Birmingham UK, April 2-3 2008.

Is Linux Killing Itself
A Performance Test of Old vs New RedHat Linux

Presentation by Lucas Anderson, Sebastian Frye & John Merholtz, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Argonne National Labs, November 2007.

Converting to Linux

I.T. in the U.P, Escanaba, Michigan, Thursday Sep 22, 2005.

Computer and Network Security

I.T. in the U.P, Escanaba, Michigan, Thursday Sep 22, 2005.

The Art and Science of Avoiding & Handling S
Security Breaks

LinuxWorld Canada, Toronto, Canada, April 19, 2005.

Disk Scheduling in Linux -- A Speach

Department Talk, Dec 4 2003

The Linux Kernel as a Real-Time Hands-On Teaching Tool

Linux in Education, Perth Australia, Jan 20, 2003

Being Slash-Dotted

An Interview with Randy Appleton or a local copy here

Linux.com web site, Monday Septermber 3, 2001

Benchmarking Linux Kernels

Linux 2001 Developers Conference, Manchester England, June 29 2001.

Catching System Administration Errors Through Automation

LinuxFest 2000, Huntsville AB, August 25, 2000.

Perl and the Practical System Administrator

The System Administration Journal, August 2000, Volume 9, Edition 8.

Improving Context Switching Performance for Idle Tasks in Linux

14th International Conference for Computers and Their Applications, April 1999.

Kernel Development

A co-authored column with Jonathan Corbet for the Linux Weekly News, Feb 18, 1999.

Understanding a Context Switching Benchmark(very similar to Improving Context Switching ... above)

Linux Journal, January 1999

Gathering Usage Statistics

Linux Gazette, Issue #25, Februay 1998.

A Non-Tecnhical Look Inside the EXT2 File System

Printed in both the Linux Gazette, September 1997 and the Linux Journal, August 1997.

The Adventures of Upgrading to RedHat 4.0

Linux Journal 1997 Buyers Guide, February 1997.

Performance Measurements of an Automated Prefetching System

Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-95), 8th International Conference, Spetember 21-23, Orlando FL.

Reducing File System Latency Using a Predictive Approach

Usenix Summer 1994, Pages 197-208, June 6th, 1994, Boston MA

Automated Prefetching in a W.A.N.

Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Advances in Parallel and Distributed Systems (PADS) Pages 8-13, October 6, 1993, Princton NJ.

Deadlock Detection in a Multidatabase

Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Regional Conference, Pages 63-70, September 1992, Chapel HIll, NC.