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Tasmanian Unix Summer Seminar

The fourth annual Unix Summer Seminar was held at the University 
on 11 February. More than 70 people attended the all-day seminar - 
a slightly better turnout than last year. (60 people registered as fee-
paying attendees.) The presentations were of high caliber and 
included 5 speakers from interstate. The Tasmanian Unix Summer 
Seminar continued to maintain its reputation as "value for money", 
and is now a well-established item in the annual Tasmanian calendar 
of computing conferences.

One of the highlights of the Seminar was the "Security" afternoon 
session, featuring Bill Hart, Systems Administrator from CSIRO 
Marine Labs. Bill described what happened when the Marine Labs 
had to deal with an "Internet Intruder" (hacker) in December 1992. 
Bill and co-administrator, Peter Campbell, were able to find out a 
great deal of information about how the intruder worked. This 
information was passed on the the police, and was subsequently
used to identify the intruder.

Bill's presentation was aptly followed by Roger Fraumann from 
Unix International speaking about Unix security in more general 
terms. Roger provided some very interesting statistics about the 
nature and frequency of computer crime, then went on to cover 
the major security issues which system administrtors and 
organisations need to address. Roger predicted that within the 
next few years, pressure from insurance companies would force 
our organisations to place more emphasis on security -- to 
preserve the value of our information assets.

Other presentations included:
-AARNet Update, by Ray Jones, Uni.Tasmania
-Sun Solaris 2.0 by Dennis Letizia, Sun
-Multimedia, by Neville Scott, SGI
-RealTime Unix, David Triggs, HP
-Distributed Resource Management, by Darren Rushworth, Oracle
-Internet Information Services and Tools, Steven Bittinger and Steve 
  Andrewartha, Uni.Tasmania

Each Seminar participant received a copy of the newly updated Unix 
User and Site Directory, a 32-page booklet providing details on more 
than 230 Unix users at 100 sites around Tasmania. The directory is an 
excellent resource for helping Unix users to stay in contact with each 
other, obtain assistance on difficult problems or take advantage of 
other site's experience with particular hardware or software configurations. 

Steven Bittinger
Summer Seminar Coordinator

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Steven Bittinger, Deputy Mgr. E-mail: Steven.Bittinger@cc.utas.edu.au
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